diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Client.php b/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Client.php
index ecabc680e2..7de075a371 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Client.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Client.php
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ abstract class Client
         $uri = $this->getAbsoluteUri($uri);
 
         if (isset($server['HTTP_HOST'])) {
-            $uri = preg_replace('{^(https?\://)'.parse_url($uri, PHP_URL_HOST).'}', '\\1'.$server['HTTP_HOST'], $uri);
+            $uri = preg_replace('{^(https?\://)'.parse_url($uri, PHP_URL_HOST).'}', '${1}'.$server['HTTP_HOST'], $uri);
         }
 
         if (isset($server['HTTPS'])) {
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Tests/ClientTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Tests/ClientTest.php
index f8c128f138..2612bb26c4 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Tests/ClientTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/BrowserKit/Tests/ClientTest.php
@@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ class ClientTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         $this->assertEquals('http://example.com/', $client->getRequest()->getUri(), '->getCrawler() returns the Request of the last request');
     }
 
+    public function testGetRequestWithIpAsHost()
+    {
+        $client = new TestClient();
+        $client->request('GET', 'https://example.com/foo', array(), array(), array('HTTP_HOST' => '127.0.0.1'));
+
+        $this->assertEquals('https://127.0.0.1/foo', $client->getRequest()->getUri());
+    }
+
     public function testGetResponse()
     {
         $client = new TestClient();