diff --git a/core-packages/http/lib/index.jsx b/core-packages/http/lib/index.jsx
index fa19f7f..f5cc9a6 100644
--- a/core-packages/http/lib/index.jsx
+++ b/core-packages/http/lib/index.jsx
@@ -347,7 +347,12 @@ function HTTPRequest (method, url, timeout) {
 		// request line
 		var head = [];
 		var url = this.url();
-		var path = url.pathname + url.search;
+		var path;
+		if (url.search) {
+			path = url.pathname + url.search;
+		} else {
+			path = url.pathname;
+		}
 		var request_line = "{} {} HTTP/1.1".format(this.method(), path || "/");
 		head.push(request_line);
 		// headers to string (kv) form
@@ -575,4 +580,4 @@ function HTTPResponse (method, encoding, request) {
  * However, before we could consider this optimization, we'd need to optimize the ByteString class, 
  * and in particular make it possible and fast to concatenate / add in string data to an existing
  * byte class. Then we could process the data parts we receive on the fly rather than post-hoc.
- */
\ No newline at end of file
+ */