Re: Possible to listen on localhost only w/o getting Firewall alert?
Re: Possible to listen on localhost only w/o getting Firewall alert?
- Subject: Re: Possible to listen on localhost only w/o getting Firewall alert?
- From: Gordon Scott <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:41:42 -0700
Try using a unix domain socket instead of a tcp socket?
On May 16, 2011 2:18 PM, "Mac QA" <
email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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