Wordpress Safari Problem

I had a problem tonight with a Wordpress blog that was recently upgraded to version 2.6.2 hosted with MediaTemple.

Typically when upgrade issues occur I simply recommend clients clear their cookies and browser cache.  That wouldn't work with Safari.

The login page simply kept refreshing.

It turned out the fix that was needed was to go to into Safari > Preferences > Security and allow cookies from all sites.  Logging in worked once, and then I was able to reset the security settings to normal.

I believe this problem stemmed from MediaTemple's GridServer reporting a different cookie referrer.

Hope this helps someone out there.  Long live the long tail.