Special characters in cookies

Article Id: 51175

Status: Published

Updated On: 21-03-2018 06:14

Legacy Id: TEC528830

Products:

CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder) , AXIOMATICS POLICY SERVER , CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder) , CA Single Sign-On , CA Single Sign-On

Issue/Introduction:

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

Environment:

Release:
Component: SMPLC