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How do I use VNC Viewers with built-in SSL tunneling?

April 26, 2017built-in SSL tunneling VIEWERS VNC

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How do I use VNC Viewers with built-in SSL tunneling?

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Notes on using “native” VNC Viewers with SSL: There aren’t any native VNC Viewers that do SSL (ask your VNC viewer developer to add the feature.) So a tunnel must be setup that you point the VNC Viewer to. This is often STUNNEL. You can do this manually, or use the ss_vncviewer script on Unix, or our Enhanced TightVNC Viewer (SSVNC) package on Unix, Windows, or MacOSX. See the next section for Java Web browser SSL VNC Viewers (you only need a Java-enabled Web browser for it to work.) Notes on the SSL enabled Java VNC Viewer provided in x11vnc classes/ssl/VncViewer.jar: A Java applet VNC Viewer allows you to connect to a VNC Server from a Java-enabled Web browser. The SSL enabled Java VNC Viewer (VncViewer.jar) in the x11vnc package supports only SSL based connections by default. disableSSL=yes in index.vnc to override.) –> As mentioned above the -httpdir can be used to specify the path to …/classes/ssl. A typical location might be /usr/local/share/x11vnc/classes/ssl. Or -http can be