Square brackets in WebView URL Sources result in ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND on Android

[orecros]

Description

I'm using a WebView like this

<WebView Source="{Binding Url}"/>

viewModel.Url = "https://google.com/[]"

and on android it shows an ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND message.

I'm not sure if this needs to be fixed. a little googling https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40568/are-square-brackets-permitted-in-urls shows support for square brackets in URLs is mixed. and there's a simple workaround. This is a regression from xamarin however. I ran into this issue working with stripe, so it's likely others will as well.

Steps to Reproduce

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Link to public reproduction project repository

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Version with bug

9.0.0-preview.6.24327.7

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Yes, this used to work in Xamarin.Forms

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android, I was not able test on other platforms

Affected platform versions

Android

Did you find any workaround?

Replace the square brackets with their percentage encodings

viewModel.Url = "https://google.com/[]".Replace("[", "%5B").Replace("]", "%5D");

Relevant log output

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[mattleibow]

Not sure this is standard urls, but I will add it to the backlog for investigation.