Feature: check for firewall and ask user to allow port

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Be paranoid (firewall on)
2. Install telekinesis
3. No workie

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Telekinesis does not warn you that your firewall is enabled.  It should do so 
and prompt you for 
permission to add Telekinesis' port to the allowed firewall rules.  I've seen 
other apps do this, so 
there's probably a public API

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Tiger

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by breckinl...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2007 at 4:58

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Original comment by j...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2007 at 5:34

• Changed state: Accepted

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please allow the app to configure a different port such as 80 so that I can 
slide through firewalls I do not own.

Original comment by ags...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2007 at 3:17

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Here is a script that will check the firewall and report with a string... it 
could be
changed as needed:

tell application "Finder"
  try
    do shell script ¬
     "egrep 'true' /Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist"
  on error
    set the name of (path to me) to "Firewall is off."
    return
  end try
  set the name of (path to me) to "Firewall is on."
  return
end tell

Original comment by ryano...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2007 at 8:29

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or allow port 443 as well, since its https:// and my work firewall wont allow 
weird
ssl ports.

the dialog just puts 5010 back in the box.

Original comment by tom4sm...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2007 at 2:48

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I would also like to see the ability to change the port (I'd like to use 443, 
since
it is only on my home network and I have no other web server running on my 
media machine)

Original comment by t...@krabach.net on 11 Dec 2007 at 5:29