Karate - Cookie rejected when it contains special characters - karate

Question

We are struggling to pass the response cookie to the subsequent request as we are getting Cookie Rejected error. We are also not able to print the cookie response:
Here are more details: giving req and response. See the Print at the very end prints nothing and at the start of response there are warning which we think is related to not printing response cookies.
Scenario:
* configure ssl = true
Given url 'https://dvabc-qa.kdc.abc.com'
Given path 'api/dp/v1/apps/user/login'
And request {username: "test#abc.com", password: "1234"}
When method post
Then status 200
* print responseCookies
Request
1 > POST https://dvabc-qa.kdc.abc.com/api/dp/v1/apps/user/login
1 > Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
1 > Connection: Keep-Alive
1 > Content-Length: 52
1 > Content-Type: application/json
1 > Host: dvabc-qa.abc.com
1 > User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.3 (Java/1.8.0_121)
{"username":"test#capone.com","password":"test1234"} Response 14:48:30.700 [main] WARN o.a.h.c.p.ResponseProcessCookies - Cookie rejected [X-AUTH-TOKEN="eyJ1c2VySW5mbyI6eyJ1c2VyRmlyc3ROYW1lIjoiVGVzdCIsInVzZXJMYXN0TmFtZSI6Ilh0ZXN0IiwidXNlcklEIjoiMTMxMTMx...", version:1, domain:.abc.com, path:/, expiry:null] Domain attribute ".abc.com" violates RFC 2109: host minus domain may not contain any dots
14:48:30.704 [main] WARN o.a.h.c.p.ResponseProcessCookies - Cookie rejected [SSOID="test#abc.com", version:1, domain:.abc.com, path:/, expiry:null] Domain attribute ".abc.com" violates RFC 2109: host minus domain may not contain any dots
14:48:30.718 [main] DEBUG com.intuit.karate -
1 < 200
1 < CUSTOMER_APP_DATA_REF_KEY: $2a$10$qnUQ.paqXvMEJSmu6G/BhL7d08oOFnSAVmOBVQjec3Umlme
1 < Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
1 < Connection: keep-alive
1 < Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
1 < Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:48:32 GMT
1 < Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
1 < Pragma: no-cache
1 < SSOID: test#abc.com
1 < Set-Cookie: [X-AUTH-TOKEN="eyJ1c2VySW5joiVGVzdCwTaG93IjpudWxsLCJoYXNEaWFtb25kRGVhbGVyc2hpcHMiOmZhbHNlLCJub25EaWFtb25kRGVhbGVyQWNjZXNzRW5hYmxlZCI6ZmFsc2UsIm1mYVRva2VuIjpmYWxzZSwicmVzcG9uZGVkVG9BbGxUYyInVzZXJuYW1lIjoidGVzdEBjYXBvbmUuY29tIn0=.HzxYTNQGXk8n0HePKBcuk1ND5h6P8z4xvfaoJ5qah94="; Version=1; Domain=.abc.com; Path=/; HttpOnly, CUSTOMER_APP_DATA_REF_KEY=$2a$10$qnUQ.paPnsI9gqXvMEJSmu6G/BhL7d08oOFnSAVmOBVQjec3Umlme; Domain=.abc.com; Path=/; HttpOnly, SSOID="test#abc.com"; Version=1; Domain=.abc.com; Path=/; HttpOnly]
1 < Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
1 < X-AUTH-TOKEN: eyJ1c2VySW5mbyI6eyJ1c2VyRmlyc3ROYW1lIjoiVGVzdCIsInVzZXJMYXN0TmFtZSI6Ilh0ZXN0IiwidOiJ0ZXN0QGNhcG9uZS5jb20iLCJyYW5kb21UZXh0IjpudWxsLCJpbnRlcm5hbFVzZXJFbWFpbCI6bnVsbCwidXNlckRCJqb2JUaXRsZSI6IlNhbGVzIE1hbmFnZXIifSwiYWN0aXZlRGlyZWN0b3J5QWNjb3VudCI6ZmFsc2UsInRjVG9TaG93IjpudWxsLCJoYXNEaWFtb25kRGVhbGVyc2hpcHMiOmZhbHNlLCJub25EaWFtb25kRGVhbGVyQWNjZXNzRW5hYmxlZCI6ZmFsc2UsIm1mYVRva2VuIjpmYWxzZSwicmVzcG9uZGVkVG9BbGxUYyI6ZmFsc2UsInVzZXJuYW1lIjoidGVzdEBjYXBvbmUuY29tIn0=.HzxYTNk1ND5h6P8z4xvfaoJ5qah94=
1 < X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
14:48:30.719 [main] DEBUG com.intuit.karate - response time in milliseconds: 583
14:48:30.726 [main] INFO com.intuit.karate - [print]

Answer 1

Okay, this may need a fix or enhancement to Karate. Can you kindly file an enhancement request.
Violates RFC 2109: host > minus domain may not contain any dots
Meanwhile, can you try switching from karate-apache to karate-jersey in your pom.xml and see if that makes a difference.