diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/server/AuthenticationFilter.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/server/AuthenticationFilter.java
index dc7f0adeb3b..b4e0270d316 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/server/AuthenticationFilter.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/server/AuthenticationFilter.java
@@ -425,14 +425,20 @@ public Principal getUserPrincipal() {
    *                cookie. It has no effect if its value < 0.
    *
    * XXX the following code duplicate some logic in Jetty / Servlet API,
-   * because of the fact that Hadoop is stuck at servlet 3.0 and jetty 6
+   * because of the fact that Hadoop is stuck at servlet 2.5 and jetty 6
    * right now.
    */
   public static void createAuthCookie(HttpServletResponse resp, String token,
                                       String domain, String path, long expires,
                                       boolean isSecure) {
-    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(AuthenticatedURL.AUTH_COOKIE).append
-            ("=").append(token);
+    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(AuthenticatedURL.AUTH_COOKIE)
+                           .append("=");
+    if (token != null && token.length() > 0) {
+      sb.append("\"")
+          .append(token)
+          .append("\"");
+    }
+    sb.append("; Version=1");
 
     if (path != null) {
       sb.append("; Path=").append(path);
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/server/TestAuthenticationFilter.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/server/TestAuthenticationFilter.java
index 989025fbf87..2cc36587c85 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/server/TestAuthenticationFilter.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/server/TestAuthenticationFilter.java
@@ -531,21 +531,17 @@ public Object answer(InvocationOnMock invocation) throws Throwable {
 
   private static void parseCookieMap(String cookieHeader, HashMap<String,
           String> cookieMap) {
-    for (String pair : cookieHeader.split(";")) {
-      String p = pair.trim();
-      int idx = p.indexOf('=');
-      final String k, v;
-      if (idx == -1) {
-        k = p;
-        v = null;
-      } else if (idx == p.length()) {
-        k = p.substring(0, idx - 1);
-        v = null;
-      } else {
-        k = p.substring(0, idx);
-        v = p.substring(idx + 1);
+    List<HttpCookie> cookies = HttpCookie.parse(cookieHeader);
+    for (HttpCookie cookie : cookies) {
+      if (AuthenticatedURL.AUTH_COOKIE.equals(cookie.getName())) {
+        cookieMap.put(cookie.getName(), cookie.getValue());
+        if (cookie.getPath() != null) {
+          cookieMap.put("Path", cookie.getPath());
+        }
+        if (cookie.getDomain() != null) {
+          cookieMap.put("Domain", cookie.getDomain());
+        }
       }
-      cookieMap.put(k, v);
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 83da344aa7c..07a37bbf9cf 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -307,6 +307,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-10715. Remove public GraphiteSink#setWriter (Babak Behzad via raviprak)
 
+    HADOOP-10710. hadoop.auth cookie is not properly constructed according to 
+    RFC2109. (Juan Yu via tucu)
+
 Release 2.4.1 - 2014-06-23 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpCookieFlag.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpCookieFlag.java
index d7104aaf752..75a94804824 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpCookieFlag.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpCookieFlag.java
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
+import java.net.HttpCookie;
+import java.util.List;
 
 public class TestHttpCookieFlag {
   private static final String BASEDIR = System.getProperty("test.build.dir",
@@ -116,8 +118,12 @@ public void testHttpCookie() throws IOException {
             .getConnectorAddress(0)));
     HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(base,
             "/echo").openConnection();
-    Assert.assertEquals(AuthenticatedURL.AUTH_COOKIE + "=token; " +
-            "HttpOnly", conn.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie"));
+
+    String header = conn.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie");
+    List<HttpCookie> cookies = HttpCookie.parse(header);
+    Assert.assertTrue(!cookies.isEmpty());
+    Assert.assertTrue(header.contains("; HttpOnly"));
+    Assert.assertTrue("token".equals(cookies.get(0).getValue()));
   }
 
   @Test
@@ -127,8 +133,13 @@ public void testHttpsCookie() throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
     HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection) new URL(base,
             "/echo").openConnection();
     conn.setSSLSocketFactory(clientSslFactory.createSSLSocketFactory());
-    Assert.assertEquals(AuthenticatedURL.AUTH_COOKIE + "=token; " +
-            "Secure; HttpOnly", conn.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie"));
+
+    String header = conn.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie");
+    List<HttpCookie> cookies = HttpCookie.parse(header);
+    Assert.assertTrue(!cookies.isEmpty());
+    Assert.assertTrue(header.contains("; HttpOnly"));
+    Assert.assertTrue(cookies.get(0).getSecure());
+    Assert.assertTrue("token".equals(cookies.get(0).getValue()));
   }
 
   @AfterClass