"Cannot decode raw data" error on safari

The problem with turning of cookies is that I can't login to my ebayaccount anymore, so that is not an workable option for me. Does anyone have experience with FireFox regarding this problem?
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Not sure how helpful this will be to anyone who is having this problem on the 'End User Side', but for server admins and developers this may help narrow down the issue:

We were having this bug intermittently with our rss feeds on gluenow.com. An example of a feed is here: http://sqd.gluenow.com/news/rss. I didn't find much online about this bug, aside from here... so I ended up just systematically removing different headers from our application and tweaking apache settings. Through this I did manage to fix this bug, but I am not sure why it fixes it.

Some background, Glue uses an apache front-end proxy with multiple mongrel clusters running the back-end Ruby on Rails app. Before, when the error would occur, our server was emmiting a Via: header, indicating that the content was proxied via gluenow.com. Here is what the headers looked like (with irrelevant headers removed):

rails-1 vhosts.d # curl -I http://sqd.gluenow.com/news/rss
...
Via: 1.1 www.gluenow.com
Vary: Accept-Encoding

It seems that the "Via: 1.1 www.gluenow.com" header was causing the problem. I disabled the Via header in apache ( ProxyVia Off ), and now it works 100% of the time with no error.

So, at any rate, there are some examples in this thread that have the same issue, I would be interested if this workaround would fix them as well, or if they are even using the Via header right now (have not checked yet).

Hope this helps narrow down the cause of this issue.

I've been having a problem with the 'my.yahoo.com' homepage. It was giving me the 'cannot redirect ... raw data' error.

After reading this thread, I tried the 'Safari --> Reset Safari' option and reset everything except for 'usernames and passwords'. It appears that has fixed my problem.

HTH...

I believe the vector for this problem, Jay, is that we recently introduced G-ZIP compression on our servers at Green Mountain. It looks like this issue has been around a while (between Safari and server compression) and we'll likely implement a quick fix by excluding Safari clients from compression, sending them uncompressed content, instead.

That is what I noticed as well. As soon as I turned on gzip compression on one of my websites the result was the error mentioned above.

In my opinion this might have something todo with the way safari caches compressed websites, since it works if you access previously cached content that has changed in the meantime.

Now I figured out how the error occurs in my case.
If I log in to my website a cookie is set and everything works fine ... until the cookie expires (after 60 minutes), then safari won't load any content and the error is displayed.

I have the same problem on eBay. And it is driving me crazy now. A few days ago it dissapeared after a few refreshes and waiting. Now i keep geting this error all the time. Nothing helps. Even cleared the chace.

This is a really issue that does not happen on other browsers. I get this problem a lot with Safari, but it never happens with FireFox or Opera. I think it has something to do with gzip compression, but I am not an expert.

This bug has been around for quite a long time, but Apple hasn't fixed it yet. I am really thinking about ditching Safari because of this. As some already mentioned earlier, it is becoming very annoying.

I've been having this problem intermittently since the days of Tiger. I'm glad to see it isn't just me. I was hoping it would be fixed in Leopard but it wasn't in the initial release. It occurs on all my Macs including my wife's Intel iMac and my Intel Macbook, as well as my G5 iMac. I've found that resetting Safari except for cookies and then quitting and restarting Safari will generally correct the problem, especially with eBay. However occasionally my Yahoo and eBay page displays get totally hosed. Logging out and logging back in doesn't help in those cases so I have to restart the computer, which is aggravating.

I try to report the error to Apple every time this error occurs - just like the error message says to. Seeing how many others have experienced it, they must be aware of it!

I get this error ALL the time on Ebay. Mainly in the "My Ebay" section of the site - but in other areas of the site as well. It is quite annoying as some time it takes many refreshes just to get the page to load!

i get this error every time trying to use Google Checkout to send a invoice via email. I sent the bug report to Apple.


Possible part Solution:

weird thing that kinda works for me is. if i click on the link to load the page and it doesn't load, if i choose Disable Caches from the Develop menu, then reload the page works. when it doesn't work again, i just do the same thing.. This has it working somewhat, but still needs to be corrected

Of all the things I 'browse' it appears to happen the most often when visiting eBay sites. Still, it's something that should not happen, nor should I have to dump this cache, or change that setting to get it to work correctly 'a little more often.'

While it may be related to some server-side web server setting, it is maddening, especially while trying to run a web-based business. Having that error message come up when trying to post a payment is frustrating to the core.

I can confirm that for ebay.com as well. It seems to show up randomly but mostly in the "My eBay" section. It is really annoying.
This problem has been reported since the launch of Leopard. Apple so far has not addressed this issue. Dealing with this browsing annoyance on a daily basis is truly a bad user experience. I am tired of waiting for a fix and getting bashed with error pages where no other browser chokes.
I switched to Mozilla Firefox for now. What a breeze not to have to deal with this annoying Safari behavior anymore.

I've been getting that error message on eBay for a long time now. I find it occurs mostly during peak usage hours...in the evening or right after dinner. I emailed my account executive at eBay a few weeks ago about the problem and he told me that the tech department was unaware of any problem with Safari. My fix is to keep Firefox open on my desktop....Now if I can only get around to moving all my Bookmarks over to Firefox I'd be OK. I hope Apple figures it out.....Ben