Removing null authority

Test case:
   file:///dir/subdir/file

Is it legitimate to rewrite this as:
   file:/dir/subdir/file

?

More generally, is it legitimate to remove the '//' that introduce an empty 
authority string?

#g


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Received on Monday, 2 February 2004 08:47:38 UTC