# An invalid character \[44\] was present in the Cookie value

**URL:** <https://community.bloomreach.com/t/an-invalid-character-44-was-present-in-the-cookie-value/1290>\
**Category:** Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)\
**Created:** [July 25, 2019, 8:11am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/an-invalid-character-44-was-present-in-the-cookie-value/1290 "2019-07-25T08:11:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr\_Jaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Mr\_Jaid](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/Mr_Jaid)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 8:11am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/an-invalid-character-44-was-present-in-the-cookie-value/1290/1 "2019-07-25T08:11:42Z")

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Hi all I have been having this error which is thrown in every request , please any idea on what I can do? below is the stack trace

24.07.2019 18:23:19 WARN [org.hippoecm.hst.container.HstDelegateeFilterBean] ContainerException for ‘Request{ method=‘GET’, scheme=‘https’, host=’’, requestURI=’’, queryString=‘null’}’:  
org.hippoecm.hst.core.container.ContainerException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: An invalid character [44] was present in the Cookie value  
at org.hippoecm.hst.core.container.HstRequestProcessorImpl.processRequest(HstRequestProcessorImpl.java:84) ~[hst-core-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]  
at org.hippoecm.hst.container.HstDelegateeFilterBean.processResolvedSiteMapItem(HstDelegateeFilterBean.java:671) ~[hst-core-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]  
at org.hippoecm.hst.container.HstDelegateeFilterBean.doFilter(HstDelegateeFilterBean.java:364) [hst-core-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]  
at org.hippoecm.hst.container.DelegatingFilter.doFilter(DelegatingFilter.java:84) [hst-commons-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]  
at org.hippoecm.hst.container.HstFilter.doFilter(HstFilter.java:51) [hst-commons-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:176) [urlrewritefilter-4.0.4-h2.jar:4.0.4-h2]  
at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:146) [urlrewritefilter-4.0.4-h2.jar:4.0.4-h2]  
at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:91) [urlrewritefilter-4.0.4-h2.jar:4.0.4-h2]  
at org.onehippo.forge.rewriting.HippoRewriteFilter.doFilter(HippoRewriteFilter.java:251) [hippo-addon-urlrewriter-module-hst-3.6.0.jar:3.6.0]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:197) [spring-web-4.3.18.RELEASE.jar:4.3.18.RELEASE]  
at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107) [spring-web-4.3.18.RELEASE.jar:4.3.18.RELEASE]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.hippoecm.hst.container.XSSUrlFilter.doFilter(XSSUrlFilter.java:51) [hst-commons-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:200) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:490) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:678) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:74) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343) [catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:408) [tomcat-coyote.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66) [tomcat-coyote.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:834) [tomcat-coyote.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1415) [tomcat-coyote.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49) [tomcat-coyote.jar:9.0.17]  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:1.8.0\_201]  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:1.8.0\_201]  
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) [tomcat-util.jar:9.0.17]  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0\_201]  
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: An invalid character [44] was present in the Cookie value  
at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Rfc6265CookieProcessor.validateCookieValue(Rfc6265CookieProcessor.java:182) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Rfc6265CookieProcessor.generateHeader(Rfc6265CookieProcessor.java:115) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.generateCookieString(Response.java:976) ~[catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.addCookie(Response.java:928) ~[catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.addCookie(ResponseFacade.java:385) ~[catalina.jar:9.0.17]  
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper.addCookie(HttpServletResponseWrapper.java:60) ~[servlet-api.jar:?]  
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseWrapper.addCookie(HttpServletResponseWrapper.java:60) ~[servlet-api.jar:?]  
at za.co.hollard.valves.MobileDetection.invoke(MobileDetection.java:174) ~[classes/:1.0-SNAPSHOT]  
at org.hippoecm.hst.core.container.HstSitePipeline$Invocation.invokeNext(HstSitePipeline.java:288) ~[hst-core-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]  
at org.hippoecm.hst.core.container.CmsSecurityValve.invoke(CmsSecurityValve.java:88) ~[hst-core-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Jaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Mr\_Jaid](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/Mr_Jaid)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 9:40am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/an-invalid-character-44-was-present-in-the-cookie-value/1290/2 "2019-07-30T09:40:36Z")

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Resolved by switching to Legacy Cookie Processor.