My fix is very simple: after shutting down all Internet-related application,
I did open the Authoxy preferences pane. I then fixed the user ID and
password. Quit System Preferences and relaunched it. I made sure the proxy
user ID and password were still fine. Then, I did quit again System
Preferences. I did retrieve the Authoxy preference file. I then proceeded to
lock the file in the Finder.
Haha, very clever! Two things though:
The only time "noone" should appear is when the prefPane can't find (or read) the preference file. It creates a new one and puts the noone thing in by default. Very odd that you would be seeing this after you have already run the pref pane once. I'll be investigating this further.
Second, the prefPane writes information about the daemon process to the preference file after you click the Start
button. The information is important when you go to stop the daemon. Locking the preference file (depending on when you do it - I think you might be fine because the daemon was already started) may disable this feature, meaning the daemon can't be stopped through the pref pane! If this is the case, just use the Process Viewer or something to kill the daemon if you so wish.
Since then, I haven't had a single instance of the proxy user ID and
password being changed. I did try WeatherMenu most of the day yesterday, and
it was obviously unable to connect to the NWS, so I did shut it down. I
haven't had any further problem. When I got home, I turned WeatherMenu back
on and it didn't have any problem to connect to NWS, since there was no
longer a firewall.
Very odd indeed.
The automatic proxy still doesn't work for secured web sites. I'll send you
the config file privately, Heath.
I have your config file now (it's a beauty! Lots of investigation to do there) so I'll work through it and see if there are any issues.
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