[launchd-dev] Listening socket and fast user switching

[Dave Zarzycki]

On May 22, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Dave Dribin wrote:

> On May 22, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
>> Dave,
>>
>> The Apple way to solve this problem is to use Bonjour with a dynamic
>> port assignment. Just use port zero, and set Bonjour to true like so:
>>
>> 	<key>Sockets</key>
>> 	<dict>
>> 		<key>Listeners</key>
>> 		<dict>
>> 			<key>Bonjour</key>
>> 			<true/>
>> 			<key>SockServiceName</key>
>> 			<string>0</string>
>> 		</dict>
>> 	</dict>
>
> That's what I thought, but I'm thinking this won't quite work for this
> case.  Our agent is actually an HTTP server, and we hand out URLs to
> stuff it serves up, e.g. http://localhost:12345/foo.  If we use a
> dynamic port, even with Bonjour, our URLs are no longer valid.  Unless
> there's a way to specify Bonjour ports in URLs?  I thought that only
> worked for host names, though (i.e. <name>.local).

Dave,

In theory, the Back-to-my-Mac feature of Mac OS X Leopard should make  
this possible. One would just need to go to the "Bonjour" submenu of  
the "Bookmarks" menu in Safari.app.

davez