MidpSSH stable version 1.6.0 released
After over a year as the development version, and off-and-on development, I have released version 1.6.0 of MidpSSH. This is functionally identical to the last development version 1.5.7.
The major features are Keyboard Interactive authentication and an HTTP proxy solution for people behind telco firewalls.
If you don’t know about MidpSSH, it is an SSH client for use on Java enabled mobile devices such as cell phones. If you use SSH then MidpSSH could save you a trip to a computer if you’re in a bind.
February 27th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Congratulations for this wonderful hack release!
I read about some guys trying to control their Linux PCs from within the mobile at ‘ardentice’. So I tried your app and seems to work fine for my Vodafone 710 BT. Neat ^_^
March 5th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Hi, Congat’s with this great release, I use it from dev-version 1.5.6 and it helps me to administrate my workserver from any place. (Of course, when I want to do that;).
Some questions here:
– Can I expect Cyrilic encoding support in this great midlet?
I’m from Russia and get trouble with all “cyr”-named files.
– I can’t find your forums, there was some answers to questions, that I must sometimes to ask. Can You give me link to forums?
PS sorry, my English is not so right, like couple year ago.
PPS …And THANK YOU!
March 5th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Thank you. I think I do remember we exchanged some email about Cyrillic encoding. I don’t have any experience with Cyrillic especially however I do have experience with character encoding in general. MidpSSH is probably US-ASCII at the moment… are the characters necessary for Cyrillic included in any of the ISO character sets? Which one? Or is there a specific character encoding required? If you can point me to some more information about it we can discuss it further!
I’m sorry the forums are currently closed because they were overrun with spam. I’ve thought a lot about the forums, they were helpful, however I felt that the people who could best help – who had already got MidpSSH working on their device – were no longer reading the forums! So I’m back to email coordination at the moment while I think of a better solution…
March 6th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
In Cyrilic encoding are many encoding sets, they are:
windows-1251 (cp-1251)
Koi8-r
Utf-8 (16 bit, doubles traffic)
Cp-866 (dos encoding)
May be there is some more sets, I can’t remember now.
I think, that the reason is to use two or three sets. Koi8-r (as most common for linux) and 1251 (because sometime windows users did’nt know about encodings as is) or utf8 (as more universal, than others, but cause traffic doubling)
Thanks for fast reply!
March 11th, 2007 at 7:38 am
Hello,Karl, from Russia
I am sysadmin in Linux and would like to use your soft too.
I’ve Samsung d 840.Its supports java too.But the application isn’t working on that cell,it do not execute ;( the error occures
May be there some changes are needed in source code.waiting for your answer,thank a lot!
ps
sorry for english
March 11th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Hi Pha[N]toM,
It sounds like perhaps Koi8-r might be the best encoding to use? I have heard people mention it before. I will look into it. Can you perhaps email me a text file with Koi8-r encoding so I can test with it?
cheers,
Karl
March 11th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Hi dimgur,
Please send me an email using the contact form on the MidpSSH website telling me what error message that you see and I’ll see if I can help!
cheers,
Karl
March 13th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Hello Karl. Sorry, I can’t give you this file right now, I get some troubles with my provider.
Now I have only one way to internet – its my cell phone.
Maybe in this site you can find this encoding set:
http://linux.ru
Or try to torture wikipedia about this
If you have an ICQ, my UIN is 347231279
March 13th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8R
March 16th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Samsung d840,i’ve downloaded
)
MIDP 2.0
JAD file http://xk72.com/midpssh/v1.6.0/midpssh-full.jad
JAR file http://xk72.com/midpssh/v1.6.0/midpssh-full.jar
while trying to execute JAD -”java error,bad argument ”
while trying to execute JAR -”format is not supported ”
(that was my own translation from Russian
So, it would be very nice u can help me.
Thanks,dimgur
March 18th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Thanks Pha[N]toM,
Have you seen Russian characters displayed correctly in any other Java applications? I would have hoped that they’d show up correctly when using the Device font setting in MidpSSH, but I guess the terminal implementation is mangling the characters somehow.
What we need is a Russian speaking developer to have a look and see if they can see where it is going wrong! There will definitely be some; I’m going to check my email archive to see if I can find somebody.
March 18th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Of cause I’ve seen russian characters in java applications, there is (not all):
Jimm – jimm.org
SnIRC – irc.senet.ru/files/
There is more applications.
I think in jimm project more russian developers, than in other open-source java projects. I’ve made an icon and status icons for it.
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:08 am
Cool little app. Like the Blakes 7 site name too!
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:16 am
Thanks and double thanks
Couldn’t do without it.
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:52 pm
I have a shell at rootshell.be, tonight I’ll give to you my login, after some checks about encodings and filenames.
There is a project, about converting encodings:
rusxmms.sourceforge.net
April 25th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Thanks for releasing this version, it works like a charm with my Nokia E61
April 27th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
[...] And here is the developer blog for this release http://xk72.com/blog/2007/02/27/midpssh-stable-version-160-released/ [...]
April 27th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Update: MidpSSH – Mobile SSH Client v1.6.0…
Vom beliebten Secure Shell Client “MidpSSH” für die JAVA/MIDP 1.0/2.0 Platform gibt es nach mehr als einem Jahr Entwicklung nun eine neue, als “Stable” gekennzeichnete Version mit der Nummer v1.6.0.
Die Entwicklung steht deswei…
April 28th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Version 1.6.0 working great on the BlackBerry 8703e on Verizon.. Thanks!!
January 7th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Hello!
The Version 1.6.0 is not connectiong on Sony Ericcson T610.
I downloaded and started the latest http proxy, and installed the 1.6.0 full Midp 1 version on phone. At first start of application, the phone resets.
After reset, the app started and set up as descibed Here:
http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2257
by Gronslet.
The phone prints the following:
Connecting to myserver.com……
Using HTTP proxy…
Waits here for a wihle, and prints “Writer IO exception”.
The server don’t displays any sign of connection.
If I try to reach the proxy, from a computer it displays the ip, port and others. From phone, noting
I tried all builds of 1.6.0, and becomed the same results.
The ssh access from my phone would be very important for me.
Is there a really working (tested), and downloadable version for my phone? (please write some links)
Thanks for help
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I attempted using this to connect to a Gentoo box and I am getting an authentication failure every time. Here is the text. I have confirmed and reconfirmed everthing to no avail.
Connecting to http://www.cacti.net…OK
Negotiating…OK
ssh-dss
Requesting authentication
Send password
Authentication failed.
Available methods are: publickey,keyboard-interactive
What do you make of this.
TheWitness
February 8th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I have a Blackberry 8700g on T-Mobile. I keep getting a Session Error Writer: no port specified. I’ve use telnet and SSH clients before, but this is the first time on a blackberry. I don’t know what to do. HELP!!
February 12th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Hello! Good program!
Is there any progress with cyrillic characters? Do you need help in this area? I think one of the simpliest ways is to get font files from users and to include them into the separate distribuions. I would be glad to implement this feature.
March 1st, 2009 at 10:15 am
@Andrew I’m sorry I’m no longer developing MidpSSH. Please feel free to grab the source and implement. I will be happy to host or link to your Cyrillic version!
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Thank you for the great tiny fast and efficient application
It’s one of my favorites! 
November 9th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
thanks for the prog. it runs perfect on my htc-s620 (dash). i am still getting comfortable using it but if one can get used to vi this should be a snap
i plan to use it to admin my web servers when i am on the go. which until now was not very often because too many servers and i could not be far away in case of server problems. my hope is this buys me some time out of my prison (my house). thanks a ton!
November 9th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
after i posted my first coment i tried to give you a “donation” but when i tried it says you quit taking donations………. well i WAS going to send you $10,000 but since you dont want it i guess i will just have to spend it while i am out running around town with my phone. too bad. thanks again