diff --git a/http_prompt/cli.py b/http_prompt/cli.py
index 36dc0bf..5476e26 100644
--- a/http_prompt/cli.py
+++ b/http_prompt/cli.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 from .contextio import load_context, save_context
 from .execution import execute
 from .lexer import HttpPromptLexer
-from .utils import smart_quote
+from .utils import smart_quote, get_prompt
 from .xdg import get_data_dir
 
 
@@ -160,8 +160,9 @@ def cli(spec, env, url, http_options):
 
     while True:
         try:
-            text = prompt('%s> ' % context.url, completer=completer,
-                          lexer=lexer, style=style, history=history,
+            p = get_prompt(context.url, cfg['prompt'])
+            text = prompt('%s> ' % p, completer=completer, lexer=lexer,
+                          style=style, history=history,
                           auto_suggest=AutoSuggestFromHistory(),
                           on_abort=AbortAction.RETRY, vi_mode=cfg['vi'])
         except EOFError:
diff --git a/http_prompt/defaultconfig.py b/http_prompt/defaultconfig.py
index 32f3a39..a7fcc12 100644
--- a/http_prompt/defaultconfig.py
+++ b/http_prompt/defaultconfig.py
@@ -24,3 +24,16 @@
 # When Vi mode is enabled, you use Vi-like keybindings to edit your commands.
 # When it is disabled, you use Emacs keybindings.
 vi = False
+
+# Prompt format using the urlparse module terms.
+# Available values:
+# 'scheme': URL scheme specifier
+# 'netloc': Network location part ([] compliant on dots)
+# 'path': Hierarchical path ([] compliant on slashes)
+# 'params': Parameters for last path element
+# 'query': Query component
+# 'fragment': Fragment identifier
+# You can add a pythonic [] operator (e.g. path[-2:] returns the last two
+# elements of the variable path).
+# See https://docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html#module-urlparse
+prompt = '{scheme}{netloc}{path}{params}{query}{fragment}'
diff --git a/http_prompt/utils.py b/http_prompt/utils.py
index 5a5d8ba..a5c2755 100644
--- a/http_prompt/utils.py
+++ b/http_prompt/utils.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 from prompt_toolkit.shortcuts import create_output
 from six.moves import range
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 
 RE_ANSI_ESCAPE = re.compile(r'\x1b[^m]*m')
@@ -87,3 +88,40 @@ def colformat(strings, num_sep_spaces=1, terminal_width=None):
     sep = ' ' * num_sep_spaces
     for line in lines:
         yield sep.join(line)
+
+def get_prompt(url, fmt):
+    """Generate a prompt following the user config prompt format."""
+    prompt = []
+    whitelist = [ 'scheme', 'netloc', 'path', 'params', 'query', 'fragment' ]
+    parse_result = urlparse(url)
+
+    for w in filter(bool, fmt.replace('{', '').split('}')):
+        try:
+            attribute = re.search('^[a-z_]+', w).group(0)
+        except AttributeError:
+            return url
+        if attribute not in whitelist:
+            return url
+        try:
+            index = re.search('\[([-?0-9:?])+\]', w).group(0)
+            if attribute == 'path':
+                path_slice = eval('parse_result.path.split(\'/\')' + index)
+                join = '/'.join(path_slice)
+                new_path = join[1:] if join.startswith('/') else join
+                prompt.append('/' + new_path)
+            elif attribute == 'netloc':
+                netloc_slice = eval('parse_result.netloc.split(\'.\')' + index)
+                new_netloc = '.'.join(netloc_slice)
+                prompt.append(new_netloc)
+            else:
+                raise AttributeError
+        except AttributeError:
+            if attribute == 'scheme':
+                prompt.append(parse_result.scheme + '://')
+            elif attribute == 'query' and parse_result.query:
+                prompt.append('?' + parse_result.query)
+            elif attribute == 'fragment' and parse_result.fragment:
+                prompt.append('#' + parse_result.fragment)
+            else:
+                prompt.append(getattr(parse_result, attribute))
+    return ''.join(prompt)