How to redirect URLs with trailing slash to the corresponding ones without it?

Question

Spring MVC (3.0) considers URLs with and without trailing slashes as the same URL.

For example:

http://www.example.org/data/something = http:

Answer 1

This usually works for me with URLRewriteFilter in Spring.

    
         Remove trailing slash for SEO purposes
         /**/
         %{context-path}/$1