Location object attributes shouldn't be decoded?

• Component: DOM
• Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED

[Jonathan Zuckerman]

I might be making some leaps here, or using terminology wrongly, but I think the correct behavior for the Location object is to return a valid URI or URI components in the Location object attributes,

"The value of the href attribute MUST be the absolute URI reference"
http://www.w3.org/TR/Window/#location

and the percent character by itself (not as part of a uri-encoded octet) is not a valid character in a uri,

"Because the percent "%" character always has the reserved purpose of being the escape indicator, it must be escaped as "%25" in order to be used as data within a URI."
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt (page 9)

Currently `location.href` will return a decoded version of the url (percent-encoded values will be decoded), is this the correct behavior according to the standards?

[Anne van Kesteren]

That's not correct, but that's also no longer happening.