Python to javascript, js authentication

Question

I need help converting this piece of python to javascript.

auth = "Basic " + base64.b64encode(bytes(IdentityClientId + ":" + IdentityClientSecret, "utf-8")).decode('ascii')

What I've tried:

var auth = "Basic " + unescape(btoa(IdentityClientId + ":" + IdentityClientSecret));

No luck so far.

Could you explain a little bit more what's your problem? What does not work here? — sjahan, Jun 14 '18 at 09:21
Basically just to convert the python to Javascript, the Javascript portion does not parse the same as the python one. — jinx, Jun 14 '18 at 10:25
I'm not a python expert, but from what i tried, i get the same result for both version. I suspect the problem comes from encoding: in your login and password, are there any special chars that could mess it up? — sjahan, Jun 14 '18 at 11:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 14 '18 at 11:37

As suspected in the comment, you have some problem with Unicode characters.

You can use this to encode properly the characters:

function b64EncodeUnicode(str) {
    return btoa(encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/%([0-9A-F]{2})/g, function(match, p1) {
        return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(p1, 16));
    }));
}

console.log(b64EncodeUnicode('lögin:password'));

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