Question
Could DigitalOcean use Secure Shell (Chrome Web App) for the online terminal
- Posted on June 15, 2016
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Asked by 24326124313024354443614e70477a
Their current browser command line is really slow and sometimes has issues like freezing when there are big processes going on. The Chrome web app Secure Shell really excellent, and I think it would be an amazing experience if DigitalOcean were to contact the dev to partner with them so that DigitalOcean opened this by default instead of the one they currently use.
Is this a possibility?
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Secure Shell is a pretty great chrome extension, let me give some background on it that I think might explain why DigitalOcean can’t use something like that for the Web Console:
Secure Shell is only available as a Chrome Extension because it relies on something called Native Client. This is essentially a way for extensions to run pre-compiled C code with hooks and listeners that allow your C program to interface with the browser. So all the important SSH connection and encryption stuff for Secure Shell is actually happening in the Native Client part of the extension, and then just piping input and output to the browser.
Long story short, in order for DigitalOcean to switch to something like Secure Shell in the Web Console, everyone would have to:
The point of the Web Console is to give everyone a quick and easy way of logging in to their droplet when they don’t have a better option.
If you find yourself using the Web Console a lot, you will probably find that switching to using an SSH client will greatly improve your experience, this tutorial is a good starting point:
or if you are on windows, this tutorial will walk you through connecting to your server with the windows SSH client, putty: