diff --git a/tests/fixtures/wild/domain_redirect.yaml b/tests/fixtures/wild/domain_redirect.yaml
index 1804b71..6ed041f 100644
--- a/tests/fixtures/wild/domain_redirect.yaml
+++ b/tests/fixtures/wild/domain_redirect.yaml
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
       - !!python/tuple [Accept, '*/*']
     host: moz.com
     method: GET
+    path: /
     port: 80
-    url: /
   response:
     body:
       string: !!binary |
@@ -90,25 +90,25 @@
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         VFM1rZFqjkfGqCe/e5IUDtiIQDjrjQTLeXBKvJuGzz98c4knIfpNluWCXBmVrXvmkqC6M/iR6vFW
-        iq6917l6oCgVfSVk+Zpv7H3G7+o5TB8bumOPqDEejxkdQ8zoG4ZmmY6quWP7uu/qVSvLL7eKr8l9
-        pAsqW/GK+M/CjMd+OBtgQTmr+J2S91jLPZf10Q+P2x09lqBhj10w6aIjzWWZHYK/cxcdE+vtlBdE
-        66FFmmLBEewzadb448/HW1v/sY0dQvAhj+pPEIEWAL5Z+HnOsbX97cPmG5CtL/91uSKQ8acEC+iw
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-        IZjCDZ5R2F6PuwUe8w3kkeJxJG4gbvclGvpA44wOECnQt7+Clb54SbOr2IW3KPrHYnJoBF2Fpu2+
-        tIl9Mm2tBFmXPJECO51zyOTJE9KvjGeWRX2yKz9LZ9B/RH4g/dKgKvU9KekaKKh3/3HNUtbmaMby
-        kp3s6dUZnSHuGsbeqx8ekwzUFhXrF0jZBnhzJ82fMggK2faM7pBMCPrPR9vrOiSs1y16RAj1Uh5F
-        sKuL89AD0nq/vLFHz42XZ8dPf3x1cvjy2Qvz3fPRce9x0zcJL8u+R0cvfnrx8ueXx2+Pnp69ev6b
-        9eLHN4Yu+tb7ScoNRd555PEYS7YweBnGHl8O5Gcc0WmADg0gJB7I+XlJAHZg3rTZTSlYN70eLL2S
-        5UetAQF+MxsQsF26xd7NEHgEGKgdaDaQtMhvX+6Syk/Rdnu1GKw9QDNQGlHYYQFIcdcWeOi3+5U4
-        Xtur9lQCuIL6H0hv+HEoDmVh7gSQVnXc3r4FZGi9AbdoNuMiij4g2uBTaU/ujtAWPB8NaIKO4zAI
-        I28b+lSMhf52vfWP/qgftx/9+aeA7/Yj0bPB7z/+gcOEcdgb4rdyxN1w8Z9abP0fxmYJI+ZCAAA=
-    headers: {accept-ranges: bytes, age: '1594', cache-control: 'no-cache, must-revalidate,
+        iq6917l6oCgVfSVk+Zpv7H3G7+r5I9+zVXfsqaZDPW9sUtvV7Inpj0Y2ZZiDbP6uXrWy/HKr+Jrc
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+        KXTGnbmh30HsBrzVT1zd39D5UGSHbyl2tXb6KE/xbd7+Tn+B15/FHLpcaKu8/78yC+DnxSzmkN+8
+        Zj6yIfUFK9zIydqqa/1bbN/WuY/3BfBcmMmTiLRaZXWcON84AQTid35lh5KDLdzObb+IxVnD9iPy
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+        jLxt6FMxFvrb9dY/+qN+3H70558CvtuPRM8Gv//4Bw4TxmFviN/KEXfDxX9qsfV/BBAejOZCAAA=
+    headers: {accept-ranges: bytes, age: '2019', cache-control: 'no-cache, must-revalidate,
         s-maxage=3600', connection: keep-alive, content-encoding: gzip, content-length: '5300',
-      content-type: text/html, date: 'Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:08:16 GMT', expires: 'Fri,
-        15 Oct 2004 12:00:00 GMT', server: nginx, server-name: dalmozwww03.dal.moz.com,
-      vary: Accept-Encoding, via: 1.1 varnish, x-varnish: 1621116313 1621050553}
+      content-type: text/html, date: 'Sat, 10 Aug 2013 23:07:21 GMT', expires: 'Fri,
+        15 Oct 2004 12:00:00 GMT', server: nginx, server-name: dalmozwww02.dal.moz.com,
+      vary: Accept-Encoding, via: 1.1 varnish, x-varnish: 2027532407 2027508286}
     status: {code: 200, message: OK}
 - request: !!python/object:vcr.request.Request
     body: null
@@ -118,12 +118,12 @@
       - !!python/tuple [Accept, '*/*']
     host: seomoz.org
     method: GET
+    path: /
     port: 80
-    url: /
   response:
     body: {string: "<html>\r\n<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>\r\n<body
         bgcolor=\"white\">\r\n<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>\r\n<hr><center>nginx</center>\r\n</body>\r\n</html>\r\n"}
     headers: {accept-ranges: bytes, age: '0', connection: keep-alive, content-length: '178',
-      content-type: text/html, date: 'Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:08:16 GMT', location: 'http://moz.com/',
-      server: nginx, server-name: dalmozwww02.dal.moz.com, via: 1.1 varnish, x-varnish: '1621116210'}
+      content-type: text/html, date: 'Sat, 10 Aug 2013 23:07:20 GMT', location: 'http://moz.com/',
+      server: nginx, server-name: dalmozwww03.dal.moz.com, via: 1.1 varnish, x-varnish: '2027532404'}
     status: {code: 301, message: Moved Permanently}
diff --git a/vcr/cassette.py b/vcr/cassette.py
index 11f6f03..579a536 100644
--- a/vcr/cassette.py
+++ b/vcr/cassette.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class Cassette(object):
         self.play_counts[request] += 1
 
     def append(self, request, response):
-        '''Add a pair of request, response to this cassette'''
+        '''Add a request, response pair to this cassette'''
         self.data[request] = response
 
     def response_of(self, request):
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class Cassette(object):
         return "<Cassette containing {0} recorded response(s)>".format(len(self))
 
     def __len__(self):
-        '''Return the number of request / response pairs stored in here'''
+        '''Return the number of request,response pairs stored in here'''
         return len(self.data)
 
     def __contains__(self, request):
diff --git a/vcr/request.py b/vcr/request.py
index dc48692..461d577 100644
--- a/vcr/request.py
+++ b/vcr/request.py
@@ -1,15 +1,19 @@
 class Request(object):
 
-    def __init__(self, host, port, method, url, body, headers):
+    def __init__(self, host, port, method, path, body, headers):
         self.host = host
         self.port = port
         self.method = method
-        self.url = url
+        self.path = path
         self.body = body
         self.headers = frozenset(headers.items())
 
+    @property
+    def url(self):
+        return self.host + self.path
+
     def __key(self):
-        return (self.host, self.port, self.method, self.url, self.body, self.headers)
+        return (self.host, self.port, self.method, self.path, self.body, self.headers)
 
     def __hash__(self):
         return hash(self.__key())
diff --git a/vcr/stubs/__init__.py b/vcr/stubs/__init__.py
index eba447b..e102ee9 100644
--- a/vcr/stubs/__init__.py
+++ b/vcr/stubs/__init__.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class VCRConnectionMixin:
             host = self.host,
             port = self.port,
             method = method,
-            url = url,
+            path = url,
             body = body,
             headers = headers or {}
         )