Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-09 Thread Harmen van der Wal
"Habermann, David (DA)" wrote: > > You might want to consider that almost all firewalls support CONNECT type > requests on port 443 (HTTPS). > > Dave The current HTTP/VNC applet I have already uses HTTP CONNECT (see link below). The problem with that is Java applet security. -- Harmen Firewa

RE: VNC on port 80

2000-12-09 Thread Habermann, David (DA)
You might want to consider that almost all firewalls support CONNECT type requests on port 443 (HTTPS). Dave -Original Message- From: Harmen van der Wal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 December, 2000 8:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VNC on port 80 Harmen van der Wal

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Harmen van der Wal
Harmen van der Wal wrote: <...> > That would be "Full-duplex Firewall Tunneling with Low Overhead". What > worries me about that, is that "simulative multiplexed communication" by > using HTTP/1.0's GET or POST operator, seems to be the only way for > applets to go. If I read http://www.mokabyte.i

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Harmen van der Wal
"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote: > > Harmen van der Wal wrote: > > <...> > > Well, I'm no expert on this, but I've been planning to look into this > > for a while now, and maybe build the ideal firewall Java viewer;-) I > > guess the techiniques are pretty standard. > > > > This discusses them in some d

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
Harmen van der Wal wrote: > > "Joseph A. Knapka" wrote: > > > > Harmen van der Wal wrote: > <...> > > I understand now. Is there any standard for tunnelling other > > protocols over HTTP, or do all of those services use their > > own ad-hoc methods? > > Well, I'm no expert on this, but I've been

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Harmen van der Wal
"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote: > > Harmen van der Wal wrote: <...> > I understand now. Is there any standard for tunnelling other > protocols over HTTP, or do all of those services use their > own ad-hoc methods? Well, I'm no expert on this, but I've been planning to look into this for a while now, a

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
Harmen van der Wal wrote: > > "Joseph A. Knapka" wrote: > > > > Harmen van der Wal wrote: > > > > > > For those who must go through their LAN's HTTP proxy there's a bunch of > > > http-tunnel-tools out there, but it would be ideal in my mind to have a > > > Java applet do it, becuase you can use

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Jonathan Morton
>I had not thought about that. This seems to make my patch useless, >since the only situation in which it would really be necessary >is the one where there is an HTTP proxy involved. Oh well. Actually, it makes sense when trying to convince an network admin to open ports for VNC use - it saves th

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Harmen van der Wal
"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote: > > Harmen van der Wal wrote: > > <...> > > > The Java applet -- aah. Probably doesn't know it has to go through port > > > 80 to get to the VNC server. It is probably trying to use 5900 or > > > similar. > > > > > > I will investigate this. It will probably mean adding

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
Harmen van der Wal wrote: > > "Joseph A. Knapka" wrote: > > > > Jon Smith wrote: > > > > > > I downloaded your patch for win VNC so that i would be able to use VNC at school > > > (which has a proxy only allowing some ports like port 80) I changed the port > > > setting in the registry to port 8

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Harmen van der Wal
"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote: > > Jon Smith wrote: > > > > I downloaded your patch for win VNC so that i would be able to use VNC at school > > (which has a proxy only allowing some ports like port 80) I changed the port > > setting in the registry to port 80 and i have just tried to access my home

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Jens Wagner
"Joseph A. Knapka" schrieb: > The Java applet -- aah. Probably doesn't know it has to go through port > 80 to get to the VNC server. It is probably trying to use 5900 or > similar. > > I will investigate this. It will probably mean adding an option to the > Java viewer to select which port to con

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-08 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
Jon Smith wrote: > > I downloaded your patch for win VNC so that i would be able to use VNC at school > (which has a proxy only allowing some ports like port 80) I changed the port > setting in the registry to port 80 and i have just tried to access my home computer > from school using the java

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-07 Thread Some Guy
Thanks Joseph. That's cool! Now if someone would incorporate openssl we'd have it all (I'm lying--I'd want more trust me). Doug. - Original Message - From: Joseph A. Knapka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Here's a patch for WinVNC. I've also made a WinVNC 3.3.3r7 executab

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-06 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote: > > > > > > It would be nice if the server could serve the Java applet via > > > > > HTTP on the RFB port, but unfortunately the RFB handshake Here's a patch for WinVNC. I've also made a WinVNC 3.3.3r7 executable containing this patch available at http://home.earthlink

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-06 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote: > > > > It would be nice if the server could serve the Java applet via > > > > HTTP on the RFB port, but unfortunately the RFB handshake One more fix (last one, I promise): in the unlikely event that the fdopen() call fails, we should not then attempt to use the closed

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-06 Thread Jonathan Morton
>06/12/00 08:02:36 Got connection from client 127.0.0.1 >06/12/00 08:02:36 httpd: get '' for 127.0.0.1 >06/12/00 08:02:36 httpd: defaulting to 'index.vnc' >06/12/00 08:02:36 Woo hoo! Served Java applet via RFB! Interesting idea. I'll see if I can build something similar into the Mac server, this

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-06 Thread Jon Smith
Is there anyway of forcing win vnc to make the http connection on a different port? Jon -- Original Message -- From: "Joseph A. Knapka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 18:08:47 -0700 >Jon Smith wrote: >> >> First o

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-05 Thread Jens Wagner
"Joseph A. Knapka" schrieb: > ... > The attached small patch seems to work fine for Xvnc. It works > exactly as Jens suggests. Of course HTTP connections to 58xx > work as usual. I've tested with Netscape 4.76 and IE4. I'll > tackle the WinVNC server in a day or two unless someone > beats me to i

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-05 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
Oops. Better make sure that FP only gets allocated if we really need it... Here's a corrected patch. Sorry... -- Joe "Joseph A. Knapka" wrote: > > Jens Wagner wrote: > > > > "Joseph A. Knapka" schrieb: > > > > > ... > > > It would be nice if the server could serve the Java applet via > > > HTTP

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-05 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
Jens Wagner wrote: > > "Joseph A. Knapka" schrieb: > > > ... > > It would be nice if the server could serve the Java applet via > > HTTP on the RFB port, but unfortunately the RFB handshake > > begins with the server writing the RFB protocol version, > > whereas the HTTP handshake begins with th

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-05 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
Jens Wagner wrote: > > "Joseph A. Knapka" schrieb: > > > ... > > It would be nice if the server could serve the Java applet via > > HTTP on the RFB port, but unfortunately the RFB handshake > > begins with the server writing the RFB protocol version, > > whereas the HTTP handshake begins with th

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-05 Thread Jens Wagner
"Joseph A. Knapka" schrieb: > ... > It would be nice if the server could serve the Java applet via > HTTP on the RFB port, but unfortunately the RFB handshake > begins with the server writing the RFB protocol version, > whereas the HTTP handshake begins with the client sending an > HTTP request -

Re: VNC on port 80

2000-12-05 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
Jon Smith wrote: > > First of all thank you to everyone that helped me solve the problem of getting vnc >to work with windows ME ICS. > > I now have another problem. I want to be able to access VNC running on my home >computer from school. They have a proxy running and probably only on port

VNC on port 80

2000-12-05 Thread Jon Smith
First of all thank you to everyone that helped me solve the problem of getting vnc to work with windows ME ICS. I now have another problem. I want to be able to access VNC running on my home computer from school. They have a proxy running and probably only on port 80 and port 21. I have tri