ViewState invalid only in Safari *

Question

One of the sites I maintain relies heavily on use of ViewState (it isn't my code). However, on certain pages where the ViewState is extra-bloated, Safari throws a "Validation of viewstate MAC failed" error.

This appears to only happen in Safari. Firefox, IE and Opera all load successfully in the same scenario.

Answer

I've been doing a little research into this and whilst I'm not entirely sure its the cause I believe it is because Safari is not returning the full result set (hence cropping it).

I have been in dicussion with another developer and found the following post on Channel 9 as well which recommends making use of the SQL State service to store the viewstate avoiding the postback issue and also page size.

http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/250549-ASPNET-ViewState-flawed-architecture/?CommentID=270477#263702

Does this seem like the best solution?

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