Why do some web pages link to resources by beginning their links with `//`? [closed]

sibeko

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Hi can somebody please explain what are the URL's that we can see at Google+ HTML source code that look like \[code\]<img src="http://stackoverflow.com//lh5.googleusercontent.com/--kKi9nRc78s/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAC8/w1PSeKZtt7I/photo.jpg?sz=48" alt="" />\[/code\] Is it a shortcut for http:// ?What browsers understand it in this case, where can I find more information on this, please ?Thanks in advance!
 
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