What do two forward slashes in a url mean? (not the inital 2)

johnMG · 06-28-2005, 09:12 AM

What do two forward slashes in a url mean? For example, in the cvs faq-o-matic:
https://ccvs.cvshome.org/fom//cache/217.html

Of course, I mean the two slashes between "fom" and "cache", not the two
after "https:".

peter_robb · 06-28-2005, 10:09 AM

They don't do anything different from 1 slash..

Try it on a local filesystem, eg ls /root/.ssh & ls /root//.ssh

It is of course possible to make it mean something by using it as an alias for another directory, but that's in the webserver setup.

johnMG · 06-28-2005, 10:27 AM

Heh! Thanks Peter. "cd foo/bar" == "cd foo/////bar" works too. Neat.