EncodeBase64 in JAVA return a wrong output

Question

I am building a web using Spring. I want to encode string to send as a Basic Authentication.

Here is the code,

private String authUsername = "admin";
private String authPassword = "admin"; 
private String unEncode = authUsername+authPassword;
private byte[] encodedBytes = Base64.encodeBase64(unEncode.getBytes());
private String encode = new String(encodedBytes);   
private String authenCode = "Basic "+encode;

The result is "Basic YWRtaW5hZG1pbg==" And it is wrong.

The right output should be "Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4="

What I did wrong or What I missed ?

Thanks.

What makes you think it is wrong? I can reproduce your "wrong" example both in code and on www.base64encode.org - my guess is that your "right output" is wrong. — f1sh
– f1sh, Commented Nov 9, 2015 at 8:34

piet.t · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-09 08:38:28Z

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The problem is not in the Base64-encoding but in constructing your string. Basic-Authentication requires username:password but your are missing the :.

answered Nov 9, 2015 at 8:38

piet.t

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