Github user vtslab commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/533 Just undoing [this commit](https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/534/commits/62648242c6576b020d2dd2933b89b9d69e87fed0) in TINKERPOP-1566 and merging in TINKERPOP-1600 does not work for me, see below. I did not dig in yet, maybe you recognize what is happening. Other tests without serializeResultToString configured fail the same way. Btw, in my testing branch I renamed GremlinServerAuthKrb5IntegrateTest to GremlinServerAuthKrb5Test for faster testing. Tests run: 8, Failures: 0, Errors: 3, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 34.711 sec <<< FAILURE! - in org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.server.GremlinServerAuthKrb5Test shouldAuthenticateWithSerializeResultToString(org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.server.GremlinServerAuthKrb5Test) Time elapsed: 5.611 sec <<< ERROR! java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal base64 character 5b at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.reportGet(CompletableFuture.java:357) at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.get(CompletableFuture.java:1895) at org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.server.GremlinServerAuthKrb5Test.shouldAuthenticateWithSerializeResultToString(GremlinServerAuthKrb5Test.java:220) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal base64 character 5b at java.util.Base64$Decoder.decode0(Base64.java:714) at java.util.Base64$Decoder.decode(Base64.java:526) at java.util.Base64$Decoder.decode(Base64.java:549) at org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.driver.Handler$GremlinSaslAuthenticationHandler.channelRead0(Handler.java:119) at org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.driver.Handler$GremlinSaslAuthenticationHandler.channelRead0(Handler.java:67) at io.netty.channel.SimpleChannelInboundHandler.channelRead(SimpleChannelInboundHandler.java:105)
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