Comment by Darthy
9 years ago
If you only need to send data once per week, and that data is less than 2K, simply encrypt it, make it part of a URL that you control, then tell the default browser to open that URL. Nearly everybody has configured Little Snitch so that the browser can connect to anything (because the popups quickly annoy). Then do a redirect on your server to something innocuous, and the user will quickly forget.
Or even better use window.close() then the user will only see the browser window open briefly. Of course if the user has JavaScript disabled, use HTTP 302 Found or HTML meta refresh to redirect, blah blah.