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Amelia
Amelia

Reputation: 85

What difference between URL paths in Flask?

What difference between URL paths:

@app.route('/projects')

@app.route('/projects/')

What does mean slash in the end of route path? In witch cases to use it?

If I understood correctly it is used for absolute and relative path to server files? Right?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 387

Answers (1)

hyun
hyun

Reputation: 2143

This is called trailing slash.

For general trailing slash,

  1. https://www.google.com/example/ -> It's a directory.

    • Firtst, Server checks if the directory exists.
    • Second, If it exists, server checks default file, such as index.html

  2. https://www.google.com/example -> It's a file.

    • Firtst, Server checks if the file exists.
    • Second, if not, check the directory with that name.

Therefore, if you specify a trailing slash when requesting a directory resource, there is a small gain in page response speed because you can skip file checking.

In Flask

  1. @app.route('/projects')

    • call to /projects/ -> return 404.
      (Werkzeug interprets as an explicit rule, so it's not match a trailing slash.)
    • call to /projects -> return 200

  2. @app.route('/projects/')

    • call to /projects/ -> return 200
    • call to /projects -> return 302
      (Werkzeug will redirect if the url doesn't have it)

This article will be helpful.

Upvotes: 1

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