[Seaside] Seaside Hosting question

[Avi Bryant]

On 10/11/07, Chris Cunnington <cunnington at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > I am using VNC (the Squeak implementation) to connect to the image.
>
> > I'm pretty sure they don't have or allow VNC. Everything would have to
> > be done via web browser or command line (ssh).
>
> I think the VNC Lukas is talking about is something Webfaction will have no
> problem with. It's not VNC as you first think of it. It's just a function of
> Seaside that allows a System Browser to open in a Web Browser. This means
> that once your image is uploaded you can access the image in the same way as
> on your desktop -- except in a browser.

Mm, no - he's talking about the RFBServer implementation from Ian.  We
use that extensively too.  It is indeed VNC (the Chicken of the VNC
client works well), but it requires no special server support (beyond
any firewalls letting port 5900 through).

Avi