diff --git a/openedx/features/course_experience/tests/test_url_helpers.py b/openedx/features/course_experience/tests/test_url_helpers.py
index 31c469022f..4728858cf0 100644
--- a/openedx/features/course_experience/tests/test_url_helpers.py
+++ b/openedx/features/course_experience/tests/test_url_helpers.py
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Test some of the functions in url_helpers
 from unittest import mock
 
 import ddt
+from django.test import TestCase
+from django.test.client import RequestFactory
+from django.test.utils import override_settings
 
 from xmodule.modulestore import ModuleStoreEnum
 from xmodule.modulestore.tests.django_utils import SharedModuleStoreTestCase
@@ -20,6 +23,33 @@ def _patch_courseware_mfe_is_active(ret_val):
     )
 
 
+@ddt.ddt
+class IsLearningMfeTests(TestCase):
+    """
+    Test is_request_from_learning_mfe.
+    """
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super().setUp()
+        self.request_factory = RequestFactory()
+
+    @ddt.data(
+        ('', '', False,),
+        ('https://mfe-url/', 'https://platform-url/course', False,),
+        ('https://mfe-url/', 'https://mfe-url/course', True,),
+        ('https://mfe-url/', 'https://mfe-url/', True,),
+        ('https://mfe-url/subpath/', 'https://platform-url/course', False,),
+        ('https://mfe-url/subpath/', 'https://mfe-url/course', True,),
+        ('https://mfe-url/subpath/', 'https://mfe-url/', True,),
+    )
+    @ddt.unpack
+    def test_is_request_from_learning_mfe(self, mfe_url, referrer_url, is_mfe):
+        with override_settings(LEARNING_MICROFRONTEND_URL=mfe_url):
+            request = self.request_factory.get('/course')
+            request.META['HTTP_REFERER'] = referrer_url
+            assert url_helpers.is_request_from_learning_mfe(request) == is_mfe
+
+
 @ddt.ddt
 class GetCoursewareUrlTests(SharedModuleStoreTestCase):
     """
diff --git a/openedx/features/course_experience/url_helpers.py b/openedx/features/course_experience/url_helpers.py
index c0ab5f6262..ecc5515f89 100644
--- a/openedx/features/course_experience/url_helpers.py
+++ b/openedx/features/course_experience/url_helpers.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
 from django.http import HttpRequest
 from django.urls import reverse
 from opaque_keys.edx.keys import CourseKey, UsageKey
-from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode, urlparse
 
 from lms.djangoapps.courseware.toggles import courseware_mfe_is_active
 from xmodule.modulestore.django import modulestore
@@ -213,7 +213,9 @@ def is_request_from_learning_mfe(request: HttpRequest):
     """
     Returns whether the given request was made by the frontend-app-learning MFE.
     """
-    return (
-        settings.LEARNING_MICROFRONTEND_URL and
-        request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER', '').startswith(settings.LEARNING_MICROFRONTEND_URL)
-    )
+    if not settings.LEARNING_MICROFRONTEND_URL:
+        return False
+
+    url = urlparse(settings.LEARNING_MICROFRONTEND_URL)
+    mfe_url_base = f'{url.scheme}://{url.netloc}'
+    return request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER', '').startswith(mfe_url_base)