RouteConverter and Mac OS X

[hvdwolf]

It does show an error message: "Unable to call RouteConverter from Webbrowser via port 53465. Please check your firewall."

That is the embedded (WebKit?) Browser-process that tries to call the RouteConverter-Java-process via HTTP. It's needed for interactions that start from the map or that come from Google Maps API callbacks.

So I opened my firewall for that port. On restart it throws another port error. After about 6 errors in the same range I decided to open a port range in my router firewall from 53400-53999 and completely opened my Apple macbooks firewall, but this still doesn't stop the error. It keeps on generating port errors in the same 53xxx range which I already completely opened. What is this?

Opening the firewall is generally a bad thing. But maybe you could allow that the Mac OS X browser connects to the RouteConverter process on the local loopback device (i.e. it calls http://localhost:<some port number above 1024>/...)

Well, I found a java topic about local TCP-ports and vista returning an ipv6 localhost address here. He does (needs to do?) "something" on Vista and Linux but not on MacOSX as it is unneccessary (?) there.
Maybe it's rubbish, maybe it's useful. I can't judge it.

Note also that OSXes hosts file also contains these entries

Code:

127.0.0.1    localhost
255.255.255.255    broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0    localhost