diff --git a/js/headfoot.js b/js/headfoot.js
index 6c6b883758e68fa78ce6b872d0b270030aca057c..58ed4423b3d3d560b0f80ba7a3575087e7119766 100755
--- a/js/headfoot.js
+++ b/js/headfoot.js
@@ -22,20 +22,24 @@ function userAuthenticated(){
 }
 
 
-function readCookie(name) {
-    var nameEQ = encodeURIComponent(name) + "=";
-    var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
-    for (var i = 0; i < ca.length; i++) {
-        var c = ca[i];
-        while (c.charAt(0) === ' ')
-            c = c.substring(1, c.length);
-        if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) === 0)
-            return decodeURIComponent(c.substring(nameEQ.length, c.length));
+function readCookie(cname) {
+  var name = cname + "=";
+  var decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);
+  var ca = decodedCookie.split(';');
+  for(var i = 0; i <ca.length; i++) {
+    var c = ca[i];
+    while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') {
+      c = c.substring(1);
     }
-    return null;
+    if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) {
+      return c.substring(name.length, c.length);
+    }
+  }
+  return "";
 }
 
 function sendRequest(URL){
+    console.log(docuemnt.cookie);
     let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
     xhr.open("POST", URL, true);
     let token = readCookie("XSRF-TOKEN");