{"id":6680,"date":"2014-10-30T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2014-10-30T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:46:20","slug":"changing-networks-on-mac-with-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/changing-networks-on-mac-with-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing networks on Mac with Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not too long ago I blogged about my work to better deal with changing networks while Firefox is running<\/a>. That job was basically two parts.<\/p>\n

A) generic code to handle receiving such a network-changed event and then<\/p>\n

B) a platform specific part that was for Windows that detected such a network change and sent the event<\/p>\n

Today I’ve landed yet another fix for part B called bug 1079385<\/a>, which detects network changes for Firefox on Mac OS X.<\/p>\n

\"mac<\/a>I’ve never programmed anything before on the Mac so this was sort of my christening in this environment. I mean, I’ve written countless of POSIX compliant programs including curl<\/a> and friends that certainly builds and runs on Mac OS just fine, but I never before used the Mac-specific APIs to do things.<\/p>\n

I got a mac mini just two weeks ago to work on this. Getting it up, prepared and my first Firefox built from source took all-in-all less than three hours. Learning the details of the mac API world was much more trouble and can’t say that I’m mastering it now either but I did find myself at least figuring out how to detect when IP addresses on the interfaces change and a changed address is a pretty good signal that the network changed somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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