diff --git a/lib/swagger.js b/lib/swagger.js
index 4be622abd..b29bd60a4 100644
--- a/lib/swagger.js
+++ b/lib/swagger.js
@@ -321,6 +321,25 @@
       }
     }
 
+    SwaggerResource.prototype.getAbsoluteBasePath = function(relativeBasePath) {
+      var parts, pos, url;
+      url = this.api.basePath;
+      pos = url.lastIndexOf(relativeBasePath);
+      if (pos === -1) {
+        parts = url.split("/");
+        url = parts[0] + "//" + parts[2];
+        if (relativeBasePath.indexOf("/") === 0) {
+          return url + relativeBasePath;
+        } else {
+          return url + "/" + relativeBasePath;
+        }
+      } else if (relativeBasePath === "/") {
+        return url.substring(0, pos);
+      } else {
+        return url.substring(0, pos) + relativeBasePath;
+      }
+    };
+
     SwaggerResource.prototype.addApiDeclaration = function(response) {
       var endpoint, _i, _len, _ref;
       if (response.produces != null) {
@@ -330,7 +349,7 @@
         this.consumes = response.consumes;
       }
       if ((response.basePath != null) && response.basePath.replace(/\s/g, '').length > 0) {
-        this.basePath = response.basePath;
+        this.basePath = response.basePath.indexOf("http") === -1 ? this.getAbsoluteBasePath(response.basePath) : response.basePath;
       }
       this.addModels(response.models);
       if (response.apis) {
diff --git a/src/swagger.coffee b/src/swagger.coffee
index 9859c4609..7f4aae2e2 100644
--- a/src/swagger.coffee
+++ b/src/swagger.coffee
@@ -251,6 +251,27 @@ class SwaggerResource
 
       new SwaggerHttp().execute obj
 
+  # Constructs an absolute resource's basePath from relative one, using the @api basePath
+  # eg. if the @api.basePath = http://myhost.com:8090/mywebapp/v0/api-docs 
+  # and the resource response contains a relative basePath='v0'
+  # then the function will return 'http://myhost.com:8090/mywebapp/v0'
+  getAbsoluteBasePath: (relativeBasePath) ->
+    url = @api.basePath
+    # first check if the base is a part of given url
+    pos = url.lastIndexOf(relativeBasePath)
+    if pos is -1
+      # take the protocol, host and port parts only and glue the 'relativeBasePath'
+      parts = url.split("/")
+      url = parts[0] + "//" + parts[2]
+      if relativeBasePath.indexOf("/") is 0
+         url + relativeBasePath
+      else
+         url + "/" + relativeBasePath
+    else if (relativeBasePath is "/")
+      url.substring(0, pos)
+    else
+      url.substring(0, pos) + relativeBasePath
+
   addApiDeclaration: (response) ->
     if response.produces?
       @produces = response.produces
@@ -260,7 +281,7 @@ class SwaggerResource
     # If there is a basePath in response, use that or else use
     # the one from the api object
     if response.basePath? and response.basePath.replace(/\s/g,'').length > 0
-      @basePath = response.basePath
+      @basePath = if response.basePath.indexOf("http") is -1 then @getAbsoluteBasePath(response.basePath) else response.basePath
 
     @addModels(response.models)