I have urls one my site that are in the format: http://www.whatever.com/test.cgi//88
When I run htdig and htmerge I get search results with the url above changed to: http://www.whatever.com/test.cgi/88 missing the second forward slash.
The problem is that the URLs you are using are not valid. Although they may work fine in other situations, they do not comply with the RFC that defines URLs. You are trying to pass a '/' as ordinary data while the RFC defines the '/' as a reserved character. At least that is my reading. Since consecutive '/' characters are not allowed for, htdig collapses them into a single '/'. The reason that htdig goes out of its way to change URLs in this fashion is that they have the potential to create loops as htdig spiders through a site.
My guess is that you are not going to find an easy workaround. Normalization of the URL path occurs very early in the process, during the initial parse of the URL. If you want to look at the code that does the normalization, and perhaps hack it to your needs, look for the normalizePath() method in URL.cc.
Jim
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