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VNC client using HTML5 (Web Sockets, Canvas) with encryption

111 points by est 16y ago

olalonde 16y ago
Any live demo or screencast available?
- dannytatom 16y ago
  Not a screencast, but a friend in IRC just took a couple (not so exciting) screenshots of himself running it. http://i.imgur.com/ek8eS.png http://i.imgur.com/ek8eS.png http://i.imgur.com/f8JMg.png http://i.imgur.com/f8JMg.png
- kanaka 16y ago
  I've added some screenshots of my own in the past week: http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/screenshots.html http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/screenshots.html I'm also working on the ability to play back recorded VNC sessions directly in noVNC. No ETA on that though. Watch noVNC github commits if you're interested in that.
bombs 16y ago
I remember thinking how great AJAX SSH clients like those used by Slicehost were. This sort of thing will be great, particularly with my OS X and Windows servers!
tonetheman 16y ago
very cool. i will play with this today! good stuff.
nailer 16y ago
Awesome! It'd be great to see this ported to RDP (I'm getting a book on canvas, maybe I can try it...).
- est 16y ago
  and with TS RemoteApp support!
- endergen 16y ago
  Canvas is not hard to learn: See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_graphics_with_canvas https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_graphics_with_canva... as a good starting point.
- kanaka 16y ago
  RDP (along with Red Hat's Spice and NX) is on my long term TODO list. On the other hand, if somebody sent me good patches (or a pull request) that added RDP support to noVNC, reviewing and integrating them would be on my short term TODO list. ;-)
adrenalin 16y ago
Yeh cool, but I have a sensation we are running in cercles. Wouldn't it be easier to addopt nativeclient and use a mature, years tested code with http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ ? Yeh I know, on the web you can "look" at the code, that's cool, but not always, how many time you did look at the gmail code for example, yeh it's preatty unreadable.because it's a compresed translated java code.
- kanaka 16y ago
  Nativeclient is very cool, and it allows you to run native code in your browser, but that does not mean native applications. You still have to port applications and any libraries to the nativeclient API/SDK (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient-sdk/ http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient-sdk/). Nativeclient only currently exists in Chrome (and only if you run it using a special flag). Nativeclient itself is not yet mature. Javascript is everywhere, HTML5 will be everywhere soon. Nativeclient has a long road before it's widely supported in most browsers and on many architectures.
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est 16y ago
the author is a redditor http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c0ifv/guacamole_a_vnc_viewer_in_html5/c0q52l8 http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c0ifv/guacamole_...
s3graham 16y ago
Nifty. Has anyone attempted a full ssh + term emu? Could probably get away with using ChromeOS then.
- est 16y ago
  @bombs mentioned ajax ssh from Slicehost http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/ http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/
  - s3graham 16y ago
    I think that's just tunneling to a server side implementation though. What I meant was that it'd be neat to have JS that actually implemented the client ssh and xterm/whatever emulation so you wouldn't need to go through the intermediate forwarding server to get somewhere.
    - est 16y ago
      > so you wouldn't need to go through the intermediate forwarding server to get somewhere. That would break the domain based security model the Web uses Flash can do sockets, but it requires crossdomain.xml
    - paddy_m 16y ago
      I rewrote rxvt in javascript. http://github.com/paddymul/rxvt-js http://github.com/paddymul/rxvt-js ther terminal emulator is capable of displaying streaming connections, but I haven't built the server backend to enable it.
kanaka 16y ago
A couple of demo videos of noVNC. Short: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVpGOvh4tc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVpGOvh4tc Longer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9GauBAaQXI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9GauBAaQXI

111 points by est 16y ago

olalonde 16y ago

Any live demo or screencast available?

dannytatom 16y ago
Not a screencast, but a friend in IRC just took a couple (not so exciting) screenshots of himself running it. http://i.imgur.com/ek8eS.png http://i.imgur.com/ek8eS.png http://i.imgur.com/f8JMg.png http://i.imgur.com/f8JMg.png
kanaka 16y ago
I've added some screenshots of my own in the past week: http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/screenshots.html http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/screenshots.html I'm also working on the ability to play back recorded VNC sessions directly in noVNC. No ETA on that though. Watch noVNC github commits if you're interested in that.

bombs 16y ago

I remember thinking how great AJAX SSH clients like those used by Slicehost were. This sort of thing will be great, particularly with my OS X and Windows servers!

tonetheman 16y ago

very cool. i will play with this today! good stuff.

nailer 16y ago

Awesome! It'd be great to see this ported to RDP (I'm getting a book on canvas, maybe I can try it...).

est 16y ago
and with TS RemoteApp support!
endergen 16y ago
Canvas is not hard to learn: See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_graphics_with_canvas https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_graphics_with_canva... as a good starting point.
kanaka 16y ago
RDP (along with Red Hat's Spice and NX) is on my long term TODO list. On the other hand, if somebody sent me good patches (or a pull request) that added RDP support to noVNC, reviewing and integrating them would be on my short term TODO list. ;-)

adrenalin 16y ago

Yeh cool, but I have a sensation we are running in cercles. Wouldn't it be easier to addopt nativeclient and use a mature, years tested code with http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ ? Yeh I know, on the web you can "look" at the code, that's cool, but not always, how many time you did look at the gmail code for example, yeh it's preatty unreadable.because it's a compresed translated java code.

kanaka 16y ago
Nativeclient is very cool, and it allows you to run native code in your browser, but that does not mean native applications. You still have to port applications and any libraries to the nativeclient API/SDK (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient-sdk/ http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient-sdk/). Nativeclient only currently exists in Chrome (and only if you run it using a special flag). Nativeclient itself is not yet mature. Javascript is everywhere, HTML5 will be everywhere soon. Nativeclient has a long road before it's widely supported in most browsers and on many architectures.
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est 16y ago

the author is a redditor http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c0ifv/guacamole_a_vnc_viewer_in_html5/c0q52l8 http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c0ifv/guacamole_...

s3graham 16y ago

Nifty. Has anyone attempted a full ssh + term emu? Could probably get away with using ChromeOS then.

est 16y ago
@bombs mentioned ajax ssh from Slicehost http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/ http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/
- s3graham 16y ago
  I think that's just tunneling to a server side implementation though. What I meant was that it'd be neat to have JS that actually implemented the client ssh and xterm/whatever emulation so you wouldn't need to go through the intermediate forwarding server to get somewhere.
  - est 16y ago
    > so you wouldn't need to go through the intermediate forwarding server to get somewhere. That would break the domain based security model the Web uses Flash can do sockets, but it requires crossdomain.xml
  - paddy_m 16y ago
    I rewrote rxvt in javascript. http://github.com/paddymul/rxvt-js http://github.com/paddymul/rxvt-js ther terminal emulator is capable of displaying streaming connections, but I haven't built the server backend to enable it.

kanaka 16y ago

A couple of demo videos of noVNC. Short: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVpGOvh4tc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVpGOvh4tc Longer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9GauBAaQXI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9GauBAaQXI