Hello all,

 I'm using the System.Uri class to clean up some the URLs we're
passing around, e.g. compacting http://hostname//somefolder//somefile
to http://hostname/somefolder/somefile.

 The documentation clearly states that the Uri constructor takes care
of this:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.uri.aspx

 This works fine on my machine.  However, when I try this on our
server box (Win 2003), I just get back the string I passed to the
constructor.

 I've checked the .NET versions and the assembly versions on both the
target machine and my workstation.  They match.

 Here's the code:

using System;

namespace sandpit
{
   class Program
   {
       public static void Main(string[] args)
       {
           Type type = typeof(Uri);
           Console.WriteLine(type.ToString());
           Console.WriteLine(type.Assembly);
           Console.WriteLine(type.AssemblyQualifiedName);
           Console.WriteLine(type.UnderlyingSystemType);
           Uri uri = new Uri(args.Length == 0 ? "http://hostname///
somefile.txt" : args[0]);
           Console.WriteLine(uri.ToString());
       }
   }
}

 Can someone suggest what might be happening here?  I'm a little
puzzled.

Cheers,
Misha