diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp
index 38f2a708b5..520ad2e5d3 100644
--- a/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp
@@ -4170,10 +4170,10 @@ QUrl QUrl::fromUserInput(const QString &userInput, const QString &workingDirecto
         return url;
     }
 
-    QUrl url = QUrl(trimmedString, QUrl::TolerantMode);
+    QUrl url = QUrl(userInput, QUrl::TolerantMode);
     // Check both QUrl::isRelative (to detect full URLs) and QDir::isAbsolutePath (since on Windows drive letters can be interpreted as schemes)
-    if (url.isRelative() && !QDir::isAbsolutePath(trimmedString)) {
-        QFileInfo fileInfo(QDir(workingDirectory), trimmedString);
+    if (url.isRelative() && !QDir::isAbsolutePath(userInput)) {
+        QFileInfo fileInfo(QDir(workingDirectory), userInput);
         if ((options & AssumeLocalFile) || fileInfo.exists())
             return QUrl::fromLocalFile(fileInfo.absoluteFilePath());
     }
diff --git a/tests/auto/corelib/io/qurl/tst_qurl.cpp b/tests/auto/corelib/io/qurl/tst_qurl.cpp
index e0e6c6f281..ee18151e4a 100644
--- a/tests/auto/corelib/io/qurl/tst_qurl.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/corelib/io/qurl/tst_qurl.cpp
@@ -3088,7 +3088,7 @@ void tst_QUrl::fromUserInputWithCwd_data()
     }
 
     // Existing files
-    for (const char *fileName : {"file.txt", "file#a.txt", "file .txt"}) {
+    for (const char *fileName : {"file.txt", "file#a.txt", "file .txt", "file.txt "}) {
         const QString filePath = base + '/' + fileName;
         QFile file(filePath);
         QVERIFY2(file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly), qPrintable(filePath));