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by danw1979 123 days ago
This is great !

Did you have any thoughts about how to restrict network access on macos too ?

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I haven’t found an easy way, but I have a working theory -

sandbox-exec cannot filter based on domain names, but it can restrict outbound network connections to a specific IP/port (and drop the rest). If I can run a proxy on localhost:19999, I can allow agents to connect through it and filter connections by hostname. From my research, most agents support $HTTP_PROXY, so I'll try redirecting their HTTP requests through my security proxy. IIRC, if I do this at the CONNECT level, I don't need to MITM their traffic nor require a trusted root cert.

Recently, Codex CLI implemented something like DNS filtering for their sandbox, so I'd investigate their repo.

Some commercial firewalls will snoop on the SNI header in TLS requests and send a RST towards the client if the hostname isn’t on a whitelist. Reasonably effective. If there’s a way with the macos sandboxing to intercept socket connections you might find some proxy software that already supports this.

the HTTP_PROXY approach might be simpler though.