Fix: Encode paths as URI components when opening a folder or workspace (

#182398)

* Encode folder paths as URI components.

This should prevent issues when trying to open folder paths that contain
special characters like `+` or `&`.

* 💄

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Co-authored-by: Benjamin Pasero <benjamin.pasero@gmail.com>

src/vs/code/browser/workbench/workbench.ts

@@ -404,34 +404,13 @@ class WorkspaceProvider implements IWorkspaceProvider {
 
 		// Folder
 		else if (isFolderToOpen(workspace)) {
-			let queryParamFolder: string;
-			if (this.config.remoteAuthority && workspace.folderUri.scheme === Schemas.vscodeRemote) {
-				// when connected to a remote and having a folder
-				// for that remote, only use the path as query
-				// value to form shorter, nicer URLs.
-				// ensure paths are absolute (begin with `/`)
-				// clipboard: ltrim(workspace.folderUri.path, posix.sep)
-				queryParamFolder = `${posix.sep}${ltrim(workspace.folderUri.path, posix.sep)}`;
-			} else {
-				queryParamFolder = encodeURIComponent(workspace.folderUri.toString(true));
-			}
-
+			const queryParamFolder = this.encodeWorkspacePath(workspace.folderUri);
 			targetHref = `${document.location.origin}${document.location.pathname}?${WorkspaceProvider.QUERY_PARAM_FOLDER}=${queryParamFolder}`;
 		}
 
 		// Workspace
 		else if (isWorkspaceToOpen(workspace)) {
-			let queryParamWorkspace: string;
-			if (this.config.remoteAuthority && workspace.workspaceUri.scheme === Schemas.vscodeRemote) {
-				// when connected to a remote and having a workspace
-				// for that remote, only use the path as query
-				// value to form shorter, nicer URLs.
-				// ensure paths are absolute (begin with `/`)
-				queryParamWorkspace = `${posix.sep}${ltrim(workspace.workspaceUri.path, posix.sep)}`;
-			} else {
-				queryParamWorkspace = encodeURIComponent(workspace.workspaceUri.toString(true));
-			}
-
+			const queryParamWorkspace = this.encodeWorkspacePath(workspace.workspaceUri);
 			targetHref = `${document.location.origin}${document.location.pathname}?${WorkspaceProvider.QUERY_PARAM_WORKSPACE}=${queryParamWorkspace}`;
 		}
 
@@ -443,6 +422,22 @@ class WorkspaceProvider implements IWorkspaceProvider {
 		return targetHref;
 	}
 
+	private encodeWorkspacePath(uri: URI): string {
+		if (this.config.remoteAuthority && uri.scheme === Schemas.vscodeRemote) {
+
+			// when connected to a remote and having a folder
+			// or workspace for that remote, only use the path
+			// as query value to form shorter, nicer URLs.
+			// however, we still need to `encodeURIComponent`
+			// to ensure to preserve special characters, such
+			// as `+` in the path.
+
+			return encodeURIComponent(`${posix.sep}${ltrim(uri.path, posix.sep)}`).replaceAll('%2F', '/');
+		}
+
+		return encodeURIComponent(uri.toString(true));
+	}
+
 	private isSame(workspaceA: IWorkspace, workspaceB: IWorkspace): boolean {
 		if (!workspaceA || !workspaceB) {
 			return workspaceA === workspaceB; // both empty