`ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME` error is thrown if path alias contains a colon

[andreww2012]

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https://github.com/andreww2012/tsx-doesnt-support-tsconfig-paths-with-colons

Problem & expected behavior (under 200 words)

Hello. It seems like tsx is not able to properly handle TypeScript path aliases containing a colon. My IDE (VSCode) and tsc are able to resolve such paths.

In the reproduction, run npx tsx a-fail.ts to get the error:

Error [ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME]: Only URLs with a scheme in: file, data, and node are supported by the default ESM loader. On Windows, absolute paths must be valid file:// URLs. Received protocol 'a:'

On the contrary, running npx tsx a-ok.ts would execute the code successfully.

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[msmx-mnakagawa]

I've opened #780 with a fix — the issue was requestAcceptsQuery in the ESM hook classifying colon-containing aliases as URL schemes.

No rush at all, @privatenumber — I would appreciate it if you could review it at your convenience.

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This issue is now resolved in v4.22.1.

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