Java Arguments - Can you say "Doofus" ?

In the context of my ongoing voyage of discovery that is IBM API Connect, I need to pass Basic Authentication credentials BUT as an HTTP header.

Therefore, I need to generate a suitably encoded header, as per RFC 7235, where the user ID and password are Base64 encoded.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7235

Whilst this is a useful online tool: -

https://www.blitter.se/utils/basic-authentication-header-generator/

I wanted a differently better way.

So I'm knocking up a Java class to calculate Authorization headers, using this: -

Adding header for HttpURLConnection

as source material.

Here's what I have: -

package com.ibm;

import java.util.Base64;

public class genAuthHeader
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String username = args[1];
String password = args[2];

System.out.println("Authorization header is " + buildBasicAuthorizationString(username,password));

}

public static
String buildBasicAuthorizationString(String username, String password)
{
    String credentials = username + ":" + password;
    return "Basic " + new String(Base64.getEncoder().encode(credentials.getBytes()));
}
}

Having created / compiled the class, using Eclipse, when I attempt to run it: -

java com.ibm.genAuthHeader user@foobar.com p455w0rd!

I get this: -

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 2
at com.ibm.genAuthHeader.main(genAuthHeader.java:10)

Can anyone see where I went wrong ?

Yep ?

This is Java where array indices start at ZERO :-)

I changed my code: -

package com.ibm;

import java.util.Base64;

public class genAuthHeader
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String username = args[0];
String password = args[1];

System.out.println("Authorization header is " + buildBasicAuthorizationString(username,password));

}

public static
String buildBasicAuthorizationString(String username, String password)
{
    String credentials = username + ":" + password;
    return "Basic " + new String(Base64.getEncoder().encode(credentials.getBytes()));
}
}

and NOW it works: -

java com.ibm.genAuthHeader user@foobar.com p455w0rd!

Authorization header is Basic dXNlckBmb29iYXIuY29tOnA0NTV3MHJkIQ==