net/http: requests with empty paths redirect instead of 200

[jmhodges]

Requests to "http://example.com" (no trailing slash) always redirect to "http://example.com/" even if there is a "/" handler available. Other servers will match the lack of path with the "/" handler as expected.

[bradfitz]

More info please.

It's unclear whether you mean your browser doing this (in which case it's not even a redirect), or ServeMux, etc. And if ServeMux, with or without hostnames in the pattern.

[jmhodges]

The browsers and curl are doing it. It happens with both hostnames and no hostname in the pattern. I have a patch to propose.

[bradfitz]

I still don't understand so I'm curious to see your patch.

[jmhodges]

Posted. https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/9395/

[jmhodges]

This is a problem in using NewRequest in the tests, not here. Confirmation I thought I had done was not done. Sorry for the noise.

[bradfitz]

There's an open documentation bug for that already.