Hi Andrew,
there's the class org.apache.util.Base64
to encode from user input to encoded:
Base64 base64 = new Base64();
String base64Encoded = new String(base64.encode(userPass.getBytes()));
What you want is to decode. I suppose method decode would do.
Regards,
Andreas
On 27 Nov 2002 at 6:43, ContestAdmin wrote:
> Andrew Guts wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am porting an old CGI application to JSP/servlets. I need to
> > port user authentication code also. But
> > getHeader("authorization") returns encoded string like "Basic
> > YW5kcmV3Og==". How to get original value like USER:PASSWORD ?
> >
> > Thanks ahead
> >
> > Andrew
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> Hmm...
>
> If I remember right (and I probably don't ;-) this information is
> encoded in Base64. All you need to do is run the 'YW5kcmV3Og=='
> stuff through a decoder.
>
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