Fix issue14826 - make urllib.request.Request quoted url consistent with URLOpener open method.

Patch contributed by Stephen Thorne.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index c6f6f61..69d5438 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -1246,6 +1246,11 @@ class URLopener_Tests(unittest.TestCase):
 #         ftp.close()
 
 
+    def test_quote_url(self):
+        Request = urllib.request.Request
+        request = Request("http://www.python.org/foo bar")
+        self.assertEqual(request.full_url, "http://www.python.org/foo%20bar")
+
 
 def test_main():
     support.run_unittest(
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index d6f9f9a..796b700 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ class Request:
     def __init__(self, url, data=None, headers={},
                  origin_req_host=None, unverifiable=False):
         # unwrap('<URL:type://host/path>') --> 'type://host/path'
-        self.full_url = unwrap(url)
+        self.full_url = unwrap(to_bytes(url))
+        self.full_url = quote(self.full_url, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]|")
         self.full_url, self.fragment = splittag(self.full_url)
         self.data = data
         self.headers = {}