Ignore the slash in Magento <url> - url

Question

I’ve created a menu in page.xml and it looks like this:
<reference name="primary.menu">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title">
<label>Test</label>
<url>test.html</url>
<title>Test</title>
<prepare>1</prepare>
<urlParams/>
<position>10</position>
<liParams>dark-gray</liParams>
<aParams></aParams>
<beforeText></beforeText>
<afterText></afterText>
</action>
...................
The class used for the primary.menu block is extending the Mage_Page_Block_Template_Links class from Magento’s core.
The problem is, that when I click this link it goes to ‘www.mydomain.com/test.html/’ which is not working. My question is what should I do in order to stop the last ‘/’ from showing in the url?

Answer 1

I think that <prepare>1</prepare> is building your URL query (in the absence of a dedicated helper to supply the URL) and as a result is prefixing your URL with the domain (which is what you want), but it is also appending a trailing slash (which is what you don't want)
Either create a helper to supply the "proper" URL.
If the page is a Magento CMS page, use that helper (preferred)
Use <prepare/> and <url>/test.html</url> (hack alert!)
To use a Magento CMS helper to add a link
<action method="addLink" translate="label title before_text" module="cms">
<label>Test</label>
<url helper="cms/page/getPageUrl">
<page_id>1</page_id>
</url>
<title>Test</title>
<prepare/>
<urlParams/>
<position>10</position>
<li/>
<a/>
<before_text/>
<after_text/>
</action>