HTML code to open PuTTY client from browser

Question

I am trying to make a webpage which will have the entire inventory of servers that our team manages in the form of a table. I am using a simple LAMP stack and the inventory

Answer 1

PuTTY unfortunately does not associate itself with the ssh:// or any other URLs.

You can associate an application with a protocol manually. But it's not trivial. For instructions, see below.

Easier way is to install WinSCP SFTP client. WinSCP 5.9 and newer registers itself to handle the ssh:// URL and opens the session specified by the URL in PuTTY.

So basically, if you just install WinSCP, it will make PuTTY handle the ssh:// URLs, without the below manual tweaks.

(I'm the author of WinSCP)

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To register an application manually, see the MSDN article Registering an Application to a URI Scheme.

Basically you add a registry key like:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ssh]
@="URL: SSH Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ssh\DefaultIcon]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\PuTTY\\PuTTY.exe\",0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ssh\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ssh\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ssh\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\PuTTY\\PuTTY.exe\""

Though the above passes a whole URL to the PuTTY command-line. And PuTTY does not understand the ssh:// prefix. So you would have to add a wrapper script that strips the ssh:// and passes only a user and a host to PuTTY.

For that see:
https://johnsofteng.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/launch-putty-from-browser/

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