I have just started to get a pop-up in Safari which says: WebProcess wants to sign using key "Apple ID Authentication 2011-12-26 17:26:47 GMT - 08:00 in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item? What does this mean? Should I allow?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
So what web page were you accessing when the pop-up came up?
The web page I was accessing was a search for lodging information.
(Let's go up and back). Can you post the link?
Here is the link:
http://www.sunmountainlodge.com/
In my search for lodging I went into - http://www.methowlodging.com/ and the Sun Mountain Lodge was a choice of multiple listings. I think it may have also come up on other selections, but I'm not totally sure. I just went into the Sun Mountain link and the pop-up did come up again.
I went to the websties using Google Chrome and had no problems. When I went to the first one in Safari I got this and it had certificates below it wanted me to chose (I clicked no and it was fine):
I was able to access the second one in Safari without any popups of any kind
I had no problems.
I use Lion + Safari 5.1.2 and I also have this stupid issue.
The problem is not matter what I click: I cannot access the website afterwards (it cannot get loaded!).
In Firefox everything works just fine!
Does anyone know what actually causes that problem?
Are you using Little Snitch?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191913?start=0&tstart=0
Maybe this?
http://answers.downloadatoz.com/q,11694,safari-5-1-webprocess-pop-ups-issue-fix. html
nabster83 and harley22, I had the same issue (even with my own server). The problem arises when the remote webpage requires a client certificate – which is rare. Additionally, this makes only sense, if the webpage requires the client certificate optionally, which is even rarer. Finally, you need to have only a single client certificate in your Apple Keychain (for example the Apple ID one). Then Apple Keychain asks you whether to sign.
My solution:
Because that Apple certificate is going to come back when you use iChat for example, this is not a long-term solution. Therefore, I filled a bug report (radar://14426316). Until this is resolved, the only solution I see, is to use another Internet browser.
double post, sorry
BDAqua, good idea, because Little Snitch gives a similar warning message. However, this one here is about signing rather than connecting. Here it is a message from Apple Keychain rather than Little Snitch.
Your second link points to an answer created by an robot, because it explains how to disable HTML pop-up windows. The error message mentioned there is actually coming from Little Snitch.
Or stated differently: Both of your links do not relate to this issue here.
I got rid of these pop-ups by running Keychain First Aid in the Keychain Access app. This post has more details: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5083116?answerId=22175676022#22175676022
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