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As I have been using GCP for more projects over the last year, I wanted to go ahead and start moving a couple static Web sites from AWS S3 to cloud storage. Getting all of the basic steps implemented was straightforward. However, the current Web site edge capabilities seem a bit limited at the moment with regard to handling extensionless URIs.

To be clear, by extensionless URIs, I mean to say that my static site generator produces a directory structure that looks like the following:

/
  /my-resource
    /index.html

My resource can now be dereferenced from /my-resource.

Cloud storage provides a way to resolve the directory URL to a default file via the MainPageSuffix. However, the way in which it appears to be doing this is problematic for me in 2 respects:

1. MainPageSuffix relies on redirects to the actual MainPageSuffix file - even in the case where that file is index.html (which I would guess is the most common value). This can muddy the waters for Web sites where the canonical URL is different from the one the user is redirected to. It can completely break more specialized sites like http://schema.open-expense.com/Receipt/ whereby the URL is also the _name_ of an RDF entity.

2. The behavior for MainPageSuffix is dependent on the absence of a trailing slash. If I add the trailing slash, I get the resource without the redirect. The problem in my case is that what I actually want is the resource without the trailing slash and without a redirection to the file itself.

My desired state is a set of resources that a) do not have to end in *.html (or 'index') and b) do not have to end in a trailing slash. I'm fine with either proxying or redirection, but the end result should look like the following.

http://schema.open-expense.com/Receipt/ -> http://schema.open-expense.com/Receipt (serving /Receipt/index.html)
http://schema.open-expense.com/Receipt -> http://schema.open-expense.com/Receipt (serving /Receipt/index.html)

A related issue can be found at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21417948/is-there-a-way-to-change-redirect-behavior-for-website-hosting.

Thanks,

_howard