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Getting an access token using OAuth, the response appears to be encoded

I'm pretty new to OAuth and am trying to refresh a token using a simple java client. Everything seems to go ok (or I think it does), the problem is I can't tell from the response if it's a good one. The http response code is 200, but when trying to parse the response for access_token, I get a null. Also difficult to troubleshoot is the "raw" response is garbled, or encoded in some way. I was thinking maybe it's byte but it doesn't seem to be. Here's the code:
private static String getClientCredentials() {
String postParams = "grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=1234567890";
Pattern pat = Pattern.compile(".*\"access_token\"\\s*:\\s*\"([^\"]+)\".*");
String clientId = "myClientID123";
String clientSecret = "myClientSecret123";
String tokenUrl = "https://www.host.com/oauth2/tenant/token";
String auth = clientId + ":" + clientSecret;
String authentication = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(auth.getBytes());
BufferedReader reader = null;
HttpsURLConnection connection = null;
String returnValue = "";
try {
URL url = new URL(tokenUrl);
connection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + authentication);
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br");
connection.setRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive");
connection.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStream outStream = connection.getOutputStream();
outStream.write(postParams.getBytes());
outStream.flush();
outStream.close();
System.out.println("Resp code: " + connection.getResponseCode());
System.out.println("Resp message: " + connection.getResponseMessage());
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
String line = null;
StringWriter out = new StringWriter(connection.getContentLength() > 0 ? connection.getContentLength() : 2048);
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
out.append(line);
}
String response = out.toString();
Matcher matcher = pat.matcher(response);
if (matcher.matches() && matcher.groupCount() > 0) {
returnValue = matcher.group(1);
}
System.out.println("response: " + response);
System.out.println("returnValue: " + returnValue);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
} finally {
if (reader != null) {
try {
reader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
}
connection.disconnect();
}
return returnValue;
}
Here's the console output, sorry, I had to screenshot it because the characters didn't paste right:
Response Screenshot
Am I trying something that isn't allowed or is there a way to decode the response so I can run the pattern match to extract only the access_token? Or am I going about it all wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated in advance!

Geocode API is returning null in HTTP response

I am trying to get coordinates from a location entered from the user using HTTP request to Geocode API.
The address string I pass into the method is formatted with "%" in between the spaces so that it can be put into a URL.
Sometimes, it will return a null value and I have no idea why.
It works sometimes so I think there isn't a problem with the JSON array get lines.
public CheckLocation(String address) {
try {
String key = "insert key";
String url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=" + address + "?key=" + key;
// String key = "test/";
URL urlObj = new URL(url);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) urlObj.openConnection();
// optional default is GET
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
// add request header
con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
System.out.println("\nSending 'GET' request to URL : " + url);
System.out.println("Response Code : " + responseCode);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
response.append(inputLine);
}
in.close();
// Read JSON response and print
JSONObject myResponse = new JSONObject(response.toString());
double laditude = ((JSONArray)myResponse.get("results")).getJSONObject(0)
.getJSONObject("geometry").getJSONObject("location")
.getDouble("lat");
double longitude = ((JSONArray)myResponse.get("results")).getJSONObject(0)
.getJSONObject("geometry").getJSONObject("location")
.getDouble("lng");
formattedAddress = ((JSONArray)myResponse.get("results")).getJSONObject(0)
.getString("formatted_address");
coordinates = (laditude + "," + longitude);
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

What about encoding parameters values? encode both address and key:
String url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=" +
URLEncoder.encode(address, "UTF-8"); + "?key=" + URLEncoder.encode(key, "UTF-8");
URLEncoder should be the way to go. You only need to keep in mind to encode only the individual query string parameter name and/or value

URLConnection with basic authorization

Im trying to get all the xml data from a myanimelist request.
I've ried this code (see code below) on an other url and this worked.
Now, for myanimelist you need an account to request queries. I have tried different things like changing the location of uc.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", getBasicAuthenticationEncoding()); before and after the openConnection(); But nothing seems to work. The code below gives me this error: server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: http.
Can someone help me with this?
Code: (i used fake pwds for the example)
System.out.println(getXMLFromUrl("https://myanimelist.net/api/anime/search.xml?q=" + "2017"));
private String getBasicAuthenticationEncoding() {
String username= "username";
String password = "mypwd";
String userPassword = username + ":" + password;
#SuppressWarnings("static-access")
String basicAuth = "Basic " + new String(new Base64().encode(userPassword.getBytes()));
return basicAuth;
}
public String getXMLFromUrl(String url) throws IOException {
URL u = new URL(url);
URLConnection uc = u.openConnection();
uc.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", getBasicAuthenticationEncoding());
InputStream in = uc.getInputStream();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream()));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
br.close();
return sb.toString();
}

POST params empty, what am I doing wrong? HttpURLConnection / Android / Java

The code below shows a method, downloadUrl(), that takes a String, "myurl," its parameter. There are only two possible urls that I ever send to it, and the behavior of the method is different for each.
when myurl = URL1, it uses a GET request and everything works fine.
when myurl = URL2, however, it uses a POST request, and the response from the php page indicates that the post parameters sent with the request were empty. You can see the line where I set the POST params, so I don't understand why it's sending no params?!
Thanks for any help!
-Adam.
private String downloadUrl(String myurl) throws IOException {
InputStream is = null;
String response = "";
try {
URL urlObject = new URL(myurl);
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) urlObject.openConnection();
// find out if there's a way to incorporate these timeouts into the progress bar
// and what they mean for shitty network situations
conn.setReadTimeout(10000 /* milliseconds */);
conn.setConnectTimeout(15000 /* milliseconds */);
conn.setDoInput(true);
// INSERTED QUICK CHECK TO SEE WHICH URL WE ARE LOADING FROM
// it's important because one is GET, and one is POST
if (myurl.equals(url2)){
Log.i(TAG, "dlurl() in async recognizes we are doing pre-call");
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStream os = conn.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(
new OutputStreamWriter(os, "UTF-8"));
String postParams = "?phone=" + phone;
writer.write(postParams);
Log.i(TAG, "we're adding " + postParams + "to " + urlObject);
writer.flush();
writer.close();
os.close();
}
else {
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
conn.connect();
}
// Starts the query
int responseCode = conn.getResponseCode();
Log.i(TAG, "from " + myurl + ", The response code from SERVER is: " + responseCode);
is = conn.getInputStream();
// Convert the InputStream into a string
// i guess we look up how to do this
if (responseCode == HttpsURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
String line;
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
response += line;
}
} else {
response = "from downloadUrl, php page response was not OK: " + responseCode;
}
// it's good to close these things?
is.close();
conn.disconnect();
Log.i(TAG, "response is " + response);
return response;
// Makes sure that the InputStream is closed after the app is
// finished using it.
} finally {
if (is != null) {
is.close();
}
}
}

try with following code block to send parameters of the POST request.
Map<String,String> params = new LinkedHashMap<>();
params.put("phone", "phone");
StringBuilder postPraamString = new StringBuilder();
for (Map.Entry<String,Object> param : params.entrySet()) {
if (postPraamString.length() != 0) postPraamString.append('&');
postPraamString.append(URLEncoder.encode(param.getKey(), "UTF-8"));
postPraamString.append('=');
postPraamString.append(URLEncoder.encode(String.valueOf(param.getValue()), "UTF-8"));
}
byte[] postDataBytes = postData.toString().getBytes("UTF-8");
writer.write(postDataBytes);

So I figured out the root of the problem...
In the line:
String postParams = "?phone=" + phone;
The problem was that leading question mark. The question mark should only be used in GET requests.

HTTP response code 400 sending GET Request to HTTPS Query API

I'm trying to send email using the SES HTTPS Query API. I have a java method that sends a GET request to an Amazon SES endpoint, I'm trying to send an email with SES and capture the result.
Code:
public static String SendElasticEmail(String timeConv,String action,String source, String destinationAddr, String subject, String body) {
try {
System.out.println("date : "+timeConv);
System.out.println("In Sending Mail Method......!!!!!");
//Construct the data
String data = "Action=" + URLEncoder.encode(action, "UTF-8");
data += "&Source=" + URLEncoder.encode(source, "UTF-8");
data += "&Destination.ToAddresses.member.1=" + URLEncoder.encode(destinationAddr, "UTF-8");
data += "&Message.Subject.Data=" + URLEncoder.encode(subject, "UTF-8");
data += "&Message.Body.Text.Data=" + URLEncoder.encode(body, "UTF-8");
//Send data
System.out.println("https://email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com?"+data);
URL url = new URL("https://email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com?"+data);
//URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
con.setRequestProperty("x-amz-date" , timeConv);
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", ""+data.toString().length());
con.setRequestProperty("X-Amzn-Authorization" , authHeader);
int responseCode = ((HttpsURLConnection) con).getResponseCode();
String responseMessage = ((HttpsURLConnection) con).getResponseMessage();
System.out.println("\nSending 'GET' request to URL : " + url);
System.out.println("Response Code : " + responseCode);
//System.out.println("Response Message : " + responseMessage);
InputStream stream = con.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isReader = new InputStreamReader(stream );
System.out.println("hgfhfhfhgfgfghfgh");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isReader);
String result = "";
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
result+= line;
}
System.out.println(result);
br.close();
con.disconnect();
}
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return subject;
}
I have calculated the signature correctly, because on hitting from postman client getting 200 response.

URL url = new URL("https://email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com?"+data);
You missed a '/' before the question mark. It should be
URL url = new URL("https://email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/?"+data);