That's more of a client/server feature than a protocol feature. The protocol makes allowances to ensure that there's a clean tear down procedure. For security reasons, if a server wishes to disconnect a client, there's no point in asking any random client to disconnect - just disconnect. The reason for this is that anything a client can be directed to do can be ignored by a trojan client or a very lightweight client.
Andrew -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of ANDRONICO, SAM Sent: Friday, 18 January 2002 3:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Draft 3 of the RFB 4.0 protocol Andrew, will there be a feature that will allow the server to drop it's connection after a specified time of no activity? -- Sam Andronico Broadcast Services Tel. (416) 215-5750 Fax (416) 861-1824 Andrew van der Stock wrote: > > (This will be the second last announcement to the main VNC list - if > you want to continue discussions on the VNC protocol, please join the > rfbhackers mailing list by visiting: > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/securevnc-rfbhackers > ) > > After much work today, I've filled in a great deal of detail on > authentication, channels, file transfers etc, and cleaned out the > cruft and self-contradictory statements. The PDF should now work > acceptably on Acrobat 3.x as well. This draft gives an excellent > overview of where I think VNC needs to go, so please if you have a > specific wish list, download the document and have a read. Don't worry > - it's still VNC, just completely orthagonal. > > http://www.evilsecurity.com/vnc/ > > The next edition will have pretty UML diagrams and more detail on the > core display protocols. > > Andrew > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: > http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Sam Andronico Broadcast Services Tel. (416) 215-5750 Fax (416) 861-1824 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
