diff --git a/lib/cookies.js b/lib/cookies.js
index 5619ce26..e5affba5 100644
--- a/lib/cookies.js
+++ b/lib/cookies.js
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 var URL = require('url');
-var libCookie = require('cookie');
 var setCookie = require('set-cookie-parser');
 var TLD = require('tld');
 var Transform = require('stream').Transform;
@@ -21,6 +20,54 @@ function cookies(config) {
 
     var REDIRECT_QUERY_PARAM = '__proxy_cookies_to';
 
+    // Serializes cookie without changing it
+    function serializeCookie(cookie) {
+        var str = cookie.name + '=' + cookie.value;
+
+        if (cookie.maxAge) {
+            str += '; Max-Age=' + cookie.maxAge;
+        }
+        if (cookie.domain) {
+            str += '; Domain=' + cookie.domain;
+        }
+        if (cookie.path) {
+            str += '; Path=' + cookie.path;
+        }
+        if (cookie.expires) {
+            str += '; Expires=' + cookie.expires.toUTCString();
+        }
+        if (cookie.httpOnly) {
+            str += '; HttpOnly';
+        }
+        if (cookie.secure) {
+            str += '; Secure';
+        }
+        return str;
+    }
+
+    // Parses the cookies without changing its value
+    function parseCookies(rawCookies) {
+        var obj = {};
+        var cookies;
+        if(typeof rawCookies !== 'string') return {};
+        if(rawCookies === '') return {};
+        cookies = rawCookies.split(';');
+        for (var i = 0, ii = cookies.length; i < ii; i++) {
+            // Removes first space if there is one
+            // V8 should always support trimLeft even though there is no standard for it.
+            // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/trimLeft
+            // https://www.npmjs.com/package/string could be a solution in case trimLeft() is dropped from V8.
+            cookies[i] = cookies[i].trimLeft();
+            // Puts the name and value in the object obj.
+            if(cookies[i].indexOf('=') !== -1) {
+                obj[cookies[i].substring(0, cookies[i].indexOf('='))] = cookies[i].substring(cookies[i].indexOf('=') + 1);
+            } else {
+                obj[cookies[i]] = '';
+            }
+        }
+        return obj;
+    }
+
     // normally we do nothing here, but when the user is switching protocols or subdomains, the handleResponse function
     // will rewrite the links to start with the old protocol & domain (so that we get sent the cookies), and then it
     // will copy the old cookies to the new path
@@ -29,10 +76,11 @@ function cookies(config) {
         if (uri.query[REDIRECT_QUERY_PARAM]) {
             var nextUri = URL.parse(uri.query[REDIRECT_QUERY_PARAM]);
             debug('copying cookies from %s to %s', data.url, uri.query[REDIRECT_QUERY_PARAM]);
-            var cookies = libCookie.parse(data.headers.cookie || '');
+            var cookies = parseCookies(data.headers.cookie || '');
             var setCookieHeaders = Object.keys(cookies).map(function(name) {
-                var value = cookies[name];
-                return libCookie.serialize(name, value, {
+                return serializeCookie({
+                    name: name,
+                    value: cookies[name],
                     path: config.prefix + nextUri.protocol + '//' + nextUri.host + '/'
                 });
             });
@@ -62,8 +110,7 @@ function cookies(config) {
                 cookie.path = config.prefix + targetUri.protocol + '//' + targetUri.host + (cookie.path || '/');
                 delete cookie.domain;
                 delete cookie.secure; // todo: maybe leave this if we knot the proxy is being accessed over https?
-                cookie.value = decodeURIComponent(cookie.value); // Used to avoid double percent-encoding
-                return libCookie.serialize(cookie.name, cookie.value, cookie);
+                return serializeCookie(cookie);
             });
         }
 
@@ -75,9 +122,11 @@ function cookies(config) {
                 debug('copying cookies from %s to %s', data.url, data.redirectUrl);
 
                 // get all of the old cookies (from the request) indexed by name, and create set-cookie headers for each one
-                var oldCookies = libCookie.parse(data.clientRequest.headers.cookie || '');
+                var oldCookies = parseCookies(data.clientRequest.headers.cookie || '');
                 var oldSetCookieHeaders = _.mapValues(oldCookies, function(value, name) {
-                    return libCookie.serialize(name, value, {
+                    return serializeCookie({
+                        name: name,
+                        value: value,
                         path: config.prefix + nextUri.protocol + '//' + nextUri.host + '/'
                     });
                 });
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 593b6916..626810d8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "async": "^2.0.0",
     "content-type": "^1.0.1",
-    "cookie": "^0.3.1",
     "debug": "^2.2.0",
     "iconv-lite": "^0.4.13",
     "lodash": "^4.4.0",
diff --git a/test/cookies_spec.js b/test/cookies_spec.js
index 8c7b26f4..ba4ff007 100644
--- a/test/cookies_spec.js
+++ b/test/cookies_spec.js
@@ -67,6 +67,22 @@ test('should rewrite the cookie that is percent-encoded correctly', function(t)
     t.end();
 });
 
+test('should rewrite the cookie that is weird but correct correctly', function(t) {
+    var instance = cookies({
+        prefix: '/proxy/',
+        processContentTypes: []
+    });
+    var data = getData();
+    data.headers['set-cookie'] = ['myCookie=is=called&john=doe&for=a&reason=#WeDontParseCookieValues&only=its&parameters=!; Path=/myAwesomePath; HttpOnly'];
+    instance.handleResponse(data);
+    var expected = [
+        'myCookie=is=called&john=doe&for=a&reason=#WeDontParseCookieValues&only=its&parameters=!; Path=/proxy/http://example.com/myAwesomePath; HttpOnly'
+    ];
+    var actual = data.headers['set-cookie'];
+    t.same(actual, expected);
+    t.end();
+});
+
 test("should copy any missing cookies to a 3xx redirect", function(t) {
     t.plan(1);
     var instance = cookies({