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Nabin
Nabin

Reputation: 11776

How to handle URL with special characters present in password in Postman?

I have the following format in URL.

http://username:[email protected]/some/url

Here password is something like qDTA*$X)ME/74. When I directly use this password in URL, then the postman does not respond. How should I proceed testing this url?

(In the image the response container is plain white without any error. This indicates, the API was never hit) enter image description here

Upvotes: 13

Views: 43783

Answers (2)

Danny Dainton
Danny Dainton

Reputation: 25921

You can manually encode parts of the URL within the application. These are the docs from version 6.

https://learning.postman.com/docs/postman/sending-api-requests/requests/#sending-parameters

Under the URL section:

“Note: Parameters you enter in the URL bar or in the data editor will not automatically be URL-encoded. Right click a piece of selected text, and select “EncodeURIComponent” to manually encode the parameter value.”

Upvotes: 30

Nabin
Nabin

Reputation: 11776

For the time being, I will share how I handled this. I used two lines of python script for quoting the password and using the output in the postman.

>>> from urllib.parse import quote_plus
>>> quote_plus('qDTA*$X)ME/74')
'qDTA%2A%24X%29ME%2F74'

Then I simply used this quoted password to construct the following new URL:

http://username:qDTA%2A%24X%29ME%[email protected]/some/url

Hopefully someone comes here and answers how we should do it properly.

Upvotes: 2

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