Home/ Questions/Q 8282345
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-08T10:20:34+00:00

Safari on a Mac has a Block cookies set to From third parties and

  • 0

Safari on a Mac has a Block cookies set to From third parties and advertisers by default.

It stops the SharedObject from working if the embedded swf is from a different domain.

This problem isn’t new:
Safari 3rd party cookie iframe trick no longer working?

Has anyone found a solution (other then passing the Session ID through GET/POST params in each request)?

NOTE:
I have no access to the site, which is embedding the swf, so there is no way to alter that HTML or to put any JavaScript, etc.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team
    function setCookie(){
   if ( navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') != -1 &&
        navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Chrome') == -1 ){
      window.open('safari.php','','width=200,height=100' );
   }
}

// then we set the cookie in safari.php

    Source: http://www.reizbombardement.de/archives/safari-5-1-4-enforces-cookie-policy

    //UPDATE 23 July 2013

    This crappy way of fixing this issue used to work until Safari 6.

    Please see @Fabio Antunes and @ncubica comments below.

    //UPDATE 23 July 2013 by Fabio Antunes

    Here’s my code

    On the landing page we’ll have a brief description about the app and a button saying something like “enter”. I’m using jquery to simplify this process, creating a listener for the click event, I’ll just put the javascript code, since I’m assuming you already have the rest of the html code for the landing page:

    $(document).on("click", "#bt-landing", function(){
var left = (screen.width/2)-(500/2);
            var top = (screen.height/2)-(250/2);
            window.open('URL_FOR_THE_PHP_THAT_WILL_CREATE_THE_SESSION', '_blank', 'width=500,height=250,toolbar=0,location=0,menubar=0, top='+top+', left='+left);
});

    This you’ll open a small window, with 500 by 250 px, centered on your screen.

    The code I have for the small window is this:

    <?php setcookie("safari_cookie", "1");?>
    <html>
        <head>
            <meta charset="utf-8">
            <title>THE NAME OF YOUR APP OR SOMETHING THAT THE USER WE'LL READ AND ASSUME THAT THIS SMALL WINDOW IS RELIABLE</title>
        </head>
        <body>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function(){
           setTimeout(function(){window.close()},1000);
        })
        </script>
        </body>
    </html
    • 0