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Can somebody help me understand why you would ever want this? SSH is included by default in almost every mac or windows machine I've ever used, and putty is a pretty tried-and-true executable to run.

Who on earth is thinking "man, I wish I could run a terminal in my browser!"

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Cool project, and I love the "because we can, and because it's cool" aspect of it, I'm just curious if I'm missing a use case for "why".

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This is more than a terminal in your browser. It is an HTTP server that serves a Javascript-powered terminal connected to the box. You effectively have a secure shell connection encapsulated in HTTP(S). Perfect for restrictive environments.

Restrictive networks where you can't SSH out.

Restrictive computers where you can't run Putty or SSH (though you shouldn't connect from those anyway, but well).

I can't think of any other reasons.

If you can't SSH out, how does this program get around that fact?

It needs to proxy via either straight HTTP or websockets (I haven't checked which) to be able to serve things up to the browser.

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