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.
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