Seems that the latest Safari update with the latest Mavericks stops HTML5 videos (.m4v) files to play from password protected directories. Its just stuck at Loading. Removing .hataccess file allows them to play again. Has anyone else notice this problem? Site is running on Apache Web Server.
There are post on Apple Forums about this or this link also.
There’s a clue in the SO article that’s linked from the one you posted: do you have the m4v file-type in your MIME-types on that server? Can you check whether it is being served with the proper Content-type header?
Walter
On Jun 19, 2014, at 3:04 AM, RA wrote:
Seems that the latest Safari update with the latest Mavericks stops HTML5 videos (.m4v) files to play from password protected directories. Its just stuck at Loading. Removing .hataccess file allows them to play again. Has anyone else notice this problem? Site is running on Apache Web Server.
There are post on Apple Forums about this or this link also.
There’s a clue in the SO article that’s linked from the one you posted: do you have the m4v file-type in your MIME-types on that server? Can you check whether it is being served with the proper Content-type header?
Walter
On Jun 19, 2014, at 3:04 AM, RA wrote:
Seems that the latest Safari update with the latest Mavericks stops HTML5 videos (.m4v) files to play from password protected directories. Its just stuck at Loading. Removing .hataccess file allows them to play again. Has anyone else notice this problem? Site is running on Apache Web Server.
There are post on Apple Forums about this or this link also.
But now I’m thinking that I remember resetting Safari after a problem with an extension. When I logged back on the secure site, I forgot to check the box to add the username, password to Keychain. That was it. I had forgotten that Safari unlike Firefox does not allow access even after you log in to a htaccess password protected directory, unless you add it to the keychain. Silly me I forgot that Safari does that but not Firefox. I wonder why? Thanks for jogging my memory when I checked that htaccess-MIME type.
Firefox is way less Mac-centric than Safari (naturally) and it rarely avails itself of core OS frameworks like the Keychain and QuickTimeX, preferring whatever can be exactly the same cross-platform, even if that means they have to reinvent the wheel. Kinda like Adobe that way.
Walter
On Jun 19, 2014, at 1:59 PM, RA wrote:
On 19 Jun 2014, 11:05 am, waltd wrote:
There’s a clue in the SO article that’s linked from the one you posted: do you have the m4v file-type in your MIME-types on that server? Can you check whether it is being served with the proper Content-type header?
Walter
On Jun 19, 2014, at 3:04 AM, RA wrote:
Seems that the latest Safari update with the latest Mavericks stops HTML5 videos (.m4v) files to play from password protected directories. Its just stuck at Loading. Removing .hataccess file allows them to play again. Has anyone else notice this problem? Site is running on Apache Web Server.
There are post on Apple Forums about this or this link also.
But now I’m thinking that I remember resetting Safari after a problem with an extension. When I logged back on the secure site, I forgot to check the box to add the username, password to Keychain. That was it. I had forgotten that Safari unlike Firefox does not allow access even after you log in to a htaccess password protected directory, unless you add it to the keychain. Silly me I forgot that Safari does that but not Firefox. I wonder why? Thanks for jogging my memory when I checked that htaccess-MIME type.