Tell me more ×  My colleague and I are developing an annotation
tool for web resources. One way The user can us the tool is to
click a special bookmarklet to view the current page with
annotations added. The bookmarklet works by sending the current
page URL and the cookies for the page to a "page repeater"
server, which fetches the real page (using the cookies) and
modifies it to inject the javascript infrastructure for
displaying annotations.  Today, we discovered that the page
repeater doesn't work properly for StackOverflow pages. It seems
that when the bookmarklet calls "document.cookie" to get the
cookies for an SO page, it doesn't get all of the SO cookies. In
particular, the "usr" cookie is missing. The net result is that
the user appears to be not logged in.  There is nothing special
about the "usr" cookie as far as we can tell. It is present in
the browser's cookie store. It has the right domain and path, it
is not marked as "secure", it has not expired, it doesn't have
an overly long value. It just