diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9c62638e0..4bcc34255 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ Complete documentation for these methods is coming with: https://github.com/ipfs
 
 > `ipfs.util.getEndpointConfig()`
 
-This returns an object containing the `host` and the `port`
+This returns an object containing the `host`, `port` and `protocol`
 
 ##### Get libp2p crypto primitives
 
diff --git a/src/util/get-endpoint-config.js b/src/util/get-endpoint-config.js
index 7598239ee..a4f0c80e1 100644
--- a/src/util/get-endpoint-config.js
+++ b/src/util/get-endpoint-config.js
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 module.exports = (config) => {
   return () => ({
     host: config.host,
-    port: config.port
+    port: config.port,
+    protocol: config.protocol,
+    'api-path': config['api-path']
   })
 }
diff --git a/test/util.spec.js b/test/util.spec.js
index ff0b83c81..002a7777f 100644
--- a/test/util.spec.js
+++ b/test/util.spec.js
@@ -35,10 +35,13 @@ describe('.util', () => {
   })
 
   describe('.getEndpointConfig', () => {
-    it('should return the endpoint configured host and port', function () {
+    it('should return the endpoint configuration', function () {
       const endpoint = ipfs.util.getEndpointConfig()
 
-      expect(endpoint).to.have.property('host')
+      expect(endpoint.host).to.equal('127.0.0.1')
+      expect(endpoint.protocol).to.equal('http')
+      expect(endpoint['api-path']).to.equal('/api/v0/')
+      // changes per test run so we just assert it exists.
       expect(endpoint).to.have.property('port')
     })
   })