Firefox + VNC links

[Andrew White]

Yes, that is what I am guessing is happening.....do you know of any way to change what Firefox passes in this situation?
I have tried on a couple Firefox forums, and noone seems to have an answer...so I thought I would try this list again.

Thanks for the help!

Andy White
New Lenox School District 122
District Technician
815.462.7035 (desk)
815.791.6811 (cell)


<james.weatherall at realvnc.com> writes:
>Andrew,
>
>It sounds like Firefox is passing the entire URI to vncviewer.exe, so that it will then try to connect to a host called "vnc://<whatever>", rather
>than just to "<whatever>".
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vnc-list-bounces at realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-
>> bounces at realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Andrew White
>> Sent: 14 May 2009 19:03
>> To: vnc-list at realvnc.com
>> Subject: Firefox + VNC links
>> 
>> Hi RealVNC list,
>> 
>> Hopefully you can help me understand what is happening with my VNC
>> issue:
>> 
>> I have a website with a link to a VNC protocol ( "vnc://<arguments,
>> computer name, ip, etc>") that I want to use with RealVNC.
>> I can tell Firefox to associate the protocol with vncviewer.exe, and
>> open up RealVNC when the link is clicked, however, no matter what
>> arguments I
>> pass after 'vnc://', RealVNC runs through 'Attempting to connect to
>> host...' and then tells me that it is 'unable to resolve hose by name:
>> no such
>> host is known. (11001)'
>> 
>> My question is what arguments (computer name, IP, etc) should I have
>> and how should the syntax be so that I can get RealVNC to connect to
>> the remote
>> computer's VNC server.  Or how can I see what is being passed (or not
>> being passed) to RealVNC from Firefox?  For example, how can I tell
>> whether
>> Firefox is even sending the correct hostname to RealVNC?
>> 
>> RealVNC is working great for me every other way possible - config
>> files, command line, and quick launch icons - but I want to make links
>> from a
>> webpage using the vnc:// tag work for me and I cannot.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?  Is this even possible?
>> 
>> Thanks for your help!
>> 
>> Andy White
>> New Lenox School District 122
>> District Technician
>> 815.462.7035 (desk)
>> 815.791.6811 (cell)
>> 
>> 
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