[lug] HTML terminal?

[David Morris]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:35:47AM -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 10:00 -0700, David Morris wrote:
> > I don't know if anything like this even exists, I'm just
> > hoping:
> > 
> > I'm looking for a way to run a terminal connection to a
> > system using HTML as the interface.  Not a Java applet.
> > A text entry form in place of the command line and HTML code
> > for displaying the terminal window.
> > 
> > Why?  Because when I travel, some internet connections I
> > find do not allow any form of SSH.  Java can be disabled (or
> > not installed) and applications can be prevented from
> > running, preventing the use of something like putty.
> > 
> > But HTML is always there.
> > 
> > Obviously the interface would be limited to the command
> > line...no applications fancier than ex and mail.  But at
> > least it would allow minimal access in an emergency.
> 
> I started out thinking about how to do this with AJAX,
> etc, but then I realized, "Why not run SSH on port 80 or
> 443?"

The real problem I'm trying to work around is systems that
doesn't have a mechanism by which I can run an SSH client at
all, ignoring the question of firewalls.  I've used services
that re-route SSH traffic from port 80 to port 22 on another
host, so thats no problem.

--David