/* --------------------------------
** FUNCTION:
**   fnRemoveProtocolFromURLString 
** DESCRIPTION:
**   This function removes the url protocol string
**   from the beginning of a url, such as 'http://' etc
**   it also removes somewhat invalid protocol strings
**   such as 'gg://' or 'why:/'  etc
**   The function returns as a string the url without
**   the protocol string.
** DEPENDENCIES:
**   fnStripLeadingSpaceFromString
**   none
** SEE ALSO:
** DATE:
** 
   -------------------------------- */

function fnRemoveProtocolFromURLString(sURLString) 
{                                      

  //-- Verify parameters
  if (sURLString == null)
  {
    //-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->
    //-- write out some nasty error message
    //-- somewhere, mortally insulting the programmer
    //-- for such a ridiculous error
    return -1;
  }

  var sReturn     = sURLString;

  sReturn = sReturn.toLowerCase();
  sReturn = fnStripLeadingSpaceFromString(sReturn);

  var rxProtocol = new RegExp("^[a-z]{1,7}:[/]{0,2}", "gi");  
  sReturn = sReturn.replace(rxProtocol, "")
  return sReturn;

} //-- fnRemoveProtocolFromURLString()