diff --git a/src/url.lua b/src/url.lua
index e1fa2bc..243ee1c 100644
--- a/src/url.lua
+++ b/src/url.lua
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ local function absolute_path(base_path, relative_path)
     if string.sub(relative_path, 1, 1) == "/" then
       return remove_dot_components(relative_path) end
     base_path = base_path:gsub("[^/]*$", "")
+    if not base_path:find'/$' then base_path = base_path .. '/' end
     local path = base_path .. relative_path
     path = remove_dot_components(path)
     return path
diff --git a/test/urltest.lua b/test/urltest.lua
index 04b3c7f..b6ee299 100644
--- a/test/urltest.lua
+++ b/test/urltest.lua
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ check_absolute_url("http://example.com/", "...badhost.com/", "http://example.com
 check_absolute_url("http://example.com/a/b/c/d/", "../q", "http://example.com/a/b/c/q")
 check_absolute_url("http://example.com/a/b/c/d/", "../../q", "http://example.com/a/b/q")
 check_absolute_url("http://example.com/a/b/c/d/", "../../../q", "http://example.com/a/q")
-check_absolute_url("http://example.com/a/b/c/d/", "../../../../q", "http://example.com/q")
+check_absolute_url("http://example.com", ".badhost.com", "http://example.com/.badhost.com")
 
 print("testing path parsing and composition")
 check_parse_path("/eu/tu/ele", { "eu", "tu", "ele"; is_absolute = 1 })