Setting up Request Header

Question

Hi,
I need to send a request from firstservlet to secondservlet with header information such as Authorization, content-type etc. I don't get this information from Client (HTML) so I need to set this up in firstservlet. I am using the following code but still getting problems. Follwoing is the error:
401 Unauthorized
Missing 'Authorization' HTTP header 0.
Any good ideas fo doing this?
String contType = new String("application/octet-stream");
String userAgent = new String("ABBRequestSubmitter");
String auth = new String("Basic:abb");
Integer len = new Integer(132);
request.setAttribute("Content-Type",contType);
request.setAttribute("User-Agent",userAgent);
request.setAttribute("Authorization",auth);
request.setAttribute("Content-Length",len);
thanks,
Raj

Answer 1

String auth = new String("Basic:abb");whenever you set a basic auth make sure that you set in this order.
String authinfo = "username:password";
and then runit throught base64 encoder.
String encodedauth = encode(authinfo);
and then try to set the headers
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request.setAttribute("Content-Type",contType);
request.setAttribute("User-Agent",userAgent);
request.setAttribute("Authorization",auth);request.setAttribute("Authorization","Basic:"+encodedauth );