application loader stuck at the stage of "Authenticating with the iTunes Store"

Question

I was about to upload an app to iTunes connect,but the application loader has been stuck at the stage of "Authenticating with the iTunes Store" and pending for almost an hour.Network is fine and I have never seen this before.Has anybody encountered this kind of issue? what is the solution?thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I had this problem when behind a firewall.

I got around it by editing:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Application\ Loader.app/Contents/MacOS/itms/java/lib/net.properties 

If you do not find net.properties in above mentioned path then try, as it is changed now.

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Application\ Loader.app/Contents/itms/java/lib/net.properties 

Change the line:

# https.proxyPort=443

To:

https.proxyPort=80

This enables the application to use the HTTP port for HTTPS. Worked straight away after this. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

To be honest, this may not be an answer but it really worked for me.

1. I launched Application Loader and started submitting. While sumbitting was going on,
2. I launched Organiser and select Distribution over archiver in Xcode as well and started uploading concurrent.

They worked together and 2nd one completed the submission.

Just my experience.

Answer 3

I tried many solutions like using port 80 for https connection but none of the solution worked for me.

https.proxyPort=443

to https.proxyPort=80

Whenever I face this issue, I upload application from two different instances of application loader and it works like a charm.

I have two different versions of application loader on my machine, one came with XCode4 and one came with XCode5. It always works if I upload application from two instances simultaneously.