Fix for KEYCLOAK-18914 (#9355)

Closed #9382 

Co-authored-by: Hans-Christian Halfbrodt <hc-github42@halfbrodt.org>

adapters/saml/core/src/main/java/org/keycloak/adapters/saml/profile/AbstractSamlAuthenticationHandler.java

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import org.keycloak.adapters.spi.AuthChallenge;
 import org.keycloak.adapters.spi.AuthOutcome;
 import org.keycloak.adapters.spi.HttpFacade;
 import org.keycloak.common.VerificationException;
+import org.keycloak.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.common.util.KeycloakUriBuilder;
 import org.keycloak.common.util.MultivaluedHashMap;
 import org.keycloak.dom.saml.v2.assertion.AssertionType;
@@ -57,7 +58,6 @@ import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.JBossSAMLConstants;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.JBossSAMLURIConstants;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.exceptions.ConfigurationException;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.exceptions.ProcessingException;
-import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.DocumentUtil;
 import org.keycloak.saml.processing.api.saml.v2.sig.SAML2Signature;
 import org.keycloak.saml.processing.core.saml.v2.common.SAMLDocumentHolder;

common/src/main/java/org/keycloak/common/util/Base64.java

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 package org.keycloak.common.util;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
+
 /**
  * <p>Encodes and decodes to and from Base64 notation.</p>
  * <p>Homepage: <a href="http://iharder.net/base64">http://iharder.net/base64</a>.</p>
@@ -35,6 +37,10 @@ package org.keycloak.common.util;
  * Change Log:
  * </p>
  * <ul>
+ *  <li>v2.3.8 - Fixed automatic gzip decoding, based on the content,
+ *  as this may lead to unexpected behaviour. Request either gzipped
+ *  or non gzipped decoding as excepted. Automatic encoding is especially
+ *  problematic with generated input (see KEYCLOAK-18914 for a detailed case).</li>
  *  <li>v2.3.7 - Fixed subtle bug when base 64 input stream contained the
  *   value 01111111, which is an invalid base 64 character but should not
  *   throw an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException either. Led to discovery of
@@ -76,7 +82,7 @@ package org.keycloak.common.util;
  *      <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3548.html">RFC3548</a>.</li>
  *    <li><em>Throws exceptions instead of returning null values.</em> Because some operations
  *      (especially those that may permit the GZIP option) use IO streams, there
- *      is a possiblity of an java.io.IOException being thrown. After some discussion and
+ *      is a possibility of an java.io.IOException being thrown. After some discussion and
  *      thought, I've changed the behavior of the methods to throw java.io.IOExceptions
  *      rather than return null if ever there's an error. I think this is more
  *      appropriate, though it will require some changes to your code. Sorry,
@@ -167,9 +173,8 @@ public class Base64
     /** Specify that data should be gzip-compressed in second bit. Value is two. */
     public final static int GZIP = 2;
 
-    /** Specify that gzipped data should <em>not</em> be automatically gunzipped. */
+    /** Specify that data should be gunzipped. */
-    public final static int DONT_GUNZIP = 4;
+    public final static int GUNZIP = 4;
-
 
     /** Do break lines when encoding. Value is 8. */
     public final static int DO_BREAK_LINES = 8;
@@ -179,7 +184,7 @@ public class Base64
      * in Section 4 of RFC3548:
      * <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3548.html">http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3548.html</a>.
      * It is important to note that data encoded this way is <em>not</em> officially valid Base64,
-     * or at the very least should not be called Base64 without also specifying that is
+     * or at the very least should not be called Base64 without also specifying that it
      * was encoded using the URL- and Filename-safe dialect.
      */
     public final static int URL_SAFE = 16;
@@ -476,7 +481,7 @@ public class Base64
      * anywhere along their length by specifying
      * <var>srcOffset</var> and <var>destOffset</var>.
      * This method does not check to make sure your arrays
-     * are large enough to accomodate <var>srcOffset</var> + 3 for
+     * are large enough to accommodate <var>srcOffset</var> + 3 for
      * the <var>source</var> array or <var>destOffset</var> + 4 for
      * the <var>destination</var> array.
      * The actual number of significant bytes in your array is
@@ -548,7 +553,7 @@ public class Base64
      * writing it to the <code>encoded</code> ByteBuffer.
      * This is an experimental feature. Currently it does not
      * pass along any options (such as {@link #DO_BREAK_LINES}
-     * or {@link #GZIP}.
+     * or {@link #GZIP}).
      *
      * @param raw input buffer
      * @param encoded output buffer
@@ -733,7 +738,7 @@ public class Base64
      * Example options:<pre>
      *   GZIP: gzip-compresses object before encoding it.
      *   DO_BREAK_LINES: break lines at 76 characters
-     *     <i>Note: Technically, this makes your encoding non-compliant.</i>
+     *     <i>Note: Technically, without line break your encoding may become non-compliant (see rfc2045 and rfc4648).</i>
      * </pre>
      * <p>
      * Example: <code>encodeBytes( myData, Base64.GZIP )</code> or
@@ -1115,15 +1120,8 @@ public class Base64
      * @return decoded data
      * @since 2.3.1
      */
-    public static byte[] decode( byte[] source )
+    public static byte[] decode( byte[] source ) throws java.io.IOException {
-            throws java.io.IOException {
+        return decode( source, 0, source.length, Base64.NO_OPTIONS );
-        byte[] decoded = null;
-//        try {
-        decoded = decode( source, 0, source.length, Base64.NO_OPTIONS );
-//        } catch( java.io.IOException ex ) {
-//            assert false : "IOExceptions only come from GZipping, which is turned off: " + ex.getMessage();
-//        }
-        return decoded;
     }
 
 
@@ -1231,9 +1229,9 @@ public class Base64
      * detecting gzip-compressed data and decompressing it.
      *
      * @param s the string to decode
-     * @param options encode options such as URL_SAFE
+     * @param options decode options such as URL_SAFE or GUNZIP
      * @return the decoded data
-     * @throws java.io.IOException if there is an error
+     * @throws java.io.IOException if there is an error (invalid character in source string or gunzip error)
      * @throws NullPointerException if <tt>s</tt> is null
      * @since 1.4
      */
@@ -1257,11 +1255,13 @@ public class Base64
 
         // Check to see if it's gzip-compressed
         // GZIP Magic Two-Byte Number: 0x8b1f (35615)
-        boolean dontGunzip = (options & DONT_GUNZIP) != 0;
+        boolean doGunzip = (options & GUNZIP) != 0;
-        if( (bytes != null) && (bytes.length >= 4) && (!dontGunzip) ) {
+        if( (bytes != null) && (bytes.length >= 4) && doGunzip ) {
 
             int head = ((int)bytes[0] & 0xff) | ((bytes[1] << 8) & 0xff00);
-            if( java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.GZIP_MAGIC == head )  {
+            if( java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.GZIP_MAGIC != head )  {
+                throw new IOException("Provided data has no GZIP magic header.");
+            }
             java.io.ByteArrayInputStream  bais = null;
             java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream gzis = null;
             java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream baos = null;
@@ -1282,13 +1282,7 @@ public class Base64
 
             }   // end try
             catch( java.io.IOException e ) {
-                    if (e.getMessage().equals("Unsupported compression method")) {
+                throw new IOException("Failed to gunzip", e);
-                        System.out.println("Base64 decoding: Ignoring GZIP header and just returning originally-decoded bytes."); // Better to log as debug, but jboss logging not available in the module :/
-                    } else {
-                        e.printStackTrace();
-                    }
-
-                    // Just return originally-decoded bytes
             }   // end catch
             finally {
                 try{ baos.close(); } catch( Exception e ){}
@@ -1296,7 +1290,6 @@ public class Base64
                 try{ bais.close(); } catch( Exception e ){}
             }   // end finally
 
-            }   // end if: gzipped
         }   // end if: bytes.length >= 2
 
         return bytes;

common/src/main/java/org/keycloak/common/util/Base64Url.java

@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ public class Base64Url {
     public static byte[] decode(String s) {
         s = encodeBase64UrlToBase64(s);
         try {
-            // KEYCLOAK-2479 : Avoid to try gzip decoding as for some objects, it may display exception to STDERR. And we know that object wasn't encoded as GZIP
+            return Base64.decode(s);
-            return Base64.decode(s, Base64.DONT_GUNZIP);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw new RuntimeException(e);
         }

common/src/test/java/org/keycloak/common/util/Base64DecodeTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+package org.keycloak.common.util;
+
+import org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.instanceOf;
+
+/**
+ * Test for BASE64 decode implementation.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="mailto:keycloak-hc@halfbrodt.org">Hans-Christian Halfbrodt</a>
+ */
+public class Base64DecodeTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void decode_simple() throws IOException {
+        // high level string variant
+        final String testData = "test data";
+        final String encoded = "dGVzdCBkYXRh";
+        final String decoded = new String(Base64.decode(encoded));
+        assertThat(decoded, equalTo(testData));
+
+        // low level byte array variant
+        final byte[] encoded2 = encoded.getBytes();
+        final String decoded2 = new String(Base64.decode(encoded2));
+        assertThat(decoded2, equalTo(testData));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void decode_doNotUseGzip() throws IOException {
+        // Input has gzip magic byte by coincidence and should not be gunzipped. (KEYCLOAK-18914)
+        // high level string variant
+        final byte[] testData = new byte[]{
+                31, -117, 8, -56, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 43, 73, 45, 46,
+                81, 72, 73, 44, 73, 4, 1, -78, -82, 8, -45, 9, 1, 1, 1};
+        final String encoded = "H4sIyAEBAQEBAStJLS5RSEksSQQBsq4I0wkBAQE=";
+        final byte[] decoded = Base64.decode(encoded);
+        assertThat(decoded, equalTo(testData));
+
+        // low level byte array variant
+        final byte[] encoded2 = encoded.getBytes();
+        final byte[] decoded2 = Base64.decode(encoded2);
+        assertThat(decoded2, equalTo(testData));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void decode_gzip() throws IOException {
+        // high level string variant
+        final String testData = "test data";
+        final String encoded = "H4sIAAAAAAAAACtJLS5RSEksSQQAsq4I0wkAAAA=";
+        final String decoded = new String(Base64.decode(encoded, Base64.GUNZIP));
+        assertThat(decoded, equalTo(testData));
+
+        // low level byte array variant
+        // specified to ignore gunzip option (see javadoc)
+        final byte[] expected2 = new byte[]{
+                31, -117, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 43, 73,
+                45, 46, 81, 72, 73, 44, 73, 4, 0, -78, -82,
+                8, -45, 9, 0, 0, 0};
+        final byte[] encoded2 = encoded.getBytes();
+        final byte[] decoded2 = Base64.decode(encoded2, 0, encoded2.length, Base64.GUNZIP);
+        assertThat(decoded2, equalTo(expected2));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void decode_empty() throws IOException {
+        final byte[] result = Base64.decode("");
+        assertThat(result, equalTo(new byte[0]));
+        final byte[] result2 = Base64.decode(new byte[0]);
+        assertThat(result2, equalTo(new byte[0]));
+
+        try {
+            Base64.decode(" ");
+            MatcherAssert.assertThat("Exception excepted", false);
+        } catch (final Exception e) {
+            assertThat(e, instanceOf(IllegalArgumentException.class));
+        }
+
+        try {
+            Base64.decode(" ".getBytes());
+            MatcherAssert.assertThat("Exception excepted", false);
+        } catch (final Exception e) {
+            assertThat(e, instanceOf(IllegalArgumentException.class));
+        }
+
+        try {
+            Base64.decode((String) null);
+            MatcherAssert.assertThat("Exception excepted", false);
+        } catch (final Exception e) {
+            assertThat(e, instanceOf(NullPointerException.class));
+        }
+
+        try {
+            Base64.decode((byte[]) null);
+            MatcherAssert.assertThat("Exception excepted", false);
+        } catch (final Exception e) {
+            assertThat(e, instanceOf(NullPointerException.class));
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void decode_lowLevelInvalidParams() {
+        try {
+            Base64.decode(null, 0, 1, Base64.NO_OPTIONS);
+            MatcherAssert.assertThat("Exception excepted", false);
+        } catch (final Exception e){
+            assertThat(e, instanceOf(NullPointerException.class));
+        }
+
+        try {
+            Base64.decode(new byte[2], 0, 1, Base64.NO_OPTIONS);
+            MatcherAssert.assertThat("Exception excepted", false);
+        } catch (final Exception e){
+            assertThat(e, instanceOf(IllegalArgumentException.class));
+        }
+
+        try {
+            Base64.decode(new byte[8], 0, 10, Base64.NO_OPTIONS);
+            MatcherAssert.assertThat("Exception excepted", false);
+        } catch (final Exception e){
+            assertThat(e, instanceOf(IllegalArgumentException.class));
+        }
+
+        try {
+            Base64.decode(new byte[8], 5, 5, Base64.NO_OPTIONS);
+            MatcherAssert.assertThat("Exception excepted", false);
+        } catch (final Exception e){
+            assertThat(e, instanceOf(IllegalArgumentException.class));
+        }
+    }
+}

saml-core-api/src/main/java/org/keycloak/dom/xmlsec/w3/xmldsig/DSAKeyValueType.java

@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 
 package org.keycloak.dom.xmlsec.w3.xmldsig;
 
+import org.keycloak.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.WSTrustConstants;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.exceptions.ProcessingException;
-import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.Base64;
 
 import java.math.BigInteger;
 import java.security.KeyFactory;
@@ -201,14 +201,13 @@ public class DSAKeyValueType implements KeyValueType {
      * @throws org.keycloak.saml.common.exceptions.ProcessingException
      */
     public DSAPublicKey convertToPublicKey() throws ProcessingException {
-        BigInteger BigY, BigP, BigQ, BigG;
-
-        BigY = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(y))));
-        BigP = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(p))));
-        BigQ = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(q))));
-        BigG = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(g))));
 
         try {
+            BigInteger BigY = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(y))));
+            BigInteger BigP = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(p))));
+            BigInteger BigQ = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(q))));
+            BigInteger BigG = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(g))));
+
             KeyFactory dsaKeyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("dsa");
             DSAPublicKeySpec kspec = new DSAPublicKeySpec(BigY, BigP, BigQ, BigG);
             return (DSAPublicKey) dsaKeyFactory.generatePublic(kspec);
@@ -225,14 +224,13 @@ public class DSAKeyValueType implements KeyValueType {
      * @throws ProcessingException
      */
     public DSAPrivateKey convertToPrivateKey() throws ProcessingException {
-        BigInteger BigY, BigP, BigQ, BigG;
-
-        BigY = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(y))));
-        BigP = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(p))));
-        BigQ = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(q))));
-        BigG = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(g))));
 
         try {
+            BigInteger BigY = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(y))));
+            BigInteger BigP = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(p))));
+            BigInteger BigQ = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(q))));
+            BigInteger BigG = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(g))));
+
             KeyFactory dsaKeyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("dsa");
             DSAPrivateKeySpec kspec = new DSAPrivateKeySpec(BigY, BigP, BigQ, BigG);
             return (DSAPrivateKey) dsaKeyFactory.generatePrivate(kspec);

saml-core-api/src/main/java/org/keycloak/dom/xmlsec/w3/xmldsig/RSAKeyValueType.java

@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 
 package org.keycloak.dom.xmlsec.w3.xmldsig;
 
+import org.keycloak.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.WSTrustConstants;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.exceptions.ProcessingException;
-import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.Base64;
 
 import java.math.BigInteger;
 import java.security.KeyFactory;
@@ -97,10 +97,9 @@ public class RSAKeyValueType implements KeyValueType {
      * @throws org.keycloak.saml.common.exceptions.ProcessingException
      */
     public RSAPublicKey convertToPublicKey() throws ProcessingException {
+        try {
             BigInteger bigModulus = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(modulus))));
             BigInteger bigEx = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(exponent))));
-
-        try {
             KeyFactory rsaKeyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("rsa");
             RSAPublicKeySpec kspec = new RSAPublicKeySpec(bigModulus, bigEx);
             return (RSAPublicKey) rsaKeyFactory.generatePublic(kspec);
@@ -117,10 +116,9 @@ public class RSAKeyValueType implements KeyValueType {
      * @throws ProcessingException
      */
     public RSAPrivateKey convertToPrivateKey() throws ProcessingException {
+        try {
             BigInteger bigModulus = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(modulus))));
             BigInteger bigEx = new BigInteger(1, massage(Base64.decode(new String(exponent))));
-
-        try {
             KeyFactory rsaKeyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("rsa");
             RSAPrivateKeySpec kspec = new RSAPrivateKeySpec(bigModulus, bigEx);
             return (RSAPrivateKey) rsaKeyFactory.generatePrivate(kspec);

saml-core/src/main/java/org/keycloak/saml/SAMLRequestParser.java

@@ -43,7 +43,12 @@ public class SAMLRequestParser {
 
     public static SAMLDocumentHolder parseRequestRedirectBinding(String samlMessage) {
         InputStream is;
+        try {
             is = RedirectBindingUtil.base64DeflateDecode(samlMessage);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            logger.samlBase64DecodingError(e);
+            return null;
+        }
         if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
             String message = null;
             try {
@@ -105,7 +110,13 @@ public class SAMLRequestParser {
     }
 
     public static SAMLDocumentHolder parseResponseRedirectBinding(String samlMessage) {
-        InputStream is = RedirectBindingUtil.base64DeflateDecode(samlMessage);
+        InputStream is;
+        try {
+            is = RedirectBindingUtil.base64DeflateDecode(samlMessage);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            logger.samlBase64DecodingError(e);
+            return null;
+        }
         if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
             String message = null;
             try {

saml-core/src/main/java/org/keycloak/saml/processing/core/saml/v2/util/SignatureUtil.java

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  */
 package org.keycloak.saml.processing.core.saml.v2.util;
 
+import org.keycloak.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.dom.xmlsec.w3.xmldsig.DSAKeyValueType;
 import org.keycloak.dom.xmlsec.w3.xmldsig.KeyValueType;
 import org.keycloak.dom.xmlsec.w3.xmldsig.RSAKeyValueType;
@@ -24,14 +25,8 @@ import org.keycloak.saml.common.PicketLinkLogger;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.PicketLinkLoggerFactory;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.GeneralConstants;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.JBossSAMLConstants;
-import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.WSTrustConstants;
-import org.keycloak.saml.common.exceptions.ParsingException;
-import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.saml.processing.core.constants.PicketLinkFederationConstants;
 
-import org.w3c.dom.Element;
-import org.w3c.dom.Node;
-import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
 import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;

saml-core/src/main/java/org/keycloak/saml/processing/core/util/XMLSignatureUtil.java

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  */
 package org.keycloak.saml.processing.core.util;
 
+import org.keycloak.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.common.util.PemUtils;
 import org.keycloak.dom.xmlsec.w3.xmldsig.DSAKeyValueType;
 import org.keycloak.dom.xmlsec.w3.xmldsig.KeyValueType;
@@ -28,7 +29,6 @@ import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.JBossSAMLConstants;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.WSTrustConstants;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.exceptions.ParsingException;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.exceptions.ProcessingException;
-import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.DocumentUtil;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.StringUtil;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.SystemPropertiesUtil;

saml-core/src/main/java/org/keycloak/saml/processing/web/util/PostBindingUtil.java

@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
  */
 package org.keycloak.saml.processing.web.util;
 
+import org.keycloak.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.PicketLinkLogger;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.PicketLinkLoggerFactory;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.GeneralConstants;
-import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.Base64;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public class PostBindingUtil {
      * @return
      */
     public static String base64Encode(String stringToEncode) throws IOException {
-        return Base64.encodeBytes(stringToEncode.getBytes(GeneralConstants.SAML_CHARSET), Base64.DONT_BREAK_LINES);
+        return Base64.encodeBytes(stringToEncode.getBytes(GeneralConstants.SAML_CHARSET));
     }
 
     /**
@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@ public class PostBindingUtil {
         if (encodedString == null)
             throw logger.nullArgumentError("encodedString");
 
+        try {
             return Base64.decode(encodedString);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            logger.error(e);
+            throw logger.invalidArgumentError("base64 decode failed: " + e.getMessage());
+        }
     }
 
     /**

saml-core/src/main/java/org/keycloak/saml/processing/web/util/RedirectBindingUtil.java

@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
  */
 package org.keycloak.saml.processing.web.util;
 
+import org.keycloak.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.constants.GeneralConstants;
-import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.Base64;
 import org.keycloak.saml.common.util.StringUtil;
 import org.keycloak.saml.processing.api.util.DeflateUtil;
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ public class RedirectBindingUtil {
      * @throws IOException
      */
     public static String base64Encode(byte[] stringToEncode) throws IOException {
-        return Base64.encodeBytes(stringToEncode, Base64.DONT_BREAK_LINES);
+        return Base64.encodeBytes(stringToEncode);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public class RedirectBindingUtil {
      * @throws IOException
      */
     public static String base64URLEncode(byte[] stringToEncode) throws IOException {
-        String base64Request = Base64.encodeBytes(stringToEncode, Base64.DONT_BREAK_LINES);
+        String base64Request = Base64.encodeBytes(stringToEncode);
         return urlEncode(base64Request);
     }
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ public class RedirectBindingUtil {
      */
     public static String deflateBase64Encode(byte[] stringToEncode) throws IOException {
         byte[] deflatedMsg = DeflateUtil.encode(stringToEncode);
-        return Base64.encodeBytes(deflatedMsg, Base64.DONT_BREAK_LINES);
+        return Base64.encodeBytes(deflatedMsg);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -162,8 +162,10 @@ public class RedirectBindingUtil {
      * @param encodedString
      *
      * @return
+     *
+     * @throws IOException
      */
-    public static InputStream base64DeflateDecode(String encodedString) {
+    public static InputStream base64DeflateDecode(String encodedString) throws IOException {
         byte[] base64decodedMsg = Base64.decode(encodedString);
         return DeflateUtil.decode(base64decodedMsg);
     }