Make URL parser to not decode percent-encoded ASCII characters in URL's path

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: No developer-visible change
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 118)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Make URL parser to not decode percent-encoded ASCII characters in URL's path, such as "%41" ('A'). Before this change: > const url = new URL("http://example.com/%41"); > url.href "http://example.com/A" After this change: > const url = new URL("http://example.com/%41"); > url.href "http://example.com/%41"

Standards & signals

Specification: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#url-parsing
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/1252531

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