Asp.Net Web API oAuth 2.0 cannot validate with password containing ampersand (&)

Question

I am having a wired issue in my AngularJs application. When user is trying to login to the app and if the password contains ampersand (&), then it couldn\'t able to validate

Answer 1

I had the same issue with an anguar project while entering special characters(ex: &, +) in password field. Encoding password with encodeURIComponent did the trick:

"&password=" + encodeURIComponent(password)

Hope it helps