Illegal character(s) in message header value

Recently was trying to consume a Rest Web Service by passing AES256 encrypted values in header Params and hit the above exception.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character(s) in message header value: 


After a little bit of resaerch i found that it is a bug with java while using BASE64 Encoded String.If the string length exceeds 76 characters, the Base64Encoder adds a "\n" character. While trying to sent it in header it fails complaining about the "\n" in the Base64 encoded string.






This is actually a bug with JAVA






http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6459815






The fix is 






String encodeMe = m_username + ":" + m_sToken;
        
        BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
        String base64Encoded = encoder.encode(encodeMe.getBytes());
        //!Important! - Get rid of any newline characters erroneously
        //              added by the Base64Encoder
        base64Encoded = base64Encoded.replaceAll("\n", "");
        
        basicAuthCredentialsBase64 = base64Encoded;









The line highlighted in red will do the trick. Simply replace all \n with space and issue resolved.










This Stack Overflow post also speaks on same






Illegal Character in header






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