[HTML] Ctrl+clicking an URL in an a href attribute fails due to an incorrectly URL-encoded % character

[anthonyvdotbe]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

• VS Code Version: 1.95.2 (user setup) e865366
• OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Steps to Reproduce:

1. create an HTML file with the following content

<a href="https://domain.foo/bar.do%3Fsys_id%3Df92fac57339d9a10b0274a028d5c7b74%26sysparm_stack%3D%26sysparm_view%3D">
</a>

https://domain.foo/bar.do%3Fsys_id%3Df92fac57339d9a10b0274a028d5c7b74%26sysparm_stack%3D%26sysparm_view%3D

2. ctrl+click both links

Expected:
both links work

Actual:
the link in the href attribute does not work because the first % is incorrectly percent-encoded (as %25)

[erharsh237]

Hi, I was checking the issue, can you please elaborate more on this issue?
when i am doing ctrl+click both links are working.

[anthonyvdotbe]

With Firefox as the browser:

Clicking the link in the href attribute gives:

https://domain.foo/bar.do%253Fsys_id=f92fac57339d9a10b0274a028d5c7b74&sysparm_stack=&sysparm_view=

Clicking the other one gives:

https://domain.foo/bar.do%3Fsys_id%3Df92fac57339d9a10b0274a028d5c7b74%26sysparm_stack%3D%26sysparm_view%3D

[erharsh237]

Hi, i again checked the issue, the links are working in the firefox browser as well.

[anthonyvdotbe]

I've changed the URLs: obviously domain.foo doesn't exist, so equally obviously you'll see the same error page for both links. If you'd be using the actual domains, you'd notice that the %25 in the first link causes issues. Please consider removing your comments, so I can remove mine as well and the VS Code developers don't have to waste time reading this nonsensical discussion.