java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Control character in cookie value

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Issue

  • You are assigning values to a version 0 cookie and you see the following in your server.log:

    INFO  [STDOUT] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Control character in cookie value, consider BASE64 encoding your value 
            at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.ServerCookie.maybeQuote2(ServerCookie.java:368) 
            at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.ServerCookie.maybeQuote2(ServerCookie.java:361) 
            at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.ServerCookie.appendCookieValue(ServerCookie.java:271) 
            at org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.addCookieInternal(Response.java:994) 
            at org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.addCookie(Response.java:963) 
            at org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.addCookie(ResponseFacade.java:343) 
            at atg.servlet.DynamoHttpServletResponse.addCookie(DynamoHttpServletResponse.java:1250)
    

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    • 4.3.0.GA_CP10

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