Odd Safari Exception

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KenDRhyD

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After a recent upgrade to Mac OS X, Safari can no longer access one site -- and it is the main site for my ISP! I am running Mac OS X 10.4.8 with iWork and iLife all up to date.

The web address is http://www.sympatico.ca

The error that is reported is
Code: 
Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://sympatico.msn.ca/?newguid=97015f499ee54b84a3a615829c0a62dc&newguid=97015f499ee54b84a3a615829c0a62dc&newguid=97015f499ee54b84a3a615829c0a62dc&newguid=97015f499ee54b84a3a615829c0a62dc&newguid=97015f499ee54b84a3a615829c0a62dc&newguid=97015f499ee54b84a3a615829c0a62dc&newguid=97015f499ee54b84a3a615829c0a62dc&newguid=97015f499ee54b84a3a615829c0a62dc”.
This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.

It seems the site does do some redirects, but I am not certain if they changed their site or if Safari simply started to not permit this. Firefox has no problem displaying this URL (or the end result URL).

Anyone have any thoughts?
 
eric2006 said:
Why do you have that long string of junk after the main page? Did you log in, or is your browser trying to log you in? Try reseting Safari, in the Safari menu. Does this page open? http://sympatico.msn.ca/
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I type in the URL I specified, or the URL that you indicated, and the resulting URL that is displayed is the one that I indicated. This is being generated by their site, not me. Not certain why.
 
eric2006 said:
Try opening the same site in Firefox.
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As stated in the original post -- no problems opening the same URLs using Firefox, only with Safari, which is what is so odd.

As I indicated, I do not know if this is the result only of a change in the ISP site that Safari now complains about, or if the site always operated this way and one of the updates to Safari introduced this issue.
 
Have you reset Safari? This will delete cookies, cache, etc.. The same site opens in Safari with no problems for me.
 
eric2006 said:
Have you reset Safari? This will delete cookies, cache, etc.. The same site opens in Safari with no problems for me.
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I had tried this before to no avail, but this time it seems to have done the trick.

Any idea what -- in the material that is cleared by the reset -- would have been causing the problem?
 
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