noVNC and Internet Explorer 11

[robie.d...@gmail.com]

hello,

i tried various versions (also the last one 0.6.1.166) of novnc with firefox and had no problems.
i loaded the file vnc.html fill in the menue address and port and its working.
but when i use internet explorer 11 with windows 7 it does not work.
the menue bar on the left side does not appear (file ie11.png).
with firefox the menue is there and i can connect (file firefox.png).

i was told to use sockify
here some questions:

1. i use libvncserver that does not need a websockify server as stated in the readme file.
   and with firefox its working without.
   with firefox i only load the webpage vnc.html and fill in the menue address and port.

2. the online version (http://kanaka.github.io/noVNC/noVNC/vnc.html) is working with ie11 without websokify server

3. i downloaded a exe-version of websokify server for windows (https://github.com/kanaka/websockify/downloads) and copied it on my client-pc (windows 7) and started it like:
   websockify.exe :5901 192.168.1.167:5900
   how should i go on to start the connection (in case i really need websockify)?
   as far as i understand (and it's working with firefox) i have to load first of all the webpage vnc.html in the browser and there i can fill in the address and port
   

can you please help me?

thx in advance.

kr guenter

[sam...@cendio.com]

Open the browser console in IE11 and reload the page. What errors are you seeing?

[robie.d...@gmail.com]

here the konsole output
hope that helps...

[sam...@cendio.com]

I see that I have written to you on your github issues before.. Anyway, your second screenshot doesn't match your described issue in your previous posts. I see that you are now using your libvncserver instead of browsing the noVNC files directly from disk, which is a plus :P I imagine that you will have this same behavior on any browser now?

As far as I know libvncserver uses an ancient version of noVNC, did you update it?

[robie.d...@gmail.com]

i have the problems only with internet explorer.
firefox is working with new and older version of noVNC.
version of libvncserver is 0.9.10.

[sam...@cendio.com]

I can reproduce this error on IE11 and to a smaller extent on Edge as well. The issue seems to be that libvncserver doesn't properly support svg and css mime-types and sends broken data. Most browsers seem smart enough to handle it despite this, but not IE and Edge :)

The way forward for you would be to either get libvncserver fixed (https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver) or to use a more tolerant browser.

[robie.d...@gmail.com]

thx for the bad news ;-)

[sam...@cendio.com]

Yeah, well I think libvncserver would be interested in fixing this since they ship noVNC as part of their releases.