diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index af3f0ad3aef..22ada56d0c8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -1272,11 +1272,6 @@ def test_with_method_arg(self):
         request.method = 'HEAD'
         self.assertEqual(request.get_method(), 'HEAD')
 
-    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 c206a8a5b22..67b4c795b36 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ def __init__(self, url, data=None, headers={},
                  method=None):
         # unwrap('<URL:type://host/path>') --> 'type://host/path'
         self.full_url = unwrap(url)
-        self.full_url = quote(self.full_url, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]|")
         self.full_url, self.fragment = splittag(self.full_url)
         self.data = data
         self.headers = {}
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 823762c108c..6d896c247ce 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #14826: Quote urls in urllib.request.Request similar to how they
-  are quoted by urllib.request.URLopener. Allows urls to spaces in them to work
-  transparently with urllib.request.urlopen(...). Patch contributed by Stephen
-  Thorne.
-
 - Issue #5931: wsgiref environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
   implementation specific term like Cpython, Jython instead of generic "Python"