document.cookie is like a string, but it is not a string. To quote the example from the Mozilla doc:
document.cookie = \"name=oeschger\";
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This implementation allows overwriting cookies, and adds document.clearCookies()
(function (document) {
var cookies = {};
document.__defineGetter__('cookie', function () {
var output = [];
for (var cookieName in cookies) {
output.push(cookieName + "=" + cookies[cookieName]);
}
return output.join(";");
});
document.__defineSetter__('cookie', function (s) {
var indexOfSeparator = s.indexOf("=");
var key = s.substr(0, indexOfSeparator);
var value = s.substring(indexOfSeparator + 1);
cookies[key] = value;
return key + "=" + value;
});
document.clearCookies = function () {
cookies = {};
};
})(document);