The str(url) function in SQLAlchemy hides the password. For a URL string that is to be re-used, use render_as_string(hide_password=False). this also replaces usege of falcon resp.body to resp.text [1] [1] https://github.com/falconry/falcon/issues/1578 Change-Id: Ib8a393fd626f5515ef92632a5236120c3ccbde05