diff --git a/scrapy/utils/request.py b/scrapy/utils/request.py
index 9c143b83a..fb5af66a2 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/request.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/request.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from scrapy.utils.httpobj import urlparse_cached
 
 
 _fingerprint_cache = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
-def request_fingerprint(request, include_headers=None):
+def request_fingerprint(request, include_headers=None, keep_fragments=False):
     """
     Return the request fingerprint.
 
@@ -42,15 +42,21 @@ def request_fingerprint(request, include_headers=None):
     the fingeprint. If you want to include specific headers use the
     include_headers argument, which is a list of Request headers to include.
 
+    Also, servers usually ignore fragments in urls when handling requests,
+    so they are also ignored by default when calculating the fingerprint.
+    If you want to include them, set the keep_fragments argument to True
+    (for instance when handling requests with a headless browser).
+
     """
     if include_headers:
         include_headers = tuple(to_bytes(h.lower())
                                  for h in sorted(include_headers))
     cache = _fingerprint_cache.setdefault(request, {})
-    if include_headers not in cache:
+    cache_key = (include_headers, keep_fragments)
+    if cache_key not in cache:
         fp = hashlib.sha1()
         fp.update(to_bytes(request.method))
-        fp.update(to_bytes(canonicalize_url(request.url)))
+        fp.update(to_bytes(canonicalize_url(request.url, keep_fragments=keep_fragments)))
         fp.update(request.body or b'')
         if include_headers:
             for hdr in include_headers:
@@ -58,8 +64,8 @@ def request_fingerprint(request, include_headers=None):
                     fp.update(hdr)
                     for v in request.headers.getlist(hdr):
                         fp.update(v)
-        cache[include_headers] = fp.hexdigest()
-    return cache[include_headers]
+        cache[cache_key] = fp.hexdigest()
+    return cache[cache_key]
 
 
 def request_authenticate(request, username, password):
diff --git a/tests/test_utils_request.py b/tests/test_utils_request.py
index e8a4eb3ea..625a32048 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils_request.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils_request.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class UtilsRequestTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertNotEqual(request_fingerprint(r1), request_fingerprint(r2))
 
         # make sure caching is working
-        self.assertEqual(request_fingerprint(r1), _fingerprint_cache[r1][None])
+        self.assertEqual(request_fingerprint(r1), _fingerprint_cache[r1][(None, False)])
 
         r1 = Request("http://www.example.com/members/offers.html")
         r2 = Request("http://www.example.com/members/offers.html")
@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ class UtilsRequestTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(request_fingerprint(r3, include_headers=['accept-language', 'sessionid']),
                          request_fingerprint(r3, include_headers=['SESSIONID', 'Accept-Language']))
 
+        r1 = Request("http://www.example.com/test.html")
+        r2 = Request("http://www.example.com/test.html#fragment")
+        self.assertEqual(request_fingerprint(r1), request_fingerprint(r2))
+        self.assertEqual(request_fingerprint(r1), request_fingerprint(r1, keep_fragments=True))
+        self.assertNotEqual(request_fingerprint(r2), request_fingerprint(r2, keep_fragments=True))
+        self.assertNotEqual(request_fingerprint(r1), request_fingerprint(r2, keep_fragments=True))
+
         r1 = Request("http://www.example.com")
         r2 = Request("http://www.example.com", method='POST')
         r3 = Request("http://www.example.com", method='POST', body=b'request body')