[fpc-pascal] Mac OS X api cals

[Paul]

Jonas,

> A lot depends on who, how and where you asked. And developer.apple.com  is 
> the very first site you get when googling for "mac programming" or  "apple 
> programming". To be honest, I also thought you already knew  about that 
> site, but simply did not know what exactly to look for  there (e.g., 
> "authorization" vs "administrator rights")..

I have to admit that I don't know much about nix, but I got an answer this 
morning: I can order a Mac :-)
what I want to know is what authorization the user has and what he can and 
can not do.

> It does not mean that your "client" can't simply enable a local VNC 
> server, open a https tunnel to the server and simply tunnel VNC over  this 
> connection. Of course, no one can stop you from reimplementing 
> everything, but it's probably going to be quite a bit of work (as such 
> low level things are quite platform specific).
Tunnuling over our server is impossible and rules out central 
control/management, both sides must act as https clients
It is indeed a lot of work: when I first started, I had completely written a 
P2P connection and running within 2 weeks.
Developing the same over a server took almost 3 years...
The server was the hardest part though: i has to handle a lot of sessions 
and has to run 24/7 without failure.
It's only restarted every 6 months for maintenance, mainly for the Windows 
based servers.

Paul


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonas Maebe" <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>
To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Mac OS X api cals


>
> On 28 Aug 2008, at 08:11, Paul wrote:
>
>>> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Conceptual/authorization_concepts
>>
>> thanks for these links, wonder why this site was not listed the mac 
>> developer forums ..
>
> A lot depends on who, how and where you asked. And developer.apple.com  is 
> the very first site you get when googling for "mac programming" or  "apple 
> programming". To be honest, I also thought you already knew  about that 
> site, but simply did not know what exactly to look for  there (e.g., 
> "authorization" vs "administrator rights")..
>
>>> And he can of course also look at the source code of existing VNC 
>>> servers, e.g. http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxvnc/
>> see my other reply
>
> It does not mean that your "client" can't simply enable a local VNC 
> server, open a https tunnel to the server and simply tunnel VNC over  this 
> connection. Of course, no one can stop you from reimplementing 
> everything, but it's probably going to be quite a bit of work (as such 
> low level things are quite platform specific).
>
>
> Jonas
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