How to use Querystring with $location.path() in AngularJS

Question

I want to redirect user to another page after successful login using query string. If I copy & paste to browser's address bar http://example.com/#/login?ref=/path/to/redirect it works fine. But if I use

$location.path("/login?ref=/path/to/redirect"); 

url looks like

http://example.com/#/login%3Fref=/path/to/redirect 

How can I decode %3F to '?' ? Thanks

Answer 1

It should be

$location.path('/login').search('ref', '/path/to/redirect')