tomcat does not support URL encoding?

[Wai-Yip Tung]

I am trying to use tomcat 3.2.1 to access static file with space in the
filename. I encoded the URI as

http://hostname/a%20b.html

for the file "a b.html". Tomcat returns me 404. The encoding scheme is
addressed in RFC 2396 and is supported by Apache and IIS. Does it mean
tomcat's does not handle it correctly?

Wai-yip