webpty 3.9

A web-based application to access shell & shell based applications via a browser

webpty

Web based application to access shell & shell based applications via a browser.

Installation

Use pip and install webpty.

pip install webpty

Usage

webpty

Creates a tornado server which will be serving bash shell on http://localhost:8000/

Change Shell

webpty -c $SHELL

or

webpty --cmd=$SHELL

This $SHELL can be bash, sh, python, vim, wtfutil, etc. that is available in the system.

Change Port

webpty -p $PORT

or

webpty --port=$PORT

Creates a tornado server that server on the specified port http://localhost:$PORT/

Change Allowed Hosts

By default, server will accept request from all the hosts without any restriction, to make it accept only from certain hosts,

webpty -ah $ALLOWED_HOSTS

or

webpty --allowed-hosts=$ALLOWED_HOSTS

Server accepts only requests from $ALLOWED_HOSTS. This $ALLOWED_HOSTS should be list of strings seperated by a comma.

Screenshots

Bash

Python

Vim

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Raise a issue and start a discussion before submitting a pr.