Why do we need a trailing slash after setting path_prefix for management plugin ?

[claireleray-poclain]

Hi!

The documentation specifies that I can set management.path_prefix to use a prefix such as /my-prefix for HTTP requests to the management plugin. However, it also says that the URL to access the plugin will be host:port/my-prefix/, with the trailing slash.

This behavior works great, but I find it pretty confusing. What is the reason ? Is there a workaround to redirect host:port/my-prefix to host:port/my-prefix/ ?

[michaelklishin]

The plugin does not allow you to set up a redirect but you can put in a reverse proxy such as Nginx in front of the API (a good idea for many reasons for production anyway) and set up any URI rewrites you please.