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		pg on June 16, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Does News.YC form submission break in Safari for y... The problem is with redirects. For some reason, early versions of Safari (pre 2) don't follow our redirects. The simplest reproduction of the problem is: https://hackertimes.com/safaritest which redirects to apple.com in other browsers but generates an error in early versions of Safari. I'd be very grateful if any Safari expert out there could tell me what's going wrong.

pg on June 16, 2007 [–]

Problem solved. The source of the trouble is that early versions of Safari insist on a blank line after the Location header in a redirect. Thanks to Trevor Blackwell for proposing this.

In the latest release, everything seems to work, at least in Safari 1.3.

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