diff --git a/Lib/mimetypes.py b/Lib/mimetypes.py
index 01a16fd..f38005c 100644
--- a/Lib/mimetypes.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetypes.py
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@
         but non-standard types.
         """
         url = os.fspath(url)
-        scheme, url = urllib.parse._splittype(url)
+        p = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
+        scheme, url = p.scheme, p.path
         if scheme == 'data':
             # syntax of data URLs:
             # dataurl   := "data:" [ mediatype ] [ ";base64" ] "," data
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_mimetypes.py b/Lib/test/test_mimetypes.py
index bfd5eee..7761c3f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_mimetypes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_mimetypes.py
@@ -51,6 +51,14 @@
         eq(self.db.guess_type('foo.xul', strict=False), ('text/xul', None))
         eq(self.db.guess_extension('image/jpg', strict=False), '.jpg')
 
+    def test_url(self):
+        result = self.db.guess_type('http://host.html')
+        msg = 'URL only has a host name, not a file'
+        self.assertSequenceEqual(result, (None, None), msg)
+        result = self.db.guess_type('http://example.com/host.html')
+        msg = 'Should be text/html'
+        self.assertSequenceEqual(result, ('text/html', None), msg)
+
     def test_guess_all_types(self):
         eq = self.assertEqual
         unless = self.assertTrue
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index c6d275e..810ee5e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@
              ["foo", "bar"], "", None),
             ("ftp://localhost/baz.gif;type=a",
              "localhost", ftplib.FTP_PORT, "", "", "A",
-             [], "baz.gif", None),  # XXX really this should guess image/gif
+             [], "baz.gif", "image/gif"),
             ]:
             req = Request(url)
             req.timeout = None
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-01-03-26.bpo-22347._TRpYr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-01-03-26.bpo-22347._TRpYr.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a3c199
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-27-01-03-26.bpo-22347._TRpYr.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Update mimetypes.guess_type to allow proper parsing of URLs with only a host name.
+Patch by Dong-hee Na.