Exception attempting to upload

[mm0hai]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Install josm from josm apt repository - version 1.5.svn5608
2. Edit map.
3. Attempt to upload to OSM.

Upload fails.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Build-Date: 2012-11-29 02:31:07
Last Changed Author: stoecker
Revision: 5608
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Last Changed Date: 2012-11-28 23:47:46 +0100 (Wed, 28 Nov 2012)
Last Changed Rev: 5608

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (5608 en_GB)
Memory Usage: 172 MB / 864 MB (124 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.6.0_24, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
Operating system: Linux
Dataset consistency test: No problems found


java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character(s) in message header value: Basic XXX
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1104)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderField(HttpURLConnection.java:2252)
	at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:406)
	at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseMessage(HttpURLConnection.java:463)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmApi.sendRequest(OsmApi.java:619)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmApi.sendRequest(OsmApi.java:558)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmApi.openChangeset(OsmApi.java:396)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmServerWriter.uploadOsm(OsmServerWriter.java:201)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.io.UploadPrimitivesTask.realRun(UploadPrimitivesTask.java:247)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.PleaseWaitRunnable.doRealRun(PleaseWaitRunnable.java:82)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.PleaseWaitRunnable.run(PleaseWaitRunnable.java:145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character(s) in message header value: Basic XXX
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.checkMessageHeader(HttpURLConnection.java:440)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.setAuthenticationProperty(HttpURLConnection.java:2320)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.BasicAuthentication.setHeaders(BasicAuthentication.java:160)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getServerAuthentication(HttpURLConnection.java:1898)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1249)
	at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:397)
	... 11 mo

[Don-vip]

Closed as duplicate of #7794.
Look at #7794 comment 7: you have to change your password right now and switch to OAuth.