diff --git a/clients/curl/example.sh b/clients/curl/example.sh
index 8223cb532..50ed2c52b 100755
--- a/clients/curl/example.sh
+++ b/clients/curl/example.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Example client accesses to blob server using curl.
 
 # Configuration variables here:
-BSHOST=localhost:8080
+BSHOST=localhost:3179/bs
 BSUSER=user
 BSPASS=foo
 
diff --git a/clients/curl/upload-file.pl b/clients/curl/upload-file.pl
index 68e376caf..bee85afd2 100755
--- a/clients/curl/upload-file.pl
+++ b/clients/curl/upload-file.pl
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ chomp $sha1;
 $sha1 =~ s/\s.+//;
 
 system("curl", "-u", "foo:foo", "-F", "sha1-$sha1=\@$file",
-       "http://127.0.0.1:3179/camli/upload") and die "upload failed.";
-print "Uploaded http://127.0.0.1:3179/camli/sha1-$sha1\n";
+       "http://127.0.0.1:3179/bs/camli/upload") and die "upload failed.";
+print "Uploaded http://127.0.0.1:3179/bs/camli/sha1-$sha1\n";
diff --git a/clients/python/camliclient.py b/clients/python/camliclient.py
index f70aebd8c..1cf15523d 100755
--- a/clients/python/camliclient.py
+++ b/clients/python/camliclient.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Commands:
                     default='',
                     help='username:pasword for HTTP basic authentication')
   parser.add_option('-s', '--server', dest='server',
-                    default='localhost:8080',
+                    default='localhost:3179',
                     help='hostname:port to connect to')
   parser.add_option('-d', '--debug', dest='debug',
                     action='store_true',
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Commands:
   if opts.debug:
     logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
 
-  op = camli.op.CamliOp(opts.server, auth=opts.auth)
+  op = camli.op.CamliOp(opts.server, auth=opts.auth, basepath="/bs")
   command = args[0].lower()
 
   if command == 'putdir':
diff --git a/lib/python/camli/op.py b/lib/python/camli/op.py
index 7a5884a0d..bd11856bc 100755
--- a/lib/python/camli/op.py
+++ b/lib/python/camli/op.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class CamliOp(object):
                buffer_size=BUFFER_SIZE,
                create_connection=httplib.HTTPConnection,
                auth=None,
-               basepath=False):
+               basepath=""):
     """Initializer.
 
     Args:
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ class CamliOp(object):
     self._create_connection = create_connection
     self._connection = None
     self._authorization = ''
+    self.basepath = ""
     if auth:
       if len(auth.split(':')) != 2:
           # Default to dummy username; current server doesn't care 
@@ -348,7 +349,11 @@ class CamliOp(object):
 
     for blobref in blobref_list:
       logging.debug('Getting blobref=%s', blobref)
-      self.connection.request('GET', '/camli/' + blobref)
+      if self.basepath:
+          fullpath = self.basepath + '/camli/'
+      else:
+          fullpath = '/camli/'
+      self.connection.request('GET', fullpath + blobref)
       response = self.connection.getresponse()
       if response.status == 404:
         logging.debug('Server does not have blobref=%s', blobref)