I thought it was suspicious that I occasionally got prompts for my "real" proxy authentication in Safari after I set up the Network panel to use Authoxy, so on a hunch I created a new location and set it up the same way. iTunes then worked perfectly.
Strange. I did (previous to this) try stopping and starting Authoxy more than once (and even restarting my machine), but still had the same problem. Thanks. -- Daryl On 1/24/06, Laurent Daudelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 24/01/06 13:59, Daryl Spitzer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've got Authoxy set up to login to the proxy server at my office > > (using a pac file). Safari and Firefox work great. > > > > But when I open Music Store in iTunes, I get a "Proxy Authentication > > Required" dialog that reads "To access the Music Store, you need to > > log in to the http proxy server 127.0.0.1:8080." Does this mean for > > some reason Authoxy is requiring authentication from iTunes? (It's > > not requiring authentication from Safari or Firefox.) Has anyone else > > seen this problem? > > I sometimes get this problem when, for one reason or the other, Authoxy > fails to start a new daemon process. Very annoying but the only thing I > found to work is to stop Authoxy and then restart it. Based on a hint at > MacOSXHints.com, I wrote a little application that checks to see if Authoxy > is running properly. It adds a little overhead but at least I know when it's > failing... > > -Laurent. > -- > ============================================================================ > Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> > Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > JCL: /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely rude Job Control Language. JCL is the > script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch > systems. JCL has a very fascist syntax, and some versions will, for example, > barf if two spaces appear where it expects one. Most programmers confronted > with JCL simply copy a working file (or card deck), changing the file names. > Someone who actually understands and generates unique JCL is regarded with > the mixed respect one gives to someone who memorizes the phone book. It is > reported that hackers at IBM itself sometimes sing "Who's the breeder of the > crud that mangles you and me? I-B-M, J-C-L, M-o-u-s-e" to the tune of the > "Mickey Mouse Club" theme to express their opinion of the beast. 2. A > comparative for any very rude software that a hacker is expected to use. > "That's as bad as JCL." As with COBOL, JCL is often used as an archetype of > ugliness even by those who haven't experienced it. See also IBM, fear and > loathing. > > >
