diff --git a/Lib/cookielib.py b/Lib/cookielib.py
index b61a2b2..5b25090 100644
--- a/Lib/cookielib.py
+++ b/Lib/cookielib.py
@@ -607,19 +607,14 @@
     return req_host, erhn
 
 def request_path(request):
-    """request-URI, as defined by RFC 2965."""
+    """Path component of request-URI, as defined by RFC 2965."""
     url = request.get_full_url()
-    #scheme, netloc, path, parameters, query, frag = urlparse.urlparse(url)
-    #req_path = escape_path("".join(urlparse.urlparse(url)[2:]))
-    path, parameters, query, frag = urlparse.urlparse(url)[2:]
-    if parameters:
-        path = "%s;%s" % (path, parameters)
-    path = escape_path(path)
-    req_path = urlparse.urlunparse(("", "", path, "", query, frag))
-    if not req_path.startswith("/"):
+    parts = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
+    path = escape_path(parts.path)
+    if not path.startswith("/"):
         # fix bad RFC 2396 absoluteURI
-        req_path = "/"+req_path
-    return req_path
+        path = "/" + path
+    return path
 
 def request_port(request):
     host = request.get_host()