diff --git a/source/de/anomic/tools/tarTools.java b/source/de/anomic/tools/tarTools.java
index ff98fc1f3..642ba3b29 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/tools/tarTools.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/tools/tarTools.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 // tarTools.java
-// (C) 2007 by Michael Peter Christen; mc@yacy.net, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
-// contributed by David Wieditz; d.wieditz@gmx.de
+// (C) 2008 by David Wieditz; d.wieditz@gmx.de
 // first published 21.05.2008 on http://yacy.net
 //
 // This is a part of YaCy, a peer-to-peer based web search engine
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyURL.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyURL.java
index 79dbd21b5..919fc7e07 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyURL.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyURL.java
@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ public class yacyURL implements Serializable {
         this.host = baseURL.host;
         this.port = baseURL.port;
         this.userInfo = baseURL.userInfo;
+        if (relPath.startsWith("//")) {
+            // a "network-path reference" as defined in rfc2396 denotes
+            // a relative path that uses the protocol from the base url
+            relPath = baseURL.protocol + ":" + relPath;
+        }
         if (relPath.toLowerCase().startsWith("javascript:")) {
             this.path = baseURL.path;
         } else if (