links

New tight PNG protocol:
    http://wiki.qemu.org/VNC_Tight_PNG
    http://xf.iksaif.net/blog/index.php?post/2010/06/14/QEMU:-Tight-PNG-and-some-profiling

RFB protocol and extensions:
    http://tigervnc.org/cgi-bin/rfbproto

Canvas Browser Compatibility:
    http://philip.html5.org/tests/canvas/suite/tests/results.html

WebSockets API standard:
    http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#websocket
    http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/
    http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-00.txt

Browser Keyboard Events detailed:
    http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html

ActionScript (Flash) WebSocket implementation:
    http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js

ActionScript (Flash) crypto/TLS library:
    http://code.google.com/p/as3crypto
    http://github.com/lyokato/as3crypto_patched

TLS Protocol:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security

Generate self-signed certificate:
    http://docs.python.org/dev/library/ssl.html#certificates

Cursor appearance/style (for Cursor pseudo-encoding):
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_(file_format)
    http://www.daubnet.com/en/file-format-cur
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_URL_values_for_the_cursor_property
    http://www.fileformat.info/format/bmp/egff.htm

Icon/Cursor file format:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997538
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa921550.aspx
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa930622.aspx


RDP Protocol specification:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc240445(v=PROT.10).aspx


Related projects:
    
    guacamole: http://guacamole.sourceforge.net/

        - Web client, but Java servlet does pre-processing

    jsvnc: http://code.google.com/p/jsvnc/

        - No releases

    webvnc: http://code.google.com/p/webvnc/

        - Jetty web server gateway, no updates since April 2008.

    RealVNC Java applet: http://www.realvnc.com/support/javavncviewer.html

        - Java applet

    Flashlight-VNC: http://www.wizhelp.com/flashlight-vnc/

        - Adobe Flash implementation

    FVNC: http://osflash.org/fvnc

        - Adbove Flash implementation

    CanVNC: http://canvnc.sourceforge.net/

        - HTML client with REST to VNC python proxy. Mostly vapor.