Unable to authenticate to Tomcat 7 - illegal characters in header ----------------------------------------------------------------- Key: ARQ-1456 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-1456 Project: Arquillian Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Tomcat Containers Affects Versions: tomcat_1.0.0.CR5 Reporter: Martin Gencur I'm constantly getting the following exception when starting a managed Tomcat container (Tomcat 7): {code} java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character(s) in message header value: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4= at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.checkMessageHeader(HttpURLConnection.java:482) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.isExternalMessageHeaderAllowed(HttpURLConnection.java:434) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.setRequestProperty(HttpURLConnection.java:2752) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.tomcat.CommonTomcatManager.execute(CommonTomcatManager.java:214) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.tomcat.CommonTomcatManager.list(CommonTomcatManager.java:116) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.tomcat.CommonTomcatManager.isRunning(CommonTomcatManager.java:123) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.tomcat.managed_7.TomcatManagedContainer.start(TomcatManagedContainer.java:85) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.ContainerImpl.start(ContainerImpl.java:199) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$8.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:163) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$8.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:157) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.forContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:255) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.startContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:156) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:94) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.createContainerContext(ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.java:57) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:94) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:88) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:135) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:115) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventImpl.fire(EventImpl.java:67) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$2.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:77) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$2.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:70) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.forEachSuiteContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:221) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.startSuiteContainers(ContainerLifecycleController.java:69) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:94) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:135) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:115) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventImpl.fire(EventImpl.java:67) at org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.impl.client.ContainerEventController.execute(ContainerEventController.java:86) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:94) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81) at org.jboss.arquillian.test.impl.TestContextHandler.createSuiteContext(TestContextHandler.java:60) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:94) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:88) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:135) at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:115) at org.jboss.arquillian.test.impl.EventTestRunnerAdaptor.beforeSuite(EventTestRunnerAdaptor.java:68) at org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian.run(Arquillian.java:97) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:236) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:134) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:113) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:189) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:165) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory.invokeProvider(ProviderFactory.java:85) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:103) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:74) {code} The configuration of the container in arquillian.xml looks like this: {code} <container qualifier="server1" default="true"> <configuration> <!--<property name="unpackArchive">true</property>--> <property name="jmxPort">8089</property> <property name="bindHttpPort">8080</property> <property name="catalinaHome">${tomcat.home}</property> <property name="user">admin</property> <property name="pass">admin</property> </configuration> </container> {code} and I indeed configured the right credentials in tomcat-users.xml: {code} <tomcat-users> <role rolename="manager-script"/> <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager-script"/> </tomcat-users> {code} It does not matter which username or password I use as long as they're the same in arquillian.xml and tomcat-users.xml I found a similar problem and possible solution at https://forums.oracle.com/thread/2200463?start=0&tstart=0