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This is super-cool. Not sure it's recommendable to use it in place of ssh, but maybe with ssl+http-auth it could be workable? It definitely adds some convenienc

This is super-cool. Not sure it's recommendable to use it in place of ssh, but maybe with ssl+http-auth it could be workable? It definitely adds some convenience for when I'm away from one of my boxes and I don't want to deal with putty. As per all HN comments, one downside is that it kind of messes up with my vim colors, but that may be that my vim colors are messed up to begin with.

hnriot 13y ago
what is there to deal with with putty? it's pretty simple. I run linux on my desktop and use a chrome extension called secure shell (http://goo.gl/TK7876 http://goo.gl/TK7876) I like this butterfly, but don't see how it's any different to using ssh which is already designed for this.
jrkatz 13y ago
If you are concerned about the security and don't want to deal with putty (I can commiserate), there's always the secure shell chrome/chromium extension. If you haven't seen it already you might want to give it a look.
fafhrdius 13y ago
Can you point the advantages of this being "super-cool", i am afraid I'am bit puzzled :s
- riskable 13y ago
  Well right off the bat: You don't have to install anything. You also don't need to worry about updating a thousand clients if a security problem crops up--you just update the server and you're done. Also, in terms of "why" there's all sorts of neat things you can do with a web browser that aren't so easy with regular terminals. For example, displaying inline images (if you code it right). Gate One can display images, PDFs, and play back sound files right there in your terminal if you do something as simple as 'cat somefile.png' or 'cat somefile.ogg'. Source to Gate One (also has some screenshots of the aforementioned features): https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne The other nice thing is that you can use it through basically any proxy server (provided it doesn't "speed bump" you--breaking WebSocket connections).
  - panzi 13y ago
    For these things (embedding audio etc.) I think iPython is better.

hnriot 13y ago

what is there to deal with with putty? it's pretty simple. I run linux on my desktop and use a chrome extension called secure shell (http://goo.gl/TK7876 http://goo.gl/TK7876) I like this butterfly, but don't see how it's any different to using ssh which is already designed for this.

jrkatz 13y ago

If you are concerned about the security and don't want to deal with putty (I can commiserate), there's always the secure shell chrome/chromium extension. If you haven't seen it already you might want to give it a look.

fafhrdius 13y ago

Can you point the advantages of this being "super-cool", i am afraid I'am bit puzzled :s

riskable 13y ago
Well right off the bat: You don't have to install anything. You also don't need to worry about updating a thousand clients if a security problem crops up--you just update the server and you're done. Also, in terms of "why" there's all sorts of neat things you can do with a web browser that aren't so easy with regular terminals. For example, displaying inline images (if you code it right). Gate One can display images, PDFs, and play back sound files right there in your terminal if you do something as simple as 'cat somefile.png' or 'cat somefile.ogg'. Source to Gate One (also has some screenshots of the aforementioned features): https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne The other nice thing is that you can use it through basically any proxy server (provided it doesn't "speed bump" you--breaking WebSocket connections).
- panzi 13y ago
  For these things (embedding audio etc.) I think iPython is better.