cookie not being sent when requesting JS
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Published on 2010-11-25T02:04:56Z
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I host a webservice, and provide my members with a Javascript bookmarklet, which loads a JS sript from my server. However, clients must be logged in, in order to receive the JS script. This works for almost everybody. However, some users on setups (i.e. browser/OS) that are known to work for other people have the following problem: when they request the script via the javascript bookmarklet from my server, their cookie from my server does not get included with the request, and as such they are always "not authenticated".
I'm making the request in the following way:
var myScript = eltCreate('script');
myScript.setAttribute('src','http://myserver.com/script');
document.body.appendChild(myScript);
In a fit of confused desperation, I changed the script page to simply output "My cookie has [x] elements" where [x] is count($_COOKIE)
. If this extremely small subset of users requests the script via the normal method, the message reads "My cookie has 0 elements". When they access the URL directly in their browser, the message reads "My cookie has 7 elements".
What on earth could be going on?!
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