diff --git a/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py b/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py
index 8d89e2a8224452..15b3cf0e9fa473 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py
@@ -299,6 +299,17 @@ def test_string_formatting(self):
         self.assertEqual(str(self.parser), self.expected_output)
 
 
+class WeirdUnquotePathTest(BaseRobotTest, unittest.TestCase):
+    robots_txt = """\
+User-agent: *
+
+# This can be interpreted as weird unquoted path, or an URL with invalid IPv6
+# host as well.
+Disallow: //[foo]/bar
+    """
+    pass
+
+
 class RobotHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
 
     def do_GET(self):
@@ -388,5 +399,6 @@ def test_read_404(self):
         self.assertIsNone(parser.crawl_delay('*'))
         self.assertIsNone(parser.request_rate('*'))
 
+
 if __name__=='__main__':
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/robotparser.py b/Lib/urllib/robotparser.py
index c58565e3945146..b51a82928b6988 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/robotparser.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/robotparser.py
@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@
 RequestRate = collections.namedtuple("RequestRate", "requests seconds")
 
 
+def normalize_path(path):
+    query, fragment = '', ''
+    if '#' in path:
+        path, fragment = path.split('#', 1)
+    if '?' in path:
+        path, query = path.split('?', 1)
+    return urllib.parse.urlunsplit(('', '', path, query, fragment))
+
+
 class RobotFileParser:
     """ This class provides a set of methods to read, parse and answer
     questions about a single robots.txt file.
@@ -219,7 +228,7 @@ def __init__(self, path, allowance):
         if path == '' and not allowance:
             # an empty value means allow all
             allowance = True
-        path = urllib.parse.urlunparse(urllib.parse.urlparse(path))
+        path = normalize_path(path)
         self.path = urllib.parse.quote(path)
         self.allowance = allowance
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-12-17-22-38-10.gh-issue-111788.twWfD-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-12-17-22-38-10.gh-issue-111788.twWfD-.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..9f71524d36fdd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-12-17-22-38-10.gh-issue-111788.twWfD-.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Don't treat path in robots.txt as URL in :func:`urllib.robotparser`.