FR: redirect traling slashes

[olivroy]

For example, make this https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/news/ a valid url.

https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/NEWS works as expected.

I have a routine to check news on online doc. the first link works for pkgdown sites. I wondered if it were possible to make it work for altdoc sites.

[vincentarelbundock]

maybe the tinytable website has changed, but it looks like the address should be NEWS.html

Do you have another example?

Also, that might be a Quarto issue rather than altdoc...

[olivroy]

Possibly, but also the fact that https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/NEWS works but not https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/news is a bit strange?

[vincentarelbundock]

yep, good point. But honestly, I'm not sure what altdoc can do about this. Case sensitivity of links seems like it would be in scope for Quarto itself. Can I change anything in the _quarto.yml to force Quarto to disregard upper cases? I have no idea...

[olivroy]

Not sure. quarto-dev/quarto-cli#6848 is opened about case sensitiviry. in pkgdown, there is build_redirects(). i wonder if quarto has something like this...

Oh, it does

The news file generated by alt doc could have this in header

https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html#redirects

---
aliases:
  - news.html
---

Same thing for other pages, so that url created in altdoc map almost exactly with how pkgdown structures things