serve request paths with trailing slashes, as sent by python client

api/handlers/middleware/trailing_slash_stripper.go

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+package middleware
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+)
+
+func TrailingSlashStripper() gin.HandlerFunc {
+	return func(c *gin.Context) {
+		if (len(c.Request.URL.Path)) > 1 { //dont strip root dir slash, path="/"
+			var stripped_path = strings.TrimSuffix(c.Request.URL.Path, "/")
+			c.Request.URL.Path = stripped_path
+		}
+		c.Next()
+	}
+}