We're experiencing problems with special characters from a pw field send as string via AJAX.
Current situation is this:
function resetPW() {
var username = encodeURIComponent($("#email").val());
var password = encodeURIComponent($("#newpassword").val());
$.ajax({
url: "/setnewpassword",
type: "post",
data: "username=" + username + "&password=" + password,
}).done(function (response) {
...
});
Some special characters (&) have been replaced by blanks before (this seems to be fixed with the encoding, which wasn't there before), others seem to be wrong encoded. At the end, a lot of users are having problems with their login.
I really don't know what to do here. Someone mentioned I should send data via "form objects" - but how do I achieve this here? I can find some questions to this topic already online, but as I am absolute inexperienced in object building and AJAX at all, I cannot adopt those replies to my special problem. So please excuse if this question is a duplicate for you!
Don't encode the data yourself. jQuery does that for you. Let it.
function resetPW() {
return $.post("/setnewpassword", {
username: $("#email").val(),
password: $("#newpassword").val()
}).done(function (response) {
...
});
}
If that doesn't work, then your server code is broken.
Some special characters (&) have been replaced by blanks before
No, don't do that either. Leave everything exactly as the user has entered it.