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.

Answer 1

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