Prevent Vanity/Redirect service from appending .html

Hi Shashi,

Sample URL would be example.com/example/region/about-us has a vanity URL of "about-us" and the "redirect vanity url" checkbox checked. 

Expected is for the address to then resolve to "example.com/region/about-us" (region still included because redirect checkbox checked). Instead, it resolves to "example.com/region/about-us.html". And since we have rewrite conditions in our dispatcher, the .html will indeed be removed from the URL, BUT, it causes an additional redirect which we do not want. 

We would prefer that the vanity url redirect, redirects to the URL without appending the .html ever. 

I looked around a bit and tried to familiarize myself with how our configs for the resource resolver factory are set. We have the map.location directed to /etc/map.publish and numerous sling:mapping nodes. I went to the extreme for an initial test on one of our lower environments, and for testing purposes, completely removed this https node under map.publish. After clearing dispatcher and waiting a while, the vanities were still redirecting the exact same way? I would not have expected this.

Something else I familiarized myself with a bit from the link below was the /system/console/jcrresolver. All created vanities are included in this list, and I noticed that each of the created vanities that had the redirect vanity url checked, had .html appended in the "replacement" column. What service or configuration would still be appending the .html here?

link:

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-learn/ams/dispatcher/disp-vanity-url.html?lang=en