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Many IT systems incorrectly collapse double slashes (//) to single slashes (/) in HTTP URL paths during normalization, but this violates RFC 3986 and RFC 9110 standards, as empty path segments are syntactically valid and semantically meaningful. This normalization error can cause applications to misroute requests, break API integrations, and create security vulnerabilities by altering resource identifiers that servers may treat as distinct endpoints. Technology leaders must recognize that URL path normalization logic in proxies, load balancers, API gateways, and application code may be inadvertently changing valid URLs and breaking functionality.