[NCLUG] telnet on the web?

[Brian Stanback]

I am using the "Java Telnet Applet" from http://javassh.org/ which
supports SSH. It works pretty well for me, and it is a fairly lite applet.

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, J. Paul Reed wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Andrew Fox wrote:
>
> > This may be a stupid question but thought id ask anyway.  Is there a
> > website that with a built in java or gui telnet program so that you can
> > telnet to a machine via an internet browser instead of using a telnet
> > program running on your computer?
>
> Telnet == EVIL.
>
> In the past, I've used AppGate's Mindterm, although it doesn't look like
> you can use the free version off their webpage anymore
> (http://www.appgate.com/ag.asp?template=products&level1=product_mindterm).
>
> If you search google for "java ssh client", you'll get lots of useful
> results in the first 10 hits; one of them is bound to work for you.
>
> > If its not out there (i did some surfing already and nothing came up) is
> > it possible?
>
> Yes... and a bunch of people have done it.
>
> The only icky thing is that you'll need a relatively new browser to make
> sure things won't crash; Netscape 4.x on anything other than Windows will
> probably crash, and IE older than 5 will probably crash. Mozilla may or may
> not crash. The nature of the application requires that it use just about
> every feature of the JVM, and sometimes, every feature isn't as well tested
> as it should be. :-)
>
> > This would be useful to me and others when we use the rare computer that
> > does not have telnet software installed or more likely it has been
> > disabled because it is some public use computer.
>
> If that is the case, often times Java will be disabled as well (or, at
> least, that's what I've found).
>
> In the ITS labs at Poly, I'll often download PuTTY
> (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) if I'm stuck on a
> Windows box and I need to get some real work done.
>
> > Also useful for macs that often don't have the ncsa telnet software
> > installed.
>
> For Macs, I use NiftyTelnet, with SSH support:
>
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/
>
> If you didn't get the motif here, it's: USE SSH WHENEVER YOU CAN! :-)
>
> Later,
> Paul
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