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by michaelbuckbee 1688 days ago
I had the weird experience of someone reporting that a SSL issue was occurring in Safari but not with Chrome.

After a bunch of investigation and rabbit holes it turned out that it was an app issue where the "_" character wasn't being filtered from sub-domains.

https://my_name.domain.com -> works in Chrome, not in Safari

This is interesting to me as Safari is _correct_ in their implementation (that the underscore character isn't valid in domains), but again an instance of FF+Chrome working where Safari doesn't.

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> This is interesting to me as Safari is _correct_ in their implementation (that the underscore character isn't valid in domains), but again an instance of FF+Chrome working where Safari doesn't

It's IE/Netscape all over again; a big driver of bugs back in the day was the one of them (usually but not always IE) was overly tolerant of some sort of bad behaviour).