Error connecting to Azure: Illegal character in password with mongoose 5.0.1 but works in 4.13.9

Question

I have a node.js application that is deployed to azure using CosmosDB and the MongoDB API. My application uses mongoose which works seamlessly in 4.13.9.

My application

Answer 1

The password for the Azure Cosmos DB instance I got ended with ==, hence the illegal characters message. These characters must be urlencoded.

An equals sign = urlencoded is %3D.

A properly encoded connection string for the password jitsu== could look like mongodb://user:jitsu%3D%3D@localhost:27017/dbname?ssl=false.

Also be aware that the connection strings you get from the Cosmos DB blade in the Azure Portal doesn't include the database name.