laravel/laravel — pull request #2959 by bradberger (2014-08-05 14:19:16+00:00)
Title: Update .htaccess

I'm not sure exactly how this impacts the entire project, but for a note on why I'm recommending it, see [this issue](https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/5344) from the laravel/framework repo. Feel free to shoot it down :-)

From this end, it doesn't seem right to force the redirect unless it's necessary. That should be left up to the developers to do if it's a visual only kind of thing. It has the possibility of breaking this, as can be seen in the referenced issue.