Error while waiting for server message

[James Weatherall]

Joel,

The VNC 4 series viewer has this functionality
(http://www.realvnc.com/products/free).

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
> Sent: 06 April 2005 16:46
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Error while waiting for server message
> 
> This is an issue that's been bothering me for many years as I've used
> VNC.  Sometimes (I think when there's a temporary glitch in the
> internet connection, but I'm not sure), the Windows VNC viewer I used
> (Tight VNC, but I think all of the viewers do this) will disconnect
> automatically, giving me the error message "Error while waiting for
> server message."  Then I have to relaunch the viewer, and reenter my
> password.  This is quite annoying.
> 
> Is there some way to request "auto-reconnect," so that if the viewer
> suffers this sort of error, it will automatically try to reconnect?
> Ideally, it would automatically reconnect to the same site and try
> using the same password, but I don't know if the VNC keeps the
> password in memroy.  (For me, the tiny potential security risk of
> having the passowrd in memory would be worth it.)
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> -Joel
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