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Possible to listen on localhost only w/o getting Firewall alert?
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  • Subject: Possible to listen on localhost only w/o getting Firewall alert?
  • From: Mac QA <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:17:50 -0400

Hi,

The first time one opens a socket to listen in their app then the Mac
OS X pops up that typical alert dialog that reads "Do you want to the
application "MyApp.app" to accept incoming network connections?"
Question: if your app only needs to listen for connections from the
localhost (not any network address), just to talk to another process
on the same machine, is there a way to do that without causing the Mac
OS X Firewall to produce that alert dialog?

MacQAGuy
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