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From: Travis Beech <travis.beech@gmail.com>
To: <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Subject: Tomcat 6.0.20 - Workaround for reading the value of a cookie with
 special characters
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:41:59 -0800
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All,

 
I am trying to read the value of a cookie

 
String cookievalue = cookie.getValue();

 
where the value itself contains the equal sign, i.e. SESSIONID=1234567890.
We were using Tomcat 6.0.14 which based on the code sample above the value
of cookievalue would be the string SESSIONID=1234567890. The issue that I am
now encountering in Tomcat 6.0.20 is that cookie.getValue() is truncating
the resultant string at the equal sign and only returns SESSIONID.

 
I realize now after some searching on the internet that our cookie does not
conform to a set standard and that the Tomcat HttpRequest class is operating
as designed in this instance. Unfortunately, our cookie is set by my
organization and as a developer I have no control over how our cookie is
being set.

 
Are there any workarounds available that will retrieve the entire string
(SESSIONID=1234567890)?

 
Thank you in advance,

 
Travis Beech 

 
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