I started porting my Flutter app to macos Desktop. The UI started fine. However, as soon as the app makes a network call, it fails instantly with Connection failed (OS Error: Operation not permitted).
Running a one-liner:
final response = await http.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1');
fails with:
Unhandled Exception: SocketException: Connection failed (OS Error:
Operation not permitted, errno = 1),
address = jsonplaceholder.typicode.com, port = 443
#0 IOClient.send (package:http/src/io_client.dart:33:23)
The macos build target comes from Google's sample here.
Flutter (Channel master, v1.9.8-pre.108)
Your macOS XCode project lacks Internet permission called "Outgoing Connections (Client)".
Open your macos xcode project - [root]/macos/Runner.xcworkspace
Click "Runner" in Project navigator - general settings will show up. Select "Capabilities" from tabbar and tick option "Outgoing Connections (Client)".
Rebuild your application inside XCode and launch the project.
Per my comment on the other answer, you should not use the Xcode capabilities UI for this. It will not correctly handle the two separate entitlement files in a Flutter project.
You need to add:
<key>com.apple.security.network.client</key>
<true/>
to macos/Runner/DebugProfile.entitlements
and macos/Runner/Release.entitlements
.
This is documented here.