I just found this:

http://p3m.org/wiki?Firefox

which says that you can set up some user pref entries in Firefox to handle new protocols, so I went to the "about:config" page and created these entries:

one "string" type:

  network.protocol-handler.app.ssh

with the path to a script as it's value:

  /usr/local/bin/fox

three boolean types, set "true", true" & "false" respectively:

  network.protocol-handler.expose.ssh
  network.protocol-handler.external.ssh
  network.protocol-handler.warn-external.ssh

A test page contains this link:

<A href="ssh:10.10.10.10">My Server</a>

and the /usr/local/bin/fox script contains this:

#!/bin/ksh

OFS="$IFS" IFS=":" set $1 PROTO=$1 URI=$2 IFS="$OFS"

if [ "$PROTO" = "ssh" ]; then exec /usr/bin/xterm -e ssh $URI fi

Obviously the script could do with some data validation - this was just for proof-of-concept. The arg handed to the script is the whole uri including the protocol, so it could handle multiple protocols.

Anyway, when I click on the link, a new xterm window pops up with a ssh session to my server. I suppose if your desktop is running Windows, the script would need to fire up putty.exe or something similar.

Ralph Mitchell

It seems to work OK with Firefox-1.0.7 in Gentoo Linux. On 1/13/06, Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant at steria.com> wrote:

Costa, Todd (DMH) a écrit :

...

Hello Listers,

I am wonder if its possible in Hobbit to establish a telnet/ssh session to a host that's being monitored from the Display? If it can be done, how do I go about doing it?

I have read about adding html tags in the header/footer files on the BB archives which comes close to what I want but did not explain further. I did not find anything in Deadcat. Google is great but there's way too hits to sift through.

My goal is to connect to an old device via telnet/ssh from a link in Hobbit. I realize telnet is taboo but the device is/can be isolated from outside connections (managed IP's). Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Hi

there are Java SSH clients, like : http://www.netspace.org/ssh/

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Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis

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