setRequestProperty()

[Ram Jeevi]

hi
setRequestProperty(String key, String value) is the basic definition of this method.
But in my program i am not clear with the key and value assigned to it. The program is,

URL url = new URL("http://www.google.com/");
URLConnection con = url.openConnection();

con.setRequestProperty("Proxy-Authorization","Basic " + new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode( (proxyUser + ":" + proxyPassword).getBytes()));


Please some one help me to understand the above line.
thanks in advance.

[Henry Wong]

con.setRequestProperty("Proxy-Authorization","Basic " + new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode( (proxyUser + ":" + proxyPassword).getBytes()));

This is merely a compound statement -- perhaps it could be bettter understood if you broke it apart...

String proxyTempString = proxyUser + ":" + proxyPassword;
byte[] proxyTempBytes = proxyTempString.getBytes();
 
BASE64Encoder encoder = new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder();
byte[] tempResults = encoder.encode(proxyTempBytes);
String tempResultsString = "Basic " + tempResults;
 
con.setRequestProperty("Proxy-Authorization", tempResultsString);

Henry

[Ram Jeevi]

Thanks a lot Henry