diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 6b8743be..ae64f29d 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from .exceptions import (
     URLRequired, SSLError)
 from .utils import (
     get_encoding_from_headers, stream_decode_response_unicode,
-    stream_decompress, guess_filename, requote_path, dict_from_string)
+    stream_decompress, guess_filename, requote_uri, dict_from_string)
 
 from .compat import urlparse, urlunparse, urljoin, urlsplit, urlencode, quote, unquote, str, bytes, SimpleCookie, is_py3, is_py2
 
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ class Request(object):
             else:
                 url = '%s?%s' % (url, self._enc_params)
 
-        url = requote_path(url)
+        url = requote_uri(url)
 
         return url
 
diff --git a/requests/utils.py b/requests/utils.py
index abbc752a..806d2d54 100644
--- a/requests/utils.py
+++ b/requests/utils.py
@@ -419,14 +419,14 @@ def unquote_unreserved(uri):
             parts[i] = '%' + parts[i]
     return ''.join(parts)
 
-def requote_path(path):
-    """Re-quote the given URL path component.
+def requote_uri(uri):
+    """Re-quote the given URI.
 
-    This function passes the given path through an unquote/quote cycle to
+    This function passes the given URI through an unquote/quote cycle to
     ensure that it is fully and consistently quoted.
     """
     # Unquote only the unreserved characters
     # Then quote only illegal characters (do not quote reserved, unreserved,
     # or '%')
-    return quote(unquote_unreserved(path), safe="!#$%&'()*+,/:;=?@[]~")
+    return quote(unquote_unreserved(uri), safe="!#$%&'()*+,/:;=?@[]~")
     return "/".join(parts)