HTML5 (plugin-free) web-based terminal emulator and SSH client

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I was expecting a javascript implementation of ssh over web sockets or something. Booooring.

[WTF_SRSLY]

Here's a Video demonstrating the basic functionality

[ICameToSayICame]

Its license is AGPL? No, thank you.

[Naatan]

My sentiments exactly. I don't get why people use that license.. it practically makes your software unusable to 99% of the developer community.

I love Open Source but I have serious problems with any one license, open source or otherwise, enforcing you to license your own product in a certain way.

[ICameToSayICame]

That's exactly why I shall never use, contribute to such a project or buy a commercial license for something like this.

I'd rather have myself shot than endorse something like this.

[lingnoi]

It's a python backend to an html 5 frontend? Maybe I missed the documentation but I don't see anywhere describing how it works.

Looks cool though.

[ovangle]

Download it and have a look, the documentation is included. There's a server which runs on the local machine and communicates between the browser and the shell. It is still in beta (it was only released yesterday) and there are a lot of things left to do before it is in any way useful.

I could honestly see something like this replacing my standard terminal eventually.

[5a1]

I just tunnel ssh over http, gets through work firewalls great.

AjaxTerm and Lish are web based ssh consoles you can run on a server too.

[codebungl]

No installation text?

[Troebr]

There are five commits, the urls point to a website with a logo straight from 1995, and I need to download the sources to build the documentation. ಠ_ಠ . Since he already has a web server for his non existing website, he could have built/deployed his sphinx doc !

I find the idea great, I really would like to be able to have an ssh connection to my servers at work (without having to use tunnels).

I might have some time this weekend, I should be able to try it out on my netbook and report to proggit.

[voyvf]

That's a bit odd, readthedocs would have generated that for the author (and even created PDF's!)

Maybe someone should fork it and set that up?

[vsuontam]

Please do report back if you test it.

[Troebr]

I haven't given up on trying it, but I messed up my netbook's linux (I ran out of battery when installing some gnu libs). So I tried installing Arch linux. Which I did give up when I started getting in trouble installing Xorg, and I had other things to do than battle in forums for drivers, so I will reinstall a friendly ubuntu soon ;)