Cameron Yule

Safari Flash caching issue solved in 10.5.3

Just to confirm that the bug in Safari (and WebKit) which prevented caching of SWF files has been fixed by the recent 10.5.3 update to OS X.

There’s no information on the 10.5.3 support page about the fix, but from a quick read of some related WebKit bug reports (18972 and 19144) it seems likely an unreported patch to CFNetwork has done the trick.

Discovered this by chance this morning when checking over a site we’re launching soon and noticed the files were loading too fast not to be cached!

Published on June 4, 2008 in Flash
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SY commented on 17/09/2008:

10.5.4, is not caching.

Cameron commented on 17/09/2008:

Hi SY, I just checked on both 10.5.4 and 10.5.5 machines and caching is definitely working for me.

Alan commented on 16/03/2009:

I’m using 10.5.6, and Safari is still not caching flash files!

Cameron commented on 22/03/2009:

Hi Alan. Safari is still caching flash files correctly for me.

Have you inspected the HTTP headers being returned with the request serving the file(s) to ensure all is well there?

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