diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
index 10bbd3a4be4..1dea93f695d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ def test_http_timeout(self):
         u = _urlopen_with_retry("http://www.python.org", timeout=120)
         self.assertEqual(u.fp.raw._sock.gettimeout(), 120)
 
-    FTP_HOST = "ftp://ftp.mirror.nl/pub/mirror/gnu/"
+    FTP_HOST = "ftp://ftp.mirror.nl/pub/gnu/"
 
     def test_ftp_basic(self):
         self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)