Extra / at start of request paths

[willbryant]

The example script:

def login(l):
    l.client.post("/login", {"username":"ellen_key", "password":"education"})

Actually makes a request to //login. Some HTTP servers will treat that as /login, but others will issue a redirect (301) to /login, which has the side effect of turning the POST request into a GET. This is very confusing and doesn't end up working!

I think that the leading / should only be added if it is missing (if at all).

[jaylett]

Shouldn't URLs be constructed using urlparse / urllib.parse? I think that would solve this.

[justiniso]

I'm fairly certain this is because your host had a trailing slash when specified in the command.

--host http://host.com/

[calebwoofenden]

Couldn't locust be updated so that it can handle URLs with / at the end? Seems like an easy task that could save a lot of confusion.