RabbitMQ Connection String Gotcha

RabbitMQ connection strings looks like following

amqp://username:[email protected]/myvhost

or for amqp over SSL/TLS it looks like following

amqps://username:[email protected]/myvhost

One very important thing to always keep in mind is that username, password and vhost should be pct-encoded. If the password, for example, is #asd49d$ then the amqp connection string will become as follows-

amqp://username:%23asd49d%[email protected]/myvhost

It is very well documented here.