Redirecting to normalized URL

[retroman]

the URL normalization feature is great (URL normalization · Cloudflare Rules docs) but it’s all backend.

Is there a cloudflare way to easily redirect browsers to the normalized URL?

This could potentially help with search engine duplicate content penalties. Also users get to see normalized URLs in case they share it via email, social media, etc. so the wrong or undesired URL syntax isn’t propagated.

[cbrandt]

Please see this answer to a similar topic. Though the topic refers to Pages, I would think the solution proposed should work in any website with URL Normalization enabled.

Issue with a _redirects file

It seems that in Pages the URL Normalization is applied by default, regardless of settings in Rules > Settings. I’ve tested changing URL Normalization type, as well as turning it off, but the requested URL is always normalized to remove double slashes. You can check that by creating a Transform Rule > Modify Response Header: When incoming requests match... Hostname equals "pages.example.com" << YOUR PAGES CUSTOM DOMAIN Then Set dynamic: Header name: Header-Name Value: http.request.uri.path …