Open Telnet/SSH from URI in firefox

[FlameLicker]

Dear all,

There is a number of mini-HowTos around which are describing how to start telnet sessions from firefox.

Somewhen since Ubuntu 8.04 the procedures Jonathan Ernst, James Zuelow and others provided stopped working - at least in my enviroment. Since I'm a newbie in this regard it took some time to figure out how to cope with this one. Please be carefull. Maybe my approach of the problem only worked because of I had a brandnew firefox installation and no rules for mms:// were in place.

1) Open Firefox and start an URL 'mms://'
Firefox wants to know whether it shall open 'totem' or 'another application'.
Choose 'another application' and apply the telnet-script shown below.

2) Look for the directory which contains the config files of Firefox.
(It looks like '~/.mozilla/firefox/abcdef0g.default')
Open mimeTypes.rdf with vi and substitute all 'mms' with 'telnet'.

3) If you want to you can repeat the procedure (steps 1 + 2) with replacing telnet with ssh.

4) Restart Firefox
The first time you start URI telnet://... and URI ssh://... you will be asked to choose totem or another application. Apply your appropriate script and make the choice permanent by clicking the checkbox.

URI 'telnet://' should open the configuration panel of putty ready to start a telnet session.
URI 'telnet://hostname.domain' should open a telnet session with the default port number 23.
URI 'telnet://hostname.domain/8023' should open a telnet session with the port number 8023.
URI 'ssh://' should open the configuration panel of putty ready to start a ssh session.
URI 'ssh://hostname.domain' should open a ssh session with the default port number 22.
URI 'ssh://hostname.domain/8444' should open a ssh session with the port number 8444.

My scripts:
(Don't forget 'sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/moz-*')

/usr/local/bin/moz-telnet.sh:
#!/bin/bash
address=`echo $1 | cut -d / -f 3`
port=`echo $1 | cut -d / -f 4`
if [ "$port" == "" ]; then
port=23
fi
putty -telnet ${address} -P ${port}

/usr/local/bin/moz-ssh.sh:
#!/bin/bash
address=`echo $1 | cut -d / -f 3`
port=`echo $1 | cut -d / -f 4`
if [ "$port" == "" ]; then
port=22
fi
putty -ssh ${address} -P ${port}

Reference:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-...reebsd-system/
http://www.freelists.org/post/juneau...net-in-Firefox
http://ernstfamily.ch/jonathan/2008/...r-for-firefox/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s....5/+bug/480502
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2630018
+ others I can't remember anymore

My enviroment:

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Gnome 2.28.1
Firefox 3.5.7 (Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonicle -1.0)

Hopefully this helps anyone.

Cheers

[supine]

"The right way" to do this is to register the handler (i.e your script(s) ) with gconf.

gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ssh/command '/path/to/app %s' --type String
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ssh/enabled --type Boolean true
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ssh/needs_terminal --type Boolean true
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/telnet/command '/path/to/app %s' --type String
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/telnet/enabled --type Boolean true
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/telnet/needs_terminal --type Boolean true

[FlameLicker]

Great! I looked for such kind of solution but could not find it. Thanks.

[darky_mtp]

Perfect !