vnc websocket compatibility issue
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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QEMU |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
WebSocket support in VNC should allow access from VNC client through upgraded WebSocket connection. This feature is not working in IE 11/Edge with noVNC HTML5 client, in contrast to that in Firefox/Safari, etc.
The reason that IE 11/Edge fails to accept the connection upgrade is that the value equality of the `Upgrade` header field is checked in a strict case-sensitive manner in QEMU side, however, the IE/Edge does not send the exactly same string value `websocket` but a capital letter `W` instead.
Defined in section 4.2.1 of rfc6455, the upgrade header field shall be treated case-insensitively.
A patch shall be made in `io/channel-
Changed in qemu: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Which version of QEMU did you test this against ? It should be fixed in current GIT master AFAIK