On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:59:07PM -0500, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote: > Going one step further, it might be nice if the next > generation could also respond to HTTP queries on the same port by > attempting to serve an applet - assuming that would not introduce > excessive complexity or security issues into the server side of the > connection.
Actually, it has already been done: http://home.earthlink.net/~jknapka/vncpatch.html At the beginning of a TCP stream, RFB clients wait for the server to send a version string whereas HTTP servers wait for a client to send a query string. With the above patch, the VNC server waits for a HTTP query from the client for a short time. If it times out (2 seconds, IIRC) then the server sends the RFB version and so forth. It adds a small delay to the very beginning of the RFB session, but it could be pretty handy. Tarantella does a similar thing for their firewall traversal feature. -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
