asp.net Identity - GeneratePasswordResetTokenAsync Method When Passed to View Token Changes? -

when use usermanager generate password reset token, once gets passed razor view token changing.

an example is:

 var resettoken = await usermanager.generatepasswordresettokenasync(userid);              if (registersuccess)             {                 var model = new resetmodel { token = resettoken, userid = userid };                                return this.view(model);                       }   

i can see when debugging value of reset token is

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but once rendered on view has changed

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the view code looks like:

 @html.hiddenfor(x => x.token) 

i'm @ total loss whats going off here. know whats happening? why token changing once it's rendered view?

you need add url-encoding token if passed urls:

var resettoken = await usermanager.generatepasswordresettokenasync(userid); resettoken = system.web.httputility.urlencode(resettoken); 

otherwise browser messes special symbols can present in token.

if print in view, need turn off htmlencoding via html.raw:

<input type="hidden" value="@html.raw(model.token)" name="token" />