diff --git a/src/protocol/uri.c b/src/protocol/uri.c
index 7dca889d9..bc4bb1341 100644
--- a/src/protocol/uri.c
+++ b/src/protocol/uri.c
@@ -759,10 +759,6 @@ normalize_uri(struct uri *uri, unsigned char *uristring)
 				continue;
 			}
 
-		} else if (is_uri_dir_sep(uri, src[1])) {
-			/* // - ignore first '/'. */
-			src += 1;
-			continue;
 		}
 
 		/* We don't want to access memory past the NUL char. */