Normalize URLs makes WordPress to play more nicely regarding URLs in HTTP Requests. Dual Mode Plugin, can be used as a standard Plugin or as a Must-Use Plugin.
URLs as resource locating URIs can be written in many different ways to describe the exact same location. The Normalize URLs Plugin ensures that WordPress plays more nicely with URIs/URLs as discussed in RFC 3986 (URI)
and RFC 2616 (HTTP).
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616
Normalize URLs works out of the box and has no options to configure.
This file readme.txt has been created in the intention to provide data to be displayed on the wordpress.org plugin repository website. As always, for anything concrete and precise, refer to the plugin sourcecode itself, it ships with phpdoc style comments.