diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 12d0ac8..c06f962 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 julia 0.6
 Compat 0.17.0
+URIParser
 FilePathsBase 0.1.0
-Reexport 0.1.0
\ No newline at end of file
+Reexport 0.1.0
diff --git a/src/FilePaths.jl b/src/FilePaths.jl
index 8d508d9..3cb771e 100644
--- a/src/FilePaths.jl
+++ b/src/FilePaths.jl
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ __precompile__()
 
 module FilePaths
 
-using Reexport
+using Reexport, URIParser
 @reexport using FilePathsBase
 
+include("uri.jl")
+
 end # end of module
diff --git a/src/uri.jl b/src/uri.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b1fc23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/uri.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+function URIParser.URI(p::AbstractPath)
+    if isempty(root(p))
+        throw(ArgumentError("$p is not an absolute path"))
+    end
+
+    b = IOBuffer()
+    print(b, "file://")
+
+    if !isempty(drive(p))
+        print(b, "/")
+        print(b, drive(p))
+    end
+
+    for i=2:length(p.parts)
+        print(b, "/")
+        print(b, URIParser.escape(p.parts[i]))
+    end
+
+    return URIParser.URI(String(take!(b)))
+end
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 173b594..05f04d0 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@ using Base.Test
 
 @testset "FilePaths" begin
 
+include("test_uri.jl")
 
 end
diff --git a/test/test_uri.jl b/test/test_uri.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..93eb733
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_uri.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+using URIParser
+using FilePaths
+
+@testset "URI" begin
+    @test string(URI(p"/foo/bar")) == "file:///foo/bar"
+    @test string(URI(p"/foo foo/bar")) == "file:///foo%20foo/bar"
+    @test_throws ArgumentError URI(p"foo/bar")
+    @test string(URI(WindowsPath("C:\\foo\\bar"))) == "file:///C:/foo/bar"
+end