[twill] twill Digest, Vol 8, Issue 14

[Titus Brown]

Another one lost to twill... but I can't feel sad about it ;).  Let me
know how it goes!

cheers,
--titus

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:54:37PM -0500, John Mudd wrote:
-> Thanks!  VNC works much better than ssh alone.
-> 
-> The only stumbling block is that the remote Linux box has all but port
-> 22 (ssh) blocked.  So running vncviewer at home couldn't access the
-> port (5901) published by the remote vncserver.  But it's easy to
-> forward the remote port home with the following command.
-> 
->     ssh -2 -n -R 2024:localhost:5901 -N <my home IP addr>
-> 
-> I chose port 2024 arbitrarily.  Now I can connect from home using the following.
-> 
->     vncviewer localhost:2024
-> 
-> It works great.  This remote Linux box only gives me about 30 KB/sec
-> net access but now that I'm using VNC I have a Linux desktop that
-> works well.  Now I can try Firefox and Seleniun-IDE.
-> 
-> John
-> 
-> 
-> 
-> On 3/20/06, twill-request at lists.idyll.org <twill-request at lists.idyll.org> wrote:
-> 
-> > Message: 1
-> > Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:15:59 +1100
-> > From: James Cameron <james.cameron at hp.com>
-> > Subject: Re: [twill] twill & spidermonkey?
-> > To: twill at lists.idyll.org
-> > Message-ID: <20060319211559.GA3841 at hp.com>
-> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
-> >
-> > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:35:20PM -0500, John Mudd wrote:
-> > > Using ssh causes the browser to appear on my home Linux system but
-> > > requires a lot of net traffic which slows testing.
-> >
-> > Methods to reduce this net traffic ...
-> >
-> > 1.  install a VNC server on the remote system and use a VNC client on
-> > your home Linux system,
-> >
-> > 2.  install a VNC server on another remote system, use a VNC client on
-> > your home Linux system, and then within that run "ssh -X" to the remote
-> > system.
-> >
-> > With the VNC protocol, you can close the client, thus stopping screen
-> > updates (net traffic), and then reconnect the client later to see the
-> > result.  With some VNC programs you can also restrict the update rate.
-> >
-> > VNC makes periodic updates to the screen.  But using ssh every update is
-> > passed across the net.  An automated web browser would generate a lot of
-> > screen updates, and so the difference between VNC and ssh would be more
-> > obvious.
-> >
-> > --
-> > James Cameron
-> > http://ftp.hp.com.au/sigs/jc/
-> >
-> 
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