diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 12a189a..32ffd0a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -1302,13 +1302,6 @@
         self.assertEqual("POST", self.post.get_method())
         self.assertEqual("GET", self.get.get_method())
 
-    def test___getattr__(self):
-        self.assertEqual("GET", self.get._Request__r_method)
-        self.assertEqual("http://www.python.org/~jeremy/",
-                         self.get._Request__r_full_url)
-        with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
-            self.get._Request__r_invalid_attr
-
     def test_add_data(self):
         self.assertTrue(not self.get.has_data())
         self.assertEqual("GET", self.get.get_method())
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 1ae229e..9277b1d 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -251,7 +251,8 @@
         if attr[:12] == '_Request__r_':
             name = attr[12:]
             if hasattr(Request, 'get_' + name):
-                return getattr(self, 'get_' + name)()
+                getattr(self, 'get_' + name)()
+                return getattr(self, attr)
         raise AttributeError, attr
 
     def get_method(self):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 13474c9..e28bc87 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -36,9 +36,6 @@
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #6500: Fix "maximum recursion depth exceeded" error caused
-  by urllib2.Request.__getattr__().
-
 - Issue #24103: Fixed possible use after free in ElementTree.iterparse().
 
 - Issue #20954: _args_from_interpreter_flags used by multiprocessing and some