Install Anyterm for remote terminal access without SSH
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 86.6.12.162]
on March 19, 2008 08:40 PM
> Isn't this really a bad solution for a problem that has been completely addressed by SSH?
SSH won't work through an HTTP proxy, or a filewall that blocks whatever port your SSH daemon is listening on. I wrote Anyterm to "scratch an itch", i.e. to solve a problem that I had: I was working at a company from where the only connections to the outside were HTTP[S] and SMTP, and trying to keep my part-time business' web server alive. Other people clearly have the same problem, as seen by Anyterm's popularity.
Another use for it that hasn't been touched on yet is that it can be used to "web-enable" console applications, and I have had quite a lot of interest from people with old curses forms programs that they want to deploy on their intranets.
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Install Anyterm for remote terminal access without SSH
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 86.6.12.162] on March 19, 2008 08:40 PMSSH won't work through an HTTP proxy, or a filewall that blocks whatever port your SSH daemon is listening on. I wrote Anyterm to "scratch an itch", i.e. to solve a problem that I had: I was working at a company from where the only connections to the outside were HTTP[S] and SMTP, and trying to keep my part-time business' web server alive. Other people clearly have the same problem, as seen by Anyterm's popularity.
Another use for it that hasn't been touched on yet is that it can be used to "web-enable" console applications, and I have had quite a lot of interest from people with old curses forms programs that they want to deploy on their intranets.
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