Question

I used the example provided here
Netty HTTP Authetication for Client
but still having 401 response

when I print the request header I can see that all is good except one thing, the Authorization is:

Authorization: YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=

When I do the same authentication with Chrome for instance, I have:

Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=

nothing special in netty doc about how to add Basic in the header

When I catch the failing message with a tool like tcpmon and resend the message by adding manually the Basic string, it works fine.

My question could be how to add Basic in the header submitted by netty ?

does someone faced this before ?

thnx

Answer 1

I finally did a hack in org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaders#addHeader method:

    void addHeader(final String name, final Object value) {
    validateHeaderName(name);
    String strVal = toString(value);
    HttpCodecUtil.validateHeaderValue(strVal);
    int h = hash(name);
    int i = index(h);

    if (Names.AUTHORIZATION.equals(name)) strVal = "Basic "+strVal;
    addHeader0(h, i, name, strVal);
}