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Safari has a tendency to hang when uploading files, and it turns out there’s an easy fix. Looking around for a solution, I found this post outlining a way to fix it that the author found on the Basecamp. It’s just a couple of lines of code, and here they are in Mootools syntax:

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$$('input[type=submit]').addEvent('click',function(e) {
    if (Browser.Engine.webkit) {
        new Request({url: "/ping/close.php", asynch:false }).send();
    }
}

This version will fire for every WebKit browser, which now also includes Chrome, so choose whatever sniffing method you like, but this will make a call to a PHP script returning a “Connection: close” header just before sending the upload.

Here’s that simple PHP:

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    header("Connection: close");

Safari upload problem solved.