On Aug 23, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:45 PM, Rainer Standke wrote: > >> I have a command line tool that uses foundation. When I run that tool from >> the command line it does what I need it to do. This includes sending an >> NSNotification to a Cocoa application via the >> NSDistributedNotificationCenter. >> >> When I call the same command line tool from a php page served by Apache on >> the same machine, the notification is never sent.
I'm new to Cocoa and I may be wrong here but this got me curious. > > Apache isn’t running in the same login context as your app. In fact it’s an > entirely separate user account. Distributed notifications don’t go between > login sessions. That last bit gave me the clue and found the solution in the documentation for NSDistributedNotificationCenter. I just made a test using -postNotificationName:object:userInfo:options: passing under options NSNotificationPostToAllSessions and it worked like a charm, though I don't know if this is considered best practice. (http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSDistributedNotificationCenter_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/c_ref/NSNotificationPostToAllSessions) > > I can’t think of any straightforward solution. Probably the best approach is > to have your Cocoa app listen on an IP port and then the tool can send a > message to that port. You’d have to either hardcode the port number or find a > way to communicate the number to the tool, and the app would need to make > sure it binds only to the loopback interface to avoid the possibility of > getting pinged by another machine. > > —Jens_______________________________________________ You may also want to double-check permissions on your command line tool, to make sure Apache (I believe by default it runs under user _www) can actually read and execute it. Daniel _______________________________________________ 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
