This was done to make blog search easy. It ended up depending on Absolute Links to Pages; I didn't discover that until exploratory testing, alas, and I still don't have acceptance tests that really probe that issue sufficiently. The code changes involved adding a single character; the acceptance test changes were a bit annoying, but I'd just gone through a similar, more annoying issue. Updating the links in my blog itself was probably the most annoying part.
I thought about redirecting the slashless pages to the slashful pages; after playing around with Apache directives, I decided not to do that. It doesn't seem that important, there aren't any external links into the pages, and nobody is likely to end up with a slashless link anyways. (Though some might still be in search engines. Hmm.)
Last modified: Sun Feb 4 11:38:52 PST 2007