Posted May 5th, 2008 @ 06:28pm by Erik J. Barzeski
A user on The Sand Trap forum linked to his online Scorecards at this URL: http://home.comcast.net/~2624/.
The URL works fine in OmniWeb, iCab, Firefox, and even Internet Explorer for the Mac, yet Safari (and any WebKit-based browser) shows a 404.
Changing the user agent in Safari doesn't fix anything, either.
What gives?
P.S. I've yet to fire up Parallels to see if it behaves the same in Windows browsers, including Safari.
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Posted 05 May 2008 at 6:45pm #
I get it to load in NNW and Safari 3 here. Strange.
Posted 05 May 2008 at 7:36pm #
It comes up for me in current Safari on 10.5.
Mark
Posted 05 May 2008 at 7:39pm #
I thought perhaps it was some weird InputManager deal, but I have three (1PasswdIM, Inquisitor, SpeedDownload Enhancer) and disabling them doesn't resolve the issue.
Both my Mac Pro and my MacBook Pro exhibit the issue. My iPhone does not, nor does Safari on my Mac Pro in Windows (via Parallels).
My hosts file has nothing about Comcast in it. Heck, it's got one redirection script in it, nothing else.
I'm not sure what this could be…
Posted 05 May 2008 at 7:43pm #
Not to start a conspiracy, but any chance Time Warner is blocking this at the ISP level?
Can you tell if the 404 is coming from the Comcast server?
Mark
Posted 05 May 2008 at 7:45pm #
[quote comment="47537"]Not to start a conspiracy, but any chance Time Warner is blocking this at the ISP level?
Can you tell if the 404 is coming from the Comcast server?[/quote]
Well, it works on my iPhone (using the same WiFi network) and on my Windows install on the same computer. Also, works on several other browsers on the same computer. Just not Safari.
Screenshot here.
Posted 05 May 2008 at 7:51pm #
I find sometimes that Safari hangs onto DNS caches too long. Could it have been a brief hiccup that needs a little
~ dscacheutil -flushcache
to resolve?
Posted 05 May 2008 at 7:58pm #
[quote comment="47539"]~ dscacheutil -flushcache[/quote]
Ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Thanks. Bizarre… but thanks. I didn't know Safari hung onto DNS caches outside of the OS-level stuff that other browsers would use, or that those caches might survive restarting the computer.
Posted 05 May 2008 at 8:12pm #
Awesome! Glad it worked.
Maybe someone here can help me with MY weird Safari issue:
http://admin.flowgo.com/cms/console/
It's a corporate, protected server. But at the very least, one should be prompted to log into it.
Safari acts like there's nothing to be found there; it simply waits and waits and waits and never loads anything. Every other browser I've tried connects instantly.
Obviously, my own cache flush trick and user-agent changing hasn't solved this for me. Anyone?
Posted 05 May 2008 at 9:22pm #
[quote comment="47542"]Anyone?[/quote]
I get a login prompt almost immediately in Safari Version 3.1.1 (5525.18) on OS X 10.5.2.