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URLEncode encodes spaces as plus symbols, but this isn't what we want:

The encoding used by default is based on a very early version of the general URI percent-encoding rules, with a number of modifications such as newline normalization and replacing spaces with "+" instead of "%20"

URLEncode["bad space"]
(*yields "bad+space", should be "bad%20space"*)

Is there any way to get the " "->"%20" behavior by default?

Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1634271/url-encoding-the-space-character-or-20

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    $\begingroup$ Run Needs["GeneralUtilities`"]; PrintDefinitions[URLEncode] and you will see the definition. It's easy to copy that definition, change the " " -> "+" to " " -> "%20" and overwrite the default definition, if that's what you want. "should be" is a strong statement, considering that it appears to still be common to convert spaces into +. $\endgroup$
    – C. E. ♦
    Commented Aug 10, 2016 at 22:03

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