diff --git a/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/reverseproxy.go b/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/reverseproxy.go
index 1072e2e3426..9c4bd6e09a5 100644
--- a/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/reverseproxy.go
+++ b/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/reverseproxy.go
@@ -55,11 +55,16 @@ func singleJoiningSlash(a, b string) string {
 // target's path is "/base" and the incoming request was for "/dir",
 // the target request will be for /base/dir.
 func NewSingleHostReverseProxy(target *url.URL) *ReverseProxy {
+	targetQuery := target.RawQuery
 	director := func(req *http.Request) {
 		req.URL.Scheme = target.Scheme
 		req.URL.Host = target.Host
 		req.URL.Path = singleJoiningSlash(target.Path, req.URL.Path)
-		req.URL.RawQuery = target.RawQuery
+		if targetQuery == "" || req.URL.RawQuery == "" {
+			req.URL.RawQuery = targetQuery + req.URL.RawQuery
+		} else {
+			req.URL.RawQuery = targetQuery + "&" + req.URL.RawQuery
+		}
 	}
 	return &ReverseProxy{Director: director}
 }
diff --git a/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/reverseproxy_test.go b/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/reverseproxy_test.go
index 655784b30d5..28e9c90ad36 100644
--- a/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/reverseproxy_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/net/http/httputil/reverseproxy_test.go
@@ -69,3 +69,41 @@ func TestReverseProxy(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("got body %q; expected %q", g, e)
 	}
 }
+
+var proxyQueryTests = []struct {
+	baseSuffix string // suffix to add to backend URL
+	reqSuffix  string // suffix to add to frontend's request URL
+	want       string // what backend should see for final request URL (without ?)
+}{
+	{"", "", ""},
+	{"?sta=tic", "?us=er", "sta=tic&us=er"},
+	{"", "?us=er", "us=er"},
+	{"?sta=tic", "", "sta=tic"},
+}
+
+func TestReverseProxyQuery(t *testing.T) {
+	backend := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		w.Header().Set("X-Got-Query", r.URL.RawQuery)
+		w.Write([]byte("hi"))
+	}))
+	defer backend.Close()
+
+	for i, tt := range proxyQueryTests {
+		backendURL, err := url.Parse(backend.URL + tt.baseSuffix)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		frontend := httptest.NewServer(NewSingleHostReverseProxy(backendURL))
+		req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", frontend.URL+tt.reqSuffix, nil)
+		req.Close = true
+		res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%d. Get: %v", i, err)
+		}
+		if g, e := res.Header.Get("X-Got-Query"), tt.want; g != e {
+			t.Errorf("%d. got query %q; expected %q", i, g, e)
+		}
+		res.Body.Close()
+		frontend.Close()
+	}
+}