[Shirley Kidman]

Im sorry im a little lost when u refer to header, what part of my java program is the header?
Ok ill grab that one
Im just wondering where im specifying that info in my java prog at the moment
Or how i specify it.

[Nicolas Murphy]

Shirley Kidman, if you are using URLConnection you have to set headers on it...

[Shirley Kidman]

Ok, it might have a default setting in the libraries somewhere already that was preset

[Nicolas Murphy]

Shirley Kidman, URLConnection.setRequestProperty can be useful...

[Shirley Kidman]

But basically ill have to make that header, match the one that i receive when i browse to the page normally?
Ok
Thanks heaps Nicolas Murphy

[Nicolas Murphy]

Shirley Kidman, and please note that proxy-authentication headers of type Basic are base64 encoded
so they are just trivially scrambled clear text and trivial to get

[Shirley Kidman]

Trivial as in impossible?

[Nicolas Murphy]

Shirley Kidman, trivial as in very easy

[Shirley Kidman]

Ah

[Nicolas Murphy]

you take 3 bytes and create 4 bytes, just some bit shifting
just to make sure that the string is 7 bit clean