Host Awareness

[tezza]

Hi unconed. This relates to my HN post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559788 .

#Here I am at a terminal on my local machine (called 'home')
home>

# I ssh to a remote server called 'Server1'
home> ssh Server1

# On Server1 I run 'ls'
Server1> ls
     server1file.bin

# This file server1file.bin lives in my home directory on Server1

If I now use the advanced features of TermKit to refer to server1file.bin (copy to a different location say), TermKit should retain the fact that the handle resides on host Server1

[hach-que]

I believe this is being looked into, but there's security considerations that need to take place in order for this to work. For example:

How do you securely connect to the remote machine given that web browsers don't have the concept of an SSH connection? You'd need your own secure protocol capable of running a top a WebSocket or HTTP and you'd have to make sure that's it's cryptographically secure.

So yes, it probably will happen, but there's quite a few security considerations that need to happen first.