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David
David

Reputation: 16726

Safari 5 on Mac hangs on uploading files

I have a user who is using the latest version of OSX and Safari. When he tries to upload a file through a form, it hangs (spinner spinning) but nothing happened. I did some reasearch and found this:

http://airbladesoftware.com/notes/note-to-self-prevent-uploads-hanging-in-safari

This fixed problems in previous versions of Safari, but obviously not Safari 5.

I was wondering if anyone else has any ideas how to resolve this? There was some mentioned of it being related to persistent http connections (thus the fix above) and I am using PHP (but I don't think that matters).

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1963

Answers (2)

L Brown
L Brown

Reputation: 21

Well I found out that in my case the issue is definitely depending on the file content. When uploading a particular JPG file it fails in 8 from 10 attempts (Safari 5.5.1, but here's the seldom case where IE does a better job;-).

When loading and exporting the JPG file with Mac's Preview creating a new JPG fixes the problem disappears. Unfortunately nothing that helps to fix the problem but maybe worth to give Safari users a hint.

Upvotes: 2

Stephen
Stephen

Reputation: 18917

I've had some success sending the connection: close header to solve this issue.

Add

 header("connection: close");

to the code that handles the file upload. It doesn't seem to solve the issue 100% but it certainly improves it. note that it's case sensitive: "Connection: close" won't work.

Upvotes: 1

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