Description:
Can SMSESSION and SMIdentity cookie values contain the following characters:
\ slash ' single quote " double quote
Solution:
SiteMinder cookie values are encoded with base64 encoding. Characters \, ' and " are not part of base 64 encoding hence will not be in SMSESSION and SMIDENTITY cookie.
For more on base64 endoing and the legal values;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64