mod_speling/5418: Unexpected and unhelpful mod_speling typo correction with trailing slash

[James Sears <ja...@acornusers.org>]

>Number:         5418
>Category:       mod_speling
>Synopsis:       Unexpected and unhelpful mod_speling typo correction with trailing slash
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec  4 06:20:00 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     james@acornusers.org
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.9
>Environment:
Linux snowdon 2.2.6 #1 Sat Jul 10 15:46:28 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
gcc 2.7.2.3
PHP 4.0b3
mod_speling
>Description:
A request for a mistyped filename, that ends with a slash,
is redirected to the correct file name, but still with a
trailing slash, eg
 /example.htm/ redirects to
 /example.html/ when example.html exists, and not to
 /example.html which might be expected, and which would be more useful

The second request for /example.html/ does NOT get redirected
to /example.html even though example.html exists as a file and not
as a directory.
>How-To-Repeat:
http://www.acornusers.org/index.htm/
(where index.html is the correct filename)
>Fix:
(1) Change mod_speling to notice and remove trailing slash if the name it
has suggested is a file.
(2) Match and redirect to files which are incorrectly accessed as directories.
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