Domain Forwarding / GoDaddy / Safari Blank Page

Hi all -

Sometime over the last week my forwarded domain started loading as a blank page. I contacted my hosting company, GoDaddy, and at first they denied the problem - then they acknoledged it and wanted a traceroute - and finally they said it was a problem with Safari and to try a different browser/computer.

I loaded up Firefox and sure enough, it loaded just fine.

Now, after Firefox, Safari is loading the forwarded address again.

I can't be the only person this is happening to - does anyone know what occured and what the permanent fix is?

I don't recall any updates around in the last week that may have caused this...

BTW: Emptying the Safari cache didn't make any difference. Only loading the page in Firefox first did it.

PowerBook G4 1.33, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Nov 26, 2005 11:33 PM

28 replies

Nov 29, 2005 11:09 PM in response to Tom Dignam

How do you know it fixed it?

I didn't see anything about it in the release notes...

Tom Graves

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Nov 30, 2005 4:36 AM in response to Tom Dignam

Unfortunately, the new update has not fixed the masked forwarding problem in Safari.

Nov 30, 2005 4:55 AM in response to Tom Graves

You're right Safari problem not fixed as it returned this morning.Here is a note a received this morning in another forum:

I think this is your problem:
code:
comp:~ user$ curl -I http://eastcoastyachtclub.net/
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Content-Length: 0
Location: /?ABCDEFGH
comp:~ user$

Look at the location that it provides. That's not a location. The server is spewing out garbage. I would find another registrar.

I tried to retrieve the code from the blank page but could not duplicate what the sender sent me.

Nov 30, 2005 5:37 AM in response to Karsten Smelser

Go Daddy Servers are down as of 8:30 this morning

Tom Graves

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Nov 30, 2005 5:46 AM in response to Tom Dignam

Their home page has mostly loaded just now, but very slowly. None of the graphics are there, just the text portions of the page.

Dec 3, 2005 11:55 PM in response to Karsten Smelser

Thank GOD I'm not going crazy...i too started having this problem about a week and a half ago...contacted godaddy...they gave me some spill about how it was my ISP fault...but that didnt make sense b/c friends of mine got the site in their browsers but not when i tested it in my own (safari)...

APPLE....HELPP!!!! This is crazy...whats the point in spending more than 100+ for a website only to have it open up as a blank page??!!!!

Dec 4, 2005 12:50 AM in response to Tom Dignam

Any word on how you were able to get Safari to reproduce the blank page problem after using the Firefix 'fix' ?

I've got a feeling that unless someone is able to report to Apple that it happens whenever condition 'X' occurs, we're probably not going to see a fix for a while (it's not like this is getting any media coverage)....

Jester

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Dec 9, 2005 2:32 PM in response to Karsten Smelser

You mean the forum gods have not shut this thread down yet?????

Anyway, the problem is now fixed!

Yay!

Thread locked now.....

Ryan M.

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Dec 9, 2005 6:00 PM in response to brandnewdrew

Delete me. This ended up in the wrong thread somehow?!?

Message was edited by: Ryan M.

Dec 9, 2005 8:02 PM in response to brandnewdrew

I still haven't been able to recreate the problem. If anyone knows how to, please post it! I am still quite curious and would love to be able to collect the data...

Jester

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Dec 9, 2005 8:31 PM in response to Karsten Smelser

It started working again today. I don't know what time, but it was sometime after noon. Seems to be fixed now.

PB G4 (1.67GHz 15"), PB G3, iMac SE, Mac II SE, Mac+ Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Dec 9, 2005 9:13 PM in response to Jester

No - the problem isn't fixed.

I'm still getting emails from people who can't load my page. I have to tell them to launch Firefox first and then go back in to Safari for it to work.

There was a person earlier in this thread that had the problem re-occur on the same computer after the Firefox fix. If we can figure out how to duplicate the problem then we can figure out what is causing it (since there doesn't seem to be much of a response from the powers that be).

Jester

Level 2

420 points

Dec 9, 2005 9:28 PM in response to Karsten Smelser

Well, mine has been working since about 2PM today. I have not launched another browser in about 3 days, so it is not working for me because I launched another browser (because I have not).

As far as what is wrong... It has already been determined. GoDaddy has already stated that it is a problem with one of the vendors they use for their service and that they were working on a fix. They made that statement about 2 days ago.

Anyhow, it is working for me so I don't know why you are getting emails from people saying it isn't working. I have not done anything different on my end to make it start working.

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Domain Forwarding / GoDaddy / Safari Blank Page