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

Client JavaScript/ECMAScript:

encodeURIComponent(cookie_value) // also encodes "+" and ";", see http://xkr.us/articles/javascript/encode-compare/

Server Java:

String cookie_value = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(cookie.getValue());

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