cURL requesting URL with whitespaces in URL.. What to do

Question

So I\'m trying to curl this URL:

http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/Screen shot 2011-04-28 at 8.13.21 PM.png

URL Encoded it reads as:

http%3

Answer 1

Just use str_replace.

echo str_replace ( ' ', '%20', 'http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/Screen shot 2011-04-28 at 8.13.21 PM.png' );