Alcun Atirutan BBS

Looking for a web-based telnet client that I can slam into a static file and serve from a basic http server; does anything like that exist?

My initial searches all contain things like docker containers and node.js and I want to do it all from the browser. Seems maybe impossible but idk websockets or some shit?

@requiem I think something like that would only work with the server that the client was hosted from due to a lot of the mechanisms that have been put into web browsers about privacy and the like. Those other mechanisms probably have a relay server.

@requiem https://www.ftelnet.ca/download/ This still requires a proxy server be installed somewhere, but they have options for using third party proxy servers.
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This works, but it's more back-end than what I wanted.

https://github.com/nirui/sshwifty

It will do for now, but now I have to go fight with SSL certificates and the like...

Screenshot of BBS terminal running in a web browser using "Sshwifty"

@requiem A problem is that telnet sockets are generally verboten to web clients, especially cross-domain. They all pretty much require some server-side component on the same domain to proxy from websockets to telnet

@lmorchard yeah I figured the bubblewrap brigade had ruined the fun, but I thought Iā€™d ask around just in case šŸ˜

@requiem Used to be able to do it with Java or Flash applets, but those were abominations.