Facing a problem when reading cookies having a colon in the value (Tomcat 6.0.32)

[Reinwald Warapen]

I am using Tomcat 6.0.32 and im facing a problem when reading cookies having a colon in the value.

        Cookie test=new Cookie("TESTING","http://test:8081");
        response.addCookie(test);

Now during the next request when I try reading the cookie value I get the value as "http". When URL encoding it I get the required output.

But reading up the docs say that this should be handled by the container when |org.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE is set to false."|If set to |false|, any v0 cookie with invalid character will be switched to a v1 cookie and the value will be quoted."
I tired setting this but it still fails. Also explicitly setting the version to 1 still gives me the value as just "http".Some articles do mention that the RFC spec indicates that the value can be anything and a colon is legal.

Am I missing something here or is Urlencoding the only way to go about this ?

[Tim Holloway]

You probably ought to URLEncode anyway. The whole point of the web is that all sorts of clients can use it, and some of them might not handle the cookies properly on their end.