diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 9853285a2a8..19bcd1b41bb 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -715,7 +715,10 @@ class HTTPConnection:
                 try:
                     port = int(host[i+1:])
                 except ValueError:
-                    raise InvalidURL("nonnumeric port: '%s'" % host[i+1:])
+                    if host[i+1:] == "":  # http://foo.com:/ == http://foo.com/
+                        port = self.default_port
+                    else:
+                        raise InvalidURL("nonnumeric port: '%s'" % host[i+1:])
                 host = host[:i]
             else:
                 port = self.default_port
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index 2708728e801..dbc1c7f492a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -152,13 +152,15 @@ class BasicTest(TestCase):
     def test_host_port(self):
         # Check invalid host_port
 
-        for hp in ("www.python.org:abc", "www.python.org:"):
+        # Note that httplib does not accept user:password@ in the host-port.
+        for hp in ("www.python.org:abc", "user:password@www.python.org"):
             self.assertRaises(httplib.InvalidURL, httplib.HTTP, hp)
 
         for hp, h, p in (("[fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b]:8000", "fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b",
                           8000),
                          ("www.python.org:80", "www.python.org", 80),
                          ("www.python.org", "www.python.org", 80),
+                         ("www.python.org:", "www.python.org", 80),
                          ("[fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b]", "fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b", 80)):
             http = httplib.HTTP(hp)
             c = http._conn
@@ -439,6 +441,27 @@ class HTTPSTimeoutTest(TestCase):
             h = httplib.HTTPSConnection(HOST, TimeoutTest.PORT, timeout=30)
             self.assertEqual(h.timeout, 30)
 
+    def test_host_port(self):
+        # Check invalid host_port
+
+        # Note that httplib does not accept user:password@ in the host-port.
+        for hp in ("www.python.org:abc", "user:password@www.python.org"):
+            self.assertRaises(httplib.InvalidURL, httplib.HTTP, hp)
+
+        for hp, h, p in (("[fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b]:8000", "fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b",
+                          8000),
+                         ("pypi.python.org:443", "pypi.python.org", 443),
+                         ("pypi.python.org", "pypi.python.org", 443),
+                         ("pypi.python.org:", "pypi.python.org", 443),
+                         ("[fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b]", "fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b", 443)):
+            http = httplib.HTTPS(hp)
+            c = http._conn
+            if h != c.host:
+                self.fail("Host incorrectly parsed: %s != %s" % (h, c.host))
+            if p != c.port:
+                self.fail("Port incorrectly parsed: %s != %s" % (p, c.host))
+
+
 def test_main(verbose=None):
     test_support.run_unittest(HeaderTests, OfflineTest, BasicTest, TimeoutTest,
                               HTTPSTimeoutTest, SourceAddressTest)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a4c464fe5b7..03bbf054e49 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ Core and Builtins
   the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
   raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
 
+- Issue #10860: httplib now correctly handles an empty port after port
+  delimiter in URLs.
+
 - dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
   name.