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nababa
nababa

Reputation: 1321

JNDI does not decode BASE64 string properly when connecting to LDAP

I am using JNDI to connect to a LDAP server. A few attributes on the server are stored as BASE64 string.

However, when I query the server and get results back. These attributes are already decoded but not properly. For example, "[email protected]" may be decoded as "abcû[email protected]".

Any idea on how can I fix this?

Added:

The original BASE64 string is: 

Q049XCtHcm91cCBBUFNHLU9uLWJvYXJkaW5n4oCTTllDLE9VPU5ZQyxPV
 20=

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1524

Answers (1)

Gray
Gray

Reputation: 116938

This looks to be a problem between UTF16, which is Java's native character format, and UTF8. The entity that is encoding the string must be UTF8.

To decode a string from UTF8 use:

// to decode a string
String decoded = new String(Base64.decodeBase64(encoded.getBytes()), "UTF8");

That gives me the right output. If you need to convert a UTF8 string to be UTF16 you'd do:

new String(utf8String.getBytes(), "UTF8");

Upvotes: 2

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