HTTP

[Paula Carboné <ca...@gmail.com>]

Hi!
Will it be possible for Guacamole to grant access to HTTP(S) pages? I know
Guacamole itself does not provide such access but I wonder if his could be
done and how.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

BR

Re: HTTP

[Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 3:42 AM Paula Carboné <ca...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
> Will it be possible for Guacamole to grant access to HTTP(S) pages? I know
> Guacamole itself does not provide such access but I wonder if his could be
> done and how.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks!
>
>
This really depends on what you mean by "grant access." There are a couple
of options that I can think of, and that have been discussed previously, in
the absence of Guacamole supporting HTTP(S) directly:
* A custom extension could be written to display links on the Guacamole
home page that would be available to users. You could also use Guacamole's
user/group management to control what users and groups see these links.
However, this is a very passive access control - Guacamole would not be
actually controlling access to the servers or pages, because traffic would
not actually be going through Guacamole, it would just be controlling what
is displayed for the users. As long as the web pages that are linked have
proper access control and authentication, this isn't necessarily a problem,
but it is worth noting.
* You could also configure a connection to a RDP Server (or Remote App) or
VNC Server that launches a web browser that displays the web page that you
want to provide access to. The access control provided by both Guacamole
and the Remote Server would more actively protect the destination URLs,
particularly if they are behind a firewall.

-Nick