[MNG-4147] very long passwords cause LightweightHTTP wagon to line-wrap the Base64-encoded Authorization header

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories
• Assignee: John Dennis Casey
• Reporter: John Dennis Casey
• Created: 28/Apr/09 10:39
• Updated: 06/Apr/15 01:53
• Resolved: 29/Apr/09 14:32

Description

I'll cross-file (and link) this issue into wagon, but Sun's HTTPURLConnection implementation uses a line-wrapping Base64 implementation. When passwords are very long, this causes an invalid HTTP request, since the Authorization header's value is line-wrapped.

Issue Links

• duplicates: WAGON-260 very long passwords cause LightweightHTTP wagon to line-wrap the Base64-encoded Authorization header
• is duplicated by: MNG-4754 long name and password combination fail upon authentication with maven repository with mvn 2.2.1
• is related to: MNG-5112 Issue MNG-4147 re-current in maven 3.0.3
• relates to: MNG-4207 Plugins that use ArtifactResolver with http repositories AND depend on log4j run into ExceptionInInitializerError