diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 1a8ffac1b03..f173aa09dc6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ def test_file(self):
                 try:
                     data = r.read()
                     headers = r.info()
-                    newurl = r.geturl()
+                    respurl = r.geturl()
                 finally:
                     r.close()
                 stats = os.stat(TESTFN)
@@ -695,6 +695,7 @@ def test_file(self):
             self.assertEqual(headers["Content-type"], "text/plain")
             self.assertEqual(headers["Content-length"], "13")
             self.assertEqual(headers["Last-modified"], modified)
+            self.assertEqual(respurl, url)
 
         for url in [
             "file://localhost:80%s" % urlpath,
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 3293966a198..098630ebcbb 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -1216,7 +1216,8 @@ def open_local_file(self, req):
                 host, port = splitport(host)
             if not host or \
                 (not port and _safe_gethostbyname(host) in self.get_names()):
-                return addinfourl(open(localfile, 'rb'), headers, 'file:'+file)
+                return addinfourl(open(localfile, 'rb'), headers, 'file://'+
+                        host + file)
         except OSError as msg:
             # users shouldn't expect OSErrors coming from urlopen()
             raise URLError(msg)