Issue 163 in shellinabox: Can not copy from/to outside of shallinabox window

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Status: New
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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium

New issue 163 by pafcio...@gmail.com: Can not copy from/to outside of
shallinabox window
http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/issues/detail?id=163

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Mark text in a shell in a box browser windows
2. Click right mouse button and select copy
3. Click right mouse button in the notepad and try to select paste

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
You should have possibility to select paste, so the text marked in a
shellinabox browser windo could be pasted to a notepad.
You will not be able to select paste.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Any version

Please provide any additional information below.

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Updates:
Status: WontFix

Comment #1 on issue 163 by zod...@gmail.com: Can not copy from/to outside

of shallinabox window
http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/issues/detail?id=163

This is a limitation in the security model that browsers enforce. There is
not much that we can do.

With some browsers, you can at least select text in ShellInABox and then
pick "Copy" from the browser's menubar. This then allows you to paste into
other applications. Usually, the reverse (i.e. pasting into ShellInABox)
still doesn't work though.

This issue comes up every so often; both for ShellInABox and for other web
applications. But as far as I know, there is no officially standardized way
to lift this restriction in the browser. Possibly, a native-code plugin
would help, but there are also issues with that -- and it looks as if
browser support for doing this is going away in the near future, anyway.

[shell...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 163 by pafcio...@gmail.com: Can not copy from/to

outside of shallinabox window
http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/issues/detail?id=163

Well, i am not programmer, but saw that in Ajaxterm, which demo you can see
here: http://demos.anyterm.org/ajaxterm_nano/. There you can mark text,
righ click, select copy and then paste it outside Ajaxterm window.

[shell...@googlecode.com]

Comment #3 on issue 163 by Sean....@gmail.com: Can not copy from/to outside

of shallinabox window
http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/issues/detail?id=163

My 2 cents... add something to the right-click menu that creates a
javascript "prompt()" window that contains the shellinabox clipboard. then
you can copy the text out and/or paste new text in.