Bug in System.Uri constructor?

[serious-sam]

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

 

[serious-sam]

Well, it's been over a week. I still haven't been able to find out a
reason why this is so. A colleagues have reported the same thing
happening as well. For the time being, I'm going to accept that this
just doesn't work, and opt to scrub URLs manually instead.

Sam