Matching on leading double slash

Questions
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UPDATE: I’m not pursuing this any further, but if anyone has ideas I’d be interested in hearing how this is possible.

I have a use case where I need to match on a route that could be one of the following:

/this-endpoint
//this-endpoint

I’ve tried several different approaches that I would consider normal, but in looking at the code, I’m seeing that kong interprets routes that begin with the double slash as an empty regex. https://github.com/Kong/kong/blob/343925e4b1c05393dc6df53318b2ba0c8be4339a/kong/db/schema/typedefs.lua#L192

Is this possible?

Things I’ve tried that did not work:

  • Adding one line for each route as it shows above
  • //?this-endpoint
  • //?this-endpoint
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Paths used to be normalized so many slashes would be collapsed to one, that’s the why of this guard.

That said, nowadays Kong does not use $uri but $request_uri and keeps the double slashes. You can get creative with regexes to allow those. For example, /(/)?this-endpoint would work.