On Dec 8, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Dalmazio Brisinda wrote:

> Thanks for that. Okay, I see the QuickLook docs sort of allude to this in 
> regards to using Web-Kit plugins within QuickLook generators. Which gets me 
> thinking: would it then be possible to maybe connect to the server via local 
> distributed objects instead of using the NSURLConnection framework? In 
> otherwords, how deep does the sandbox go?


Sandbox restrictions are process-wide.

> 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.

If the process is local you might try Unix domain sockets.

Overall, you might have a better chance of getting help with this on 
Quicklook-dev, or perhaps Darwin-dev (for the sandboxing stuff).
--
David Duncan
Apple DTS Animation and Printing

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