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Re: Web frontend?



Hi,

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:00:20AM -0500, Will Maier wrote:
> 
> I'm not holding my breath, but I'm waiting for some clever person to
> make a Web 2.0 console interface (essentially, and HTTP-shell
> proxy). Of course, this sounds all scary and insecure (and it is),
> but it would certainly be fun.
> 
> Unforunately, my web work never got more complex than XHTML and
> CSS...

The original question got me thinking about these sorts of things. I 
first remembered MindTerm (a Java applet that speaks SSH) which works 
fine as long as the firewall allows outgoing ssh and the host has Java. 

Sadly it's increasingly likely locked down IE doesn't meet this, so I've 
turned up AjaxTerm - which uses JS with XML over HTTP POST so should 
work on any IE or Gecko based browser. I'm trying it out across HTTPS in 
combination with one-time passwords (I don't trust Internet cafe 
machines) and so far so good.

Links:

http://www.appgate.com/products/80_MindTerm/
http://antony.lesuisse.org/qweb/trac/wiki/AjaxTerm

Regards,

Luke
-- 
``The Fifth Law of Pipes: The outside diameter must exceed the inside
  diameter; otherwise the hole will be on the outside of the pipe.''