Running “everything” in a web browser used to be a bold statement. However, due to the increasingly powerful HTML5/JavaScript stack, a web browser has now become a dominant application delivery platform. Even the Linux kernel sandboxed in a web browser no longer sounds so crazy these days.
In this tutorial, I describe how to access an SSH terminal in a web browser on Linux. Web-based SSH is useful when the firewall you are behind is so restrictive that only HTTP(s) traffic can get through.
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