[Ward]

The .Mac to MobileMe transition is underway.

When I open http://www.me.com/, OmniWeb 5.8 SP1 is redirected to a MobileMe Login page with a very verbose URL (which I've censored for readablity and possible security):

https://auth.apple.com/authenticate?service=DockStatus&realm=primary-me&returnURL=aHR0cDovL3d35t...9saW5l&destinationUr l=/idisk

When I enter my .Mac username and password, OW begins bouncing back and forth between http://www.me.com/idisk/ and what appears to be the same https://auth.apple.com/authenticate URL. I've let it run for a minute or two a couple of time. One time, the looping ended with a white page reporting "Unauthorized".

When I switched to Firefox 2.0.0.15, the process quickly proceeded to the http://www.me.com/idisk/ home page.

This OmniWeb problem may disappear once the MobileMe transition is complete.

[submitted as formal feedback]

[iNik]

Same here. Firefox and Safari work fine. Turned off ad blocking, plug-ins and other weirdness to ensure that wasn't the problem.

You should send a bug report directly to the Omni folks (via Send Feedback in the Help menu). They get those faster than forum posts.

[Handycam]

Works for me, but didn't right away

First, set up site prefs for me.com and apple.com

Identify as Safari 3.1.1. Set everything else to allow everything: Javascript (all), Java, Cookies from other sites, popups, ads, etc

Works fine now. A little slow first time, but it looks nice so far.

[Handycam]

Oh, and first go to your prefs>cookies (global prefs) and delete cookies from apple.com, auth.apple.com before trying again.

You'll know you re-setted when you see the login screen again. If you don't delete the cookies after a failed login, you're stuck.

[Ward]

Support Ninja David M. suggested similar work-arounds, and I still got into the URL loop.

Thanks to Handycam's suggestion, this time I also unchecked Accept cookies > Only from the current site. That did the trick.

[iNik]

Yeah, that's the stickler. If you can set apple.com to accept cookies from other sites (you don't have to for me.com or mac.com) you'll be fine.

[j-o-s-e]

The thing is that I made it work (for the main page with the calendar, contacts, etc.) no problem after the "unauthorized" problem.

However, when I go to the "Account" button to change account preferences, it prompts you to log in, and does the same "unauthorized" thing again. I tried to change the properties of the page the same as before in OW, but that didn't solve the problem.

...J

[teorema67]

The culprit is Apple, not OmniWeb.

My impression is that Apple intends to exclude the other WebKit based browser.

But OmniWeb is able to show the me.com pages correctly!! There is no technical reason to send the "unsupported browser" error message to OmniWeb users and to place cookies that aim to kick out other browsers.

We all should send requests for allowing OW to display the me.com pages at http://www.apple.com/support/mobileme/contact.html

[xiamenese]

I have problem with MobileMe and Safari, not OW ... Safari won't keep my login ... OW seems to. There seems to me to be a whole mess going on there.

Mark

[darcy1b]

The cookie trick worked for me. I went to Apple.com and clicked on the cookie icon in the Status Bar. Lo and behold there were three rejected cookies from me.com and/or mac.com. I deleted just those cookies, set the site preferences to accept cookies from other sites and told Apple.com that OW is actually Safari 3.1.2. I opened a new tab and was able to log into me.com. Me.com still thinks I'm using OW. The Accounts pane also works for me with this set-up.