Foundation URL Improvements

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How long have you got? :sweat_smile:

In all seriousness, I think the biggest, easiest improvements would be to:

  1. Add .percentEncodedX properties to URL, so that people don't need to go through URLComponents to avoid URL's automatic percent-decoding. Automatic decoding is really, really, really bad and currently there is no way around it (even converting URL -> URLComponents will automatically percent-decode under certain circumstances, and can corrupt the path).

  2. Add a method which provides the URL's string buffer, with ranges of all of the components. This would be seriously useful for URL -> WebURL conversion -- currently, because there are differences between the standards (as well as bugs in URL), we need to request each component individually to ensure the converted URL points to the same location, and each component potentially allocates a String.

There are more, but I think these 2 would be relatively straightforward and come with some big wins.

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