[Winstone-devel] BasicAuthenticationHandler bug

[Cory O. <co...@co...>]

It appears as if the Base64 decoding used in the BasicAuthenticationHandler
is not working properly.  When debugging I found the incoming encoded string
did contain a valid username and password however the results of call the
decode methods were only returning the first 3 letters of the string (and
hence validation wasn't working).
 
I haven't gone on to see where the bug lies in the decoding algorithm
included.  However I have been able to replace calls to the decode methods
with calls to a Base64 utility class I've used for a while and I things
started working properly.  My Base64 utility class came from an older Dr
Dobb's Journal article.  I believe you can still get the code at
http://ddj.com/code/ddj.html.  The issue was from July 1999
(ftp://66.77.27.238/sourcecode/ddj/1999/9907.zip - look in the x509.zip file
include here).
 
Cory