For some strange reason we were having a problem with Safari users getting to some of our secure web pages. It turns out that our iplanet web server was not properly reading some of the information in the .htaccess file. We had a line in there for AuthName that had quotes around the value as usual. Such as:
AuthName “Secure Area”
When you do that, iplanet does not set any value for the AuthName. As a result FireFox displays an authorization box with “” where the AuthName value should be and Safari users are not even presented with an auth box at all. Chaning the value to a single word without quotes seems to have solved the problem. So now we have this instead:
AuthName SecureArea
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