diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9afa7af..ccb06b6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -120,13 +120,11 @@ $curl = new Curl();
 $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1');
 
 $curl->success(function($instance) {
-    $url = $instance->getUrl();
-    echo 'call to "' . $url . '" was successful. response was' . "\n";
+    echo 'call to "' . $instance->url . '" was successful. response was' . "\n";
     echo $instance->response . "\n";
 });
 $curl->error(function($instance) {
-    $url = $instance->getUrl();
-    echo 'call to "' . $url . '" was unsuccessful.' . "\n";
+    echo 'call to "' . $instance->url . '" was unsuccessful.' . "\n";
     echo 'error code:' . $instance->error_code . "\n";
     echo 'error message:' . $instance->error_message . "\n";
 });
diff --git a/src/Curl/Curl.php b/src/Curl/Curl.php
index fa304ac..efcdb8f 100644
--- a/src/Curl/Curl.php
+++ b/src/Curl/Curl.php
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ class Curl
     private $headers = array();
     private $options = array();
 
-    private $url = null;
     private $multi_parent = false;
     private $multi_child = false;
     private $before_send_function = null;
@@ -33,6 +32,7 @@ class Curl
     public $http_status_code = 0;
     public $http_error_message = null;
 
+    public $url = null;
     public $request_headers = null;
     public $response_headers = null;
     public $response = null;
@@ -63,9 +63,8 @@ class Curl
                 $curl = new Curl();
                 $curl->multi_child = true;
 
-                $url = $this->buildURL($url, $data);
-                $curl->setUrl($url);
-                $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $url, $curl->curl);
+                $curl->url = $this->buildURL($url, $data);
+                $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $curl->url, $curl->curl);
                 $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
                 $curl->setOpt(CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
                 $this->call($this->before_send_function, $curl);
@@ -103,9 +102,8 @@ class Curl
                 $this->exec($ch);
             }
         } else {
-            $url = $this->buildURL($url_mixed, $data);
-            $this->setUrl($url);
-            $this->setopt(CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+            $this->url = $this->buildURL($url_mixed, $data);
+            $this->setopt(CURLOPT_URL, $this->url);
             $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
             $this->setopt(CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
             return $this->exec();
@@ -118,8 +116,8 @@ class Curl
             $this->unsetHeader('Content-Length');
         }
 
-        $this->setUrl($url);
-        $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $this->buildURL($url));
+        $this->url = $url;
+        $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $this->url);
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_POST, true);
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $this->postfields($data));
@@ -128,8 +126,8 @@ class Curl
 
     public function put($url, $data = array())
     {
-        $this->setUrl($url);
-        $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+        $this->url = $url;
+        $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $this->url);
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');
         $put_data = http_build_query($data);
         if (empty($this->options[CURLOPT_INFILE]) && empty($this->options[CURLOPT_INFILESIZE])) {
@@ -141,9 +139,9 @@ class Curl
 
     public function patch($url, $data = array())
     {
-        $this->setUrl($url);
+        $this->url = $url;
         $this->unsetHeader('Content-Length');
-        $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $this->buildURL($url));
+        $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $this->url);
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PATCH');
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
         return $this->exec();
@@ -151,18 +149,17 @@ class Curl
 
     public function delete($url, $data = array())
     {
-        $this->setUrl($url);
+        $this->url = $url;
         $this->unsetHeader('Content-Length');
-        $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $this->buildURL($url, $data));
+        $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $this->buildURL($this->url, $data));
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');
         return $this->exec();
     }
 
     public function head($url, $data = array())
     {
-        $url = $this->buildURL($url, $data);
-        $this->setUrl($url);
-        $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+        $this->url = $this->buildURL($url, $data);
+        $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $this->url);
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'HEAD');
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
         return $this->exec();
@@ -171,7 +168,7 @@ class Curl
     public function options($url, $data = array())
     {
         $this->unsetHeader('Content-Length');
-        $this->setUrl($url);
+        $this->url = $url;
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_URL, $this->buildURL($url, $data));
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'OPTIONS');
         return $this->exec();
@@ -253,16 +250,6 @@ class Curl
         return $this->options[$option];
     }
 
-    public function setUrl($url)
-    {
-        $this->url = $url;
-    }
-
-    public function getUrl()
-    {
-        return $this->url;
-    }
-
     public function verbose($on = true)
     {
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_VERBOSE, $on);
diff --git a/tests/PHPCurlClass/PHPCurlClassTest.php b/tests/PHPCurlClass/PHPCurlClassTest.php
index fe05456..eb0060c 100644
--- a/tests/PHPCurlClass/PHPCurlClassTest.php
+++ b/tests/PHPCurlClass/PHPCurlClassTest.php
@@ -99,37 +99,37 @@ class CurlTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         // curl -v --get "http://127.0.0.1:8000/" -d "foo=bar"
         $test = new Test();
         $test->server('server', 'GET', $data);
-        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL . '?' . http_build_query($data), $test->curl->getUrl());
+        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL . '?' . http_build_query($data), $test->curl->url);
 
         // curl -v --request POST "http://127.0.0.1:8000/" -d "foo=bar"
         $test = new Test();
         $test->server('server', 'POST', $data);
-        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL, $test->curl->getUrl());
+        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL, $test->curl->url);
 
         // curl -v --request PUT "http://127.0.0.1:8000/" -d "foo=bar"
         $test = new Test();
         $test->server('server', 'PUT', $data);
-        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL, $test->curl->getUrl());
+        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL, $test->curl->url);
 
         // curl -v --request PATCH "http://127.0.0.1:8000/" -d "foo=bar"
         $test = new Test();
         $test->server('server', 'PATCH', $data);
-        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL, $test->curl->getUrl());
+        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL, $test->curl->url);
 
         // curl -v --request DELETE "http://127.0.0.1:8000/" -d "foo=bar"
         $test = new Test();
         $test->server('server', 'DELETE', $data);
-        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL, $test->curl->getUrl());
+        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL, $test->curl->url);
 
         // curl -v --head --get "http://127.0.0.1:8000/" -d "foo=bar"
         $test = new Test();
         $test->server('server', 'HEAD', $data);
-        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL . '?' . http_build_query($data), $test->curl->getUrl());
+        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL . '?' . http_build_query($data), $test->curl->url);
 
         // curl -v --request OPTIONS "http://127.0.0.1:8000/" -d "foo=bar"
         $test = new Test();
         $test->server('server', 'OPTIONS', $data);
-        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL, $test->curl->getUrl());
+        $this->assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL, $test->curl->url);
     }
 
     public function testPostRequestMethod()
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ class CurlTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         $curl = $test->curl;
         $curl->setHeader('X-DEBUG-TEST', 'server');
         $curl->complete(function ($instance) use ($data) {
-            PHPUnit_Framework_Assert::assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL . '?' . http_build_query($data), $instance->getUrl());
+            PHPUnit_Framework_Assert::assertEquals(Test::TEST_URL . '?' . http_build_query($data), $instance->url);
         });
         $curl->get(array(
             Test::TEST_URL,