Tomcat and cookies
Cookie handling always seems to complicate the deployment of new server components. Tomcat 6.0.16 introduced a few changes in the way cookies are managed - the upshot is that some cookie values may acquire surrounding double-quotes.

This is transparent to the servlet, as tomcat strips the extra punctuation off before handing the value back to the servlet on the next request.

If you're using the cookies in other components (for example apache plugins) then they need to be updated too. A new authorisation filter is now in place which handles this, ready for a tomcat upgrade later this week.

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Labels: cookies, tomcat

- posted by Tim Bruce @ 4:41 PM