Thread: PHP, cookies and trailing slash

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Aquanuke I hope your reading!

But be gentle with me please I'm not that bright when it comes to anything technical

My developers have created a site powered by PHP, it uses cookies and recognises the user and logs them in on their return visit.

This works perfectly as long as the trailing slash is present on the end of the URL.

99.9% of the time thats fine as visitors coming from a link or typing the URL from a *blank* browser address line has the trailing slash placed automatically.

However, in the rare case whena user decides to delete part of an existing address in the browser bar the browser does not place the trrailing slash and then causes authentication problems and error messages.

So I guess really my question is from a hosting point of view is their any way that I can automatically force the trailing slash to the URL string?

A meta redirect considered but of course will cause SEO problems. Is there a SE friendly way of doing this? Does anyone actually understand what I'm talking about

- Neil