I've been told that the hyper text protocol allows one to use multiple "/"s (slashes) in a URL.
In fact, disabling the ability to do so could break compliance with a standard.
The Stack Overflow page at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10161177/url-with-multiple-forward-slashes-does-it-break-anything refers to the Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax page at https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt as an authoritative RFC from August 1998. RFC 2732 updated 2396 ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2732) both were obsoleted by RFC 3986 at https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt (January 2005) by the way which still treats multiple consecutive slashes as acceptable.
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The only negative mention I have found from a web search on this is a caution against multiple slashes as they may make it difficult to recognize when two URIs both reference the same entity.
I've been told that the hyper text protocol allows one to use multiple "/"s (slashes) in a URL. In fact, disabling the ability to do so could break compliance with a standard. The Stack Overflow page at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10161177/url-with-multiple-forward-slashes-does-it-break-anything refers to the Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax page at https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt as an authoritative RFC from August 1998. RFC 2732 updated 2396 ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2732) both were obsoleted by RFC 3986 at https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt (January 2005) by the way which still treats multiple consecutive slashes as acceptable. . The only negative mention I have found from a web search on this is a caution against multiple slashes as they may make it difficult to recognize when two URIs both reference the same entity.