[lmm]

The server can of course interpret the path as it wants, but it should allow an application running under the server to give 'foo//bar' a meaning if that application wants to, IMO.

[gpvos]

True. I was writing about the case when the URL simply mapped to a file system location. Applications should be able to apply their own interpretation.

[stevekemp]

Agreed.

(The problem in my case was just stupid spiders that were crawling my sites.)