module: allow loading files with % in the name

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16128
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Bradley Meck <bradley.meck@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/internal/url.js b/lib/internal/url.js
index 18594a86fd..044d8b96a7 100644
--- a/lib/internal/url.js
+++ b/lib/internal/url.js
@@ -1377,8 +1377,14 @@ function getPathFromURL(path) {
   return isWindows ? getPathFromURLWin32(path) : getPathFromURLPosix(path);
 }
 
+// We percent-encode % character when converting from file path to URL,
+// as this is the only character that won't be percent encoded by
+// default URL percent encoding when pathname is set.
+const percentRegEx = /%/g;
 function getURLFromFilePath(filepath) {
   const tmp = new URL('file://');
+  if (filepath.includes('%'))
+    filepath = filepath.replace(percentRegEx, '%25');
   tmp.pathname = filepath;
   return tmp;
 }