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On Jul 18, 2012, at 7:09 AM, Emmanuel LEVY wrote:

FWIW, Smile can be that proxy application.

You have one command in Smile's dictionary to open a listening app's port and to hook a handler to be called when a request is sent - typically the handler would mostly be "do script".

And you have one command to send a request to a listening remote app. We use it very much :-)

Emmanuel

On Jul 17, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Jon Pugh wrote:

On Jul 16, 2012, at 10:59 PM, John wrote:
How can I send a display dialog to a remote machine via EPPC?

tell application "System Events" of machine "eppc://user:password@host"
       display dialog "hi"
   end tell
--> error "Finder got an error: A privilege violation occurred." number -10004

tell application "Finder" of machine "eppc://user:password@host" -- output of first script
  display dialog "hi"
end tell
--> http://i.stack.imgur.com/EVWNS.png

In trying to get this to work, I would declare a method in an AppleScript app on the remote machine (try launching it on your own machine and target localhost, and practice starting it up. Then declare a method in it, like "HI()". Inside of Hi, make a log out to the console and display a dialog.

Practice starting that app up ala AppleScript, practice messaging to it on your machine. Look at the output in the console and verify that a dialog is displayed. Then, move it to another Mac - with the same version of the OS - and test it again. I know that there are often problems when trying eppc communication through different versions of the OS.