Django: URL trailing slash issue

Question

urls.py

url(r'^v1/files/$', MyFileView.as_view(), name='api-upload'),
url(r'^v1/files/$', MyFileView.as_view(), name='api-view-all'),

views.py

class MyFileView(APIView):
    def post():
        pass
    def get():
        pass

My question is: why POST api/v1/files works like GET api/v1/files/? I thought POST api/v1/files should return 404. Anything wrong?

UPDATE

But api/v1/files/<id> does not have this issue. api/v1/files/<id>/ will return 404. Thanks

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '16 at 21:58

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I think that they don't "work like GET".

What is really happening is that:

you send a POST url
the server replies with a HTTP 302 to url/
and the browser performs a GET url/.

And the result of that is what you actually see.

If you check the requests being actually sent along the wire, I suspect you'll see two requests - the first being the POST, the second being the GET.

answered Nov 09 '16 at 21:58

LSerni

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@Iserni, Intertesting. never known before. Thanks – BAE Nov 09 '16 at 22:02
Heh. Neither did I, I had to ask myself. You can't guess the head-scratching: http://stackoverflow.com/q/39848396/1428679 :-D – LSerni Nov 09 '16 at 22:06
But `api/v1/files/` does not have this issue. `api/v1/files//` will return 404. – BAE Nov 09 '16 at 22:20
Probably, under the hood, `files` is treated as a directory (and redirects), while `files/id` is treated as a file (and doesn't - nor can it get a further slash). It depends on how the routing is implemented server side. – LSerni Nov 09 '16 at 22:28

Django: URL trailing slash issue

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