James,

Thank you for the clarification.

I suppose we see the scope of the protocol differently.

Regards,

Brian


James Weatherall wrote:

> Brian,
>
> The encoding numbers listed on the AT&T Labs' archive site are mostly
> obsolete, but we have assumed their continued existence for compatibility
> reasons in all subsequent VNC development.  In addition to these legacy
> numbers and those used for standard VNC encodings (RRE, ZRLE, Hextile, etc),
> we have allocated some encoding numbers to third-party developers -
> TightVNC, for example, has such an encoding number.
>
> As you might imagine, the standard VNC distribution will only ever send data
> using the standard encodings, as described in the RFB protocol document
> (http://www.realvnc.com/docs/rfbproto.pdf).  This is true both of the latest
> release in the VNC 3.x series (http://www.realvnc.com/documentation.html)
> and of the VNC 4 series (http://www.realvnc.com/v4).  In particular, they
> will never send any data using encoding number 8, and so CotVNC must be
> getting confused in order to produce the reported error message.
>
> I must say, for my part I was surprised by your unfounded accusations of
> innaccuracy, particularly given the extensive use you have made of VNC over
> the years!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
>

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