diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 23631f657fe..87030819c5d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -1237,6 +1237,16 @@ class RequestTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual("www.python.org", self.get.get_origin_req_host())
         self.assertEqual("www.perl.org", self.get.get_host())
 
+    def test_wrapped_url(self):
+        req = Request("<URL:http://www.python.org>")
+        self.assertEqual("www.python.org", req.get_host())
+
+    def test_urlwith_fragment(self):
+        req = Request("http://www.python.org/?qs=query#fragment=true")
+        self.assertEqual("/?qs=query", req.get_selector())
+        req = Request("http://www.python.org/#fun=true")
+        self.assertEqual("/", req.get_selector())
+
 
 def test_main(verbose=None):
     from test import test_urllib2
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
index d2762dcf029..4da38eff24d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
@@ -154,6 +154,13 @@ class OtherNetworkTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
 ##             self._test_urls(urls, self._extra_handlers()+[bauth, dauth])
 
+    def test_urlwithfrag(self):
+        urlwith_frag = "http://docs.python.org/glossary.html#glossary"
+        req = urllib2.Request(urlwith_frag)
+        res = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+        self.assertEqual(res.geturl(),
+                "http://docs.python.org/glossary.html")
+
     def _test_urls(self, urls, handlers, retry=True):
         import time
         import logging
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index f6f7be9092a..d0e81a8084f 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ except ImportError:
     from StringIO import StringIO
 
 from urllib import (unwrap, unquote, splittype, splithost, quote,
-     addinfourl, splitport,
+     addinfourl, splitport, splittag,
      splitattr, ftpwrapper, splituser, splitpasswd, splitvalue)
 
 # support for FileHandler, proxies via environment variables
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ class Request:
                  origin_req_host=None, unverifiable=False):
         # unwrap('<URL:type://host/path>') --> 'type://host/path'
         self.__original = unwrap(url)
+        self.__original, fragment = splittag(self.__original)
         self.type = None
         # self.__r_type is what's left after doing the splittype
         self.host = None