Well, it's the way the system is architected -- we are using QuickLook plugins for icon badging, and that badging depends on the state of certain elements of the filesystem which is maintained in a separate server process.
<sigh> Best, Dalmazio On 2009-12-08, at 5:09 AM, Mike Abdullah wrote: > I'm pretty certain Apple disallows use of non-file URLs in Quick Look > generators for the simple reason that a generator should run as quickly as > possible. Generators should also be fairly standalone - why do you need to > POST to generate a preview/thumbnail? > > On 8 Dec 2009, at 10:13, Dalmazio Brisinda wrote: > >> I'm writing a QuickLook plugin that, as part of the preview process, makes >> an http call to a (localhost) server to obtain data that is then used to >> generate the preview image. >> >> The code below works fine outside the QuickLook architecture, as a standard >> Cocoa application. But as soon as I move the (exact) same code over to the >> QuickLook plugin, a call to the server only returns (null) response, and >> (null) data. The docs indicate that this means the connection is failing. >> But why o why is it failing? >> >> If I print the contents of the NSError object to the console, I get the >> following message: >> >> 09-12-08 3:02:05 AM quicklookd[37158] error: Error >> Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 UserInfo=0x10049d880 "The operation >> couldn’t be completed. Operation not permitted" >> >> It appears that sendSynchronousRequest:... is not permitted. So why is this >> operation not permitted? And is there a workaround? Any help would be most >> appreciated. >> >> NSURL * url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString]; >> NSMutableURLRequest * request = [NSMutableURLRequest >> requestWithURL:url]; >> >> [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"]; >> [request setHTTPBody:[params dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; >> [request setTimeoutInterval:5]; >> >> NSError * error; >> NSURLResponse * response; >> NSData * data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request >> returningResponse:&response error:&error]; >> >> Best, >> Dalmazio >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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/cocoadev%40mikeabdullah.net >> >> This email sent to cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net > _______________________________________________ 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
