Re: [whatwg/url] A '@' character in the host part of file URLs (Issue #805)

> Regarding B or C, B seems more intuitive, aligning with the general understanding of "opaque."

Percent-encoding is used to escape opaque strings, allowing them to contain any character (even those which conflict with URL syntax characters - those characters get escaped).

So actually C aligns more with "opaque". All software needs to unescape the URL component to read the actual content stored inside (percent encoding has no meaning at the application level). If the Microsoft software is not doing that, I'm inclined to say it's an application bug.



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