{"id":13260,"date":"2023-09-27T09:18:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=13260"},"modified":"2023-10-02T08:25:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:25:56","slug":"ah-ha-i-knew-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/09\/27\/ah-ha-i-knew-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah Ha! I knew it…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning<\/span><\/strong>: Geeky Stuff ahead.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I updated to the latest operating system offering from Apple.<\/p>\n

\"IMG<\/p>\n

There haven’t been a lot of issues yet.<\/p>\n

But there has been one, and this issue is across iPad, iPhone, and the Mac OS.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some websites will completely fail to display user credentials stored in Apple\u2019s Password Management System.<\/p>\n

After you get over the initial panic that the IOS or OS upgrade has wiped the thousand or so passwords and IDs that you\u2019ve become so dependent on…<\/p>\n

Your head will clear and then you\u2019ll go look at passwords. As your heart rate slows, you\u2019ll notice a curious thing. Some websites still work. But other websites act brain dead. Instead of Safari offering to fill in your password and id from Apple\u2019s password management system you\u2019re presented with nothing.<\/p>\n

Even typing the first few characters of the user ID will not<\/strong> give you the familiar prompt for face, touch, or master password verification.<\/p>\n

Locating the entry containing the user ID and Password and telling your device to open the website, from the password entry itself will open the site BUT WILL NOT autofill the user ID and Password, so you\u2019re on a site, but you\u2019re not logged in.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s in Safari, and it\u2019s not technically a bug.<\/p>\n

Safari\u2019s security protocols have been updated which is good. But if you log \u00a0into web sites that are not using HTTPS with the new versions of Safari, it will look like the upgrade has flushed the login credentials.<\/p>\n

The issue is HTTPS versus HTTP. Since the entirety of the internet is supposed to be using HTTPS (For your comfort, safety, and protection,) Apple apparently decided that it\u2019s unsafe to allow the password management system to serve up a user ID and Password to a lowly HTTP site.<\/p>\n

On the one hand I can see it. On the other hand there are corporations where their internal HTML pages may require a user ID and Password, BUT where they are not using HTTPS inside the corporate defense ring. This may or may not be good security, but that\u2019s not the issue. The issue is the confusion caused by the way Apple has implemented this change.<\/p>\n

Since there\u2019s absolutely NOTHING, no message, no reaction, no indication, no clue, whatsoever about what is going on, it could leave customers badmouthing Apple, and the new OS.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not because what\u2019s been done is wrong, but because it\u2019s inconvenient! Apple already has trouble in corporate environments due to IT departments inherent Pro Windows bias. They needn\u2019t add any fuel to that fire.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t found the setting to turn this feature off yet. Instead, I just enabled HTTPS on my site. If I find more sites that give me issues, I\u2019ll go digging around to see if there is a setting.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d been holding off because I DONT WANT TO PAY FOR THE SECURITY CREDENTIAL!<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, it costs\u2026 which leads me to begin contemplation about continuing to maintain my own hosting site. Or should I park the unused domains and transfer the live domains to another hosting service.<\/p>\n

Truthfully, I\u2019m becoming less and less pleased with my current hosting provider. I\u2019ll take a look at the contract and decide if I want to continue doing business with them.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re pretty inexpensive if you select longer contract terms, but their quality of service is becoming questionable. Talking to them and solving problems is getting to be just like every other business. You end up talking to someone outside the country who doesn\u2019t really understand what your issue or question is.<\/p>\n

For the moment this HTTP\/HTTPS issue is solved. I\u2019m sure there will be other interesting issues popping up soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warning: Geeky Stuff ahead. Yesterday, I updated to the latest operating system offering from Apple. There haven’t been a lot of issues yet. But there has been one, and this issue is across iPad, iPhone, and the Mac OS.\u00a0 Some websites will completely fail to display user credentials stored in Apple\u2019s Password Management System. After … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Ah Ha! I knew it…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,162,10,9],"tags":[178,220,173,174],"class_list":["post-13260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geeky-stuff","category-modern-problems","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-geeky-stuff","tag-modern-problems","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13290,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions\/13290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}