RESOLVED INVALID 15182
window.location.hash contains URL-encoded hash value 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15182
Summary window.location.hash contains URL-encoded hash value
Tim Buckingham
Reported 2007-09-11 12:54:11 PDT
Stumbled upon a bug when working in #webkit with bdash. When reading window.location.hash in Javascript characters are not URL decoded as they are in other browsers. For example, trying to split #this|two|three when it is #this%7Ctwo%7Cthree fails in WebKit, but works fine in other browsers.
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Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 1 2007-09-11 12:57:42 PDT
To reproduce: 1. Visit http://www.google.com.au/#%7C 2. Enter javascript:alert(location.hash) in the address bar. Safari displays '#%7C'. Camino displays '#|'.
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 2 2007-09-11 12:58:16 PDT
<rdar://problem/5474669>
Jan Erik Hanssen
Comment 3 2010-12-27 12:37:08 PST
The Mozilla people seems to think that their behavior (urldecoding window.location.hash) is a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483304. Also, Opera does not urldecode this.
Gavin Barraclough
Comment 4 2012-09-11 18:42:37 PDT
Based on Jan Erik Hanssen's comment, plus teh fact we match Opera & Chrome, looks like our behaviour is correct.
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