class Addressable::URI

def normalized_site
  return nil unless self.site
  @normalized_site ||= begin
    site_string = "".dup
    if self.normalized_scheme != nil
      site_string << "#{self.normalized_scheme}:"
    end
    if self.normalized_authority != nil
      site_string << "//#{self.normalized_authority}"
    end
    site_string
  end
  # All normalized values should be UTF-8
  force_utf8_encoding_if_needed(@normalized_site)
  @normalized_site
end