Is VNC or a virtual desktop required for this link-opening program to work?
I am running a very simple node.js server on a Linux box and its goal is to simply open a link in firefox after receiving an HTTP request. The firefox bit is important because the webpage opened requires a log in token so I occasionally go into the Linux box to refresh it.
Recently I have been having issues with securing my VNC access into the server and my ip must have been found by scanners because my ssh log is very interesting (I have password login off so nothing bad has happened yet to my knowledge). This may mean that components like my desktop, ssh, or vnc are unreliable or down at various points in time.
I am essentially wondering what components must be working in order for my program to work.
I followed this tutorial to test things up so I think xfce4 is handling the graphics of this and tightvncserver is handling the vnc part. My node.js server then uses open('url', 'firefox') using npm open. Doing a get request to that URL would not work as I need to be logged in and I cant figure out how to acquire my login token AND send it in to the website it must be Firefox doing this.
So I guess my question is this. Lets say I have everything set up perfectly then VNC goes down. Will the program still work? Lets say xfce4 goes down too. Will the open command still work? Will Firefox still save login tokens when accessing new pages? Do I have to use a desktop in order to get Linux to do this?
xfce firefox vnc
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I am running a very simple node.js server on a Linux box and its goal is to simply open a link in firefox after receiving an HTTP request. The firefox bit is important because the webpage opened requires a log in token so I occasionally go into the Linux box to refresh it.
Recently I have been having issues with securing my VNC access into the server and my ip must have been found by scanners because my ssh log is very interesting (I have password login off so nothing bad has happened yet to my knowledge). This may mean that components like my desktop, ssh, or vnc are unreliable or down at various points in time.
I am essentially wondering what components must be working in order for my program to work.
I followed this tutorial to test things up so I think xfce4 is handling the graphics of this and tightvncserver is handling the vnc part. My node.js server then uses open('url', 'firefox') using npm open. Doing a get request to that URL would not work as I need to be logged in and I cant figure out how to acquire my login token AND send it in to the website it must be Firefox doing this.
So I guess my question is this. Lets say I have everything set up perfectly then VNC goes down. Will the program still work? Lets say xfce4 goes down too. Will the open command still work? Will Firefox still save login tokens when accessing new pages? Do I have to use a desktop in order to get Linux to do this?
xfce firefox vnc
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J.DoeJ.Doe
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I am running a very simple node.js server on a Linux box and its goal is to simply open a link in firefox after receiving an HTTP request. The firefox bit is important because the webpage opened requires a log in token so I occasionally go into the Linux box to refresh it.
Recently I have been having issues with securing my VNC access into the server and my ip must have been found by scanners because my ssh log is very interesting (I have password login off so nothing bad has happened yet to my knowledge). This may mean that components like my desktop, ssh, or vnc are unreliable or down at various points in time.
I am essentially wondering what components must be working in order for my program to work.
I followed this tutorial to test things up so I think xfce4 is handling the graphics of this and tightvncserver is handling the vnc part. My node.js server then uses open('url', 'firefox') using npm open. Doing a get request to that URL would not work as I need to be logged in and I cant figure out how to acquire my login token AND send it in to the website it must be Firefox doing this.
So I guess my question is this. Lets say I have everything set up perfectly then VNC goes down. Will the program still work? Lets say xfce4 goes down too. Will the open command still work? Will Firefox still save login tokens when accessing new pages? Do I have to use a desktop in order to get Linux to do this?
xfce firefox vnc
asked 4 hours ago
J.DoeJ.Doe
101
I am running a very simple node.js server on a Linux box and its goal is to simply open a link in firefox after receiving an HTTP request. The firefox bit is important because the webpage opened requires a log in token so I occasionally go into the Linux box to refresh it.
Recently I have been having issues with securing my VNC access into the server and my ip must have been found by scanners because my ssh log is very interesting (I have password login off so nothing bad has happened yet to my knowledge). This may mean that components like my desktop, ssh, or vnc are unreliable or down at various points in time.
I am essentially wondering what components must be working in order for my program to work.
I followed this tutorial to test things up so I think xfce4 is handling the graphics of this and tightvncserver is handling the vnc part. My node.js server then uses open('url', 'firefox') using npm open. Doing a get request to that URL would not work as I need to be logged in and I cant figure out how to acquire my login token AND send it in to the website it must be Firefox doing this.
So I guess my question is this. Lets say I have everything set up perfectly then VNC goes down. Will the program still work? Lets say xfce4 goes down too. Will the open command still work? Will Firefox still save login tokens when accessing new pages? Do I have to use a desktop in order to get Linux to do this?
xfce firefox vnc
xfce firefox vnc
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J.DoeJ.Doe
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J.DoeJ.Doe
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J.DoeJ.Doe
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