Timeline for Little Snitch: Does restricting address/port for an application disable future connection prompts?
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| Jul 10, 2016 at 16:16 | vote | accept | P A N | ||
| Jul 10, 2016 at 16:13 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Assuming your LS prefs are set to 'if no rule already set, ask' which is default, then [I can only do this in pseudo-code]... if(my.app && xyz.com && 443) deny; else ask; would deny only if all three conditions are met, otherwise it would ask. I still am of the opinion that you ought to start top-down, not bottom-up. You are making a ruleset that will completely confuse you in future otherwise. | |
| Jul 10, 2016 at 16:12 | comment | added | P A N | Since it's boolean logic, if I allow only a specific combination – it seems to suggest to me that no further prompts will be made, if indeed LS is contempt with that setting. But what I really want to do is handle each unique rule request it makes. | |
| Jul 10, 2016 at 16:09 | comment | added | P A N |
@Tetsujin I am still not quite understanding if allowing only XYZ:80 forever will prevent LS from prompting if the application may reach ZYX:443. I have read your answer a few times and trying to figure it out, while reinstalling to clear the LS boot caches... It's not really the boolean logic, it's whether LS will prompt me to update my rules when the app makes a request.
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| Jul 10, 2016 at 16:05 | comment | added | Tetsujin | It's Boolean logic. Your choices are allow or deny [of course]. Your operators are then 'who' & 'what'. You can set 'who', 'what' or 'who AND what' or 'who OR what'. Ref [for the full overkill explanation] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra | |
| Jul 10, 2016 at 16:02 | history | edited | P A N | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2016 at 15:24 | answer | added | Tetsujin | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 10, 2016 at 15:13 | history | asked | P A N | CC BY-SA 3.0 |