Thanks for the reply Harmen. I was hoping mindterm and a java vnc
client would do wonders, i had quite high expectations for finding
a good working solution.
Has anyone updated mindvnc since mindbright have stopped
supporting/developing it? I don't fully understand how it works
yet.
Is there any documentation on using mindvnc, since Mindbright
have taken it down?
thanks
Darren
At 07:15 08/04/01 +0200, Harmen van der Wal wrote:
>Darren Evans wrote:
> >
> > First let me say, i'm aware of Mindbright's Mindvnc which is no longer
> > supported.
>
>Yes, but they seem to be planning a SSH (& SSL) API, so rolling your own
>secure Java VNC viewer will be easy. (SSH-->RFB / SSL-->RFB)
>
> >
> > I want to run a java vnc client securely from any machine, even those
> > annoyingly
> > restricted internet cafe's and ADSL which is NAT'ed and run java vnc client
> > through ssh to a static ip Linux server running vncserver.
>
>Well I guess that will be a problem, because in strict-security
>environments you may not be able to grant an applet permission to
>connect to a local proxy. And allthough Java allows for HTTP tunneling
>restricted applets also, the tunneling technique has too much overhead
>for something noisy like VNC (HTTP-->RFB).
>
> >
> > Can/will this work, or is the solution to use ssl/java vnc client?
>
>If you're talking about HTTPS tunneling (SSL-->HTTP-->RFB) I had thought
>this was the solution to two problems:
>1) A restricted Java applet could connect out using a http/security
>proxy, and the proxy would just have to handle 1 CONNECT request for as
>long as the ssl/http connection was persistent.
>2) The connection would be secure.
>
>I was very dissapointed when I tried this, and found the browser will do
>a CONNECT request for each HTTP request.
>
> > I've done some hunting around the web which mostly talks about using
> > local ssh forwarding.
> >
> > Can this work with 2 applets, one doing local ssh forwarding,
> > and another running the java vnc client?
><...>
>
>I suggest you wait for the MindTerm SSH-API, and maybe use MindVNC until
>then.
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