diff --git a/extensions/mssql/src/objectExplorerNodeProvider/webhdfs.ts b/extensions/mssql/src/objectExplorerNodeProvider/webhdfs.ts
index 78de659999..2843ad28c0 100644
--- a/extensions/mssql/src/objectExplorerNodeProvider/webhdfs.ts
+++ b/extensions/mssql/src/objectExplorerNodeProvider/webhdfs.ts
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ export class WebHDFS {
 			params || {}
 		);
 		endpoint.search = querystring.stringify(searchOpts);
-		return url.format(endpoint);
+		return encodeURI(url.format(endpoint));
 	}
 
 	/**