webproject: Disable APPEND_SLASH setting by default

snf-cyclades-app/conf/20-snf-cyclades-app-api.conf

@@ -60,9 +60,6 @@
 ## The default firewall profile that will be in effect if no tags are defined
 #DEFAULT_FIREWALL_PROFILE = 'DISABLED'
 #
-## our REST API would prefer to be explicit about trailing slashes
-#APPEND_SLASH = False
-#
 ## Fixed mapping of user VMs to a specific backend.
 ## e.g. BACKEND_PER_USER = {'example@synnefo.org': 2}
 #BACKEND_PER_USER = {}

snf-cyclades-app/synnefo/app_settings/default/api.py

@@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ GANETI_FIREWALL_PROTECTED_TAG = 'synnefo:network:0:limited'
 # The default firewall profile that will be in effect if no tags are defined
 DEFAULT_FIREWALL_PROFILE = 'DISABLED'
 
-# our REST API would prefer to be explicit about trailing slashes
-APPEND_SLASH = False
-
 # Fixed mapping of user VMs to a specific backend.
 # e.g. BACKEND_PER_USER = {'example@synnefo.org': 2}
 BACKEND_PER_USER = {}
@@ -108,7 +105,7 @@ SECRET_ENCRYPTION_KEY = "Password Encryption Key"
 # Astakos service token
 # The token used for astakos service api calls (e.g. api to retrieve user email
 # using a user uuid)
-CYCLADES_SERVICE_TOKEN = '' 
+CYCLADES_SERVICE_TOKEN = ''
 
 # Let cyclades proxy user specific api calls to astakos, via self served
 # endpoints. Set this to False if you deploy cyclades-app/astakos-app on the

snf-webproject/conf/10-snf-webproject-deploy.conf

@@ -24,3 +24,10 @@
 ## Set the url you want to redirect users to when they access the root path of 
 ## your site.
 #WEBPROJECT_ROOT_REDIRECT = None
+#
+##When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the
+##URLconf and it doesn't end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same
+##URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted
+##in a POST request to be lost. Due to the REST nature of most of the registered
+##Synnefo endpoints we prefer to disable this behaviour by default.
+#APPEND_SLASH = False

snf-webproject/synnefo/webproject/settings/default/deploy.py

@@ -20,3 +20,11 @@ USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST = True
 # Settings / cookies that should be 'cleansed'
 HIDDEN_SETTINGS = 'SECRET|PASSWORD|PROFANITIES_LIST|SIGNATURE|AMQP_HOSTS|PRIVATE_KEY|DB_CONNECTION'
 HIDDEN_COOKIES  = 'password|_pithos2_a|token|sessionid|shibstate|shibsession|CSRF_COOKIE'
+
+
+#When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the
+#URLconf and it doesn't end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same
+#URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted
+#in a POST request to be lost. Due to the REST nature of most of the registered
+#Synnefo endpoints we prefer to disable this behaviour by default.
+APPEND_SLASH = False