Greetings, all, I am using Restlet with great pleasure to build a distributed set of web services using HTTP Basic authentication.
I have run into the following occasional error from my Restlet-based client: 1002: Unable to send the HTTP request. Illegal character(s) in message header value: Basic VGVzdE11bHRpU2hlbGxVc2VyQGhhY2t5c3RhdC5vcmc6VGVzdE11bHRpU2hlbGxVc2VyQGhhY2t5 c3RhdC5vcmc= After a fair amount of fiddling around, my hypothesis is that the problem has to do with the length of the username and/or password: they appear to need to be less than or equal to 26 characters in length. At least, the problem seems to go away when I reduce the string length to less than 26. I have done some googling and failed to discover such restrictions on HTTP Basic Authentication, so I am wondering if this possibly has something to do with Restlet. Could someone with more experience with Basic authentication enlighten me on whether this is a Restlet issue, a Basic authentication issue, or perhaps something else entirely? Thanks very much Philip Johnson
