I am using the C# HttpWebRequest.GetResponse with a URL that is not encoded. But when I inspect the request using fiddler I see that the URL is encoded. I wanted to confirm that HttpWebRequest Class is encoding the URL internally but could not find it in the documentation. Can someone point me to the documentation where i can find this or some other way to validate it?
Here it is:
WebRequest.Create (you are using that method to create your HttpWebRequest object, right?) says "The Create method uses the requestUriString parameter to create a Uri instance that it passes to the new WebRequest"
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bw00b1dc(v=vs.110).aspx
The constructor for Uri (which is being called by the Create method) says it "parses the URI, puts it in canonical format, and makes any required escape encodings"
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z6c2z492(v=vs.110).aspx