LaTeX: remove spaces in French

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I write LaTeX docs in French, and babel package puts extra spaces before colons (:). It is usefull, but I don’t want it in URLs:

http ://docbook.org/ns/docbook

Any thoughts how to solve problem?

Thanks!

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