SoapUI Auth Header with special characters

Question

I am using SoapUI and encountered that if I add umlauts into the password, it does not work as expected.

Here is an example: Lets assume as username "täst" and as password "!23Öüok". SoapUI will create the following Base64 encoded String: "Authorization: Basic dD9zdDohMjM/P29r[\r][\n]". Decoding "dD9zdDohMjM/P29r" will result into this "t?st:!23??ok".

Is there any SoapUI specific setting or anything that I am missing? I think the Base64 encoded String should be like this: "dMOkc3Q6ITIzw5bDvG9r"

What is your operating system? Can you show the data from `Menu -> Help -> System Properties`? Please update the question. — Rao, Aug 30 '16 at 15:41
Which further information do you need? The encoding ist Cp1252. — kukudas, Aug 31 '16 at 08:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '16 at 08:24

I believe that you need to have have encoding as UTF-8 in order to see the desired value.

Go to SOAPUI_HOME/bin
Have a backup of soapui.bat file
Close soapui tool if it is running
Open soapui.bat in a text editor of your choice
Find line set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dsoapui.ext.libraries="%SOAPUI_HOME%ext"
Add below line after the above line
set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
Save the file
Restart soapui, make sure that is reflected in System Properties

This should help you to see the desired output.

Note that if you are using testrunner.bat to execute the tests, incorporate the above suggested change into this file as well.

SoapUI Auth Header with special characters

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