Padding quotes in JSONObject

I'm building a JSON string to send to my web service. Since one of the pieces is user-inputted, there is the possibility for double quotes. I'm trying to resolve the issue by escaping it. ``` String strValue = "height of 6\""; JSONObject json = new JSONObject(); json.put("key", strValue.replaceAll("\"","\\\"")); ``` The problem here is when I do `json.toString()`, I get 3 slashes. Ex: ``` {"key","height of 6\\\""} ``` If I don't try to do any replacing, `json.toString()` gives me broken json. Ex: ``` {"key", "height of 6""} ``` How can I do this correctly? Note: When my website saves this value and displays it, it displays `height of 6\"` UPDATE: It appears the culprit is `json.toString()` When I call the `replaceAll` method it -- correctly -- only escapes the double quote. It appears `json.toString()` escapes slashes. To fix the issue, I must do `json.toString().replace("\\\\", "")`. This begs the question: Why on Earth does JSONObject escape slashes and not double quotes?????