Error with cookie-value when adding a new Spring Session

Question

In my Spring Boot 1.4 based application I use Spring Session to store session data in the database with JDBC.

This works fine

Answer 1

This is due to Tomcat's cookie processing being changed to a RFC 6265 compliant implementation by default in 8.5, which does not allow space (character 32), among others.

As a workaround, you can configure Tomcat to use legacy cookie processor. To do this with Spring Boot, register an EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer @Bean like this:

@Bean
public EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer customizer() {
    return container -> {
        if (container instanceof TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory) {
            TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory tomcat = (TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory) container;
            tomcat.addContextCustomizers(context -> context.setCookieProcessor(new LegacyCookieProcessor()));
        }
    };
}

Also see spring-projects/spring-session#gh-605 to track the progress of fixing this in Spring Session.

Update:

The above described solution is valid for Spring Boot 1.x. Starting with Spring Boot 2.0, EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer has been replaced with WebServerFactoryCustomizer as described in the Spring Boot 2.0 migration guide.

Also note that starting with Spring Session 2.0, session cookie is Base64 encoded by default which prevents the original problem from occurring.