Hi All,

I am trying to use BASIC Authentication (using Base64 Encoding) to log into a Servlet hosted on a machine frmo a Java Client and am running into a few problems. Could someone please help me?I am getting :java.io.FileNotFoundException: Response: '401: Unauthorized xxx' for url: exeception message whenever i try to make the connection.Heres the code(I am trying Servlets.com's HttpMessage to se if it will work):

public InputStream sendXMLPostMessage(LogF logF) throws IOException,MarshalException,ValidationException {
    HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection)servlet.openConnection();
    //set user interaction off
    con.setAllowUserInteraction(false);

    // Prepare for both input and output
    con.setDoInput(true);
    con.setDoOutput(true);

    // Turn off caching
    con.setUseCaches(false);

    // Set the content type to be text/xml
    //con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
    // "text/xml");
    
    // Work around a Netscape bug
    con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
                           "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    
    String authorization = name + ":" + password;
    String encodedAuthorization= new String(Base64.encodeBase64(authorization.getBytes()));
    log.debug("Encoded Authorization String for FinLitLog is :"+encodedAuthorization);
    con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encodedAuthorization);
    // Marshall the object into XML using Castor and upload that XML as post data
    PrintWriter out =new PrintWriter(con.getOutputStream());
   //now write to the stream
    Marshaller.marshal(logF,out);
    
    out.flush();
    out.close();

    return con.getInputStream();
  }

Could anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for all the help!

Vik.

Hi.
I do not know whether this works, but try to put this line

con.connect();

after your

con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encodedAuthorization);

Good luck,

Michael

Hi,
  I am trying to replace com.Ostermiller.util.Base64 with
org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64 I am not getting any error but it is failing to authenticate the user.
If any one has tried please let me know.