June 02, 2003

Basic Authentication Scheme

I didn't know that the Basic Authentication Scheme was so weak. The name and password is just base64 encoded...

I could have sworn there was a base64 decoder somewhere in the JDK..

Posted by stuartcw at June 2, 2003 05:54 PM
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There *should* be a Base64 decoder in the JDK, but I haven't found it yet. At least Jakarta has added a new commons package with one. That should cut down on the duplication.

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Posted by: David Beutel at June 9, 2003 10:50 AM