SSO cookie encoded, need to decode on JForum side

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My JForumSSO cookie is being set by a ColdFusion Application. If the user's screen name has an underscore in it, the cookie ends up with a %5F in it where the underscore belongs. I need to decode this on the JForum side, where the cookie is being read and its value used. I could just do a specific case string replacement, but I'm assuming that other "special" characters will come in encoded, too.

Has anyone run into this? How have you handled it?

Anyone have any words of wisdom for me?

Thanks,
Jennifer
[originally posted on jforum.net by jenamon]

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urldecode it.

:-)

something along the lines of:

String nameWithoutNastyCodes = java.net.URLDecoder.decode("your_cookie_value","UTF-8");

[originally posted on jforum.net by jax]

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Thanks, I'll try it, but I don't have much confidence in this being URLEncoded. What I've read lists the underscore as a safe character, and if I try to encode a string with an underscore, it doesn't change it at all. I'll try it, though.

Jennifer
[originally posted on jforum.net by jenamon]