Jquery .ajax fails when basic auth username has @ symbol (ios / cordova)

Question

I have a phonegap app w/ jQuery 1.9.1 Worked great as long as the username doesn\'t have \'@\' symbol in it (like in email addresses). It only fails on iOS.

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Answer 1

Try wrapping encodeURIComponent() before base64 encoding.

beforeSend: function (xhr) {
        xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization",
            "Basic " + $.base64.encode(encodeURIComponent(this.username + ":" + this.password)));
    },