diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 52b3acec32..6b3e0a9b4b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ jsoup changelog
 Release 1.16.1 [PENDING]
   * Improvement: Calling Node.remove() on a node with no parent is now a no-op, vs a validation error.
     <https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/1898>
-    
+
   * Bugfix: Corrected support for ruby elements (<ruby>, <rp>, <rt>, and <rtc>) to current spec.
     <https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/1294>
 
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ Release 1.16.1 [PENDING]
     the incoming node may be inserted into the wrong relative location.
     <https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/1898>
 
+  * Bugfix: In Jsoup.connect(url), if the input URL had components that were already % escaped, they would be escaped
+    again, causing errors when fetched.
+    <https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/1902>
+
 Release 1.15.4 [18-Feb-2023]
   * Improvement: added the ability to escape CSS selectors (tags, IDs, classes) to match elements that don't follow
     regular CSS syntax. For example, to match by classname <p class="one.two">, use document.select("p.one\\.two");
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jsoup/helper/HttpConnection.java b/src/main/java/org/jsoup/helper/HttpConnection.java
index d183a521b4..88595c3ffc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jsoup/helper/HttpConnection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jsoup/helper/HttpConnection.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.CookieManager;
 import java.net.CookieStore;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.net.URLEncoder;
 import java.nio.Buffer;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
@@ -127,14 +129,21 @@ static URL encodeUrl(URL u) {
 	    u = punyUrl(u);
         try {
             // run the URL through URI, so components are encoded
-            URI uri = new URI(u.getProtocol(), u.getUserInfo(), u.getHost(), u.getPort(), u.getPath(), u.getQuery(), u.getRef());
+            URI uri = new URI(
+                u.getProtocol(), decodePart(u.getUserInfo()), u.getHost(), u.getPort(),
+                decodePart(u.getPath()), decodePart(u.getQuery()), decodePart(u.getRef()));
             return uri.toURL();
-        } catch (URISyntaxException | MalformedURLException e) {
+        } catch (URISyntaxException | MalformedURLException | UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
             // give up and return the original input
             return u;
         }
     }
 
+    @Nullable private static String decodePart(@Nullable String encoded) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
+        if (encoded == null) return null;
+        return URLDecoder.decode(encoded, UTF_8.name());
+    }
+
     /**
      Convert an International URL to a Punycode URL.
      @param url input URL that may include an international hostname
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/jsoup/helper/HttpConnectionTest.java b/src/test/java/org/jsoup/helper/HttpConnectionTest.java
index f7618fb947..b655f8ff68 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/jsoup/helper/HttpConnectionTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/jsoup/helper/HttpConnectionTest.java
@@ -260,6 +260,20 @@ public void caseInsensitiveHeaders(Locale locale) {
         assertEquals("https://test.com/foo%20bar/%5BOne%5D?q=white%20space#frag", url2.toExternalForm());
     }
 
+    @Test void encodedUrlDoesntDoubleEncode() throws MalformedURLException {
+        URL url1 = new URL("https://test.com/foo bar/[One]?q=white space#frag ment");
+        URL url2 = HttpConnection.encodeUrl(url1);
+        URL url3 = HttpConnection.encodeUrl(url2);
+        assertEquals("https://test.com/foo%20bar/%5BOne%5D?q=white%20space#frag%20ment", url2.toExternalForm());
+        assertEquals("https://test.com/foo%20bar/%5BOne%5D?q=white%20space#frag%20ment", url3.toExternalForm());
+    }
+
+    @Test void connectToEncodedUrl() {
+        Connection connect = Jsoup.connect("https://example.com/a%20b%20c?query+string");
+        URL url = connect.request().url();
+        assertEquals("https://example.com/a%20b%20c?query%20string", url.toExternalForm());
+    }
+
     @Test public void noUrlThrowsValidationError() throws IOException {
         HttpConnection con = new HttpConnection();
         boolean threw = false;