diff --git a/raven/transport/eventlet.py b/raven/transport/eventlet.py
index 48b783ff9..affebcadf 100644
--- a/raven/transport/eventlet.py
+++ b/raven/transport/eventlet.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def __init__(self, parsed_url, pool_size=100, **kwargs):
         self._url = self._url.split('+', 1)[-1]
 
     def _send_payload(self, payload):
-        req = eventlet_urllib2.Request(self._url, headers=payload[1])
+        req = eventlet_urllib2.Request(str(self._url), headers=payload[1])
         try:
             if sys.version_info < (2, 6):
                 response = eventlet_urllib2.urlopen(req, payload[0]).read()
diff --git a/raven/transport/http.py b/raven/transport/http.py
index a2b968bac..bad4b2400 100644
--- a/raven/transport/http.py
+++ b/raven/transport/http.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def send(self, data, headers):
         """
         Sends a request to a remote webserver using HTTP POST.
         """
-        req = urllib2.Request(self._url, headers=headers)
+        req = urllib2.Request(str(self._url), headers=headers)
 
         try:
             response = urlopen(