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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:05:25 -0500
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I found a solution for the problem.

It seems that Safari will accepts a relative URL for the XHR but does 
NOT post it to the root domain. Setting the the the URL to 
"https://mydomain.com/ws/myaction.jsp" worked. It appears Safari was 
posting relative, ie, my calling resource is located at 
https://mydomain.com/someDir/somePage.html such that a URL of 
"/ws/myaction.jsp" is posted to 
"https://mydomain.com/someDir/ws/myaction.jsp".

None of the other browsers do this..bug???