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/** * Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Couchbase, Inc. * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALING * IN THE SOFTWARE. */ package com.couchbase.client.http; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64; /** * */ public final class HttpUtil { private HttpUtil() { // Empty } /** * Generate the payload of an authorization header given a username and * password. * * Since our HTTP needs are modest in this library and our dependencies * are lightweight enough to not carry all of the auth capabilities, this * method will generate the payload needed for an authorization header. * * @return a value for an HTTP Basic Auth Header */ public static String buildAuthHeader(String username, String password) throws UnsupportedEncodingException { // apparently netty isn't familiar with HTTP Basic Auth StringBuilder clearText = new StringBuilder(username); clearText.append(':'); if (password != null) { clearText.append(password); } String headerResult; headerResult = "Basic " + Base64.encodeBase64String(clearText.toString().getBytes("UTF-8")); if (headerResult.endsWith("\r\n")) { headerResult = headerResult.substring(0, headerResult.length() - 2); } return headerResult; } }