VNC on port 80

[Jonathan Morton]

>I had not thought about that. This seems to make my patch useless,
>since the only situation in which it would really be necessary
>is the one where there is an HTTP proxy involved. Oh well.

Actually, it makes sense when trying to convince an network admin to open
ports for VNC use - it saves them opening *two* ports instead of one.

I might investigate using various hackery to allow 'ordinary' HTTP proxies
to be used to carry RFB traffic, when I have got other things (like HTTP
support in the first place!) out of the way.  This might involve using
multiple GET and POST events to enable two-way traffic with the
lowest-common-denominator, and would certainly involve modifying a viewer
(whether Java or native) to test it with.  Things like the Expires: header
would be kinda useful too...

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
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