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    wsproxy, wstelnet: wrap command, WS telnet client. · f2538f33
    Joel Martin authored
    wswrapper:
    
        Getting the wswrapper.c LD_PRELOAD model working has turned out to
        involve too many dark corners of the glibc/POSIX file descriptor
        space. I realized that 95% of what I want can be accomplished by
        adding a "wrap command" mode to wsproxy.
    
        The code is still there for now, but consider it experimental at
        best. Minor fix to dup2 and add dup and dup3 logging.
    
    wsproxy Wrap Command:
    
        In wsproxy wrap command mode, a command line is specified instead
        of a target address and port. wsproxy then uses a much simpler
        LD_PRELOAD library, rebind.so, to move intercept any bind() system
        calls made by the program. If the bind() call is for the wsproxy
        listen port number then the real bind() system call is issued for
        an alternate (free high) port on loopback/localhost.  wsproxy then
        forwards from the listen address/port to the moved port.
    
        The --wrap-mode argument takes three options that determine the
        behavior of wsproxy when the wrapped command returns an exit code
        (exit or daemonizing): ignore, exit, respawn.
    
        For example, this runs vncserver on turns port 5901 into
        a WebSockets port (rebind.so must be built first):
    
            ./utils/wsproxy.py --wrap-mode=ignore 5901 -- vncserver :1
    
        The vncserver command backgrounds itself so the wrap mode is set
        to "ignore" so that wsproxy keeps running even after it receives
        an exit code from vncserver.
    
    wstelnet:
    
        To demonstrate the wrap command mode, I added WebSockets telnet
        client.
    
        For example, this runs telnetd (krb5-telnetd) on turns port 2023
        into a WebSockets port (using "respawn" mode since telnetd exits
        after each connection closes):
    
            sudo ./utils/wsproxy.py --wrap-mode=respawn 2023 -- telnetd -debug 2023
    
        Then the utils/wstelnet.html page can be used to connect to the
        telnetd server on port 2023. The telnet client includes VT100.js
        (from http://code.google.com/p/sshconsole) which handles the
        terminal emulation and rendering.
    
    rebind:
    
        The rebind LD_PRELOAD library is used by wsproxy in wrap command
        mode to intercept bind() system calls and move the port to
        a different port on loopback/localhost. The rebind.so library can
        be built by running make in the utils directory.
    
        The rebind library can be used separately from wsproxy by setting
        the REBIND_OLD_PORT and REBIND_NEW_PORT environment variables
        prior to executing a command. For example:
    
            export export REBIND_PORT_OLD="23"
            export export REBIND_PORT_NEW="65023"
            LD_PRELOAD=./rebind.so telnetd -debug 23
    
        Alternately, the rebind script does the same thing:
    
            rebind 23 65023 telnetd -debug 23
    
    Other changes/notes:
    
    - wsproxy no longer daemonizes by default. Remove -f/--foreground
      option and add -D/--deamon option.
    
    - When wsproxy is used to wrap a command in "respawn" mode, the
      command will not be respawn more often than 3 times within 10
      seconds.
    
    - Move getKeysym routine out of Canvas object so that it can be called
      directly.
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