From 18d8625ab8216919d7788d990950de4dde3ce08a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Pall <mail@stevenpall.ca>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 07:51:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add trailing slash to jolokia context (#2105)

---
 plugins/inputs/jolokia/README.md  | 3 ++-
 plugins/inputs/jolokia/jolokia.go | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/inputs/jolokia/README.md b/plugins/inputs/jolokia/README.md
index 596dbed5fe2b4..d25ab6f461148 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/jolokia/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/jolokia/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
 # Read JMX metrics through Jolokia
 [[inputs.jolokia]]
   ## This is the context root used to compose the jolokia url
-  context = "/jolokia"
+  ## NOTE that Jolokia requires a trailing slash at the end of the context root
+  context = "/jolokia/"
 
   ## This specifies the mode used
   # mode = "proxy"
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/jolokia/jolokia.go b/plugins/inputs/jolokia/jolokia.go
index 6a51e9b43f639..812e5e66b276f 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/jolokia/jolokia.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/jolokia/jolokia.go
@@ -52,8 +52,9 @@ type Jolokia struct {
 
 const sampleConfig = `
   ## This is the context root used to compose the jolokia url
+  ## NOTE that Jolokia requires a trailing slash at the end of the context root
   ## NOTE that your jolokia security policy must allow for POST requests.
-  context = "/jolokia"
+  context = "/jolokia/"
 
   ## This specifies the mode used
   # mode = "proxy"
@@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ func (j *Jolokia) doRequest(req *http.Request) (map[string]interface{}, error) {
 
 func (j *Jolokia) prepareRequest(server Server, metric Metric) (*http.Request, error) {
 	var jolokiaUrl *url.URL
-	context := j.Context // Usually "/jolokia"
+	context := j.Context // Usually "/jolokia/"
 
 	// Create bodyContent
 	bodyContent := map[string]interface{}{