Cloned from launchpad blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/swift/+spec/url-normalization.

Description:

Add option to collapse slashes such that A/B//C///D will be treated as ('A','B','C','D') and not as ('A','B','','C','','','D')  - this is inline with the common URL normalization performed by web servers and not inline with the current practice of treating object names as opaque strings. 

Specification URL (additional information):

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