such URLs are totally invalid in my eyes. it's nice that some browsers accept them, but i wouldn't care if HttpClient doesn't. Additional it's farely easy to replace them by yourself.
for example IE accepts them (who wonders: \ is windows-style) but Mozilla doesn't. Try entering
http://www.google.com/test\test
and Mozilla will transform it to
http://www.google.com/test%5Ctest
for you, which means that Mozilla doesn't accept them.
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