diff --git a/router.go b/router.go
index bb173300..c930ec3a 100644
--- a/router.go
+++ b/router.go
@@ -159,6 +159,13 @@ type Router struct {
 	// The handler can be used to keep your server from crashing because of
 	// unrecovered panics.
 	PanicHandler func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request, interface{})
+
+	// Go 1.5 introduced the RawPath field in net/url to hold the encoded form of Path.
+	// The Parse function sets both Path and RawPath in the URL it returns,
+	// and URL's String method uses RawPath if it is a valid encoding of Path,
+	// by calling the EncodedPath method.
+	// This tells the router to use the request.URL.RawPath when parsing the path.
+	UseRawPath bool
 }
 
 // Make sure the Router conforms with the http.Handler interface
@@ -172,6 +179,7 @@ func New() *Router {
 		RedirectFixedPath:      true,
 		HandleMethodNotAllowed: true,
 		HandleOPTIONS:          true,
+		UseRawPath:             false,
 	}
 }
 
@@ -339,6 +347,10 @@ func (r *Router) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
 
 	path := req.URL.Path
 
+	if r.UseRawPath {
+		path = req.URL.String()
+	}
+
 	if root := r.trees[req.Method]; root != nil {
 		if handle, ps, tsr := root.getValue(path); handle != nil {
 			handle(w, req, ps)
diff --git a/router_test.go b/router_test.go
index fe58c8a9..48c2634f 100644
--- a/router_test.go
+++ b/router_test.go
@@ -528,3 +528,48 @@ func TestRouterServeFiles(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("serving file failed")
 	}
 }
+
+func TestRouterUseRawPathSuccess(t *testing.T) {
+	router := New()
+	router.UseRawPath = true
+
+	routed := false
+	router.Handle("GET", "/user/:name", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, ps Params) {
+		routed = true
+		want := Params{Param{"name", "abc/123"}}
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(ps, want) {
+			t.Fatalf("wrong wildcard values: want %v, got %v", want, ps)
+		}
+	})
+
+	w := new(mockResponseWriter)
+
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "/user/abc%2F123", nil)
+	router.ServeHTTP(w, req)
+
+	if !routed {
+		t.Fatal("routing failed")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRouterUseRawPathFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	router := New()
+
+	routed := false
+	router.Handle("GET", "/user/:name", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, ps Params) {
+		routed = true
+		want := Params{Param{"name", "abc/123"}}
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(ps, want) {
+			t.Fatalf("wrong wildcard values: want %v, got %v", want, ps)
+		}
+	})
+
+	w := new(mockResponseWriter)
+
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "/user/abc%2F123", nil)
+	router.ServeHTTP(w, req)
+
+	if routed {
+		t.Fatal("routing unexpectedly succeeded")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/tree.go b/tree.go
index a8fa98b0..c067ed70 100644
--- a/tree.go
+++ b/tree.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 package httprouter
 
 import (
+	"net/url"
 	"strings"
 	"unicode"
 	"unicode/utf8"
@@ -371,7 +372,12 @@ walk: // outer loop for walking the tree
 					i := len(p)
 					p = p[:i+1] // expand slice within preallocated capacity
 					p[i].Key = n.path[1:]
-					p[i].Value = path[:end]
+
+					value, err := url.PathUnescape(path[:end])
+					if err != nil {
+						return
+					}
+					p[i].Value = value
 
 					// we need to go deeper!
 					if end < len(path) {
diff --git a/tree_test.go b/tree_test.go
index e89d9452..489b4909 100644
--- a/tree_test.go
+++ b/tree_test.go
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ func TestTreeWildcard(t *testing.T) {
 		{"/files/js/inc/framework.js", false, "/files/:dir/*filepath", Params{Param{"dir", "js"}, Param{"filepath", "/inc/framework.js"}}},
 		{"/info/gordon/public", false, "/info/:user/public", Params{Param{"user", "gordon"}}},
 		{"/info/gordon/project/go", false, "/info/:user/project/:project", Params{Param{"user", "gordon"}, Param{"project", "go"}}},
+		{"/search/something%2Fencoded", false, "/search/:query", Params{Param{"query", "something/encoded"}}},
 	})
 
 	checkPriorities(t, tree)