diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_utils_url.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_utils_url.py
index bc7dae523..39687c313 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_utils_url.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_utils_url.py
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ class UrlUtilsTest(unittest.TestCase):
                          'product.html?id=200')
         self.assertEqual(url_query_cleaner("product.html?id=200&foo=bar&name=wired", ['id', 'name']),
                          'product.html?id=200&name=wired')
+        self.assertEqual(url_query_cleaner("product.html?id=200&foo=bar&name=wired#id20", ['id', 'foo']),
+                         'product.html?id=200&foo=bar')
 
     def test_canonicalize_url(self):
         # no query arguments
diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/url.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/url.py
index 091827760..131875a54 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/url.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/url.py
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ def url_query_parameter(url, parameter, default=None, keep_blank_values=0):
 def url_query_cleaner(url, parameterlist=(), sep='&', kvsep='='):
     """Clean url arguments leaving only those passed in the parameterlist"""
     try:
+        url = urlparse.urldefrag(url)[0]
         base, query = url.split('?', 1)
         parameters = [pair.split(kvsep, 1) for pair in query.split(sep)]
     except: