diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Client.php b/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Client.php
index 7f640a791917..06add6c34ac0 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Client.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Client.php
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ public function restart()
     protected function getAbsoluteUri($uri)
     {
         // already absolute?
-        if (0 === strpos($uri, 'http')) {
+        if (0 === strpos($uri, 'http://') || 0 === strpos($uri, 'https://')) {
             return $uri;
         }
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Tests/ClientTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Tests/ClientTest.php
index 58a5c6cc71dc..cc7db71fd2f9 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Tests/ClientTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Tests/ClientTest.php
@@ -207,6 +207,21 @@ public function testRequestURIConversion()
         $client->request('GET', 'http://www.example.com/foo/foobar');
         $client->request('GET', 'bar');
         $this->assertEquals('http://www.example.com/foo/bar', $client->getRequest()->getUri(), '->request() uses the previous request for relative URLs');
+
+        $client = new TestClient();
+        $client->request('GET', 'http://www.example.com/foo/');
+        $client->request('GET', 'http');
+        $this->assertEquals('http://www.example.com/foo/http', $client->getRequest()->getUri(), '->request() uses the previous request for relative URLs');
+
+        $client = new TestClient();
+        $client->request('GET', 'http://www.example.com/foo');
+        $client->request('GET', 'http/bar');
+        $this->assertEquals('http://www.example.com/http/bar', $client->getRequest()->getUri(), '->request() uses the previous request for relative URLs');
+
+        $client = new TestClient();
+        $client->request('GET', 'http://www.example.com/');
+        $client->request('GET', 'http');
+        $this->assertEquals('http://www.example.com/http', $client->getRequest()->getUri(), '->request() uses the previous request for relative URLs');
     }
 
     public function testRequestURIConversionByServerHost()