I have a server in my domain called 'chat' and have a Tomcat server running there on port 8081. On that Tomcat server I have web application the provides an RSS feed. The URL I normally use is: http://char:8081/ds/rss-feeds.do This page is a form allowing me to select the feeds I want from the server. This works correctly. Now when I tell the server that parameters for the RSS I start getting issues. The RSS query is: http://chat:8081/ds/rss.do?report=visits What happens is that I get told: The page you opened redirected you to a page that isn’t supported by Safari. Safari can’t open the page “chat:8081/ds/rss.do?report=visits” because it cannot redirect to locations starting with “chat:”. This is strange since this page works correctly in Firefox (Mac, Linux, Windows), IE6 and Opera. Using wget also shows no redirection happening. I am suspecting that this is something is Safari/Webkit going funny. A few things I have tried: 1 - changing application/rss+xml -> application/xml -- same behaviour 2 - changing application/rss+xml -> text/plain -- same behaviour 3 - changing <rss version="2.0"> to <xxx version="2.0"> -- same behaviour 4 - doing both 3 and 4 -- URL doesn't get mangled 5 - changing host name to 192.168.2.101 or fully qualified chat.mydomain.com -- URL doesn't get mangled This affects Safari 3 and the latest WebKit build (2007-07-18) on the Mac. It also seems focused on RSS being the document type.
RSS-related issues tend to be in closed source code, adding NeedsRadar.
Created attachment 15588 [details] Tomcat web app that reproduces the issue
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(In reply to comment #0) > http://char:8081/ds/rss-feeds.do > http://chat:8081/ds/rss.do?report=visits Is it "char" or "chat"? I assume the first one is a typo?
Oops, both meant to be 'chat'.
The URL parser has changed quite a bit since 2007.