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MoreInternet changes not taking effect for some userids...
Authored by: osxpounder on May 19, '04 06:13:02PM

... on both Panther and Jaguar boxes. Two of the users [one each on Panther and Jaguar] show different symptoms:

The Panther problem userid's symptom is that the Help protocol's setting keeps reverting back to default immediately.

The Jag user's problem is that the Help protocol disappears from the list, after I make the change in MoreInternet.

Both users remain vulnerable, so I locked them out for now.

Anyway, view that as a warning: double-check that all your userids do, indeed, reflect the change after quitting System Preferences.

Would RCDefaultApp be likely to work in this case, you think?

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MoreInternet changes not taking effect for some userids...
Authored by: clindberg on May 19, '04 06:22:32PM

Yes, RCDefaultApp should work. There is no real way to "remove" a mapping; as long as LaunchServices knows of an application that can handle a URL scheme, it will use it. There are ways to kill all of the user-set mappings, but I would think that all Apple-provided default helpers get re-added.

RCDefaultApp "disables" schemes by assigning them to a real application that does nothing with them. It runs in the background (then exits) so you never see it. Since it's a real application, the setting should remain, and it's easy to change back to Helper Viewer when/if Apple fixes the vulnerability. I am fairly certain that MoreInternet does not work this way.



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