diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
index 46ce5801..30213363 100644
--- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ In the rare case that you'd like to get the raw socket response from the
 server, you can access ``r.raw``. If you want to do this, make sure you set
 ``stream=True`` in your initial request. Once you do, you can do this::
 
-    >>> r = requests.get('https:/github.com/timeline.json', stream=True)
+    >>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json', stream=True)
     >>> r.raw
     <requests.packages.urllib3.response.HTTPResponse object at 0x101194810>
     >>> r.raw.read(10)