Bad Base-64 Error

I'm getting a 'java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bad base-64' on the following code: byte[] msgBytes = Base64.decode(msgStr, Base64.NO_WRAP); msgString is a String, and right be

Solution 1:

According to RFC 4648(http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4648.txt) '-' character is not a valid Base64 character but on the other hand is valid for "URL and Filename safe Base 64 Alphabet".

So you could use Base64.URL_SAFE depending of the expected format of the string.