diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c
index 1518ed20fef8437257c5faa2f588252da5448d40..17e073ecece78a18b5b769362eb3358752f9cf10 100644
--- a/src/libvirt.c
+++ b/src/libvirt.c
@@ -1054,11 +1054,6 @@ virConnectOpenResolveURIAlias(const char *alias, char **uri)
 
     *uri = NULL;
 
-    /* Short circuit to avoid doing URI alias resolution
-     * when it clearly isn't an valid alias */
-    if (strspn(alias, URI_ALIAS_CHARS) != strlen(alias))
-        return 0;
-
     if (!(config = virConnectConfigFile()))
         goto cleanup;