I like to use Python's SimpleHTTPServer for local development of all kinds of web applications which require loading resources via Ajax calls etc.
When I use query strings in my URLs, the server always redirects to the same URL with a slash appended.
For example /folder/?id=1 redirects to /folder/?id=1/ using a HTTP 301 response.
I simply start the server using python -m SimpleHTTPServer.
Any idea how I could get rid of the redirecting behaviour? This is Python 2.7.2.
The right way to do this, to ensure that the query parameters remain as they should, is to make sure you do a request to the filename directly instead of letting SimpleHTTPServer redirect to your index.html
For example http://localhost:8000/?param1=1 does a redirect (301) and changes the url to http://localhost:8000/?param=1/ which messes with the query parameter.
However http://localhost:8000/index.html?param1=1 (making the index file explicit) loads correctly.
So just not letting SimpleHTTPServer do a url redirection solves the problem.
Why does SimpleHTTPServer redirect to ?querystring/ when I request ?querystring?