URIBuilder : if we pass Special characters like :,/ along with hostname to the setHost method, the special characters in the hostname is getting converted to encoded values

ClassName : URIBuilder.java

Package: org.apache.hc.core5.net

Context:

getHost() method in the URIBuilder class if passed a special character like : or / etc along with hostname then it is converting them into their encoded values . 

Example Code Snippet : 

URI uri = new URIBuilder().setScheme("http").setHost("apache-test-1:dev").setPath("test").build();

Assume above code snippet , when the .build() is executed the URI object will have a path like below = "http://apache-test-1%3Adev" . 

The : char is converted to encoded value example %3A

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