diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ce622995..526aab53 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
 ** Support FTP listing for the FTP Server on Windows Server 2008 R2.
 
 ** Fix a regression when -c and --content-disposition are used together.
+
+** Support shorthand URLs in an input file.
 
 * Changes in Wget 1.14
 
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 2ccfe6f3..ec78fe8c 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-08-29  Rohit Mathulla <rohit_mathulla@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
+
+	* html-url.c (get_urls_file): Convert shorthand URLs.
+
 2012-10-07  Ray Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>
 
 	* url.c: Change the functions of a growable string object to null
diff --git a/src/html-url.c b/src/html-url.c
index 855393a7..f0298217 100644
--- a/src/html-url.c
+++ b/src/html-url.c
@@ -804,6 +804,13 @@ get_urls_file (const char *file)
           url_text = merged;
         }
 
+      char *new_url = rewrite_shorthand_url (url_text);
+      if (new_url)
+        {
+          xfree (url_text);
+          url_text = new_url;
+        }
+
       url = url_parse (url_text, &up_error_code, NULL, false);
       if (!url)
         {