Re: Safari reloads secure page...

In article <1121720177.235765.127710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"SafariHelpPlease" <Kevin.Deptula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Oh dear. Now how is one going to figure out who wrote what? Your
newsreader appears to be severely broken. See how things are *supposed*
to work: <http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html>. I
suggest you dump your newsreader ASAP and get something that works. For
everything you ever wanted to know about newsreadsers but were afraid to
ask: <http://www.newsreaders.com>.

Only because I have my newsreader configuerd to mark responses to my
message, and I happen to sort of remember writing the message you're
responding to, I can more or less follow your reply. But for others it
will be much harder, which will encourage them to simply ignore your
message, which won't get you the help you're seeking.

> Hello & thanks for the help.
>
> Yes, my site, but I'm not the/a developer. I support the site

I've no idea what "support" means in this case.

> and the
> Vendor does not certify Safari.

If the vendor = whoever built the site: you paid them too much. There is
no need to 'support' specific browsers. There is a need to write
standards-compliant code, as much as browser vendors must ensure the
browser supports those same standards. When both do, things just work.

The only exception is that sometimes a popular browser has a known bug
and, as a Web publisher, it might be possible to circumvent that bug.
That I would indeed label as "supporting browser x". But in practice
that's not what most Web designers mean with that phrase - they mean
they built something that happens to work in some version of Windows
Explorer, and possibly added soup to 'support' yet another (version of
a) browser. Safari has some bugs, but not nearly as many as Explorer. So
it sounds to me like your tech guy/girl doesn't know what (s)he's doing,

[...]

> Does it depend on pop-ups/cookies/javascript or anything?
>
> Yes, javascript.

That's silly. There is no need to make anything javascript-dependant.
Will only increase the chance something won't work right (partly because
javascript isn't very standardised, partly because you simply cannot
rely on it being on in any browser).


FWIW, I see no reason to suspect Safari as the cause, but rather the
site itself. Would be easier to judge if you'd provide a URL, but then
you'd also have to provide a username/passphrase to be able to test the
login of course, which might not be something you want to hand out to
'anyone' - depends on what you have hidden behind your 'secure site' :)

--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>

Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!"
PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!"
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