[Alpine-info] URL "pushing"

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:


> Has anyone else come up with a decent solution for this, a simple 

> cross-system rpc-type demon?

>

> I would love to see some sort of standard emerge for this, with some 

> kind of useful ANSI escape sequence that was rfc-defined, but that might 

> just be dreaming.



That sounds cool.  This isn't what you are looking for, but my approach is 
to use Xvnc.  I run it with the localhost option to block connections from 
the usual ports, then just connect via ssh with port forwarding.  I have a 
little script for that to make it super easy.  Then I run IceWM within the 
VNC session with an xterm for Alpine and Firefox in a different workspace. 
Whenever I open a URL, it appears in a new tab in Firefox and the system 
automatically switches me to the Firefox workspace.

I like this system because it is totally portable.  I access it 
practically from anywhere -- home, office, etc.

Mike