Java md5, the PHP way

Question

I have been working on this for hours, but I can\'t get it to work.

Basically I am developing a REST client in Java for a REST server in PHP. Both the client and the

Answer 1

You are outputting the raw md5 output, which is just a bunch of bytes. You would get the same result in php if you said md5("some string", true).

You need to convert the bytes to ascii characters instead.