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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

• Breaking change: No
• Enterprise impact: None
• Spec maturity: Published standard
• Web Platform Tests: Yes

WPT details: https://wpt.fyi/results/url/url-constructor.any.html%3Fexclude%3D(file%7Cjavascript%7Cmailto)?label=master&label=experimental&aligned

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

Ecosystem

• Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=url%2Furl-constructor
• Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
• GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
• chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Make%20URL%20parser%20to%20not%20decode%20percent-encoded%20ASCII%20characters%20in%20URL's%20path
• MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Make%20URL%20parser%20to%20not%20decode%20percent-encoded%20ASCII%20characters%20in%20URL's%20path
• Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Make%20URL%20parser%20to%20not%20decode%20percent-encoded%20ASCII%20characters%20in%20URL's%20path

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