Is there anyway of forcing win vnc to make the http connection on a different port?
Jon
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From: "Joseph A. Knapka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 18:08:47 -0700
>Jon Smith wrote:
>>
>> First of all thank you to everyone that helped me solve the problem of getting vnc
>to work with windows ME ICS.
>>
>> I now have another problem. I want to be able to access VNC running on my home
>computer from school. They have a proxy running and probably only on port 80 and
>port 21. I have tried changing the port used by VNC to port 80 and port 21 and when
>trying to connect on the web (using the java applet) I get a page with the characters
>"RFB 003.003" and thats it. Does anyone know why this isn't working? Why isn't it
>advisable to use ports like port 80 with vnc? How does the proxy handle the data
>used on this port? If the java applet connects on this port will the proxy think its
>loading up a web site a million times?!
>
>If you use the native VNC viewer for your platform and tell it to
>connect to port 80, it should work. Your problem occurs because
>the Java viewer is downloaded on one port (typically 5800+display),
>but the RFB protocol uses a different one (typically 5900+display).
>You've probably got the server listening for RFB connections on
>port 80, and HTTP connections on 5800.
>
>It would be nice if the server could serve the Java applet via
>HTTP on the RFB port, but unfortunately the RFB handshake
>begins with the server writing the RFB protocol version,
>whereas the HTTP handshake begins with the client sending an
>HTTP request -- which means the server can't decide what
>to do based on the client's request. Darn.
>
>-- Joe
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Jon Smith.
>>
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