diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 957e4ac6..bf8c596d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -207,6 +207,10 @@ URI.js is published under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/m
 
 ## Changelog ##
 
+### 1.10.1 (April 2nd 2013) ###
+
+* adding [`absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.com/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) - ([Issue #71](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/73))
+
 ### 1.10.0 (March 16th 2013) ###
 
 * adding [`hasQuery()`](http://medialize.github.com/URI.js/docs.html#search-has) - ([Issue #71](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/71))
diff --git a/src/URI.js b/src/URI.js
index 87cb97dd..03bcce76 100644
--- a/src/URI.js
+++ b/src/URI.js
@@ -1635,13 +1635,17 @@ p.absoluteTo = function(base) {
         throw new Error('URNs do not have any generally defined hierachical components');
     }
 
-    if (this._parts.hostname) {
-        return resolved;
-    }
-
     if (!(base instanceof URI)) {
         base = new URI(base);
     }
+    
+    if (!resolved._parts.protocol) {
+        resolved._parts.protocol = base._parts.protocol;
+    }
+    
+    if (this._parts.hostname) {
+        return resolved;
+    }
 
     for (i = 0, p; p = properties[i]; i++) {
         resolved._parts[p] = base._parts[p];
diff --git a/test/test.js b/test/test.js
index e4f6cbc8..f8769e2b 100644
--- a/test/test.js
+++ b/test/test.js
@@ -897,6 +897,11 @@ test("absoluteTo", function() {
             url: '/absolute/path?blubber=1#hash3',
             base: 'http://user:pass@www.example.org:1234/path/to/file?some=query#hash',
             result: 'http://user:pass@www.example.org:1234/absolute/path?blubber=1#hash3'
+        }, {
+            name: 'absolute resolve full URL without scheme',
+            url: '//user:pass@www.example.org:1234/path/to/file?some=query#hash',
+            base: 'proto://user:pass@www.example.org:1234/path/to/file?some=query#hash',
+            result: 'proto://user:pass@www.example.org:1234/path/to/file?some=query#hash'
         }, {
             name: 'path-relative resolve',
             url: './relative/path?blubber=1#hash3',