Illegal character in Auth-Header

Question

Hi,
I am trying to send a SOAP Message from a HCP Application to a Webservice from Cloud for Customer.
The request uses basic authentication.
My problem now is, that I get a SOAP Exception saying that there is a illegal character in the auth header.
Illegal character(s) in message header value: Basic
After searching in google I think that there is a new line character at the end of the credentials which causes
the error and this seems to be a bug in a library from sun. However I use the apache implementation of the
Base64 class and I tested whether there is such a new line character but everything is alright.
If I run it as a local Java application every works fine and the request is successful but in the cloud environment
I always get this error.
Does anyone face the same issue or know a resolution to this problem?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance and best regards
Felix

Answer 1

Hi ejp,
It's a rsa public, the usercert.pem looks like below,
so since it's not an x509 certificate not sure if I
can read it using a
java.security.cert.CertificateFactory?
Basically I just want to print the public and private
key out as a String. Any help is appreciated.
-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCg8yo6rDhsNiwUfV
R37HgF4bWq
oG13Nd9XLT+Z0VLzCkWJZOdzGNQnnm7ujoQ8gbxeDvIo9RG5I3eZte
BwD91Nf6P/
E9lvJQDL2Qnz4EXH/CVW9DeEfvY1UJN9kc6q6KkYEPWssvVvlDOp2s
lbEKZCJtaP
vVuGCAqfaps8J0FjOQIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
import java.security.KeyFactory;
import java.security.interfaces.RSAPublicKey;
import java.security.spec.X509EncodedKeySpec;
import sun.misc.BASE64Decoder;
public class MakeRSAPublicKeyFromPEM
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
        final String publickeyAsString =
                "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\n"+
                "MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCg8yo6rDhsNiwUfVR37HgF4bWq\n"+
                "oG13Nd9XLT+Z0VLzCkWJZOdzGNQnnm7ujoQ8gbxeDvIo9RG5I3eZteBwD91Nf6P/\n"+
                "E9lvJQDL2Qnz4EXH/CVW9DeEfvY1UJN9kc6q6KkYEPWssvVvlDOp2slbEKZCJtaP\n"+
                "vVuGCAqfaps8J0FjOQIDAQAB\n"+
                "-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n";
        final BASE64Decoder decoder = new BASE64Decoder();
        final byte[] publicKeyAsBytes = decoder.decodeBuffer(publickeyAsString.replaceAll("-+.*?-+",""));
        final X509EncodedKeySpec publicKeySpec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(publicKeyAsBytes);
        final KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
        final RSAPublicKey publicKey = (RSAPublicKey)keyFactory.generatePublic(publicKeySpec);
        System.out.println("Modulus ........... " + publicKey.getModulus());
        System.out.println("Public exponent ... " + publicKey.getPublicExponent());
}