diff --git a/artifactory.py b/artifactory.py
index 470d594..520bcdf 100755
--- a/artifactory.py
+++ b/artifactory.py
@@ -587,6 +587,13 @@ def make_uri(self, path):
         """
         return path
 
+    def isabs(self, path):
+        """
+        Returns True if the path is absolute. For Artifactory paths, this
+        means checking the URL scheme.
+        """
+        return urllib.parse.urlparse(str(path)).scheme != ""
+
     def normcase(self, path):
         return path