diff --git a/hsclient/hydroshare.py b/hsclient/hydroshare.py
index 59ef710..1363f0d 100644
--- a/hsclient/hydroshare.py
+++ b/hsclient/hydroshare.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 from posixpath import basename, dirname, join as urljoin, splitext
 from pprint import pformat
 from typing import Callable, Dict, List, TYPE_CHECKING, Union
-from urllib.parse import quote, unquote, urlparse
+from urllib.parse import unquote, urlparse
 from uuid import uuid4
 from zipfile import ZipFile
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 
 from hsclient.json_models import ResourcePreview, User
 from hsclient.oauth2_model import Token
-from hsclient.utils import attribute_filter, encode_resource_url, is_aggregation, main_file_type
+from hsclient.utils import attribute_filter, is_aggregation, main_file_type
 
 import pkg_resources  # part of setuptools
 VERSION = pkg_resources.get_distribution(__package__).version
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ def _retrieve_checksums(self, path):
         # split string by lines, then split line by delimiter into a dict
         delimiter = "    "
         data = {
-            quote(path): checksum for checksum, path in [line.split(delimiter) for line in file_str.split("\n") if line]
+            path: checksum for checksum, path in [line.split(delimiter) for line in file_str.split("\n") if line]
         }
         return data
 
@@ -1429,7 +1429,7 @@ def upload_file(self, path, files, status_code=204):
         return self.post(path, files=files, status_code=status_code)
 
     def post(self, path, status_code, data=None, params={}, **kwargs):
-        url = encode_resource_url(self._build_url(path))
+        url = self._build_url(path)
         response = self._session.post(url, params=params, data=data, **kwargs)
         if response.status_code != status_code:
             raise Exception(
@@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ def post(self, path, status_code, data=None, params={}, **kwargs):
         return response
 
     def put(self, path, status_code, data=None, **kwargs):
-        url = encode_resource_url(self._build_url(path))
+        url = self._build_url(path)
         response = self._session.put(url, data=data, **kwargs)
         if response.status_code != status_code:
             raise Exception(
@@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ def put(self, path, status_code, data=None, **kwargs):
         return response
 
     def get(self, path, status_code, **kwargs):
-        url = encode_resource_url(self._build_url(path))
+        url = self._build_url(path)
         response = self._session.get(url, **kwargs)
         if response.status_code != status_code:
             raise Exception(
@@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ def get(self, path, status_code, **kwargs):
         return response
 
     def delete(self, path, status_code, **kwargs):
-        url = encode_resource_url(self._build_url(path))
+        url = self._build_url(path)
         response = self._session.delete(url, **kwargs)
         if response.status_code != status_code:
             raise Exception(
diff --git a/hsclient/utils.py b/hsclient/utils.py
index a8ef779..4275b06 100644
--- a/hsclient/utils.py
+++ b/hsclient/utils.py
@@ -52,20 +52,6 @@ def attribute_filter(o, key, value) -> bool:
     return attr == value
 
 
-def encode_resource_url(url):
-    """
-    URL encodes a full resource file/folder url.
-    :param url: a string url
-    :return: url encoded string
-    """
-    import urllib
-
-    parsed_url = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
-    url_encoded_path = pathname2url(parsed_url.path)
-    encoded_url = parsed_url._replace(path=url_encoded_path).geturl()
-    return encoded_url
-
-
 def is_folder(path):
     """Checks for an extension to determine if the path is to a folder"""
     return splitext(path)[1] == ''
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a3868da..357f46d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='hsclient',
-    version='1.1.6',
+    version='1.1.7',
     packages=find_packages(include=['hsclient', 'hsclient.*'],
                            exclude=("tests",)),
     install_requires=[