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Re: VT100 over the web
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Date: 
Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:11:22 GMT
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mattdm@mattdmANTISPAM.org
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Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
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).
You mean something like a dedicated telnet / HTTP gateway?  I still think lag
would be be a huge obstacle.  How thin do you need your thin client to be?  If

I assume that this would be specific to the program they're using, not a
generic telnet<->http....


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(...) I have a few thoughts about this. If the telnet / VT100 throughput has a well- defined format, then such a gateway could use expect (or something like it) and serve HTML forms instead of relying upon the user to enter keystrokes. A side (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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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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