diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/AbstractServlet.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/AbstractServlet.java
index fa64003..514a7dd 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/AbstractServlet.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/AbstractServlet.java
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
 import static com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature.ORDER_MAP_ENTRIES_BY_KEYS;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
@@ -177,12 +175,7 @@
     public String localPath(IServletRequest request) {
         final String uri = request.getHttpRequest().uri();
         int queryStart = uri.indexOf('?');
-        String localPath = queryStart == -1 ? uri.substring(trim(uri)) : uri.substring(trim(uri), queryStart);
-        try {
-            return URLDecoder.decode(localPath, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
-        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
-        }
+        return queryStart == -1 ? uri.substring(trim(uri)) : uri.substring(trim(uri), queryStart);
     }
 
     public String servletPath(IServletRequest request) {