I use a Powerbook running 10.3.8 all up-to-date, but have been experiencing the below-described behaviour which is annoying (if not critical) and for which searching on the forums and the Web has turned up no clues.
Under "Network Preferences" I have enabled the proxy setting for both http and https - it is an authenticated proxy, so I also typed in my username and password for this service. I have checked that it has been stored correctly in the keychain.
However, whenever Safari starts up I am presented with a dialog to log in to the proxy server - it has correctly grabbed my username from the Network preferences, but not the password. So I type it in, and check the "Remember password" box. But for some reason, if the page that I am viewing has several images (or maybe other things, but I think images is the issue), I am then repeatedly asked to retype the same password - over and over again, until the whole page is loaded. If I subsequently go to a page that has a Java applet on, then the whole procedure is repeated.
The same thing happens with Mail if someone sends HTML mail - for the first message I have to log in multiple times in order to proceed.
Worse still, if I hit "Cancel" instead of logging in, then the dialog just comes back up again and again, so eventually I have to log in to the proxy (and again, often multiple times)
For various other applications - for example, Software Update, I am presented with a different dialog saying that ".. requests permission to use the proxy password in the keychain".
So, does anyone have any clues as to
(a) why I am sometimes asked for a password that is already known to be stored in the keychain,
(b) why I am asked for it over and over again in viewing a single document, despite checking "remember this password", and
(c) why some applications are able to correctly pull it out of the keychain?
Thanks
Gordon
Under "Network Preferences" I have enabled the proxy setting for both http and https - it is an authenticated proxy, so I also typed in my username and password for this service. I have checked that it has been stored correctly in the keychain.
However, whenever Safari starts up I am presented with a dialog to log in to the proxy server - it has correctly grabbed my username from the Network preferences, but not the password. So I type it in, and check the "Remember password" box. But for some reason, if the page that I am viewing has several images (or maybe other things, but I think images is the issue), I am then repeatedly asked to retype the same password - over and over again, until the whole page is loaded. If I subsequently go to a page that has a Java applet on, then the whole procedure is repeated.
The same thing happens with Mail if someone sends HTML mail - for the first message I have to log in multiple times in order to proceed.
Worse still, if I hit "Cancel" instead of logging in, then the dialog just comes back up again and again, so eventually I have to log in to the proxy (and again, often multiple times)
For various other applications - for example, Software Update, I am presented with a different dialog saying that ".. requests permission to use the proxy password in the keychain".
So, does anyone have any clues as to
(a) why I am sometimes asked for a password that is already known to be stored in the keychain,
(b) why I am asked for it over and over again in viewing a single document, despite checking "remember this password", and
(c) why some applications are able to correctly pull it out of the keychain?
Thanks
Gordon