Un-escape JavaScript escaped value in Java

Question

In our web service we set a cookie through JavaScript wich we read again in Java (Servlet)

However we need to escape the value of the cookie because it may contain i

Answer 1

In java you got StringEscapeUtils from Commons Lang to escape/unescape.

In Javascript you escape through encodeURIComponent, but I think the Commons component I gave to you will satisfy your needs.