diff --git a/lib/http.c b/lib/http.c
index 7ec03e9bd1..cb065ed586 100644
--- a/lib/http.c
+++ b/lib/http.c
@@ -2189,7 +2189,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_http_target(struct Curl_easy *data,
     /* Extract the URL to use in the request. Store in STRING_TEMP_URL for
        clean-up reasons if the function returns before the free() further
        down. */
-    uc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_URL, &url, 0);
+    uc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_URL, &url, CURLU_NO_DEFAULT_PORT);
     if(uc) {
       curl_url_cleanup(h);
       return CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY;
diff --git a/tests/data/test659 b/tests/data/test659
index 476edcc4c7..ef7cf12efd 100644
--- a/tests/data/test659
+++ b/tests/data/test659
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ proxy
 
 <verify>
 <protocol>
-GET http://www.example.com:80/ HTTP/1.1
+GET http://www.example.com/ HTTP/1.1
 Host: www.example.com
 Accept: */*
 Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive