diff --git a/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/CookieCutter.java b/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/CookieCutter.java
index 65c93517404..a154bb72085 100644
--- a/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/CookieCutter.java
+++ b/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/CookieCutter.java
@@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ public class CookieCutter
                 if (value!=null && name!=null)
                 {
                     // TODO handle unquoting during parsing!  But quoting is uncommon
-                    name=QuotedStringTokenizer.unquote(name);
-                    value=QuotedStringTokenizer.unquote(value);
+                    name=QuotedStringTokenizer.unquoteOnly(name);
+                    value=QuotedStringTokenizer.unquoteOnly(value);
                     
                     try
                     {
diff --git a/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/QuotedStringTokenizer.java b/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/QuotedStringTokenizer.java
index b2ce0fa1a69..8dc0a816f8f 100644
--- a/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/QuotedStringTokenizer.java
+++ b/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/QuotedStringTokenizer.java
@@ -408,6 +408,47 @@ public class QuotedStringTokenizer
             throw new RuntimeException(e);
         }
     }
+    
+    /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
+    /** Unquote a string, NOT converting unicode sequences
+     * @param s The string to unquote.
+     * @return quoted string
+     */
+    public static String unquoteOnly(String s)
+    {
+        if (s==null)
+            return null;
+        if (s.length()<2)
+            return s;
+
+        char first=s.charAt(0);
+        char last=s.charAt(s.length()-1);
+        if (first!=last || (first!='"' && first!='\''))
+            return s;
+
+        StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder(s.length() - 2);
+        boolean escape=false;
+        for (int i=1;i<s.length()-1;i++)
+        {
+            char c = s.charAt(i);
+
+            if (escape)
+            {
+                escape=false;
+                b.append(c);
+            }
+            else if (c=='\\')
+            {
+                escape=true;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                b.append(c);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return b.toString(); 
+    }
 
     /* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
     /** Unquote a string.
diff --git a/jetty-util/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/QuotedStringTokenizerTest.java b/jetty-util/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/QuotedStringTokenizerTest.java
index da008c87b8a..3407574bea9 100644
--- a/jetty-util/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/QuotedStringTokenizerTest.java
+++ b/jetty-util/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/QuotedStringTokenizerTest.java
@@ -178,5 +178,16 @@ public class QuotedStringTokenizerTest
         assertEquals("ab\u001ec",QuotedStringTokenizer.unquote("ab\u001ec"));
         assertEquals("ab\u001ec",QuotedStringTokenizer.unquote("\"ab\u001ec\""));
     }
+    
+    
+    @Test
+    public void testUnquoteOnly()
+    {
+        assertEquals("abc",QuotedStringTokenizer.unquoteOnly("abc"));
+        assertEquals("a\"c",QuotedStringTokenizer.unquoteOnly("\"a\\\"c\""));
+        assertEquals("a'c",QuotedStringTokenizer.unquoteOnly("\"a'c\""));
+        assertEquals("a\\n\\r\\t",QuotedStringTokenizer.unquoteOnly("\"a\\\\n\\\\r\\\\t\""));
+        assertEquals("ba\\uXXXXaaa", QuotedStringTokenizer.unquoteOnly("\"ba\\\\uXXXXaaa\""));
+    }
 
 }