I noticed the other day that the little piece of javascript that we generated to allow you to show your Connotea bookmarks was showing some of my private bookmarks. Not good :(. It turns out this is a rather interesting issue:
Martin says:
This is a curiosity caused by the user’s own login cookie from
connotea.org still being active and being passed to connotea.org during
the loading of the web page when it requests the Javascript file that
contains the posts.
In other words, you see your private posts, but others visiting the
same web page do not.
Well, that’s not really obvious, so we decided to change the behavior of the widget. Updated info here.
The bottom line is that the url to call is now http://www.connotea.org/pub/jsw/user/username which will ignore the cookie, and if you want to see your own private bookmarks you can use
http://www.connotea.org/auth/jsw/user/username for HTTP authentication to see your private bookmarks.