[X2go-dev] x2go plugin and proxy?

[Gerry Reno]

>From experience, if you ever want to get your customers/clients running
away screaming...   introduce them to Java in any form and Classpath Hell.

>From my perspective... No thanks on the Java!   I'm sure there must be
other simpler ways to implement.


Regards,
Gerry



On 02/16/2011 03:03 PM, Heiko Baumann wrote:
> openssh's ProxyCommand needs an external tool which does the proxy
> connect (with auth if required). so the x2go plugin must know proxy
> ip, proxy port and, if required, proxy user and pass. i dont know if
> this information is available to an firefox addon (i hope not
> specially for the auth stuff ;)).
>
> maybe it is easier to use some kind of java browser plugin to create a
> local socket to listen on and forward this socket (via browser proxy
> settings/HTTP CONNECT) to the x2goserver. this way it should be
> possible to use the browser proxy settings (if java is configured this
> way -> Java Control Panel). x2goclient could connect to this socket
> (localhost:someport) without doing any proxy related stuff.
>
> however this will only work if ssh is listening on port 443 on
> x2goserver because most proxies only allow HTTP CONNECT on port 443.
>
> regards
> heiko
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:33:44 +0100, Milan Knížek
> <knizek.confy at volny.cz> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 14:17 +0000, Robin Green wrote:
>>> I don't understand. x2goclient *already* uses ssh, and can be
>>> configured
>>> to forward all sound etc. over ssh as well.
>>>
>>> You need to forward ssh traffic through an ssh proxy? Why? That is
>>> inefficient - can't you just make the remote server visible on some
>>> port?
>>
>> I am connecting from LAN hidden by an http proxy. I.e. it is not
>> possible to simply "ssh -p 443 x2goserver.com", but the connection must
>> be passed through a proxy at "some.local.proxy.address" at port 8080
>> (the proxy is without authentication).
>>
>> Putty allows for proxy setup. I also checked the man page of ssh, it has
>> an option "ProxyCommand", which would probably be "connect
>> some.local.proxy.address 8080\n".
>>
>> So the question probably is how to incorporate that ssh option into x2go
>> plugin.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Milan
>
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