diff --git a/scapy/layers/http.py b/scapy/layers/http.py
index ac3496fcb24..d4293071fe8 100644
--- a/scapy/layers/http.py
+++ b/scapy/layers/http.py
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 import subprocess
 
 from enum import Enum
+from urllib.parse import urlsplit
 
 from scapy.compat import plain_str, bytes_encode
 
@@ -897,26 +898,33 @@ def request(
             e.g. Method="POST"
         """
         # Parse request url
-        m = re.match(r"(https?)://([^/:]+)(?:\:(\d+))?(/.*)?", url)
-        if not m:
+        try:
+            parsed = urlsplit(url)
+            transport = parsed.scheme
+            host = parsed.hostname
+            port = parsed.port
+        except ValueError:
+            raise ValueError("Bad URL !") from None
+        if transport not in ["http", "https"] or not host:
             raise ValueError("Bad URL !")
-        transport, host, port, path = m.groups()
         if transport == "https":
             tls = True
         else:
             tls = False
 
-        path = path or "/"
-        port = port and int(port)
+        path = parsed.path or "/"
+        if parsed.query:
+            path += "?" + parsed.query
+        if port is None:
+            port = 443 if tls else 80
 
         # Connect (or reuse) socket
         self._connect_or_reuse(host, port=port, tls=tls, timeout=timeout)
 
         # Build request
+        host_hdr = "[%s]" % host if ":" in host else host
         if (tls and port != 443) or (not tls and port != 80):
-            host_hdr = "%s:%d" % (host, port)
-        else:
-            host_hdr = host
+            host_hdr = "%s:%d" % (host_hdr, port)
 
         headers.setdefault("Host", host_hdr)
         headers.setdefault("Path", path)
diff --git a/test/scapy/layers/http.uts b/test/scapy/layers/http.uts
index 1b132a5a614..9e681529f5b 100644
--- a/test/scapy/layers/http.uts
+++ b/test/scapy/layers/http.uts
@@ -363,6 +363,28 @@ with run_httpserver(mech=HTTP_AUTH_MECHS.NTLM, ssp=NTLMSSP(IDENTITIES={"user": M
 
 assert resp.Status_Code == b"401"
 
+= HTTP - HTTP_Client follows standard URL authority parsing
+~ http-client
+
+from scapy.layers.http import HTTP_Client, HTTPResponse
+
+class URLParsingClient(HTTP_Client):
+    def _connect_or_reuse(self, host, port=None, tls=False, timeout=5):
+        self.connected = (host, port, tls)
+    def sr1(self, req, **kwargs):
+        self.sent_request = req
+        return HTTPResponse(Status_Code=b"200")
+
+client = URLParsingClient(verb=False)
+resp = client.request(
+    "http://127.0.0.1:8081@allowed.example:8080/resource?item=1#fragment"
+)
+
+assert resp.Status_Code == b"200"
+assert client.connected == ("allowed.example", 8080, False)
+assert client.sent_request.Host == b"allowed.example:8080"
+assert client.sent_request.Path == b"/resource?item=1"
+
 = HTTP - HTTP_client asks HTTP_server with NTLMSSP
 ~ http-client