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User profile for user: applehart
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Safari can't find the server.

I am seeing this message more and more frequently. It will process and process for an inordinate amount of time and then it will pop the message with the heading 'Safari can't find the server.' and the body of the message "Safari can't open the page .... because Safari can't find the server.... However, once I hit the refresh button, the page pops as it should.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 22, 2010 9:24 AM

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User profile for user: Eric Root
Eric Root
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Posted on Mar 2, 2017 7:01 AM

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.


Safari can’t open a website


Safari - Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues


Safari doesn't load a page or webpage items are missing


Web Content not responding

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User profile for user: Eric Root
Eric Root
User level: Level 10
684,045 points

Mar 2, 2017 7:01 AM in response to juanita schmale

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.


Safari can’t open a website


Safari - Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues


Safari doesn't load a page or webpage items are missing


Web Content not responding

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User profile for user: ricky from HK
ricky from HK
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Sep 24, 2010 9:56 PM in response to John Springate

I have the same issue too, and it appears to me the site it (safari 5.0.2) drops the most is Apple's own webpage. Whenever I want to access the product page (e.g. iPhone) the site wont load and message of server not found pops. In which the page could load easily in Chrome/ Firefox without a hitch.

The problem started since the 5.0.2 update
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User profile for user: timeatseven
timeatseven
User level: Level 1
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Oct 9, 2010 1:20 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

I have the exact same problem described above. Thanks for the suggestion to trash the cache.db file. That works ... temporarily. Then the problem quickly comes back again. Can you (or anyone else) help me understand what is wrong here, and how to achieve a more permanent fix (other than using a different browser, which seems like a good option at this point)? Thanks!
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User profile for user: Jeannette Arling
Jeannette Arling
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Dec 18, 2010 9:58 AM in response to timeatseven

Bump. I have this problem as well, and on multiple machines. Moving the cache file does help, but only for a few hours or days. This is making me crazy. The behavior seems to be that if Safari begins this spinning and spinning problem, interrupting it by hitting the "x" and then refreshing just delays the inevitable. I have to wait for the message "Safari cannot find the server." Once that message appears, a quick refresh brings me immediately to the page in question. How can it not find it for minutes and minutes, and then once I get the message, immediately resolve? It doesn't make any sense. I investigated the option that this was a dns issue, but even setting to different dns servers, the problem persists. Does anyone have a permanent solution to this?
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Safari can't find the server.

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