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// Return the document's cookies as an object of name/value pairs.

// Assume that cookie values are encoded with encodeURIComponent().

function getCookies() {

var cookies = {}; // The object we will return

var all = document.cookie; // Get all cookies in one big string

if (all === "") // If the property is the empty string

return cookies; // return an empty object

var list = all.split("; "); // Split into individual name=value pairs

for(var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) { // For each cookie

var cookie = list[i];

var p = cookie.indexOf("="); // Find the first = sign

var name = cookie.substring(0,p); // Get cookie name

var value = cookie.substring(p+1); // Get cookie value

value = decodeURIComponent(value); // Decode the value

cookies[name] = value; // Store name and value in object

}

return cookies;

}