question: private String decryptImageURLPassword ( String imageUrl ) { String password = extractPasswordFromImageUrl ( imageUrl ) ; if ( StringUtils . isNotBlank ( password ) ) { String encPwd = null ; try { EncryptionProviderImpl encryptionProviderImpl = new EncryptionProviderImpl ( ) ; encryptionProviderImpl . setCoordinator ( _coordinator ) ; encryptionProviderImpl . start ( ) ; EncryptionProvider encryptionProvider = encryptionProviderImpl ; encPwd = URLEncoder . encode ( encryptionProvider . decrypt ( Base64 . decodeBase64 ( password ) ) , "UTF-8" ) ; return StringUtils . replace ( imageUrl , ":" + password + "@" , ":" + encPwd + "@" ) ; } catch ( UnsupportedEncodingException e ) { log . warn ( "Unable to encode compute image password '{}'." + "Special characters may cause issues loading compute image." , imageUrl , e . getMessage ( ) ) ; } catch ( Exception e ) { log . error ( "Cannot decrypt compute image password :" + e . getLocalizedMessage ( ) ) ; e . printStackTrace ( ) ; throw e ; } } return imageUrl ; }
target:  Method to decrypt the imageURL password before it can be used. This method also takes care of encoding the password before use.