Java: FileNotFoundException when loading Bitmap from URL with basic authentication

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I know there are quite a few of those kind of questions around here, yet none of them worked for me :( In my Android application I'm trying to get a Drawable/Bitmap from an URL which happens as follows: ``` public Bitmap loadBitmap(ISettings settings) { Bitmap bm = null; InputStream is = null; BufferedInputStream bis = null; final URL imageURL = new URL("http://domain.com/profile/image"); final String authString = settings.getUserName() + ":" + settings.getPassword(); final String authStringEnc = Base64.encodeToString(authString.getBytes(), Base64.DEFAULT); URLConnection conn = url.openConnection(); conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + authStringEnc); conn.connect(); is = conn.getInputStream(); bis = new BufferedInputStream(is, 8192); bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bis); return bm; } ``` However, everytime I launch this baby, something unforeseen happens: ``` java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://domain.com/profile/image ``` As it might help you, here is the curl for t…

Accepted Answer

Finally I got it working.

I expected the BASICAUTHSTRING to be correct - well, I was a little wrong.

```
android.util.Base64.encodeToString(authString.getBytes(), android.util.Base64.DEFAULT)
```

will append a new line at the end. So use the

```
android.util.Base64.No_WRAP
```

flag.

So all the trouble was really about one byte only :)

Java: FileNotFoundException when loading Bitmap from URL with basic authentication

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