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Re: Web frontend?



Luke/all,

Both Mindterm and Ajaxterm work fine - thanks. And much easier to
install probably than a webbased client. I'm now working using ajaxterm
over ssl, I'm adding OTP instead of .htaccess next week ... pretty nice
all.

John

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:16:04PM +0100, Luke Ross wrote:
> Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:16:04 +0100
> From: Luke Ross <luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: mutt-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: 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.''
> 

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