diff --git a/mercurial/statichttprepo.py b/mercurial/statichttprepo.py
--- a/mercurial/statichttprepo.py
+++ b/mercurial/statichttprepo.py
@@ -262,5 +262,5 @@ class statichttprepository(
 def make_peer(ui, path, create, intents=None, createopts=None):
     if create:
         raise error.Abort(_(b'cannot create new static-http repository'))
-    path = path.loc
-    return statichttprepository(ui, path[7:]).peer()
+    url = path.loc[7:]
+    return statichttprepository(ui, url).peer(path=path)