HttpClientBuilder basic auth

Question

Since HttpClient 4.3, I have been using the HttpClientBuilder. I am connecting to a REST service that has basic authentication. I am setting the credentials as follows:

Answer 1

Actually, since you already trust the server, it's probably easiest to just construct the authorization header yourself.

 byte[] credentials = Base64.encodeBase64((username + ":" + password).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
 request.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + new String(credentials, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
 httpClient.execute(request);

This is just one of those cases were it's easier to read the spec, and roll it yourself.