Note that the jetty project has announced that jetty-7 and jetty-8 are
end-of-
life for open source support. Any further releases will be
sporadic, rare and driven primarily by important security fixes. All
development work is on jetty-9, which has been the stable release for
some time now. Here's a link to the announcement, which contains more
information and links to options for obtaining assistance if you
absolutely cannot upgrade your version of jetty:
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jetty-announce/msg00069.html
In this particular case, jetty-8 dealt with the confusion surrounding cookie specification and defacto standards by taking a rather cookie version neutral approach, where it has not declared the version of the cookie, quoted strings only if needed and only applied the version to the handling of max age. I think that is an OK approach, at least for the time. Jetty-9 now encapsulates a much better consensus and interpretation of the cookie specification.
If you do need updated cookie handling in jetty-8, then please contact webtide directly.
cheers
