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

Question

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)

Answer 1

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.”