Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] patch to allow use with OS X Screen Sharing

[Anthony Liguori <anthony codemonkey ws>]

Jonh Wendell wrote:
> Em Ter, 2008-04-01 às 20:24 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange escreveu:
>   
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:58:25PM -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote:
> >     
> > > Em Ter, 2008-04-01 às 09:24 -0300, Jonh Wendell escreveu:
> > >
> > >       
> > > > > It seems AppleVNCServer advertises RFB 003.889, which would indicate 
> > > > > that it speaks RFB 3.8, but really only speaks some variant of RFB 3.3.
> > > > >           
> > > Hi, folks. There's a bug around[1] complaining that vinagre doesn't
> > > support RFB "004.000". Can I also workaround this to make it work as
> > > 003.003?
> > >
> > > [1]-https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vinagre/+bug/206227
> > >       
> > That bug claims xvnc4viewer supports the AdderLink server, so I looked at
> > their client code. They don't have an explicit workaround for this server.
> > Their logic is simply:
> >
> >    if version < 3.3
> >         close the connection
> >    else if  version >= 3.3 and < 3.8
> >         use version 3.3
> >    else if version >= 3.8
> >         use version 3.8
> >
> > So the last branch handles the 4.0 version number by pretending it is
> > version 3.8
> >
> > Dan
> >     
>
> With this patch gtk-vnc works just like xvncviewer, as Dan has commented
> above.
>
> The side effect of this (which I agree here) is that for the
> weird AppleVNCServer, we are going to do a 3.8 negotiation.
>
> Comments?

Looks good to me.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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