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Re: VNC viewers: Clipboard of host automatically sent to remote machine


From: GloW - XD <doomxd () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:33:55 +1100

nice to send THIS one to fd, and you ssomehow admit to knowing it here
yet, i told you what it was, exactly, dont try make me look bad fag,
or i will drop your fucking domain, for a month :)
ciao beech,.
xd


On 25 January 2012 19:55, Dan Yefimov <dan () lightwave net ru> wrote:
On 25.01.2012 5:45, Ben Bucksch wrote:
On 25.01.2012 00:52, Henri Salo wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:47:28AM +0100, Ben Bucksch wrote:
On 25.01.2012 00:09, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
IP KVM, in which the foreign server basically gets only inbound
Keyboard and Mouse and outbound uncompressed pixels.
That is *precisely* what VNC is: an open-source IP KVM.
What the hell? Seriously..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNC

hihi. Thanks.

"It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to
another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other
direction, over a network."
"The VNC protocol (RFB) is very simple, based on one graphic primitive
from server to client ('Put a rectangle of pixel data at the specified
X,Y position') and event messages from client to server."

Compare to above.

Now, the part where it defines that clipboard is also a standard part of
VNC... oh, huch, it's not there! (Just a random note that Unicode is
impossible, but not that clipboard is defined as part of the protocol at
all.) Ah, I know... Surely, it must be on
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFB_protocol>... No, same thing there.
Strange.

It should be strictly understood that something not being mentioned in the
Wikipedia article doesn't mean that doesn't exist at all, since Wikipedia is
_not_ authoritative information source. The authoritative information source
would be the formal specification of the protocol explicitly defining the set of
event types and explicitly prohibiting non-defined event types, otherwise
implementations are free to define and use their own event types being in fact
extensions of the protocol. It's defined nowhere that VNC is _exactly_
open-source IP KVM and nothing more.

P.S. I was just reporting bug. I hope at least some software finds a
better solution. Have fun.

I'd suggest you find alternative product allowing you to explicitly configure
that clipboard is not transmitted to the host under control instead of
struggling with the product limitations and design flaws.
--

Sincerely Yours, Dan.

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