> I need to develop a background process that gets started on user login to > Mac machine and then onwards it logs whatever operations the user is > performing on Safari.
On OS X, background processes should be implemented as launchd daemons or agents. For your case, you probably want a launchd agent. (A caveat, though, is launchd agents can be unloaded by the user for which it is running, so if your process is security-related, this may not be appropriate, in which case you'll probably have to use some other mechanism.) For more information, Google launchd. > 1. How can my bg process can continuously track Safari, how to do it on > Mac? This isn't going to be easy, and will likely involve some code injection or other hackery. (This list doesn't take kindly to tinkering with black magic, private APIs, etc.) > 2. How can i get information about what url is user visiting in safari, get > notified when a new tab is open, get information about what media contents > (images, streaming media etc) is present on the webpage etc. See #1; unfortunately, I'd be very surprised if this degree of granularity (notifications when new tabs are created, etc.) is possible exclusively with public APIs. It sounds like you're implementing some sort of parental or spy utility. Judgements aside, might I suggest monitoring the HTTP traffic, rather than attempting to hook into Safari? I'd imagine you'd have more luck with that. Anyway, as mentioned, this is getting dangerously close to "the line" as far as this list is concerned, so... yeah. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
