diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index d694fa08..ed886dfc 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ BUGFIXES :
 
 * `setSimulationPathAPI()`: control the existence of the output folder **links** or **areas** before reading the data (upgrade Antares Web)
 * `readClusterDesc()` / `readClusterResDesc()` / `readClusterSTDesc()` return a data.table in API mode
+* `setSimulationPathAPI()` : encode URL before reading the data in simulation mode
 
 
 # antaresRead 2.7.1 
diff --git a/R/setSimulationPathAPI.R b/R/setSimulationPathAPI.R
index 274aa316..0613431f 100644
--- a/R/setSimulationPathAPI.R
+++ b/R/setSimulationPathAPI.R
@@ -496,7 +496,9 @@ setSimulationPathAPI <- function(host, study_id, token, simulation = NULL,
     if (type == "links") {
       path_element <- gsub(pattern = " - ", replacement = "/", x = path_element)
     }
+    path_element <- URLencode(path_element, reserved = TRUE)
     d <- file.path(path, type, path_element)
+    d <- URLencode(d)
     f <- names(read_secure_json(paste0(d, "&depth=1"), ...))
     f <- f[grep("values", f)]
     if (length(f) > 0) {