--- a/mercurial/httprepo.py
+++ b/mercurial/httprepo.py
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ else:
 
 class httprepository(remoterepository):
     def __init__(self, ui, path):
+        self.path = path
         self.caps = None
         scheme, netloc, urlpath, query, frag = urlparse.urlsplit(path)
         if query or frag:
@@ -124,8 +125,8 @@ class httprepository(remoterepository):
         host, port, user, passwd = netlocsplit(netloc)
 
         # urllib cannot handle URLs with embedded user or passwd
-        self.url = urlparse.urlunsplit((scheme, netlocunsplit(host, port),
-                                        urlpath, '', ''))
+        self._url = urlparse.urlunsplit((scheme, netlocunsplit(host, port),
+                                         urlpath, '', ''))
         self.ui = ui
 
         proxyurl = ui.config("http_proxy", "host") or os.getenv('http_proxy')
@@ -189,6 +190,9 @@ class httprepository(remoterepository):
         opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'mercurial/proto-1.0')]
         urllib2.install_opener(opener)
 
+    def url(self):
+        return self.path
+
     # look up capabilities only when needed
 
     def get_caps(self):
@@ -213,7 +217,7 @@ class httprepository(remoterepository):
         q = {"cmd": cmd}
         q.update(args)
         qs = urllib.urlencode(q)
-        cu = "%s?%s" % (self.url, qs)
+        cu = "%s?%s" % (self._url, qs)
         try:
             resp = urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request(cu, data, headers))
         except urllib2.HTTPError, inst:
@@ -234,13 +238,13 @@ class httprepository(remoterepository):
                not proto.startswith('text/plain') and \
                not proto.startswith('application/hg-changegroup'):
             raise hg.RepoError(_("'%s' does not appear to be an hg repository") %
-                               self.url)
+                               self._url)
 
         if proto.startswith('application/mercurial'):
             version = proto[22:]
             if float(version) > 0.1:
                 raise hg.RepoError(_("'%s' uses newer protocol %s") %
-                                   (self.url, version))
+                                   (self._url, version))
 
         return resp