[Safari 3.2.1] Authenticated RSS Feeds Don't Remember Password

Question

Hello there,
I am using Safari 3.2.1 on OS X 10.5.6. Machine is a 2.5 ghz Core 2 Duo MBP. For work, I use a number of RSS feeds that use authentication - I think HTTP basic auth. The feeds themselves are HTTPS, so the URLs look like:
feed:https://foobar.com/etc
The issue is that Safari won't retain keychain access for these feeds between restarts. So I open Safari, and the feed shows no new articles on the bookmark bar. I click on the bookmark, and I am prompted for the username and password. I check the box that says "add to keychain," and the feed continues to work as long as I'm running Safari. Shutting it down clears the cached credentials though, and then I am prompted again - even though I added the password to the keychain. When I open keychain access, I see a stored password for:
https://foobar.com
Any ideas? This is really hurting my workflow with RSS feeds for my job.

Answer 1

For your own sanity's sake and future sake of your system, you should run a disk block check using Apple Hardware Test, TechTool Deluxe or Pro, or DiskWarrior, whichever you have available.
The disk I/O error is a real phenomenon - there was a disk error reading a block on the disk.
By deleting the file in question, the bad block was released back into the free disk block pool, meaning it will show up in some other file in the future if it's actually a physical bad block on the disk.
What's more likely is that it was a block written with a bad checksum, which means the bad block will correct itself the next time that block on the disk is written to, so you may not see it again even if you use one of the disk tools I mentioned above.
But it's always good to test to make sure it isn't a physical bad block that will come back to haunt you when some other file on your system uses that disk block.