I finally have tracked down the actual problem in my domain.xml:
<jvm-options>Dorg.glassfish.web.rfc2109_cookie_names_enforced=false</jvm-options>
was missing in the domain.xml created by asupgrade. I just added it to the domain.xml jvm-options and GF v3 now works as expected.
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