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Re: VT100 over the web
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:51:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
> > http://www.mindbright.se/mindterm/
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> Unfortunately, not legal to use in the US until the RSA patent expires.
This may turn out to be a non issue for this client. I need to follow up on
Sproat's pointers to other Java solutions but the Mindterm suggestion (which
both Matt and Sproat made, independently, I believe) is an excellent one and I
appreciate the pointer.
My problem is that all of my searches were done with "telnet & html" "vt100 &
http" or similar permutations, so I missed the Java based solutions (which
actually, given the chattiness of the protocol, are really much more feasible
ones....)
Another solution if you didn't want to have a Java applet on the client (with
the security and download time considerations you get with that) would be to
have an "interposer" which accepted and spoke VT100 but which rendered html
forms to the user (and processed the resulting responses by emitting VT100
keystrokes).
This seems like a technically elegant solution for the thinnest of thin
clients, but it may not be a practical one if it has to be written from
scratch. The client has, and I too have, a strong bias for buy over build.
++Lar
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| (...) Hmmm. I wonder (strictly for the sake of wondering) is it illegal to use the entire Mindterm package in the U.S., or just the bits that use the RSA algorithm? i.e., if a USian uses just the VT320 stuff and not the ssh stuff, is it legal? What (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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