diff --git a/korge-core/src/korlibs/io/file/PathInfo.kt b/korge-core/src/korlibs/io/file/PathInfo.kt
index 47088b3abf..39640fd1f1 100644
--- a/korge-core/src/korlibs/io/file/PathInfo.kt
+++ b/korge-core/src/korlibs/io/file/PathInfo.kt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package korlibs.io.file
 
 import korlibs.datastructure.count
-import korlibs.datastructure.iterators.fastForEach
+import korlibs.datastructure.iterators.*
 import korlibs.io.lang.indexOfOrNull
 import korlibs.io.lang.lastIndexOfOrNull
 import korlibs.io.net.MimeType
@@ -185,24 +185,26 @@ open class VfsNamed(override val pathInfo: PathInfo) : Path
 
 
 fun PathInfo.parts(): List<String> = fullPath.split('/')
-fun PathInfo.normalize(): String {
-	val path = this.fullPath
-	val schemeIndex = path.indexOf(":")
-	return if (schemeIndex >= 0) {
-		val take = if (path.substring(schemeIndex).startsWith("://")) 3 else 1
-		path.substring(0, schemeIndex + take) + path.substring(schemeIndex + take).pathInfo.normalize()
-	} else {
-		val path2 = path.replace('\\', '/')
-		val out = ArrayList<String>()
-		path2.split("/").fastForEach { part ->
-			when (part) {
-				"", "." -> if (out.isEmpty()) out += "" else Unit
-				".." -> if (out.isNotEmpty()) out.removeAt(out.size - 1)
-				else -> out += part
-			}
-		}
-		out.joinToString("/")
-	}
+fun PathInfo.normalize(removeEndSlash: Boolean = true): String {
+    val path = this.fullPath
+    val schemeIndex = path.indexOf(":")
+    return if (schemeIndex >= 0) {
+        val take = if (path.substring(schemeIndex).startsWith("://")) 3 else 1
+        path.substring(0, schemeIndex + take) + path.substring(schemeIndex + take).pathInfo.normalize(removeEndSlash = removeEndSlash)
+    } else {
+        val path2 = path.replace('\\', '/')
+        val out = ArrayList<String>()
+        val path2PathLength: Int
+        path2.split("/").also { path2PathLength = it.size }.fastForEachWithIndex { index, part ->
+            when (part) {
+                "" -> if (out.isEmpty() || !removeEndSlash) out += ""
+                "." -> if (index == path2PathLength - 1 && !removeEndSlash) out += ""
+                ".." -> if (out.isNotEmpty() && index != 1) out.removeAt(out.size - 1)
+                else -> out += part
+            }
+        }
+        out.joinToString("/")
+    }
 }
 
 fun PathInfo.combine(access: PathInfo): PathInfo {
diff --git a/korge-core/src/korlibs/io/net/URL.kt b/korge-core/src/korlibs/io/net/URL.kt
index 4b62683cd6..1bc5e95b05 100644
--- a/korge-core/src/korlibs/io/net/URL.kt
+++ b/korge-core/src/korlibs/io/net/URL.kt
@@ -149,10 +149,22 @@ data class URL private constructor(
 
 		fun isAbsolute(url: String): Boolean = StrReader(url).tryRegex(schemeRegex) != null
 
-		fun resolve(base: String, access: String): String = when {
-			isAbsolute(access) -> access
-			access.startsWith("/") -> URL(base).copy(path = access).fullUrl
-			else -> URL(base).run { copy(path = "/${("${path.substringBeforeLast('/')}/$access").pathInfo.normalize().trimStart('/')}").fullUrl }
+		fun resolve(base: String, access: String): String {
+            // if access url is relative protocol then copy it from base
+            val refinedAccess = if (access.startsWith("//")) "${base.substringBefore(":")}:$access" else access
+            return when {
+                refinedAccess.isEmpty() -> base
+                isAbsolute(refinedAccess) -> refinedAccess
+                refinedAccess.startsWith("/") -> URL(base).copy(path = refinedAccess.normalizeUrl(), query = null).fullUrl
+                else -> URL(base).run {
+                    val refinedPath = if(refinedAccess.startsWith("?") || refinedAccess.startsWith("#")) {
+                        "${path}$refinedAccess"
+                    } else {
+                        "${path.substringBeforeLast('/')}/$refinedAccess"
+                    }
+                    copy(path = "/${refinedPath.normalizeUrl().trimStart('/')}", query = null).fullUrl
+                }
+            }
 		}
 
 		fun decodeComponent(s: String, charset: Charset = UTF8, formUrlEncoded: Boolean = false): String {
@@ -202,3 +214,12 @@ data class URL private constructor(
 fun createBase64URLForData(data: ByteArray, contentType: String): String {
 	return "data:$contentType;base64,${data.toBase64()}"
 }
+
+fun String.normalizeUrl(): String {
+    // Split with the query string or fragment, whichever comes first,
+    // to avoid normalizing query string and fragment
+    val paramFlag = this.find { it == '?' || it == '#' } ?: '?'
+    val pathParts = this.split(paramFlag).toMutableList()
+    pathParts[0] = pathParts[0].pathInfo.normalize(removeEndSlash = false)
+    return pathParts.joinToString(paramFlag.toString())
+}
diff --git a/korge-core/test/korlibs/io/net/URLTest.kt b/korge-core/test/korlibs/io/net/URLTest.kt
index 669cd13b1e..c4f8452f73 100644
--- a/korge-core/test/korlibs/io/net/URLTest.kt
+++ b/korge-core/test/korlibs/io/net/URLTest.kt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package korlibs.io.net
 
+import korlibs.io.file.*
 import korlibs.io.lang.toByteArray
 import kotlin.test.Test
 import kotlin.test.assertEquals
@@ -100,6 +101,22 @@ class URLTest {
 		for (url in URLS) assertEquals(url.isOpaque, URL(url.url).isOpaque, url.url)
 	}
 
+    @Test
+    fun testNormalize() {
+        assertEquals("g", "./g/.".pathInfo.normalize())
+        assertEquals("g", "././g".pathInfo.normalize())
+        assertEquals("g", "./g/.".pathInfo.normalize())
+        assertEquals("g", "g/".pathInfo.normalize())
+        assertEquals("/g", "/./g".pathInfo.normalize())
+        assertEquals("/g", "/../g".pathInfo.normalize())
+        assertEquals("g", "./g".pathInfo.normalize())
+        assertEquals("g", "g/.".pathInfo.normalize())
+        assertEquals("g/", "g/.".normalizeUrl())
+        assertEquals("g/", "g/".normalizeUrl())
+        assertEquals("g/", "./g/.".normalizeUrl())
+        assertEquals("g/", "./g/.".normalizeUrl())
+    }
+
 	@Test
 	fun testResolve() {
 		assertEquals("https://www.google.es/", URL.resolve("https://google.es/", "https://www.google.es/"))
@@ -109,6 +126,47 @@ class URLTest {
 		assertEquals("https://google.es/test", URL.resolve("https://google.es/path/path2", "../test"))
 		assertEquals("https://google.es/path/test", URL.resolve("https://google.es/path/path2/", "../test"))
 		assertEquals("https://google.es/test", URL.resolve("https://google.es/path/path2/", "../../../test"))
+
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/one/two?three", URL.resolve("http://example.com", "./one/two?three"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/one/two?three", URL.resolve("http://example.com?one", "./one/two?three"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/one/two?three#four", URL.resolve("http://example.com", "./one/two?three#four"))
+        assertEquals("https://example.com/one", URL.resolve("http://example.com/", "https://example.com/one"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/one/two.html", URL.resolve("http://example.com/two/", "../one/two.html"))
+        assertEquals("https://example2.com/one", URL.resolve("https://example.com/", "//example2.com/one"))
+        assertEquals("https://example.com:8080/one", URL.resolve("https://example.com:8080", "./one"))
+        assertEquals("https://example2.com/one", URL.resolve("http://example.com/", "https://example2.com/one"))
+        assertEquals("https://example.com/one", URL.resolve("wrong", "https://example.com/one"))
+        assertEquals("https://example.com/one", URL.resolve("https://example.com/one", ""))
+        assertEquals("https://example.com/one/two.c", URL.resolve("https://example.com/one/two/", "../two.c"))
+        assertEquals("https://example.com/two.c", URL.resolve("https://example.com/one/two", "../two.c"))
+        assertEquals("ftp://example.com/one", URL.resolve("ftp://example.com/two/", "../one"))
+        assertEquals("ftp://example.com/one/two.c", URL.resolve("ftp://example.com/one/", "./two.c"))
+        assertEquals("ftp://example.com/one/two.c", URL.resolve("ftp://example.com/one/", "two.c"))
+        // examples taken from rfc3986 section 5.4.2
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/g", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "../../../g"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/g", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "../../../../g"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/g", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "/./g"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/g", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "/../g"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/g.", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "g."))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/.g", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", ".g"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/g..", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "g.."))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/..g", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "..g"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/g", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "./../g"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/g/", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "./g/."))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/g/h", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "g/./h"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/h", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "g/../h"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/g;x=1/y", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "g;x=1/./y"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/y", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "g;x=1/../y"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/g?y/./x", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "g?y/./x"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/g?y/../x", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "g?y/../x"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/g#s/./x", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "g#s/./x"))
+        assertEquals("http://example.com/b/c/g#s/../x", URL.resolve("http://example.com/b/c/d;p?q", "g#s/../x"))
+        assertEquals("https://example.com/path/bar.html?foo", URL.resolve("https://example.com/path/file?bar", "bar.html?foo"))
+        assertEquals("https://example.com/path/file?foo", URL.resolve("https://example.com/path/file?bar", "?foo"))
+        assertEquals("https://example.com/foo bar/", URL.resolve("https://example.com/example/", "../foo bar/"))
+        assertEquals("file:///var/log/messages", URL.resolve("file:///etc/", "/var/log/messages"))
+        assertEquals("file:///var/log/messages", URL.resolve("file:///etc", "/var/log/messages"))
+        assertEquals("file:///etc/var/log/messages", URL.resolve("file:///etc/", "var/log/messages"))
 	}
 
 	@Test