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// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// Package pathutil implements utility functions for handling slash-separated
// paths.
package pathutil
import "path"
// CanonicalURLPath returns the canonical url path for p, which follows the rules:
// 1. the path always starts with "/"
// 2. replace multiple slashes with a single slash
// 3. replace each '.' '..' path name element with equivalent one
// 4. keep the trailing slash
// The function is borrowed from stdlib http.cleanPath in server.go.
func CanonicalURLPath(p string) string {
if p == "" {
return "/"
}
if p[0] != '/' {
p = "/" + p
}
np := path.Clean(p)
// path.Clean removes trailing slash except for root,
// put the trailing slash back if necessary.
if p[len(p)-1] == '/' && np != "/" {
np += "/"
}
return np
}