Error : Control character in cookie value or attribute in SPS

Products

• SITEMINDER
• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)

Issue/Introduction

 

When running CA Access Gateway (SPS), this one reports error :

  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] - Exception caught stack trace below:
  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Control character in cookie value or attribute.

as 

  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] - Exception caught stack trace below: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Control character in cookie value or attribute.
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.LegacyCookieProcessor.isHttpSeparator LegacyCookieProcessor.java:699
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.LegacyCookieProcessor.getTokenEndPosition LegacyCookieProcessor.java:682
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.LegacyCookieProcessor.processCookieHeader LegacyCookieProcessor.java:521
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.LegacyCookieProcessor.parseCookieHeader LegacyCookieProcessor.java:227
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.parseCookies Request.java:3172
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.convertCookies Request.java:3190
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getCookies Request.java:2254
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  com.netegrity.proxy.ProxyValve.addHeadersToRequest
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  com.netegrity.proxy.ProxyValve.processRequest
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  com.netegrity.proxy.ProxyValve.invoke
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke StandardEngineValve.java:78
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service CoyoteAdapter.java:343
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.service AjpProcessor.java:432
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process AbstractProcessorLight.java:65
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process AbstractProtocol.java:888
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun NioEndpoint.java:1597
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run SocketProcessorBase.java:49
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run TaskThread.java:61
  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] -  java.lang.Thread.run Thread.java:748

 

Resolution

 

The error :

  [22/Mar/2022:10:16:43-133] [ERROR] - Exception caught stack trace below: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
  Control character in cookie value or attribute.

seems to that the embedded Tomcat found a cookie value with has a not
allowed character in it (1)(2).

 

Additional Information

 

(1)

    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Control character in cookie value or attribute
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9109318/java-lang-illegalargumentexception-control-character-in-cookie-value-or-attribu

(2)

    Illegalargumentexception: control character in cookie value or attribute tomcat7
    https://programmerah.com/illegalargumentexception-control-character-in-cookie-value-or-attribute-tomcat7-19043/