diff --git a/src/http_utils.cpp b/src/http_utils.cpp
index 62fdbba0..0f75a079 100644
--- a/src/http_utils.cpp
+++ b/src/http_utils.cpp
@@ -223,7 +223,11 @@ std::vector<std::string> http_utils::tokenize_url(
 
 std::string http_utils::standardize_url(const std::string& url)
 {
-    std::string n_url = string_utilities::regex_replace(url, "(\\/)+", "/");
+    std::string n_url = url;
+
+    std::string::iterator new_end = std::unique(n_url.begin(), n_url.end(), [](char a, char b) { return (a == b) && (a == '/'); });
+    n_url.erase(new_end, n_url.end());
+
     std::string::size_type n_url_length = n_url.length();
 
     std::string result;
diff --git a/test/unit/http_utils_test.cpp b/test/unit/http_utils_test.cpp
index 240bf5c8..5f7a9c7e 100644
--- a/test/unit/http_utils_test.cpp
+++ b/test/unit/http_utils_test.cpp
@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ LT_BEGIN_AUTO_TEST(http_utils_suite, standardize_url)
     url = "/abc/pqr", result = "";
     result = http::http_utils::standardize_url(url);
     LT_CHECK_EQ(result, "/abc/pqr");
+
+    url = "/abc//pqr", result = "";
+    result = http::http_utils::standardize_url(url);
+    LT_CHECK_EQ(result, "/abc/pqr");
 LT_END_AUTO_TEST(standardize_url)
 
 LT_BEGIN_AUTO_TEST(http_utils_suite, ip_to_str)