diff --git a/src/detect-http-uri.c b/src/detect-http-uri.c
index d2d22acaa0..9c9529d22a 100644
--- a/src/detect-http-uri.c
+++ b/src/detect-http-uri.c
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ void DetectHttpUriRegisterTests(void);
 void DetectHttpUriRegister (void) {
     sigmatch_table[DETECT_AL_HTTP_URI].name = "http_uri";
     sigmatch_table[DETECT_AL_HTTP_URI].Match = NULL;
-    //sigmatch_table[DETECT_AL_HTTP_URI].AppLayerMatch = DetectHttpUriMatch;
     sigmatch_table[DETECT_AL_HTTP_URI].AppLayerMatch = NULL;
     sigmatch_table[DETECT_AL_HTTP_URI].alproto = ALPROTO_HTTP;
     sigmatch_table[DETECT_AL_HTTP_URI].Setup = DetectHttpUriSetup;
@@ -143,7 +142,7 @@ static int DetectHttpUriSetup (DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx, Signature *s, char *str)
 
     /* pull the previous content from the pmatch list, append
      * the new match to the match list */
-    SigMatchReplaceContent(s, pm, nm);
+    SigMatchReplaceContentToUricontent(s, pm, nm);
 
     /* free the old content sigmatch, the content pattern memory
      * is taken over by the new sigmatch */
@@ -253,7 +252,7 @@ int DetectHttpUriTest03(void)
         goto end;
     }
 
-    sm = de_ctx->sig_list->amatch;
+    sm = de_ctx->sig_list->umatch;
     if (sm == NULL) {
         printf("no sigmatch(es): ");
         goto end;
@@ -328,7 +327,8 @@ int DetectHttpUriTest05(void)
         goto end;
     }
 
-    int uricomp = strcmp((const char *)((DetectUricontentData*) s->umatch->ctx)->uricontent, "we are testing http_uri keyword");
+    char *str = "we are testing http_uri keyword";
+    int uricomp = memcmp((const char *)((DetectUricontentData*) s->umatch->ctx)->uricontent, str, strlen(str)-1);
     int urilen = ((DetectUricontentData*) s->umatch_tail->ctx)->uricontent_len;
     if (uricomp != 0 ||
         urilen != strlen("we are testing http_uri keyword")) {
diff --git a/src/detect-parse.c b/src/detect-parse.c
index 81f240906c..40e816c86e 100644
--- a/src/detect-parse.c
+++ b/src/detect-parse.c
@@ -282,6 +282,70 @@ void SigMatchReplaceContent(Signature *s, SigMatch *old, SigMatch *new) {
         new->idx = pm->idx;
 }
 
+/**
+ *  \brief Pull a content 'old' from the pmatch list, append 'new' to umatch list.
+ *
+ *  Used for replacing contents that have the http_uri modifier that need to be
+ *  moved to the uri inspection list.
+ */
+void SigMatchReplaceContentToUricontent(Signature *s, SigMatch *old, SigMatch *new) {
+    BUG_ON(old == NULL);
+
+    SigMatch *m = s->pmatch;
+    SigMatch *pm = m;
+
+    for ( ; m != NULL; m = m->next) {
+        if (m == old) {
+            if (m == s->pmatch) {
+                s->pmatch = m->next;
+                if (m->next != NULL) {
+                    m->next->prev = NULL;
+                }
+            } else {
+                pm->next = m->next;
+                if (m->next != NULL) {
+                    m->next->prev = pm;
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (m == s->pmatch_tail) {
+                if (pm == m) {
+                    s->pmatch_tail = NULL;
+                } else {
+                    s->pmatch_tail = pm;
+                }
+            }
+
+            //printf("m %p  s->pmatch %p s->pmatch_tail %p\n", m, s->pmatch, s->pmatch_tail);
+            break;
+        }
+
+        pm = m;
+    }
+
+    /* finally append the "new" sig match to the app layer list */
+    /** \todo if the app layer gets it's own list, adapt this code */
+    if (s->umatch == NULL) {
+        s->umatch = new;
+        s->umatch_tail = new;
+        new->next = NULL;
+        new->prev = NULL;
+    } else {
+        SigMatch *cur = s->umatch;
+
+        for ( ; cur->next != NULL; cur = cur->next);
+
+        cur->next = new;
+        new->next = NULL;
+        new->prev = cur;
+        s->umatch_tail = new;
+    }
+
+    /* move over the idx */
+    if (pm != NULL)
+        new->idx = pm->idx;
+}
+
 /**
  * \brief Replaces the old sigmatch with the new sigmatch in the current
  *        signature.
diff --git a/src/detect-parse.h b/src/detect-parse.h
index c3417b7d6f..820dd91d50 100644
--- a/src/detect-parse.h
+++ b/src/detect-parse.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Signature *DetectEngineAppendSig(DetectEngineCtx *, char *);
 
 void SigMatchReplace(Signature *, SigMatch *, SigMatch *);
 void SigMatchReplaceContent(Signature *, SigMatch *, SigMatch *);
+void SigMatchReplaceContentToUricontent(Signature *, SigMatch *, SigMatch *);
 
 void SigMatchAppendPayload(Signature *, SigMatch *);
 void SigMatchAppendPacket(Signature *, SigMatch *);