Mime-type question?

S. Bandyopadhyay sbandy at umd.edu
Sun Jan 23 02:38:21 UTC 2005


On 2005-01-22, 19:23 -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote

>  On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 20:04 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
>  > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 07:06, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>  > >     I'm wanting to set up a set of PHP code to present a link and have
>  > > it open a terminal window, with a hostname destination in it- kinda like
>  > > ssh:///root@123.123.12.4 and make a one-click connection to the remote
>  > > machine.
>  > > 
>  > >     Is this something that can be easily done, most likely on Firefox
>  > > and/or Mozilla?
>  > 
>  > I don't think this will be easy.
>  > 
>  > I can think of two ways to do this neither of which is "easy".
>  > 
>  > First way, you would need to utilize something like java scripting. 
>  > Your web page would then be able to startup a terminal application on
>  > the users machine, in this case an ssh session.
>  > 
>  > Second way, you would need to startup the ssh session on the web server
>  > where the page is and pass the data back to the user over the http
>  > connection (suggest using https for stuff like this).
>  > 
>  > Only in the second case could you possibly use php to do this.  Even
>  > that may not be the right tool.  (as much as I like php it is just not
>  > suited to certain types of things.)
>  
>      Or, I could just have them ssh to the main site, then chose from a
>  menu which would spawn the ssh session as needed.  :>  Yeah, I've been
>  researching since the post...I don't like most of the choices I have
>  here, but it's not a biggie.
>  
>      Thanks for your input, though!
>  
>  


if you can use java, you can try java webstart and ssh like
this:

http://www.physics.ubc.ca/javassh/index.phtml




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