<p><pre><code>    (and yeah, file: URLs most have three but lets ignore that for now)
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I don&#x27;t want to be nitpicky but actually a file url still has two slashes, the third slash is actually the root path i.e.:
file:&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;home where the two slashes are slash-slash-colon and there third is actually the start of the path. (actually it just emit&#x27;s the host)<p>Actually there is one exception, but just ignore this widly &#x27;unused&#x27; operating system which doesn&#x27;t seem to care about posix and rfc&#x27;s anyway.