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Contents 1 Web Client 2 Summary 3 Owner 4 Current Status 5 Description 6 See Also

Web Client

Summary

Implement an html 5 only client like ericom (RDP - propriatery) or noVNC.

Owner

• Your name here
• Last research done by Jeremy White, April 2012

Current Status

• Research / prototype phase

Description

An html 5 only client offers

• work on any html 5 capable client. Includes most phones on the market, tablets.

One way of implementing this would be:

• add option of server to support direct websocket connections
• very simple wrapper around a regular TCP connection. Two interesting wrappers are:
  • Using Apache websocket to proxy connections
  • websockify Note that this is probably mostly useful to get started; the code isn't that great, and it needs to be modified to support binary and messages > 64K
• Drop any compression that is not easy to support in the html 5 client (quic, glz), replace with what is easily supported (png, jpeg)
• add capabilities for the negotiation
• implement a client in javascript / coffeescript (gwt?):
  • protocol parsing
  • canvas rendering

See Also

This thread on alternate platforms

* Notably the possibility of using a C -> Javascript compiler