Port Forward for Web Browser

Questions Royal TS (for Windows)
1

I’d like to establish a port forward, which will then be used by a 3rd party browser. As unfortunately RoyalTS does not support “standalone port forwarding”, but only in combination with an external application (https://content.royalapplications.com/Help/RoyalTS/V5/index.html?reference_externalapp_advanced.htm), I tried that feature.

Now the problem is, that all modern browsers have a mechanism in place, which, after starting of the application forks away a browser instance in then immediately terminates the started program. RoyalTS therefore then immediately closes the session again and the browser ends up in a 127.0.0.1:xyz URL, but RoyalTS does not provide the port forward on that port.

How to solve that one?

Right now I use a cmd script which starts the browser and does not terminate itself. Not a nice workaround, but it works for now. Any suggestions?

2

Hi!

did you try to configure the process tracking parameters to track the correct process and window title on the Advanced page?

Regards,

Stefan

3

Hi,

yes, I’ve also disabled the process tracking. Unfortunately without success.

Can you try to configure any modern web browser (Firefox, Chrome, Edge) as external application with SSH forwarding and share a working configuration? I did not succeed.

Thanks!

BR
Manuel

4

One quick question though: is there a reason you can’t just use the Chromium based web page plugin with Secure Gateway / Proxy configuration? Setting this up will essentially direct all browser traffic through the SSH tunnel.

5

I need the development bar (F12 in most browsers), which I could not find the integrated browser. Is there a way to display that?

That would be my preferred solution anyway, as the external browser permanently shows certificate warnings due to connection to localhost.

6

Right now, this is not possible but it will be possible in Royal TS V6. We hope to have a beta release soon.