diff --git a/request/index.d.ts b/request/index.d.ts
index 71c69f9d49..f842e37400 100644
--- a/request/index.d.ts
+++ b/request/index.d.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import https = require('https');
 import url = require('url');
 import fs = require('fs');
 import FormData = require('form-data');
+import { Url } from 'url';
 
 declare namespace request {
     export interface RequestAPI<TRequest extends Request,
@@ -114,10 +115,10 @@ declare namespace request {
     }
 
     interface UriOptions {
-        uri: string;
+        uri: string | Url;
     }
     interface UrlOptions {
-        url: string;
+        url: string | Url;
     }
     export type RequiredUriUrl = UriOptions | UrlOptions;
 
diff --git a/request/request-tests.ts b/request/request-tests.ts
index de4ded382a..0d3be3b8be 100644
--- a/request/request-tests.ts
+++ b/request/request-tests.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import request = require('request');
 import http = require('http');
 import stream = require('stream');
+import urlModule = require('url');
 import fs = require('fs');
 import FormData = require('form-data');
 
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ var options: request.Options = {
 	qs: obj,
 	json: value,
 	multipart: value,
-	agent: new http.Agent(),  
+	agent: new http.Agent(),
 	agentOptions: value,
 	agentClass: value,
 	forever: value,
@@ -242,14 +243,14 @@ request
     console.log(response.headers['content-type']); // 'image/png'
   })
   .pipe(request.put('http://mysite.com/img.png'));
-  
+
 request
   .get('http://mysite.com/doodle.png')
   .on('error', function(err: any) {
     console.log(err);
   })
   .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('doodle.png'));
-  
+
 http.createServer(function (req, resp) {
   if (req.url === '/doodle.png') {
     if (req.method === 'PUT') {
@@ -361,7 +362,7 @@ request({
     }
     console.log('Upload successful!  Server responded with:', body);
   });
-  
+
 request.get('http://some.server.com/').auth('username', 'password', false);
 // or
 request.get('http://some.server.com/', {
@@ -451,8 +452,8 @@ request.post({url:url, oauth:oauth}, function (e, r, body) {
         , token_secret: perm_data.oauth_token_secret
         };
     var url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json';
-    var query = { 
-      screen_name: perm_data.screen_name, 
+    var query = {
+      screen_name: perm_data.screen_name,
       user_id: perm_data.user_id
     };
     request.get({url:url, oauth:oauth, qs:query, json:true}, function (e, r, user) {
@@ -539,7 +540,7 @@ request({
       }
     }
   });
-  
+
 //requests using baseRequest() will set the 'x-token' header
 var baseRequest = request.defaults({
   headers: {'x-token': 'my-token'}
@@ -592,7 +593,7 @@ var rand = Math.floor(Math.random()*100000000).toString();
       }
     }
   );
-  
+
 request(
     { method: 'GET'
     , uri: 'http://www.google.com'
@@ -614,7 +615,7 @@ request(
       console.log('received ' + data.length + ' bytes of compressed data')
     })
   });
-  
+
 var requestWithJar = request.defaults({jar: true})
 requestWithJar('http://www.google.com', function () {
   requestWithJar('http://images.google.com');
@@ -661,3 +662,12 @@ request(
   .on('data', function(data: Buffer | string) { })
   .on('error', function(e: Error) { })
   .on('complete', function(resp: http.IncomingMessage, body?: string | Buffer) { });
+
+// options.url / options.uri can be the Url object
+request.get({
+  url: urlModule.parse('http://example.com')
+});
+
+request.get({
+  uri: urlModule.parse('http://example.com')
+});