Make Django URLs work with or without /

Question

I have a django app that has / at the end of every URL conf. Example:

# user home page
(r'^home/$', 'user_home_page'),

However, I'm noticing this is causing a ton of redirects on my server, because when people dont add the /, it redirects them. Is there any way to have it accept both without a redirect except doing:

# user home page
(r'^home$', 'user_home_page'),
(r'^home/$', 'user_home_page'),

or should I avoid URL confs like that?

Answer 1

While you can accept both without doing a redirect by using:

(r'^home/?$', 'user_home_page'),

It is not best SEO practice because it will look like you have duplicate content and your hits will be split between the two pages.