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Reply to What's the advantage of applying settings with NEFilterDataProvider.apply(_:) over manually checking incoming network flows?
Thanks again. You may find that this is a lot of networking flows that the user ends up having to acknowledge when the filter is first turned on. Do you mean that enabling the filter generates a lot of network flows? In any case, I would like to give the user the chance to inspect all flows, but they are initially all allowed by default, without need of user interaction.
Oct ’23
Reply to Audit token provided by NEFilterDataProvider sometimes fails to provide code object with SecCodeCopyGuestWithAttributes
Thank you. I already filed FB12057582 in March 2023 but got no response for now. It would be great if you have any power over speeding that up. Since I'm planning on releasing this in an App Store app, I want to be sure that only process names that can be securely determined are displayed as such, while all the other ones, which currently include the mentioned ones (trustd etc.) will be shown with red text and a warning. It would be great if all legit processes could be displayed as such sooner or later (but preferably sooner). And thank you for predicting that a TSI probably won't change things here. It's always frustrating discarding a TSI that simply results in a mere confirmation that it's a bug and one will have to wait for it to be solved.
Oct ’23
Reply to What's the advantage of applying settings with NEFilterDataProvider.apply(_:) over manually checking incoming network flows?
Thank you for your input. It sounds like you're saying that I can set up rules to specify what flows I get. But what I'm doing right now is specifying an empty set of rules NEFilterSettings(rules: [], defaultAction: .filterData) which allows my code to manually filter all flows, right? Why should I specify any custom NENetworkRule if I can manually inspect all flows anyway?
Oct ’23
Reply to Audit token provided by NEFilterDataProvider sometimes fails to provide code object with SecCodeCopyGuestWithAttributes
Yes, they are both sandboxed. Sorry if that wasn't clear. Even with sudo I still get the same error Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=100001 "EPERM: Operation not permitted". It's only the processes in /usr/libexec, all others seem to work and return some path. I also don't see any sandbox violation reports in the Console. Even just searching for com.apple.sandbox.reporting doesn't show any results. The instructions given in the link you posted say that I should post 3 different lines in the Console search field, but in the screenshot it looks like pasting the string type:error should appear as a token with the text error, while I still see type:error. So I searched for error and manually changed the search scope to "Message type", but again no results.
Oct ’23
Reply to Audit token provided by NEFilterDataProvider sometimes fails to provide code object with SecCodeCopyGuestWithAttributes
Hi Quinn, thanks a lot for your help. I created an empty Xcode project with the "Command Line Tool" template, pasted your code, and ran the built executable in the Terminal. When passing the pids for all the trustd processes I see in Activity Monitor it always returns the expected path, /usr/libexec/trustd. But then I created an empty Xcode project with the "App" template and created a main.swift file again with your code, and when running the built App/Contents/MacOS/app in the Terminal, I get the same error that I mentioned before: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=100001 "EPERM: Operation not permitted". Do I need to add special entitlements in order to make it work?
Oct ’23
Reply to Appstore texts and screenshots localization not working
Could it be that you sent the wrong link for Slovak? It seems to be the same for Finnish. Otherwise it really seems like something's not working. Have you double-checked that selecting the respective language in App Store Connect shows the expected text? If that works as expected, I would use the Contact link at the bottom of the App Store Connect website and explain the issue.
Apr ’23
Reply to How to filter system-wide traffic with Network Extensions?
This sounds like a severe impediment. Is there still no official response from Apple?
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Oct ’23
Reply to Extension not found in App bundle: perhaps App is not validly structured
In my case I had a whitespace in the Network Extension's product name in the build settings. Removing it solved the issue.
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Oct ’23
Reply to FileManager.containerURL(forSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier:) returns nil on macOS
Thanks, I will consider asking the user to contact me when the crash happens. I only have the crash reports from Xcode. Since the whole app extension depends on the existence of that directory, it doesn’t really make sense for me to prevent the crash.
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Oct ’23
Reply to What's the advantage of applying settings with NEFilterDataProvider.apply(_:) over manually checking incoming network flows?
Thanks again. You may find that this is a lot of networking flows that the user ends up having to acknowledge when the filter is first turned on. Do you mean that enabling the filter generates a lot of network flows? In any case, I would like to give the user the chance to inspect all flows, but they are initially all allowed by default, without need of user interaction.
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Oct ’23
Reply to What's the advantage of applying settings with NEFilterDataProvider.apply(_:) over manually checking incoming network flows?
Thanks. So rules are more performant than custom filtering code and have no other practical advantage. Since I want to display all flows to the user of the app anyway, then there's no reason for me to use rules at all and simply get all the traffic.
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Oct ’23
Reply to Audit token provided by NEFilterDataProvider sometimes fails to provide code object with SecCodeCopyGuestWithAttributes
Thank you. I already filed FB12057582 in March 2023 but got no response for now. It would be great if you have any power over speeding that up. Since I'm planning on releasing this in an App Store app, I want to be sure that only process names that can be securely determined are displayed as such, while all the other ones, which currently include the mentioned ones (trustd etc.) will be shown with red text and a warning. It would be great if all legit processes could be displayed as such sooner or later (but preferably sooner). And thank you for predicting that a TSI probably won't change things here. It's always frustrating discarding a TSI that simply results in a mere confirmation that it's a bug and one will have to wait for it to be solved.
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Oct ’23
Reply to FileManager.containerURL(forSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier:) returns nil on macOS
Thanks for your help. I've created FB13238546. I already have an App Group entitlement with value $(TeamIdentifierPrefix)org.domain.app for the main app and the extension. I cannot reproduce the crash myself, not with the App Store app and not in Xcode.
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Oct ’23
Reply to What's the advantage of applying settings with NEFilterDataProvider.apply(_:) over manually checking incoming network flows?
Thank you for your input. It sounds like you're saying that I can set up rules to specify what flows I get. But what I'm doing right now is specifying an empty set of rules NEFilterSettings(rules: [], defaultAction: .filterData) which allows my code to manually filter all flows, right? Why should I specify any custom NENetworkRule if I can manually inspect all flows anyway?
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Oct ’23
Reply to Audit token provided by NEFilterDataProvider sometimes fails to provide code object with SecCodeCopyGuestWithAttributes
Yes, they are both sandboxed. Sorry if that wasn't clear. Even with sudo I still get the same error Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=100001 "EPERM: Operation not permitted". It's only the processes in /usr/libexec, all others seem to work and return some path. I also don't see any sandbox violation reports in the Console. Even just searching for com.apple.sandbox.reporting doesn't show any results. The instructions given in the link you posted say that I should post 3 different lines in the Console search field, but in the screenshot it looks like pasting the string type:error should appear as a token with the text error, while I still see type:error. So I searched for error and manually changed the search scope to "Message type", but again no results.
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Oct ’23
Reply to Audit token provided by NEFilterDataProvider sometimes fails to provide code object with SecCodeCopyGuestWithAttributes
Hi Quinn, thanks a lot for your help. I created an empty Xcode project with the "Command Line Tool" template, pasted your code, and ran the built executable in the Terminal. When passing the pids for all the trustd processes I see in Activity Monitor it always returns the expected path, /usr/libexec/trustd. But then I created an empty Xcode project with the "App" template and created a main.swift file again with your code, and when running the built App/Contents/MacOS/app in the Terminal, I get the same error that I mentioned before: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=100001 "EPERM: Operation not permitted". Do I need to add special entitlements in order to make it work?
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Oct ’23
Reply to Xcode shows compiler errors when accessing class properties and methods only when class is in separate file
Yes, that's the entire code in the project.
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Jul ’23
Reply to Uploading Images Via App Store Connect API Not Working
I don't know the direct solution to your issue, but I'm using appstoreconnect-swift-sdk on GitHub to interact with the API. I found it quite easy to upload images, but feel free to ask if you're having problems.
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Jun ’23
Reply to How to install macOS 14 Sonoma or 13 Ventura on an external partition
Did you just download the Ventura installer and ran it? Because as I wrote in the original post, I wasn't able to install Ventura either.
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Jun ’23
Reply to Get the file size of a file in iCloud Drive
I still have to come up with a solution myself.
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Jun ’23
Reply to Appstore texts and screenshots localization not working
Could it be that you sent the wrong link for Slovak? It seems to be the same for Finnish. Otherwise it really seems like something's not working. Have you double-checked that selecting the respective language in App Store Connect shows the expected text? If that works as expected, I would use the Contact link at the bottom of the App Store Connect website and explain the issue.
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Apr ’23