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Re: Panther and Firewall API?
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Re: Panther and Firewall API?


  • Subject: Re: Panther and Firewall API?
  • From: Quinn <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:43:08 +0100

At 22:44 -0700 27/8/03, Ryan McGann wrote:
This gives me the creeps.

I tend to agree. The proposal I put in my bug, <rdar://problem/3320556>, is to provide an API so that an application can check whether its port is being blocked by the firewall. Thus, the application can warn the user that they won't be able to connect to the server from anything other than the local host. This may or may not be a problem, depending on the user's setup.

Personally I think that an API to open a hole in the firewall defeats the whole purpose of the firewall. OTOH, I don't make the final decision on this, which is why I encourage folks to file bugs describing what they're trying to do and what they want. That way our networking engineering team can come up with a plan based on a more complete understanding of the problem.

Still, any such changes are not going to happen in the Panther time frame.

S+E
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Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware
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