Browser support for URLs beginning with double slash

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This behavior was part of RFC 1808 (Section 4) which is about 16 years old, so every major browser should (and does) support this.

Sadly, there’s a bug with IE7 and -8 that will make them download the resources twice if a protocol-relative URL is used on a link or @import – which shouldn’t be a big problem, but is ugly and should be kept in mind.

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