Safari is Stupid for HTTPS

Irritatingly, I clicked “Use SSL” on my WordPress dashboard for the Ted Cruz post I just published, because I didn’t know what that would do. Now, Safari won’t load the page at all. I unchecked the checkbox, but the page still won’t load. I looked closely at the URL and it should be http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2013/09/23/ted-calgary-cruz/ but Safari insists upon loading the “https:” version. As far as I can tell, there is no way to edit URLs directly in Safari, and this behavior persists even after I quit Safari and restarted – I still get taken to the nonexistent “HTTPS” secure version of the page, even if I hand-type the “HTTP” myself.

Safari is Stupid
Safari is Stupid

Grrrrr…

I tried using the “Short URL” version, I tried typing the correct URL, I tried copying and pasting, but all attempts lead instead to the HTTPS version.  

If there is a typo on the page, let me know in comments or email or Twitter, since I can’t see the damn post myself (well, other than in the WordPress Dashboard version, which is not always perfectly accurate). I guess I could click the category archive (Politics), or the tag archive (GOP for instance), but I’m too irritated to do so at the moment.

2 thoughts on “Safari is Stupid for HTTPS

  1. Marty says:

    I think I’ve fixed it. There was a related custom field saved with the post — the value was bank, but the key was still there — which I removed.

  2. nope, still get the same message. I am just going to ignore it – I checked the URL in Safari on an iPad, and it loaded fine. Probably a cache issue or something. Thanks for looking though!

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