Re: [cgiirc-general] cgiirc-0.5.7 and Safari

[David L. <dg...@dg...>]

Basically Safari doesn't always support streams that CGI:IRC use, so 
therefore it will not always work on Safari, this is a Safari problem.

The message comes from CGI:IRC because it notices this and so 
recommends you use Firefox.

There is a workaround but unfortunately it's not something you can 
really tell users to do:
- Enable the Debug menu in Safari,
- Near the bottom there is a 'Supported Protocols' option,
- Remove the tick next to 'http: (Simple Loader)' (leaving CFNetwork 
Loader ticked),
- CGI:IRC should work.

You have to do this each time you run Safari too, so it's not really a 
long term workaround. The reason it sometimes seems to work is Safari 
presumably chooses to use the CFNetwork loader - I don't know why this 
is though. If you want to test it try 
http://dgl.otherwize.co.uk/teststream.cgi with the different loaders.

David.