On Saturday, 22 August 2015 02:51:44 UTC-4, Reg Natarajan wrote: > > I have a new project that I'm considering writing in Rails. I've never > written anything in Rails but I've been through my share of languages over > the last few decades and I'm not afraid of new things. Given this, I may > have some concepts wrong and will almost certainly have some wording wrong. > > I need an SSH client library that will run in a browser and which doesn't > use Java or Flash. Ideally raw HTML5. It's essential that it support > both password and key based authentication. It would be nice to have but > not essential that I could also have VNC and even RDP. I'm assuming I'm > looking for a Rails Gem. > > Without Java or Flash, "running in a browser" is not exactly possible. There are solutions like (haven't tried this, was a top Google result):
https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne/ but that isn't an SSH client in a browser, it's a browser-based interface to the SSH client on the server. Using it with key-based authentication means the private keys will need to be available to the *server*, which may be a deal-breaker if you're trying to build a service for people to connect to third-party SSH hosts. There are similar projects for RDP: http://guac-dev.org/ But again, this is a "JS frontend to server-installed software" approach, not entirely client-side. --Matt Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/a98b509a-592a-4653-b322-3c01f1963f51%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
