VNC with the Remote Framebuffer Protocol

Abstract

In the previous chapters, you learned how to layer two powerful protocols, XMPP and STOMP, over WebSocket. With these protocols, we were able to examine chat, presence, and messaging, all of which can be used to create rich applications and implement systems to power our browser-based world. In Chapter 4, we saw how we could use a widely used standard chat protocol with WebSocket and enabled a traditional desktop-based chat application to be used over the Web, as well as witnessed the benefits of layering WebSocket with a standard chat protocol. Similarly, in Chapter 5, we looked at how to interact with TCP-based message brokers from web applications. In both cases, we explored the transition between a traditional, desktop application-based world to a web-enabled world, and looked at how the full-duplex, low-latency connection over the Web provided by WebSocket can be beneficial to such applications. In this chapter, we look at an even more complex (yet standard) protocol and how to transform it using WebSocket as the communication platform.