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/** * Copyright (C) 2008 Progress Software, Inc. All rights reserved. * http://fusesource.com * * The software in this package is published under the terms of the AGPL license * a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the license.txt file. */ package org.fusesource.cloudmix.agent.security; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import java.util.Arrays; import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64; public final class SecurityUtils { private SecurityUtils() { // Complete. } /** * Create HTTP Basic Authentication header given username and password. * * @param username * @param password * @return String containing HTTP Basic Auth header suitable to be send via the HTTP Authorization header. */ public static String toBasicAuth(String username, char[] password) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder().append(username).append(":").append(String.valueOf(password)); // Clear array. Arrays.fill(password, ' '); return getBasicAuthHeader(sb.toString()); } public static String getBasicAuthHeader(String userInfo) { return "Basic " + new String(Base64.encodeBase64(userInfo.getBytes())); } /** * Get input stream for URL adding credentials if neccessary. * * @param url * @return input stream for URL * @throws IOException */ public static InputStream getInputStream(URL url) throws IOException { URLConnection conn = url.openConnection(); String userInfo = url.getUserInfo(); if (userInfo != null && !"".equals(userInfo)) { conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", getBasicAuthHeader(userInfo)); } return conn.getInputStream(); } }