proxy authentication required dialog not going away

Hi everyone. This is an interesting thread, i've read most of it. Im running OSX 10.9.3, using Safari and Chrome. I am a proxy tester for my company and need to be able to configure a static proxy assignment on my settings to test filtering issues at different sites. By static, i mean that I configure the proxy IP address and port in settings. I cannot test Safari behaviour at different sites without being able to statically assign a Proxy in this manner. To solve this, I've configured the explicit proxy settings under Network > Advanced > Proxies in my macbook pro OSX 10.9.3 (Mavericks) OS . Our proxy at work does not require authentication so I dont have a pop up, however no matter what I do my Safari and Google Chrome traffic is not going through the Proxy. The way I test whether the Proxy settings work or not is by going to http://whatismyipaddress.com and confirming I should get the IP address of the remote site, not my local internet surfing IP address. Everytime I configure the static proxy I continue to get my local internet surfing IP address (aka "surfing NAT"), and not the remote Proxy's external IP address as I do on Windows machines. The keychain solution doesnt seem like it will help, besides I cannot find anything called a "keychain" in Finder, and System Preferences takes me to iCloud. I've rebooted the machine 2 or 3 times with the same results. Could Apple really have left this big a problem unchecked/unfixed 3 versions after the release of Mavericks?

I think you didn't understand... It seems that your proxy doesn't ask for an "authentication" pop-up, so you don't have the same problem. "Keychain" is an application in which are stored all your saved passwords, including key proxy. Not part of either the finder or the preference pane. Look at Aplications/utilities/keychain.

If you use proxy authentication, open the keychain and copy de saved keys located in "user" on the left side, and paste them in "system". Don't forget to open the proprieties of each key (http and https) and alow all aplications to acess those items.

I have gone through a few of the replies, so apologies if I am double posting.

Firstly, regarding the persistent proxy (with the redtop sign exclamation) I have been told that this is due to perhaps an older proxy being used. Now whether this is server, software, policies, etc, our tech team have not advised, but obviously something is not liking the OS X environment and from my understanding this is only happening from 10.6 or 10.7 (right?). This does only happen on Mac, and yes - it is frustrating. It is basically the need for the proxy server to authenticate on every little bit of information outside of the organisation's servers, so for instance, using iTunes as the example, the pop-up will keep coming up for every album artwork image being read from outside your organization, for every request being made back to Apple to retrieve album metadata (including images/artwork) and so forth. Once validated once (one time) for each bit of information, if you were to refresh the view and new content is available, you would have to authenticate again for each bit of new information. This does not help that iTunes may make requests back to Apple to retrieve updated information of existing material you may already have authenticated against your proxy.

So I do not have an answer for the above.

Below however, in reading some people's comments, there may be slight confusion with a proxy authentication pop-up which appears in Safari, but that cannot be typed into or cancelled out of... quite frustrating and took my a while to fiddle with my settings (as I dislike using third-party tools such as Authoxy etc), but here goes.

What I found solved the stubborn proxy authentication pop-up for me is by the following steps:

• go into the Network option within System Preferences
• select the network interface you are using/connected to (WiFi, ethernet, etc)
• click the advanced button
• select the proxy tab (in my case I use the automatic proxy configuration but this is just a FYI )
• in the Bypass proxy settings for these hosts & domains i included the full url followed by /* - for example, if safari is getting stuck on running video's on a website called www.example.com, and although you have the *.example.com in the bypass section, I included www.example.com/*

This resolved my issue. From my understanding, this proxy popup appears and cannot be accessed only on safari for automatically playing videos on a website, whereby a proxy server is configured.

I hope this helps any of you.

fabio

Thanks this soo worked:)

Not sure what is going on, I delete all proxy related key and re-create again in login and system keychain.

Still I receive the HTTPS proxy authentication windows and this is so annoying.

Yosemite 10.10 safari 8.

Thaaanks! It works, I was going crazy with that window asking me all the time my password. Thank you so much.

Hello, I think i may have the same problem as you but exatly the opposite...

A month ago, i started my new college, and in the rooms they had ethernet that i could connect my mac to,

i had to set up a HTTP & HTTPS in my network preferences with an account & password.. after a lot of frustration i got the internet to work, every time i got the message 'allow keychain to acces such and such application or setting with that account... i pressed always allow.

And now im home, i try and connect to the wifi, and my mac wont see my own house wifi network which i've connected to thousands of times before, in fact it wont see any network, at all

i've tried everything apple told me to do, and there is still no wifi....

help!

Hi Chris,

I works perfectly even with Sierra !

Thanks a lot !