Just a tip.... I was working with a mobile API that I did not have control over. One of their POST submissions ended with a trailing slash. Couldn't figure out why I was getting 301 "moved" response and when looking at the server logs, the Basic Auth information was not included.
Found the following in /public/.htaccess:
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
This seemed to be the culprit.
Took some time to track that down.
Does anyone know if this rewrite rule is just for cosmetics, or am I breaking something by taking it out?
It's best to use either trailing slash or not at all. This is just a default in Laravel. If you use one, you have to make sure your URIs are generated with/without one.
Personally I don't use Apache but I believe this should be above that rule to save the redirects on existing paths
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
Thanks @bashy. That did the trick.
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