Page not viewable in Safari

If someone who isn't hosted with godaddy and has server/database space i can use temporarily will let me put the site up, I can make this sucka in 20 mins. flat.

I'd put it on my own server but I'm afraid that if godaddy finds the material offensive they'd shut down all my current server/database information. And that would not be cool.

-drew

Mostly I prefer to lurk rather than participate in discussions, as I frequently don't have much to add. But I was poking around in an old version of Interarchy and discovered something that may or may not help.

Since the practice of finger pointing seems to be well established on this board, please allow me to do some of my own!

Here is my Interarchy transcript:

GET / HTTP/1.0
Accept: /
Host: www.godaddy.com
User-Agent: Interarchy/5.0.1

HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:18:13 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0

I snipped the rest for brevity.

GoDaddy seems insistent to blame this problem on a vendor. And it would seem reasonable that they wouldn't write their own URL redirection code, but instead buy a package to run on their servers. GoDaddy's responsibility would be to ensure the package was configured correctly, and I presume they've done that.

If Edward is right that the HTTP specs are not being followed, then it seems obvious we could be looking at an undocumented feature (wink wink) in the Microsoft software that GoDaddy is using on their servers. If this is the case, then that means that Apple's culpability is simply that they don't have a hack for this server's 'undocumented enhancements' to what is supposed to be a standard protocol.

If anyone here familiar with this stuff could keep their ear to the ground for any imminent hotfixes, and post the info here, I'm sure it would be appreciated.


G4 DA 533DP Mac OS X (10.4.2)

There is some good information on that thread as well. There are some very web savvy people over there that are ripping GoDaddy for their trash code.

Here is someone that sheds some light on why Safari works after using IE or another browser...

"... However, what the server is doing seems to be fairly brain dead as well. Why would you redirect away and then redirect back? It appears that there is not cookie set between the two. The server must be remembering your IP address and serving you actual content on the second hit from that IP Address. That would certainly explain the "teaching issue" that causes safari to work with these sites after visiting with firefox."