diff --git a/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URL.swift b/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URL.swift
index 4cf6084fd..f0eb086a8 100644
--- a/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URL.swift
+++ b/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URL.swift
@@ -1123,7 +1123,9 @@ public struct URL: Equatable, Sendable, Hashable {
         }
 
         if let baseScheme = _baseParseInfo.scheme {
-            result.scheme = String(baseScheme)
+            // Scheme might be empty, which URL allows for compatibility,
+            // but URLComponents does not, so we force it internally.
+            result.forceScheme(String(baseScheme))
         }
 
         if hasAuthority {
@@ -1498,7 +1500,7 @@ public struct URL: Equatable, Sendable, Hashable {
         }
         #endif
         if _baseParseInfo != nil {
-            return absoluteURL.path(percentEncoded: percentEncoded)
+            return absoluteURL.relativePath(percentEncoded: percentEncoded)
         }
         if percentEncoded {
             return String(_parseInfo.path)
diff --git a/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URLComponents.swift b/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URLComponents.swift
index e0fc9d137..d5bbaa7c1 100644
--- a/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URLComponents.swift
+++ b/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URLComponents.swift
@@ -142,10 +142,12 @@ public struct URLComponents: Hashable, Equatable, Sendable {
             return nil
         }
 
-        mutating func setScheme(_ newValue: String?) throws {
+        mutating func setScheme(_ newValue: String?, force: Bool = false) throws {
             reset(.scheme)
-            guard Parser.validate(newValue, component: .scheme) else {
-                throw InvalidComponentError.scheme
+            if !force {
+                guard Parser.validate(newValue, component: .scheme) else {
+                    throw InvalidComponentError.scheme
+                }
             }
             _scheme = newValue
             if encodedHost != nil {
@@ -716,6 +718,11 @@ public struct URLComponents: Hashable, Equatable, Sendable {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Used by `URL` to allow empty scheme for compatibility.
+    internal mutating func forceScheme(_ scheme: String) {
+        try? components.setScheme(scheme, force: true)
+    }
+
 #if FOUNDATION_FRAMEWORK
     /// Throwing function used by `_NSSwiftURLComponents` to generate an exception for ObjC callers
     internal mutating func setScheme(_ newValue: String?) throws {
diff --git a/Tests/FoundationEssentialsTests/URLTests.swift b/Tests/FoundationEssentialsTests/URLTests.swift
index ea162af2c..8930afac8 100644
--- a/Tests/FoundationEssentialsTests/URLTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/FoundationEssentialsTests/URLTests.swift
@@ -946,6 +946,21 @@ final class URLTests : XCTestCase {
         XCTAssertEqual(schemeOnly.absoluteString, "scheme:foo")
     }
 
+    func testURLEmptySchemeCompatibility() throws {
+        var url = try XCTUnwrap(URL(string: ":memory:"))
+        XCTAssertEqual(url.scheme, "")
+
+        let base = try XCTUnwrap(URL(string: "://home"))
+        XCTAssertEqual(base.host(), "home")
+
+        url = try XCTUnwrap(URL(string: "/path", relativeTo: base))
+        XCTAssertEqual(url.scheme, "")
+        XCTAssertEqual(url.host(), "home")
+        XCTAssertEqual(url.path, "/path")
+        XCTAssertEqual(url.absoluteString, "://home/path")
+        XCTAssertEqual(url.absoluteURL.scheme, "")
+    }
+
     func testURLComponentsPercentEncodedUnencodedProperties() throws {
         var comp = URLComponents()