URLs [OT]

[Chris Tyler]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 19:19 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> I am wondering:
> 
> usually a URL has the form
> http://www.company.com/dir/subdir...
> 
> but lately, I have often come across
> http://www.company.com//dir/subdir
> 
> What does this '//' mean?

Usually that http://www.company.com/ and /dir/subdir were concatenated
by some script somewhere ... // is generally treated as /

-Chris