diff --git a/packages/react-openapi/src/fetchOpenAPIOperation.test.ts b/packages/react-openapi/src/fetchOpenAPIOperation.test.ts
index 99f41786fb..75a134042f 100644
--- a/packages/react-openapi/src/fetchOpenAPIOperation.test.ts
+++ b/packages/react-openapi/src/fetchOpenAPIOperation.test.ts
@@ -149,3 +149,37 @@ it('should parse Swagger 2.0', async () => {
         },
     });
 });
+
+it('should resolve a ref with whitespace', async () => {
+    const resolved = await fetchOpenAPIOperation(
+        {
+            url: ' https://petstore3.swagger.io/api/v3/openapi.json',
+            method: 'put',
+            path: '/pet',
+        },
+        fetcher,
+    );
+
+    expect(resolved).toMatchObject({
+        servers: [
+            {
+                url: '/api/v3',
+            },
+        ],
+        operation: {
+            tags: ['pet'],
+            summary: 'Update an existing pet',
+            description: 'Update an existing pet by Id',
+            requestBody: {
+                content: {
+                    'application/json': {
+                        schema: {
+                            type: 'object',
+                            required: ['name', 'photoUrls'],
+                        },
+                    },
+                },
+            },
+        },
+    });
+});
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diff --git a/src/lib/images.ts b/src/lib/images.ts
index bb71328d32..3d366adc1b 100644
--- a/src/lib/images.ts
+++ b/src/lib/images.ts
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ export async function resizeImage(
         return response;
     }
 
-    return fetch(input, {
+    return fetch(parsed, {
         // @ts-ignore
         cf: {
             image: resizeOptions,
diff --git a/src/lib/openapi.ts b/src/lib/openapi.ts
index cdc6169328..1486e17073 100644
--- a/src/lib/openapi.ts
+++ b/src/lib/openapi.ts
@@ -55,8 +55,10 @@ export async function fetchOpenAPIBlock(
 
 const fetcher: OpenAPIFetcher = {
     fetch: cache('openapi.fetch', async (url: string, options: CacheFunctionOptions) => {
-        console.log('HERE fetch', url);
-        const response = await fetch(url, {
+        // Wrap the raw string to prevent invalid URLs from being passed to fetch.
+        // This can happen if the URL has whitespace, which is currently handled differently by Cloudflare's implementation of fetch:
+        // 
+        const response = await fetch(new URL(url), {
             ...noCacheFetchOptions,
             signal: options.signal,
         });