diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f3ea42c3..299694b3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ $ pip install trino
 
 Use the DBAPI interface to query Trino:
 
+if `host` is a valid url, the port and http schema will be automatically determined. For example `https://my-trino-server:9999` will assign the `http_schema` property to `https` and port to `9999`.
+
 ```python
 from trino.dbapi import connect
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_dbapi.py b/tests/unit/test_dbapi.py
index 7065dd4b..b56466a2 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_dbapi.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_dbapi.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 )
 from trino import constants
 from trino.auth import OAuth2Authentication
-from trino.dbapi import connect
+from trino.dbapi import Connection, connect
 
 
 @patch("trino.dbapi.trino.client")
@@ -272,3 +272,40 @@ def test_role_is_set_when_specified(mock_client):
 
     _, passed_role = mock_client.ClientSession.call_args
     assert passed_role["roles"] == roles
+
+
+def test_hostname_parsing():
+    https_server_with_port = Connection("https://mytrinoserver.domain:9999")
+    assert https_server_with_port.host == "mytrinoserver.domain"
+    assert https_server_with_port.port == 9999
+    assert https_server_with_port.http_scheme == constants.HTTPS
+
+    https_server_without_port = Connection("https://mytrinoserver.domain")
+    assert https_server_without_port.host == "mytrinoserver.domain"
+    assert https_server_without_port.port == 8080
+    assert https_server_without_port.http_scheme == constants.HTTPS
+
+    http_server_with_port = Connection("http://mytrinoserver.domain:9999")
+    assert http_server_with_port.host == "mytrinoserver.domain"
+    assert http_server_with_port.port == 9999
+    assert http_server_with_port.http_scheme == constants.HTTP
+
+    http_server_without_port = Connection("http://mytrinoserver.domain")
+    assert http_server_without_port.host == "mytrinoserver.domain"
+    assert http_server_without_port.port == 8080
+    assert http_server_without_port.http_scheme == constants.HTTP
+
+    http_server_with_path = Connection("http://mytrinoserver.domain/some_path")
+    assert http_server_with_path.host == "mytrinoserver.domain/some_path"
+    assert http_server_with_path.port == 8080
+    assert http_server_with_path.http_scheme == constants.HTTP
+
+    only_hostname = Connection("mytrinoserver.domain")
+    assert only_hostname.host == "mytrinoserver.domain"
+    assert only_hostname.port == 8080
+    assert only_hostname.http_scheme == constants.HTTP
+
+    only_hostname_with_path = Connection("mytrinoserver.domain/some_path")
+    assert only_hostname_with_path.host == "mytrinoserver.domain/some_path"
+    assert only_hostname_with_path.port == 8080
+    assert only_hostname_with_path.http_scheme == constants.HTTP
diff --git a/trino/dbapi.py b/trino/dbapi.py
index ae28d088..0147017f 100644
--- a/trino/dbapi.py
+++ b/trino/dbapi.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import uuid
 from decimal import Decimal
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, NamedTuple, Optional  # NOQA for mypy types
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 import trino.client
 import trino.exceptions
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ class Connection(object):
 
     def __init__(
         self,
-        host,
+        host: str,
         port=constants.DEFAULT_PORT,
         user=None,
         source=constants.DEFAULT_SOURCE,
@@ -114,8 +115,11 @@ def __init__(
         roles=None,
         timezone=None,
     ):
-        self.host = host
-        self.port = port
+        # Automatically assign http_schema, port based on hostname
+        parsed_host = urlparse(host, allow_fragments=False)
+
+        self.host = host if parsed_host.hostname is None else parsed_host.hostname + parsed_host.path
+        self.port = port if parsed_host.port is None else parsed_host.port
         self.user = user
         self.source = source
         self.catalog = catalog
@@ -141,7 +145,7 @@ def __init__(
         else:
             self._http_session = http_session
         self.http_headers = http_headers
-        self.http_scheme = http_scheme
+        self.http_scheme = http_scheme if not parsed_host.scheme else parsed_host.scheme
         self.auth = auth
         self.extra_credential = extra_credential
         self.redirect_handler = redirect_handler