[maemo-developers] JAVA VNC client to work with x11vnc & nginx?

[From: Acadia Secure Networks]

All,

I got some helpful insights from Karl Runge who posted the following to 
me regarding x11vnc and Java client support:

>     Hi John,
>
>     On Thu, 31 May 2007, "John B. Holmblad" <jholmblad at aol.com> wrote:
>         
>>     > Karl,
>>     > 
>>     > I am running a port of xllvnc (to the maemo platform) running on a Nokia 
>>     > n800 internet tablet computer. Do you know if x11vnc is compatible with 
>>     > the realvnc java VNC viewer. Here is the url to the www page for that 
>>     > software:
>>     > 
>>     >     http://www.realvnc.com/javavncviewer.html
>>     > 
>>     > I guess for this to work it is necessary for the VNC server to support 
>>     > the VNC protocol over HTTP.
>>           
>
>     Yes it should work fine.  Actually it just downloads the applet via HTTP
>     and then the applet connects via normal VNC.
>
>     You know that x11vnc comes with its own Java Viewer, don't you?  It is
>     the TightVNC java viewer which is actually based on the RealVNC one,
>     but perhaps from some time ago (I don't if realvnc has rewritten the
>     java viewer).
>
>     I think you can basically just drop in the Realvnc Jar file and 
>     perhaps index.vnc file over the existing ones (or use -httpdir).
>
>     Ask if you need help setting this up.  You can search my huge page for
>     the string "-http". Also: http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/#faq-java-http
>
>
>     You are probably not interested, but I have modified the Java vncviewer
>     to have SSL support to go along with x11vnc's -ssl option.
>     http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/#faq-ssl-tunnel-viewers
>
>     Let me know how it goes,

Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

Acadia Secure Networks