Cookie Value

Question

I set a Cookie like: response.addCookie(new Cookie("Name","hello"));
and I try to get the value: cookie.getValue();
I will get: hello
no problem!
But when I set a Cookie with an String identifier like:
String str = "hello";
response.addCookie(new Cookie("Name",str));
and I try to get the value: cookie.getValue();
I will get: "hello "
(it's written in quotes " ")
how can I prevent this ?????????
when I try to compare the CookieValue with another String, I'll allways get a wrong result because of these quotes " "

Answer 1

I know, what's the reason for the quotes:
anytime, the String that shold be assigned to the Cookie contains an empty SPACE, the Value is set in Quotes ...
new Cookie("Test","hello");
cookie.getValue(); the result ist: hello
new Cookie("Test","hello there");
cookie.getValue(); the result ist: "hello there"
but How can I strip the Quotes while getting the Value
this is the code that compares the Strings
if(cookie.getValue().equals((String)request.getSession().getAttribute(headerName)))) ...
the SessionAttribute headerName contains a 64Bit encoded String and the CookieValue shold be the same ... but if the CookieValueString get these quotes, the Strings will never equal
but if th