Wrapping or Disguising VNC Data to Look Like HTTP

[Hal Vaughan]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 03:17, Pablo J Royo wrote:
> Hello Hal:
>
> Take a look to:
>
> http://spipe.sourceforge.net/concrete_example2.html
>
> I must admit it is not a usual solution , but it could be an option if your
> web server is an 1.3.X Apache one and you have control over it.
> What it does is to cipher with SSL all outgoing traffic at client, and to
> decipher it at the end web server, forwarding to the final VNC server.
>  Also, the end Web server keeps on serving HTTP requests, so with your 443
> port you can serve both VNC and HTTP at the same time.

When I first saw this, I thought, "No way!", since I don't want to add any 
more middleware than I need.  But it has a link to stunnel, which I'm 
examining now and that may prove  to be exactly what I need.  That would be a 
huge relief, since I spent most of yesterday and last night looking into 
sockets and SSL in Java.  I reached the conclusion it can be done in Java, 
and probably fairly easily (at least easy in relation to anything in Java -- 
a simple Perl script of 15 lines takes literally 150-200 lines in Java).  I'd 
just have to learn a lot before I can do it.  If stunnel works, it'd save me 
several days of work!

So thanks for what could save me a lot of work.  I'll post if it works and, if 
it does, I'll post enough info on how to do it so others can set it up.

Hal