How to retrieve userid having colon in spring security

[rc123]

I have a user id = "tel:123" and password="code", and when i retrieve the user id from authentication object i get only "tel" as user id and password as "123:code".
It seems spring security uses ":" as delimiter to separate user id and password.

So could you please help me out how I can retrieve the user id correctly with colon.

Comments are highly appreciated.

[Luke Taylor]

No, the username and password are not stored in the same field or delimited by a colon. How is the Authentication object being created - what are you authenticating against?

[rc123]

Thanks Luke for the response,

I am using customized authentication provider class which implements "AuthenticationProvider" interface.

And implementing the method :

# public Authentication authenticate(Authentication authentication) throws AuthenticationException {

I am just getting the values from the authentication object, which is being set by the framework.

I get user id and password as given:

# Object obj = authentication.getPrincipal();
# if (obj instanceof UserDetails) {
# username = ((UserDetails) obj).getUsername();
# password = ((UserDetails) obj).getPassword();
# } else {
# username = obj.toString();
# password = obj.toString();
# }

[rc123]

Hi Luke I have provided the details and am using basic authentication.
So what i guess is basic authentication scheme uses a colon as a separator between username and password.

From the header i got this: Authorization: Basic dGVsOjEyMzpQYXNzd29yZDEh
This is a Base64 encoded value and it uses delimiter to separate username and password.

When base64 decoded ,looks like

Authorization: tel : 123:Password



Could you please give some inputs.

Thanks

[Luke Taylor]

The user ID isn't allowed to contain a colon if you are using Basic authentication. Check the RFC (page 5).