The MPL 2.0 license is a "file-level" copyleft license vs the
"project-level" nature of the L/GPL. The intention of noVNC has
always been that it should be easy to incorporate into existing
projects and sites whether free/open or proprietary/commercial. The MPL
2.0 is designed for this sort of combination project but still
requires that any distributed modifications to noVNC source files must
also be published under the same license.
In addition, the MPL 2.0 allows the code to be used in L/GPL projects
(the secondary license clause). This means that any projects that are
already incorporating noVNC should not be impacted by this change and
in fact it should clarify the licensing situation (the exact
application of the L/GPL to web applications and interpreted code is
somewhat ambiguous).
The HTML, CSS, image and font files continue to be under more
permissive licenses (see LICENSE.txt). The included websockify python
code remains under a LGPLv3 license although the include/websock.js
file from the websockify component is now under MPL 2.0 as well.
Permission was received from other noVNC authors to make this change to their
code license on the following dates:
- Chris Gordon (UI): Jun 24, 2012
- Antoine Mercadal (DOM,*util.js): Oct 10, 2012
- William Lightning (UltraVNC repeater): Oct 10, 2012
- Mike Tinglof (tight encoding): Oct 15, 2012
This change pulls websockify 6d9deda9c5.
Most note worthy changes:
- Pulls in web-socket-js 7677e7a954 which updates to IETF 6455 (from
Hixie)
- Binary support detection and use in include/websock.js
- Add ssl and unix target support
- Add multiple target support via config file/dir.
- Idle timeout exit
The current grep pattern matches also port numbers that match only
partially the given $PORT number; e.g., if $PORT is 6080, 60800 will
match as well.
While TCP listening sockets in the 60000-65535 range are rare, they
need to be handled as well. The problem is also present if the user
selects a shorter PORT value with the --listen command line argument.
By adding a space, the pattern is fixed.
Pull in version 376872d99.
Several changes including:
- binary/typed array support in websock.js
- unix socket support
- multiple target support via config file(s)
- prefer IPv6 option
* Adds the nova-novncproxy binary, to provide support for vnc + OpensStack nova
* Adds the ability to pass an auth token in via url, which is subsequently
passed back to the proxy as a cookie.
Pull from websockify: 008a5118e728.
Should address issue https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/issues/107
- Also add ability to force use of web-socket-js using
window.WEB_SOCKET_FORCE_FLASH
- in websock.js, for rQshift*, assume length is the full length if not
specified.
Pull websockify 724aa3a.
- Use array module for unmasking HyBi when no numpy module is
available.
- Detect client close properly when using python 3.
- Print request URL path is specified.
- New option --run-once will exit after handling a single WebSocket
connection (but not ater flash policy or normal web requests).
- New option --timeout TIME will stop listening for new connections
after exit after TIME seconds (the master process shuts down).
Existing WebSocket connections will continue but once all
connections are closed all processes will terminate.
Pull 86af0b614d and 7b496ce5b from websockify.
Fix HyBi support on 64-bit systems.
https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/issues/76
- cleanup/update TODO.
- remove explicit check for ctypes module for HyBi.
Clarify that we support HyBi 07-10.
HyBi 07 reports version 7 in the handshake.
HyBi 08-10 report version 8 in the handshake.
Remove version 9 since that is not yet actually defined.
noVNC version 0.1
Add debian packaging directory loosely based on
http://trac.zentyal.org/browser/trunk/extra/novnc/debian
Show web root directory on startup (pulled from websockify f1c8223).
Lintian fixups:
- Some license text clarifications.
- remove executable permission on utils/launch.sh and
include/web-socket-js/web_socket.js
- Add executable permission to utils/launch.sh
Pull websockify 46e2fbe.
WebSocketServer.socket() is a static method takes a host and port and
an optional connect parameter. If connect is not set then it returns
a socket listening on host and port. If connect is set then
a connection will be made host and port and the socket returned. This
has IPv6 support like the addrinfo method it replaces.
Also, prefer IPv4 resolutions if they are in the list. This can be
overriden to prefer IPv6 resolutions for the same host using the
optional prefer_ipv6 parameter.
Pull websockify 7f487fdbd.
The reocrd parameter will turn on recording of all messages sent
to and from the client. The record parameter is a file prefix. The
full file-name will be the prefix with an extension '.HANDLER_ID'
based on the handler ID.
This is part of addressing issue #21 - non-US keyboard layouts.
There are several challenges when dealing with keyboard events:
- The meaning and use of keyCode, charCode and which depends on
both the browser and the event type (keyDown/Up vs keyPress).
- We cannot automatically determine the keyboard layout
- The keyDown and keyUp events have a keyCode value that has not
been translated by modifier keys.
- The keyPress event has a translated (for layout and modifiers)
character code but the attribute containing it differs. keyCode
contains the translated value in WebKit (Chrome/Safari), Opera
11 and IE9. charCode contains the value in WebKit and Firefox.
The which attribute contains the value on WebKit, Firefox and
Opera 11.
- The keyDown/Up keyCode value indicates (sort of) the physical
key was pressed but only for standard US layout. On a US
keyboard, the '-' and '_' characters are on the same key and
generate a keyCode value of 189. But on an AZERTY keyboard even
though they are different physical keys they both still
generate a keyCode of 189!
- To prevent a key event from propagating to the browser and
causing unwanted default actions (such as closing a tab,
opening a menu, shifting focus, etc) we must suppress this
event in both keyDown and keyPress because not all key strokes
generate on a keyPress event. Also, in WebKit and IE9
suppressing the keyDown prevents a keyPress but other browsers
still generated a keyPress even if keyDown is suppressed.
For safe key events, we wait until the keyPress event before
reporting a key down event. For unsafe key events, we report a key
down event when the keyDown event fires and we suppress any further
actions (including keyPress).
In order to report a key up event that matches what we reported
for the key down event, we keep a list of keys that are currently
down. When the keyDown event happens, we add the key event to the
list. If it is a safe key event, then we update the which attribute
in the most recent item on the list when we received a keyPress
event (keyPress should immediately follow keyDown). When we
received a keyUp event we search for the event on the list with
a matching keyCode and we report the character code using the value
in the 'which' attribute that was stored with that key.
For character codes above 255 we use a character code to keysym lookup
table. This is generated using the util/u2x11 script contributed by
Colin Dean (xvpsource.org).
Thanks to Michael Sersen for creating images/Logo.svg.
- Add images directory with original SVG logo, favicon, and some
derivative PNGs of the logo for different purpose.
- Note that license on images/* is CC BY-SA.
- Add utils/img2js.py to take an image and generate a base64 encoded
data URI string.
- Add base64 encoded data URI screen logo to display in canvas when
disconnected.
https://github.com/kanaka/websockify is now the canonical location of
websockify (formerly wsproxy). A copy of the python version is kept
here for backwards compatibility and ease-of-use. The other versions
and related test scripts are in websockify.
wswrapper:
Getting the wswrapper.c LD_PRELOAD model working has turned out to
involve too many dark corners of the glibc/POSIX file descriptor
space. I realized that 95% of what I want can be accomplished by
adding a "wrap command" mode to wsproxy.
The code is still there for now, but consider it experimental at
best. Minor fix to dup2 and add dup and dup3 logging.
wsproxy Wrap Command:
In wsproxy wrap command mode, a command line is specified instead
of a target address and port. wsproxy then uses a much simpler
LD_PRELOAD library, rebind.so, to move intercept any bind() system
calls made by the program. If the bind() call is for the wsproxy
listen port number then the real bind() system call is issued for
an alternate (free high) port on loopback/localhost. wsproxy then
forwards from the listen address/port to the moved port.
The --wrap-mode argument takes three options that determine the
behavior of wsproxy when the wrapped command returns an exit code
(exit or daemonizing): ignore, exit, respawn.
For example, this runs vncserver on turns port 5901 into
a WebSockets port (rebind.so must be built first):
./utils/wsproxy.py --wrap-mode=ignore 5901 -- vncserver :1
The vncserver command backgrounds itself so the wrap mode is set
to "ignore" so that wsproxy keeps running even after it receives
an exit code from vncserver.
wstelnet:
To demonstrate the wrap command mode, I added WebSockets telnet
client.
For example, this runs telnetd (krb5-telnetd) on turns port 2023
into a WebSockets port (using "respawn" mode since telnetd exits
after each connection closes):
sudo ./utils/wsproxy.py --wrap-mode=respawn 2023 -- telnetd -debug 2023
Then the utils/wstelnet.html page can be used to connect to the
telnetd server on port 2023. The telnet client includes VT100.js
(from http://code.google.com/p/sshconsole) which handles the
terminal emulation and rendering.
rebind:
The rebind LD_PRELOAD library is used by wsproxy in wrap command
mode to intercept bind() system calls and move the port to
a different port on loopback/localhost. The rebind.so library can
be built by running make in the utils directory.
The rebind library can be used separately from wsproxy by setting
the REBIND_OLD_PORT and REBIND_NEW_PORT environment variables
prior to executing a command. For example:
export export REBIND_PORT_OLD="23"
export export REBIND_PORT_NEW="65023"
LD_PRELOAD=./rebind.so telnetd -debug 23
Alternately, the rebind script does the same thing:
rebind 23 65023 telnetd -debug 23
Other changes/notes:
- wsproxy no longer daemonizes by default. Remove -f/--foreground
option and add -D/--deamon option.
- When wsproxy is used to wrap a command in "respawn" mode, the
command will not be respawn more often than 3 times within 10
seconds.
- Move getKeysym routine out of Canvas object so that it can be called
directly.
- add dup2 functionality. This requires adding a ref cnt to the
_WS_connections structure so that we only free the structure once
all dup'd referenced are closed. Also, refactor malloc and free of
connection structure into _WS_alloc and _WS_free.
- allow select to accept a NULL timeout value which means sleep
forever instead of segfaulting.
- fix some compile warnings related to ppoll definition.
- move some WebSockets related html test pages into utils and symlink
them from tests.
Moved websocket.py code into a class WebSocketServer. WebSockets
server implementations will sub-class and define a handler() method
which is passed the client socket after. Global variable settings have been
changed to be parameters for WebSocketServer when created.
Subclass implementations still have to handle queueing and sending but
the parent class handles everything else (daemonizing, websocket
handshake, encode/decode, etc). It would be better if the parent class
could handle queueing and sending. This adds some buffering and
polling complexity to the parent class but it would be better to do so
at some point. However, the result is still much cleaner as can be
seen in wsecho.py.
Refactored wsproxy.py and wstest.py (formerly ws.py) to use the new
class. Added wsecho.py as a simple echo server.
- rename tests/ws.py to utils/wstest.py and add a symlink from
tests/wstest.py
- rename tests/ws.html to tests/wstest.html to match utils/wstest.py.
- add utils/wsecho.py
- add tests/wsecho.html which communicates with wsecho.py and simply
sends periodic messages and shows what is received.
Joel Martin
Marco Leogrande
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
Anthony Young
Joel Martin
Sam Mussmann
Phil Phillips