[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 181181] The percent encoding in anchorElement.search depends on the encoding of the page

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Wed Jan 3 01:38:23 PST 2018


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181181

Pierre-Yves Gérardy <org.webkit at py.gy> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|INVALID                     |FIXED

--- Comment #6 from Pierre-Yves Gérardy <org.webkit at py.gy> ---
Firefox is the only browser that treats location and <a> identically. Chrome and Safari both have location and new URL() work the same.


Also, the URL specification is not consistent, because it also states that

"""
A percent-encoded byte is U+0025 (%), followed by two ASCII hex digits. Sequences of percent-encoded bytes, after conversion to bytes, should not cause UTF-8 decode without BOM or fail to return failure.
"""

Yet it proceeds to describe an algorithm that produces non-UTF-8 sequences.

https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#percent-encoded-bytes

decodeURI and friends rely on this choke on non-UTF-8 sequences of perccent-encoded bytes. For Latin-1, unescape() works, but that's about it.

This is in the context of a SPA router that supports routes as pathname, search or hash (only one at a time :-). Since I can't even rely on location and <a> behaving consistently (for feature detection) I'll probably disable non-ascii routes if document.characterSet.toUpperCase() is not "UTF-8".

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