Problem authenticating if password contains a @

Encoding the password that contains a "@" character as follows did not work for me in my Java program. It encoded the password (replaced the @ with %40, but authentication still failed.

 

 

try

 

{

 

fPassword = URLEncoder.encode("xxxxxx@xxx", "UTF-8");

 

}

 

catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex)

 

{

 

System.out.println("\nERROR: Cannot encode F5 password. " + ex.toString());

 

System.exit(1);

 

}

 

 

fEndpoint = "https://" + username + ":" + password + "@" +

 

hostname + ":" + port + "/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi";

 

 

So, then I tried using the iControl binding stub's setPassword method passing it the encoded password instead of putting the password in the endpoint as follows. It still fails with an Authentication Error:

 

 

try

 

{

 

fPassword = URLEncoder.encode("xxxxxx@xxx", "UTF-8");

 

}

 

catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex)

 

{

 

System.out.println(

 

"\nERROR: Cannot encode F5 password. " + ex.toString());

 

System.exit(1);

 

}

 

 

// Don't include the password in the endpoint

 

fEndpoint = "https://" + username + "@" +

 

hostname + ":" + port + "/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi";

 

 

iControl.SystemSystemInfoBindingStub m_systemInfo =

 

(iControl.SystemSystemInfoBindingStub)

 

new iControl.SystemSystemInfoLocator().getSystemSystemInfoPort(

 

new java.net.URL(fEndpoint));

 

 

// Set the password

 

m_systemInfo.setPassword(fPassword);

 

 

iControl.SystemProductInformation productInfo =

 

m_systemInfo.get_product_information();

 

 

I also tried removing the username from the endpoint and using setUsername() in addition to setPassword() to set the username and password. It still failed.

 

 

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

 

 

Here's the Authentication Error information:

 

 

AxisFault

 

faultCode: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}HTTP

 

faultSubcode:

 

faultString: (401)F5 Authorization Required

 

faultActor:

 

faultNode:

 

faultDetail:

 

{}:return code: 401

 

 

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

 

 

 

Authentication required!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authentication required!

 

 

 

 

This server could not verify that you are authorized to access

 

the URL "/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi".

 

You either supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your

 

browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In case you are allowed to request the document, please

 

check your user-id and password and try again.

 

 

 

 

 

Error 401

 

 

 

 

 

Tue Jul 13 15:17:33 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}HttpErrorCode:401

 

 

(401)F5 Authorization Required

 

at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.readFromSocket(HTTPSender.java:744)

 

at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:144)

 

at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32)

 

at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118)

 

at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83)

 

at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:165)

 

at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)

 

at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)

 

at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)

 

at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)

 

at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)

 

at iControl.SystemSystemInfoBindingStub.get_product_information(SystemSystemInfoBindingStub.java:1538)

 

at F5Config.checkSystemVersion(F5Config.java:1530)

 

at F5Proxy.createOrUpdateNRPC_iRule(F5Proxy.java:1183)

 

at F5Proxy.main(F5Proxy.java:1286)