VNC via browser

[Scott C. Best]

Brian:

 	Heya. As far as I know, the commercial verions of RealVNC
allow you to specify the *same* TCP port for both VNC data and
HTTP data connections. And I think ... it was done to address
exactly your situation. :)

cheers,
Scott

> Greetings,
>
> This is probably a noob question, but I have been unsuccessful in searching
> archives for an answer.  I'm trying to connect to my home pc from work via
> VNC.  For testing purposes, I've left the ports as their defaults.  I have
> disabled the windows firewall on the home pc where vnc server is running.
>
> Like most offices, my company has a firewall that makes it impossible for me
> to even ping my home machine.  So instead, I tried to connect to my vnc server
> via browser with http://<myip>:5800.  This actually gives me some progress as
> the browser apparently connects to my home pc and brings up the VNC java
> prompt asking for connection details.  But for some reason, I can't get past
> that java connection prompt.
>
> The default entry for server is <myip>:0.  However, trying that results in a
> connection timeout.  I've tried <myip>:1, <myip>:5900, <myip>:5901,
> <myip>:5800, <myip>:5801, but they're all the same.
>
> What would cause the browser to be able to connect to the vnc mini-webserver
> on my home PC but not be able to complete the full connection after that?  I
> don't believe I forwarded port 5800 on my router at home, but since I'm
> already connecting to it, it seems like that wouldn't be it.
>
> Brian Beaird