Comments on: Pukka beta: Leopard reliability

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:41:18 +0000

@Jim: I did have to build the framework myself in Xcode 3 on Leopard, but I didn’t really run into any problems that I can recall while doing that. Feel free to email me (see here) with any specifics and I’ll try to help.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:05:56 +0000

I had been using CURLHandle for ssl client certificates, now with leopard I am trying to fix what was working in tiger. Can you provide specifics on what you did to get CURLHandle to work under leopard. This is the only place that I have found that mentions CURLHandle working with leopard.

Thanks

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:37:04 +0000

>> but it’s just that Leopard has made it a real pain lately.

Something to look forward to

I’m keeping notes on what I’m finding out regarding NSURLConnections within plugins — I figure sommeone might benefit and not have to go through the same struggles. If I do figure it out, I’ll keep you all posted.

Thanks again for your time!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:52:48 +0000

Hmm, now you’ve got me — I haven’t really done anything with in-app plugins. I don’t believe you’d have any control over the type of modal session that way. I’m not sure if NSURLConnection is thread safe, either — see this:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2007/Mar/msg00179.html

Sorry I don’t have any better info than that. In general, I’ve grown to like NSURLConnection, but it’s just that Leopard has made it a real pain lately.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:28:29 +0000

@Justin,

Thanks, that’s a really good lead. I don’t understand however where runModalForWindow: would be called — if it’s iphoto that calls it to launch the export-plugin-window, then I don’t really have any control over whether it’s that or runModalSession, do I? Would breaking the URLConnection calls off into a separate thread avoid that problem alltogether, or would the delegates still get called from within the modal window?

Sorry everyone, I know this has gotten slightly off topic, but no other forums seem to know anything whatsoever about NSURLConnection.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:59:42 +0000

@Greg: If you are using a sheet, make sure that you are using runModalSession: and not runModalForWindow: as the latter does not do any background processing while the application is modal. This would include delegate methods not being fired. According to the docs for runModalForWindow::

Use this method in cases where you do not need to do any additional background processing while the modal loop runs. This method consumes only enough CPU time to process events and dispatch them to the action methods associated with the modal window. If you want to perform additional background processing, use runModalSession: together with an NSModalSession object instead.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:56:40 +0000

Hey Everyone,

You can add me to the list of people tearing their hair out over NSURLConnection. I’m trying to make an iPhoto plugin, which I didn’t think would be ridiculously hard, but I’m running into all sorts of problems due to the plugin being in a panel and not in the main application thread. The delegates only seem to fire after the plugin panel is closed. I’m not using Leopard yet, and probably should, but I just don’t understand why such a crucial set of tools is so poorly documented and broken. Seriously, googling NSURLConnection barely turns up any related info except the apple dev page, which I’ve re-read about four hundred times now.
Sigh.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:40:54 +0000

Seems to work now.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:44:53 +0000

@Patrick: I just uploaded 1.6.6-pre2, which should fix the encoding issue that you saw. You can re-download it at the link above. Sorry again for any inconvenience.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:26:38 +0000

Hi Justin,

I think this release is totally broken, just sent you a link with a screenshot.

Greetings