Why do cookie values with whitespace arrive at the client side with quotes?

Question

I\'m a .NET developer starting to dabble in Java.

In .NET, I can set the value of a cookie to a string with white space in it: new HttpCookie(\"myCookieName\"

Answer 1

It probably has to do with the way Java encodes the cookie. I suggest you try calling setVersion(1) on the new cookie and see if that works for you.