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.

20 Responses to “MidpSSH stable version 1.6.0 released”

  1. Alfonso Says:

    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 ^_^

  2. Pha[N]toM Says:

    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!

  3. Karl Says:

    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…

  4. Pha[N]toM Says:

    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!

  5. dimgur Says:

    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 ;)

  6. Karl Says:

    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

  7. Karl Says:

    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

  8. Pha[N]toM Says:

    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

  9. Pha[N]toM Says:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8R

  10. dimgur Says:

    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

  11. Karl Says:

    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.

  12. Pha[N]toM Says:

    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.

  13. Bren Says:

    Cool little app. Like the Blakes 7 site name too!

  14. Karl Says:

    Thanks and double thanks :) Couldn’t do without it.

  15. Pha[N]toM Says:

    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

  16. Arab Says:

    Thanks for releasing this version, it works like a charm with my Nokia E61

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  18. Symbian60.mobi Says:

    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…

  19. rajbot Says:

    Version 1.6.0 working great on the BlackBerry 8703e on Verizon.. Thanks!!

  20. Linux_Maniac Says:

    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

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