diff --git a/lib/Net/LDAP3.php b/lib/Net/LDAP3.php
index ac4fa59933aace320ba37538639f2a11f31a7785..abfea8f95d5cef5c4e2bea592374bde19ae05cc1 100644
--- a/lib/Net/LDAP3.php
+++ b/lib/Net/LDAP3.php
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ class Net_LDAP3
                     $moz_ldapsearch,
                     '-x',
                     '-h',
-                    $this->_current_host,
+                    preg_replace('|^[a-z]+://|i', '', $this->_current_host),
                     '-b',
                     escapeshellarg($entry_dn),
                     '-s',