diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/lxml_html_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/lxml_html_rewriter.py
index 8aac2f54..abf28fc4 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/lxml_html_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/lxml_html_rewriter.py
@@ -45,6 +45,18 @@ class LXMLHTMLRewriter(HTMLRewriterMixin):
         #string = string.replace(u'</html>', u'')
         self.parser.feed(string)
 
+    def parse(self, stream):
+        self.out = self.AccumBuff()
+
+        lxml.etree.parse(stream, self.parser)
+
+        result = self.out.getvalue()
+
+        # Clear buffer to create new one for next rewrite()
+        self.out = None
+
+        return result
+
     def _internal_close(self):
         if self.started:
             self.parser.close()
diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/rewrite_content.py b/pywb/rewrite/rewrite_content.py
index 720bf9f1..c2d17047 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/rewrite_content.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/rewrite_content.py
@@ -123,12 +123,20 @@ class RewriteContent:
 
         return (status_headers, gen, True)
 
+    def _parse_full_gen(self, rewriter, encoding, stream):
+        buff = rewriter.parse(stream)
+        buff = buff.encode(encoding)
+        yield buff
+
     # Create rewrite stream,  may even be chunked by front-end
     def _rewriting_stream_gen(self, rewriter, encoding, stream_raw,
                               stream, first_buff=None):
+
+        if stream_raw:
+            return self._parse_full_gen(rewriter, encoding, stream)
+
         def do_rewrite(buff):
-            if not stream_raw:
-                buff = self._decode_buff(buff, stream, encoding)
+            buff = self._decode_buff(buff, stream, encoding)
 
             buff = rewriter.rewrite(buff)
 
diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_regex_rewriters.py b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_regex_rewriters.py
index fac38789..17bf0a75 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_regex_rewriters.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_regex_rewriters.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ r"""
 
 # scheme-agnostic
 >>> _test_js('cool_Location = "//example.com/abc.html" //comment')
-'cool_Location = "/web/20131010em_///example.com/abc.html" //comment'
+'cool_Location = "/web/20131010em_/http://example.com/abc.html" //comment'
 
 
 #=================================================================
diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/url_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/url_rewriter.py
index 9545a040..cb35607f 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/url_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/url_rewriter.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class UrlRewriter(object):
 
     NO_REWRITE_URI_PREFIX = ['#', 'javascript:', 'data:', 'mailto:', 'about:']
 
-    PROTOCOLS = ['http:', 'https:', '//', 'ftp:', 'mms:', 'rtsp:', 'wais:']
+    PROTOCOLS = ['http:', 'https:', 'ftp:', 'mms:', 'rtsp:', 'wais:']
 
     def __init__(self, wburl, prefix):
         self.wburl = wburl if isinstance(wburl, WbUrl) else WbUrl(wburl)
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ class UrlRewriter(object):
 
         isAbs = any(url.startswith(x) for x in self.PROTOCOLS)
 
+        if url.startswith('//'):
+            isAbs = True
+            url = 'http:' + url
+
         # Optimized rewriter for
         # -rel urls that don't start with / and
         # do not contain ../ and no special mod