HTTP in VNC Server

[Quentin Stafford-Fraser]

Aaron -

That's quite a nice idea, and with the Unix server this is easy.  Just put
e.g. vncviewer.exe in the directory with the java classes and you can get it
as
http://snoopy:5801/vncviewer.exe if your display is snoopy:1.

With WinVNC the files served are stored as resources within the executable,
so you would need to include the viewer, make some changes and rebuild the
source, but it could be done...

Regards,
Quentin Stafford-Fraser

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron DiLapi <dilapi "at" rpi.edu>
To: vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk <vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk>
Date: 17 April 1998 16:15
Subject: HTTP in VNC Server


>Here is a quick thought I had on my way out the door...
>
>I was just thinking of uploading a copy of the WinVNC client to my website
>so that I could download it when I needed it, I am constantly switching
>computers and can never seem to keep a disk around with WinVNC Client on
it.
>
>Well, why not just make the server configurable to send different clients
>besides Java ones over the web? So I could set the server up to send the
>WinVNC client over HTTP when I made a request at http://<company>.com:5000/
>or something similar. The ease of the Java client... with the performance
of
>the native client once downloaded.
>
>Anyone out there want to try this?
>
>-Aaron DiLapi
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