Followup to: Sequoia Local Network Access Issue with the http request node

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I think I need to try to revisit this FAQ and see if I can get it to work this time:

Node-RED on Mac OS Sequoia - local network access issues

I had given up on getting Node-RED to run properly on my Mac after upgrading to Sequoia. The new Mac security protections that prevent local network access unless explicitly granted to applications is a real nightmare. I recently asked perplexity.ai for help. Using its basic model, it gave me some suggestions that did not work. I switched to using its "research" model, though, and hit pay dirt. I finally settled on this workaround and thought I would share it here in case it's of use to oth…

I had tried it awhile back, unsuccessfully, as described here:

Sequoia Local Network Access Issue with the http request node

I recently updated 2 mac minis to Sequoia and after doing so, none of my http request nodes would work. They all had EHOSTUNREACH errors. After updating node and node-RED to the latest versions, one of the 2 minis still has no issue. The other (which uses those nodes less frequently) appeared to be fixed at first, but I just opened it up today and it's not working again. I found this post in the FAQ: I tried it, but the last open /Applications/Node-RED.app command briefly popped up a gene…

But the last step failed. I never got the permissions popup. I think it takes the right approach though. Has anyone else been able to get it to work or does that pseudo-Node-RED.app fail to launch like mine did when I tried it?