how to htaccess redirect *.html/ to *.html

Question

Can someone help me add the right line to htaccess that will redirect URLs that end with .html/

to

.html

For example, http://mysite.com/page.html/ should 301 redirect to http://mysite.com/page.html

Answer 1

So how about this?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*\.html)/$ $1 [R=301,L]

This does redirect users with a 301.

Answer 2

If You want a single canonical version, why not say so in your document?

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/page.html" />

If you do however feel the need to do redirects, then you can use this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*\.html)/$ $1 [R,L]