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Sharon_Lucas_55
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Apr 28, 2010

Problem authenticating if password contains a @

I'm using the iControl SDK to create a Java application that automates configuring BIG-IP.     If my admin password for BIG-IP does not contain a @, authentication to the BIG-IP host via my Jav...
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Luke_Lehman
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Jul 13, 2010
Thanks for the replies Joe.

Yep, I'm just grabbing a view of the GUI in a web control. I've tried the Authentication header addition and either it doesn't work or I'm doing something wrong (probably the latter...) 

string hdr = "Authorization: Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(txt_username.Text + ":" + txt_password.Text)) + "\r\n";
web_ltmview.Navigate("https://" + "hostname.domain.com/", null, null, hdr);
It seems like the GUI authentication works a little differently in v9 as opposed to v10, but I'm not sure how to articulate it...

Once again, sorry for all the questions.