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

Answer 2

Am guessing the value is being interpreted as a query string separator.

Try using the javascript method

encodeURI()

Or

EncodeURIcomponent()

On your password value before posting to the server, so the ampersand becomes

&

The server will decode this for you.
You'll probably find that slashes and question marks will also not work in passwords if you dont