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GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-so-much-with-the-go dept.

zackmac writes "For over two weeks domain registrar GoDaddy has been serving blank pages to Safari and Opera users who attempt to access sites using its domain forwarding and masking service. GoDaddy is blaming Apple as the source of the problem, and with nowhere to turn, Mac users are flocking to Apple's support forums to discuss the issue in-depth. Apple has so far been unresponsive and GoDaddy has directed affected customers to contact Apple Support. An inconvienent workaround is to open the website first in Firefox or Internet Explorer and then the page will load in Safari or Opera. Speculation abounds as to the cause of the problem and how to fix it. The current belief is malformed headers, an invalid 302 header with a bogus location and a redirect loop."

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  1. Re:Can anyone confirm this? by ThinkingInBinary · · Score: 2, Funny
    Anyone with Oprah...have trouble...?

    I didn't know Oprah could surf the web!

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  2. GoDaddy can... by pebs · · Score: 3, Funny

    GoDaddy can GoFuckThemSelves

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  3. Re:Should be easy to troubleshoot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Anyone sufficiently technically savvy, with a knowledge of the HTTP protocol, with 5 min of free time could tcpdump the traffic to immediately identify the origin of the problem.

    We are talking about Apple users here.

  4. Re:GAP.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    like omg they so bad omg omgomg

  5. Re:Apple's fault? by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 2, Funny
    GoDaddy blames Apple for both Safari and Opera simultaneously ceasing to work? That's a nice trick

    They're blaming global warming too.

  6. Proud book club member by twollamalove · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did this guy just call my browser Oprah?

  7. GoDaddy's Next Superbowl Commercial by deadelm · · Score: 2, Funny

    GoDaddy's superbowl commercial for this year should be BLANK! That'd be an accurate representation of the service.

  8. Re:Can anyone confirm this? by Gojira+Shipi-Taro · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well it takes a surfboard the size of CVN-65 Enterprise, but she can just manage it with a stiff breeze. *

    oh... the web. No. She can't do that.

    * Yes I know she's in her "waning" phase and not particularly fat right now, but just wait.

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  9. Re:Apple's fault? by tsm_sf · · Score: 5, Funny

    "being a medical doctor, and speaking a little conversational french, I feel it's safe to say that I know more than a little about browser compliance"

    -Michael Crichton

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  10. Re:GAP.com by heinousjay · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've got bigger problems than that, my friend - someone who claims to love you keeps trying to dress you in gap clothes

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  11. Re:Can anyone confirm this? by JourneyExpertApe · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Anyone with Oprah or Safari have trouble getting to it?"

    Oprah? That some kind of bloatware version of Firefox or something?

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  12. Re:Blaming apple?? by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny
    another vendor (whom I can't name)

    Does it rhyme with "Crisco"?

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  13. Re:Can anyone confirm this? by bhtooefr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently she can ;)

  14. Re:FTFA by ogl_codemonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, someone didn't verify their facts before posting on slashdot.

    In other news, Earth discovered to be round.

  15. Re:Blaming apple?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    btw, it might be Oracle.

  16. Re:It's a pity. by SleepyHappyDoc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Define an agile browser, please.

    An agile browser is one that can perform complex gymnastic manoevres while simultanously rendering web pages.

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  17. Firefox fanboys by dodongo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly, these guys are MoCo hacks and Firefox fanboys. This is the insidious arm of the "Spread Firefox" campaign :)

  18. Re:Does my site work? by dindi · · Score: 2, Funny

    lynx www.justoneclubcard.com

    Looking up www.justoneclubcard.com first
    Looking up www.justoneclubcard.com
    Making HTTP connection to www.justoneclubcard.com
    Sending HTTP request.
    HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
    HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
    Data transfer complete

    lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
                Exiting...

    sorry dude :( and it has nothing to do with apple, jre, java or safari or SCO ... it is lynx on linux ..

    oh wait didn't linux contain SCO code ?

  19. Re:Blaming apple?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    btw, the vendor's name rhymes with "sporacle."

  20. Re:This is NOT a bug by SendBot · · Score: 4, Funny

    stealyourpassword.com is not a registered domain name.

    It is now:

    Domain Name: STEALYOURPASSWORD.COM
    Status: ACTIVE
    Creation Date: 08-dec-2005