Preventing trailing slash on domain name

Question

I want my site to show up as www.mysite.com, not www.mysite.com/

Does Apache add a trailing slash after a domain name by default, o

Answer 1

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/linking-issues-why-a-trailing-slash-in-the-url-does-matter/13021/

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slashforward/

URLs were initially used to model directories, so the trailing slash was required. I think if you don't have the trailing slash some webservers will not be able to find the content correctly.