diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/codec/http/QueryStringDecoder.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/codec/http/QueryStringDecoder.java
index fac2e81205..4716876cb7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/codec/http/QueryStringDecoder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/codec/http/QueryStringDecoder.java
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ public class QueryStringDecoder {
         if (rawPath != null) {
             hasPath = true;
         } else {
-            rawPath ="";
+            rawPath = "";
             hasPath = false;
         }
         // Also take care of cut of things like "http://localhost"