diff --git a/iwla.py b/iwla.py
index 7d8e4a1..c021d01 100755
--- a/iwla.py
+++ b/iwla.py
@@ -149,7 +149,8 @@ class IWLA(object):
         self.log_re = re.compile(self.log_format_extracted)
         self.uri_re = re.compile(r'(?P<extract_uri>[^\?#]+)(\?(?P<extract_parameters>[^#]+))?(#.*)?')
         self.domain_name_re = re.compile(r'.*%s' % conf.domain_name)
-        self.final_slashes_re = re.compile(r'/+$')
+        self.slash_re = re.compile(r'//')
+        self.protocol_re = re.compile(r'^.*://')
         self.excluded_ip = []
         for ip in conf.excluded_ip:
             self.excluded_ip += [re.compile(ip)]
@@ -372,15 +373,16 @@ class IWLA(object):
         super_hit['robot'] = False
         super_hit['hit_only'] = 0
 
-    def _normalizeURI(self, uri):
+    def _normalizeURI(self, uri, removeFileSlash=False):
         if uri == '/': return uri
-        uri = self.final_slashes_re.sub('/', uri)
+        # Remove protocol
+        uri = self.protocol_re.sub('', uri)
+        # Remove double /
+        uri = self.slash_re.sub('/', uri)
+        if removeFileSlash and uri[-1] == '/':
+            uri = uri[:-1]
         return uri
 
-    def _removeFinalSlashes(self, uri):
-        if uri == '/': return uri
-        return self.final_slashes_re.sub('', uri)
-
     def _normalizeParameters(self, parameters):
         # No parameters
         if parameters == '?': return None
@@ -409,7 +411,7 @@ class IWLA(object):
             referer_groups = self.uri_re.match(hit['http_referer'])
             if referer_groups:
                 hit['extract_referer'] = referer_groups.groupdict("")
-                hit['extract_referer']['extract_uri'] = self._removeFinalSlashes(hit['extract_referer']['extract_uri'])
+                hit['extract_referer']['extract_uri'] = self._normalizeURI(hit['extract_referer']['extract_uri'], True)
                 hit['extract_referer']['extract_parameters'] = self._normalizeParameters(hit['extract_referer']['extract_parameters'])
         return True