Ajaxterm

[unixfreak]

Hi, anyone here tried to install Ajaxterm? I get nothing but a grey screen with "Get", "Color" and "Paste" in the corner.

I occasionally get a glimse of a status "404" message, which relates to <documentroot>/u missing.

What am I doing wrong?

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[unixfreak]

I assume Ajaxterm isn't a very popular application...

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[Annihilannic]

I guess so. Out of curiosity, what's your motivation for running a terminal in a browser?

In case anyone else hadn't heard of it, it's here:

http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/

Annihilannic.

 

[unixfreak]

My motivation is I've got nowt to do at work and might as well work on my own servers or do other work at home whilst being bored out of my mind at my desk.

For the first time ever I've landed myself in a company where I can get Putty to break through the proxy. It's really bizarre. I spent hours decoding a proxy.pac and have tried multiple proxies mentioned in there, but putty always comes up with "301: Moved permanently" no matter what I do. If you can help me crack that I won't need Ajaxterm...

Thanks

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[Annihilannic]

Well, I just dropped it on to a SLES9 box. I couldn't see how to make it listen on the public IP address easily, so I created an SSH tunnel to localhost:8022 from my Windows client, then I was able to open

http://localhost:8022

in Google Chrome. I got the same grey page with a black 80x25 box with Colors, GET and Paste buttons, and immediately below that, a "Login:" prompt, where I was able to log in fine. The only trouble I had was that whenever I hit backspace the browser goes "back" to the previous page.

All the python script seems to do is run ssh localhost with a bunch of options and direct the I/O through the browser terminal, so maybe it is having trouble locating your ssh binary?

Annihilannic.

 

[unixfreak]

Ok, ssh wasn't listening on localhost, forgot that. Still doesn't work though Just a grey screen with three buttons...



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[Annihilannic]

Perhaps strace the python script to see if it even accepts the connection and/or attempts to launch ssh.

Annihilannic.

 

[unixfreak]

According to documentation, ajaxterm uses /bin/login when running locally. I can't figure out how to change that or if that's the problem.


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[unixfreak]

Hmm... Fiddled around with it at home last night and got it to work. Not even sure what it was, more down to Apache than ajaxterm I think, but also fiddled with Ajaxterm.

Got into work and it doesn't work in FireFoxx (same problem), only IE. Hadn't tried IE before (was broken) so could have worked all along...

Thanks for helping

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[3t0n1c]

How is the network topology?
What CAN you get to from your desktop?

Go from there. If you can get to some things, I assume you can use some port redirects/mapings and bypass the shitty proxy settings.

Good luck!