<!-- index.vnc - default HTML page for TightVNC Java viewer applet, to be used with Xvnc. On any file ending in .vnc, the HTTP server embedded in Xvnc will substitute the following variables when preceded by a dollar: USER, DESKTOP, DISPLAY, APPLETWIDTH, APPLETHEIGHT, WIDTH, HEIGHT, PORT, PARAMS. Use two dollar signs ($$) to get a dollar sign in the generated HTML page. NOTE: the $PARAMS variable is not supported by the standard VNC, so make sure you have TightVNC on the server side, if you're using this variable. --> <!-- The idea behind using the signed applet in SignedVncViewer.jar for firewall proxies: Java socket applets and http proxies do not get along well. Java security allows the applet to connect back via a socket to the originating host, but the browser/plugin Proxy settings are not used for socket connections (only http and the like). So the socket connection fails in the proxy environment. The applet is not allowed to open a socket connection to the proxy (since that would let it connect to just about any host, e.g. CONNECT method). This is indpendent of SSL but of course fails for that socket connection as well. I.e. this is a problem for non-SSL VNC Viewers as well. Solution? Sign the applet and have the user click on "Yes" that they fully trust the applet. Then the applet can connect to any host via sockets, in particular the proxy. It next issues the request CONNECT host:port HTTP/1.1 Host: host:port and if the proxy supports the CONNECT method we are finally connected to the VNC server. For SSL connections, SSL is layered on top of this socket. However note this scheme will work for non-SSL applet proxy tunnelling as well. It should be able to get non-SSL VNC connections to work via GET command but that has not been done yet. Note that some proxies only allow CONNECT to only these the ports 443 (HTTPS) and 563 (SNEWS). So you would have to run the VNC server on those ports. SignedVncViewer.jar is just a signed version of VncViewer.jar The URL to use for this file: https://host:port/proxy.vnc Note VNCSERVERPORT, we assume $PARAMS will have the correct PORT setting (e.g. 563), not the one libvncserver puts in.... --> <HTML> <TITLE> $USER's $DESKTOP desktop ($DISPLAY) </TITLE> <APPLET CODE=VncViewer.class ARCHIVE=SignedVncViewer.jar WIDTH=$APPLETWIDTH HEIGHT=$APPLETHEIGHT> <param name=VNCSERVERPORT value=$PORT> <param name="Open New Window" value=yes> $PARAMS </APPLET> <BR> <A href="http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc">x11vnc site</A> </HTML>