diff --git a/src/core/api/qwebengineurlscheme.cpp b/src/core/api/qwebengineurlscheme.cpp
index 9b04f46c584fe2ca30affdf0fc0a6169ad14c24b..9cc5b5056beb3fe5d031b64da004df8bed1f64f5 100644
--- a/src/core/api/qwebengineurlscheme.cpp
+++ b/src/core/api/qwebengineurlscheme.cpp
@@ -378,6 +378,11 @@ void QWebEngineUrlScheme::registerScheme(const QWebEngineUrlScheme &scheme)
         return;
     }
 
+    if (url::IsStandard(scheme.d->name.data(), url::Component(0, scheme.d->name.size()))) {
+        qWarning() << "QWebEngineUrlScheme::registerScheme: Scheme" << scheme.name() << "is a standard scheme";
+        return;
+    }
+
     if (g_schemesLocked) {
         qWarning() << "QWebEngineUrlScheme::registerScheme: Too late to register scheme" << scheme.name();
         return;