On 21/01/2010, Usha_N <usha.na...@siemens.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > We are using apache commons HttpClient library (commons-httpclient-3.1.jar). > > Users are providing username and password that has multibyte characters in > it. Base64 encoding of the mutlitbyte characters in HttpClient doesn’t seem > to be working. > > > Below API’s are used: > > Credentials credents = new > UsernamePasswordCredentials(userId, password); > m_httpState.setCredentials(realm, m_host, credents); > > m_httpClient.executeMethod(m_hostConf,httpmethod,m_httpState); > > I have a text > > test1:测试组:Designer:test1 > > Capturing the network trace from the client that uses the above jar (note: > the authorization header): > HEAD /tc/FileAccess/ HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: DAKCLIENT/7.0 > Accept-Language: zh-CN > Authorization: Basic dGVzdDE6Pz8/OkRlc2lnbmVyOnRlc3Qx > Host: ahi6w033:8888 > > > Using the online Base64 decoder utility > (http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/Base64Decode/Default.aspx) , > passing dGVzdDE6Pz8/OkRlc2lnbmVyOnRlc3Qx results the decoding to be > test1:???:Designer:test1 (note: ???) > > Using the online encoder utility: test1:测试组:Designer:test1 gets Base64 > encoded as : > dGVzdDE65rWL6K+V57uEOkRlc2lnbmVyOnRlc3Qx > > This makes me believe that Base64 encodign in common’s apache isn’t working > correctly. > > Please help and advice.
AIUI, HTTP Basic Authentication does not support any character set apart from the default ISO-8859-1. > Thanks.. > Usha > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/apache-commons-HttpClient-Base64-encoding-of-multibyte-characters-issue-tp27263367p27263367.html > Sent from the HttpClient-User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org
