OS X: How to get rid of firewall “accept incoming connections” dialog

Targets Web
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… when running the web application in Debug mode?

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disable firewall?

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Yeah, that’s the security built into the OS. The only way to disable it, that I’m aware of, is to disable the firewall and that is a bad idea.

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one thing came to mind:

maybe if you codesign the web apps in a build step, Mac OS X may trust the app?
I remember there was a setting to allow signed apps by default.

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Yes, you are correct. Code signed apps will not get the message if in the Firewall Options dialog the “Automatically allow signed software to receive incoming connections” is checked.

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Not sure if this is what happens all the time.

I’m running Mavericks here, along with the latest CubeSQL 3 user version. I get the prompt about accepting incoming connections, and have tried just about every combination of firewall and connection settings; still cant get rid of that warning though.

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[quote=149105:@Stephen Thomas]Not sure if this is what happens all the time.

I’m running Mavericks here, along with the latest CubeSQL 3 user version. I get the prompt about accepting incoming connections, and have tried just about every combination of firewall and connection settings; still cant get rid of that warning though.[/quote]
I’m sorry to hear that. On OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite with Xojo 2014r2.1 and the checkbox checked that I referenced above, the prompt about incoming connections is never presented for code signed compiled Web apps or those run from the IDE with the debugger.

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Its not the end of the world, just an inconvenience more thany anything.

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I observe the same with Cyberduck. It did not do that in ML, and started asking for permission in Mavericks.