On 2005-01-22, 19:23 -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 20:04 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 07:06, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > > > I'm wanting to set up a set of PHP code to present a link and have > > > it open a terminal window, with a hostname destination in it- kinda like > > > ssh:///root@xxxxxxxxxxxx and make a one-click connection to the remote > > > machine. > > > > > > Is this something that can be easily done, most likely on Firefox > > > and/or Mozilla? > > > > I don't think this will be easy. > > > > I can think of two ways to do this neither of which is "easy". > > > > First way, you would need to utilize something like java scripting. > > Your web page would then be able to startup a terminal application on > > the users machine, in this case an ssh session. > > > > Second way, you would need to startup the ssh session on the web server > > where the page is and pass the data back to the user over the http > > connection (suggest using https for stuff like this). > > > > Only in the second case could you possibly use php to do this. Even > > that may not be the right tool. (as much as I like php it is just not > > suited to certain types of things.) > > Or, I could just have them ssh to the main site, then chose from a > menu which would spawn the ssh session as needed. :> Yeah, I've been > researching since the post...I don't like most of the choices I have > here, but it's not a biggie. > > Thanks for your input, though! > > if you can use java, you can try java webstart and ssh like this: http://www.physics.ubc.ca/javassh/index.phtml
