diff --git a/oauthproxy.go b/oauthproxy.go
index f5ae591..75827fa 100644
--- a/oauthproxy.go
+++ b/oauthproxy.go
@@ -29,10 +29,6 @@ const (
 	httpScheme  = "http"
 	httpsScheme = "https"
 
-	// Cookies are limited to 4kb including the length of the cookie name,
-	// the cookie name can be up to 256 bytes
-	maxCookieLength = 3840
-
 	applicationJSON = "application/json"
 )
 
@@ -318,104 +314,6 @@ func (p *OAuthProxy) redeemCode(host, code string) (s *sessionsapi.SessionState,
 	return
 }
 
-// MakeSessionCookie creates an http.Cookie containing the authenticated user's
-// authentication details
-func (p *OAuthProxy) MakeSessionCookie(req *http.Request, value string, expiration time.Duration, now time.Time) []*http.Cookie {
-	if value != "" {
-		value = cookie.SignedValue(p.CookieSeed, p.CookieName, value, now)
-	}
-	c := p.makeCookie(req, p.CookieName, value, expiration, now)
-	if len(c.Value) > 4096-len(p.CookieName) {
-		return splitCookie(c)
-	}
-	return []*http.Cookie{c}
-}
-
-func copyCookie(c *http.Cookie) *http.Cookie {
-	return &http.Cookie{
-		Name:       c.Name,
-		Value:      c.Value,
-		Path:       c.Path,
-		Domain:     c.Domain,
-		Expires:    c.Expires,
-		RawExpires: c.RawExpires,
-		MaxAge:     c.MaxAge,
-		Secure:     c.Secure,
-		HttpOnly:   c.HttpOnly,
-		Raw:        c.Raw,
-		Unparsed:   c.Unparsed,
-	}
-}
-
-// splitCookie reads the full cookie generated to store the session and splits
-// it into a slice of cookies which fit within the 4kb cookie limit indexing
-// the cookies from 0
-func splitCookie(c *http.Cookie) []*http.Cookie {
-	if len(c.Value) < maxCookieLength {
-		return []*http.Cookie{c}
-	}
-	cookies := []*http.Cookie{}
-	valueBytes := []byte(c.Value)
-	count := 0
-	for len(valueBytes) > 0 {
-		new := copyCookie(c)
-		new.Name = fmt.Sprintf("%s_%d", c.Name, count)
-		count++
-		if len(valueBytes) < maxCookieLength {
-			new.Value = string(valueBytes)
-			valueBytes = []byte{}
-		} else {
-			newValue := valueBytes[:maxCookieLength]
-			valueBytes = valueBytes[maxCookieLength:]
-			new.Value = string(newValue)
-		}
-		cookies = append(cookies, new)
-	}
-	return cookies
-}
-
-// joinCookies takes a slice of cookies from the request and reconstructs the
-// full session cookie
-func joinCookies(cookies []*http.Cookie) (*http.Cookie, error) {
-	if len(cookies) == 0 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("list of cookies must be > 0")
-	}
-	if len(cookies) == 1 {
-		return cookies[0], nil
-	}
-	c := copyCookie(cookies[0])
-	for i := 1; i < len(cookies); i++ {
-		c.Value += cookies[i].Value
-	}
-	c.Name = strings.TrimRight(c.Name, "_0")
-	return c, nil
-}
-
-// loadCookie retreieves the sessions state cookie from the http request.
-// If a single cookie is present this will be returned, otherwise it attempts
-// to reconstruct a cookie split up by splitCookie
-func loadCookie(req *http.Request, cookieName string) (*http.Cookie, error) {
-	c, err := req.Cookie(cookieName)
-	if err == nil {
-		return c, nil
-	}
-	cookies := []*http.Cookie{}
-	err = nil
-	count := 0
-	for err == nil {
-		var c *http.Cookie
-		c, err = req.Cookie(fmt.Sprintf("%s_%d", cookieName, count))
-		if err == nil {
-			cookies = append(cookies, c)
-			count++
-		}
-	}
-	if len(cookies) == 0 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Could not find cookie %s", cookieName)
-	}
-	return joinCookies(cookies)
-}
-
 // MakeCSRFCookie creates a cookie for CSRF
 func (p *OAuthProxy) MakeCSRFCookie(req *http.Request, value string, expiration time.Duration, now time.Time) *http.Cookie {
 	return p.makeCookie(req, p.CSRFCookieName, value, expiration, now)
@@ -460,13 +358,6 @@ func (p *OAuthProxy) ClearSessionCookie(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Reques
 	return p.sessionStore.Clear(rw, req)
 }
 
-// SetSessionCookie adds the user's session cookie to the response
-func (p *OAuthProxy) SetSessionCookie(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, val string) {
-	for _, c := range p.MakeSessionCookie(req, val, p.CookieExpire, time.Now()) {
-		http.SetCookie(rw, c)
-	}
-}
-
 // LoadCookiedSession reads the user's authentication details from the request
 func (p *OAuthProxy) LoadCookiedSession(req *http.Request) (*sessionsapi.SessionState, error) {
 	return p.sessionStore.Load(req)
diff --git a/oauthproxy_test.go b/oauthproxy_test.go
index 32837eb..52f688b 100644
--- a/oauthproxy_test.go
+++ b/oauthproxy_test.go
@@ -646,10 +646,6 @@ func NewProcessCookieTestWithOptionsModifiers(modifiers ...OptionsModifier) *Pro
 	}, modifiers...)
 }
 
-func (p *ProcessCookieTest) MakeCookie(value string, ref time.Time) []*http.Cookie {
-	return p.proxy.MakeSessionCookie(p.req, value, p.opts.CookieExpire, ref)
-}
-
 func (p *ProcessCookieTest) SaveSession(s *sessions.SessionState) error {
 	err := p.proxy.SaveSession(p.rw, p.req, s)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -946,11 +942,11 @@ func (st *SignatureTest) MakeRequestWithExpectedKey(method, body, key string) {
 
 	state := &sessions.SessionState{
 		Email: "mbland@acm.org", AccessToken: "my_access_token"}
-	value, err := proxy.provider.CookieForSession(state, proxy.CookieCipher)
+	err = proxy.SaveSession(st.rw, req, state)
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
-	for _, c := range proxy.MakeSessionCookie(req, value, proxy.CookieExpire, time.Now()) {
+	for _, c := range st.rw.Result().Cookies() {
 		req.AddCookie(c)
 	}
 	// This is used by the upstream to validate the signature.