Launching RR from a web page

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

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Ah, here it is:

http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/

According to the site, it will handle X11 forwarding over SSH using a 
pure-java client, and apparently it can indeed be run as an applet (or 
as an application).  It supports XDMCP, so there's your solution:

Set up a custom Linux server which handles XDMCP and forwards X 
connections over SSH.  Then set up a custom DMCP environment to launch 
your app in a restricted user account, set up apache and this X server, 
such that navigating to the web server running on that machine launches 
the X server as an applet, which in turn performs an XDMCP query over 
an SSH tunnel (or otherwise handles the needed handshaking) and 
launches a Linux standalone of your Rev app inside a Java applet in the 
users' web browsers.

Might take some work, but hey, if you can get it working, it would meet 
your requirements...


On Mar 24, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

>
> On Mar 24, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
>
>> I have seen info about an X windows server which is written 
>> completely in Java.  You could probably use that in a web browser to 
>> connect to a UNIX (Linux) version of a Rev standalone somewhere 
>> (correction: the UNIX version of a Rev standalone would connect to 
>> the Java-based X server, so yes you would need to make some 
>> arrangements for tunneling through firewalls, etc; I don't know 
>> enough about that particular X server to know if that is supported 
>> internally or not).
>>
>> Maybe you could rig something with that.
>>
>> BTW, this is another reason to keep the UNIX engines around: the 
>> "network-transparent" X windows system...
>>
>
> An X server written in Java!!! damn!!!! once I saw a TCP/IP stack done 
> in PHP... well, I am a real fan of X11 forwarding, I did some 
> experiments in that front with Rev, you can check it at
> http://homepage.mac.com/soapdog/X11forwarding.html
>
> I don't know if a X11 server written in java is supposed to run as 
> applet... should we try?
>
> andre
>
>
> -- 
> Andre Alves Garzia  2004  BRAZIL
> http://studio.soapdog.org
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$
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