revert the changes done in d931a3b64fd6 - buildbot failure.

The fix for issue14826 might need to address toBytes and test_url_encoding in
test_cookielib.py before it is brought back in.

Lib/test/test_urllib2.py

@@ -1325,12 +1325,6 @@ class RequestTests(unittest.TestCase):
         req = Request("<URL:http://www.python.org>")
         self.assertEqual("www.python.org", req.get_host())
 
-    def test_quoted_full_url(self):
-        Request = urllib2.Request
-        request = Request('http://www.python.org/foo bar')
-        self.assertEqual(request.get_full_url(),
-                'http://www.python.org/foo%20bar')
-
     def test_url_fragment(self):
         req = Request("http://www.python.org/?qs=query#fragment=true")
         self.assertEqual("/?qs=query", req.get_selector())

Lib/urllib2.py

@@ -196,8 +196,7 @@ class Request:
     def __init__(self, url, data=None, headers={},
                  origin_req_host=None, unverifiable=False):
         # unwrap('<URL:type://host/path>') --> 'type://host/path'
-        self.__original = unwrap(toBytes(url))
-        self.__original = quote(self.__original, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]|")
+        self.__original = unwrap(url)
         self.__original, self.__fragment = splittag(self.__original)
         self.type = None
         # self.__r_type is what's left after doing the splittype

Misc/NEWS

@@ -84,11 +84,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #14826: Quote urls in urllib2.Request identically to how they
-  are quoted by urllib.URLopener. Allows urls to spaces in them to work
-  transparently with urllib.request.urlopen(...). Patch contributed by Stephen
-  Thorne.
-
 - Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
   pointing to a directory.