Trailing slash rules break files and sitemaps
Forced trailing-slash rules add slashes to video files and XML sitemaps or get lost once the page cache is primed.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 1 December 2019 · last reported 7 August 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners report that forced trailing-slash rules in Comet Cache add a slash to direct file links such as video files and to XML sitemaps, which then fail to open properly.
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