Saferi Forwarding Problem

There are several topics in this forum about the masked forwarding problem in Safari. In one of them a poster stated that he heard that the Safari developers were aware of the problem and were working on it.

The best you can do right now is what everyone else has done, submit a bug report using "Report Bugs to Apple" under the Safari menu. There is absolutely no guarantee that anyone will read our posts here in this user-to-user discussion forum.

I hope the Safari folks at Apple reads this forum.

As I mentioned above, it is highly unlikely that anyone from Apple will read these posts. This is a user-to-user forum and the Apple employees who are here are concerned with the smooth operation of the forums and do not have time to read through the thousands of posts daily.

Just curious, did anybody ever call Apple Support for this lately, wonder
if they say anything about this Safari problem. My Apple Care is over, so maybe somebody can call them for an answer.

Actually, Apple's Safari web browser and Opera's Opera web browser do not have a problem with correctly formed 302 redirects.

The problem is GoDaddy recently implemented a non-standard 302 redirect and the headers are malformed - this is causing Opera and Safari to glitch and just show a blank page.

GoDaddy needs to revert to their previously used domain forwarding setup and correct their 302 headers.

This is really no different than typical website code glitches - the webmaster, not the browser author, is responsible for fixing the code or providing a work around so that websites work in all web browsers as intended.

And to get an idea of the scale of this problem, we're talking about roughly 17 million Safari users and an unadvertised number of Opera users who can't browse websites parked and forwarded by GoDaddy.

Owl2Hagrid, thank you for your response. I too have been involved and tracking this problem for weeks.

I don't expect Apple to responsd because it isn't a problem they caused. Their browser is programmed to operate according to standards. I also don't expect them to respond because they are just a big company. In fact, if you wanted to speculate based on previous situation, Apple almost never responds to situations like this.

The problem is the redirect itself and the fact it does not conforming to standards. Not only was the tech at Register.com not truthful with you, he also didn't know what he was talking about. That's easily discerned by the fact he had to 'ask someone else' for an answer to give you to get you off the phone.

It's easy to fall into the trap they try to put you in - the trap that if other web browsers don't have a problem, then the problem is with the browser that does have a problem.

I can say with almost 100% certainty that the problem is on the registrar's end and not Apple. If I'm wrong, I'll apologize. But we'll see... and hopefully soon.

The truth is Apple could release a patch that would resolve the issue. But that doesn't preclude GoDaddy or whoever from releasing another version of their forwarding if it doesn't comply with current standards.

I mean, what is the point of standards if noone follows them?

Hi thread,

When you complain to goDaddy about this issue, they seem to be referring to this thread. this thread has somewhat resolved that Safari is to blame for the problem, I want to send you all back to the much more involved thread that has very clearly troubleshot the problem and has concluded this is a goDaddy problem, just to make sure you get both sides of the argument.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1293522

Well, the same problem happens with the political aggregator www.buzzflash.com. Okay, some of you are quite happy that that site now is problematical, but I'm not -- and the same would go if a right-wing site of similar design was unusable, too. You click on the headline, and it stalls on the redirect, or sometimes gets to the blank page. Firefox 1.5 is the same, roughly. Internet Explorer does not have the problem. It may be, it seems to me, that this might have been put in place as part of the effort to stop phishing from redirecting your paypal to "phony paypal," but it don't work. it's too strict.

There is a workaround, I find. Opt-click, or right-click, on the headline, and choose "open in new page," and you're fine. This almost always works for me.

PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4)

Owl, as I've said before - the problem may indeed be a bug in Safari, but it's due to invalid data being sent by GoDaddy. Blame who you want, but GoDaddy needs to quit sending the malformed headers when Safari requests data.