aluzzardi/wssh

Health v2 · maintenance only

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

wssh is a bridge that terminates SSH connections server-side and exposes the remote shell pty over WebSockets using a thin JSON protocol. It ships as a Python library plus wsshd server and wssh client tools, with Python and JavaScript client libraries and a browser-based terminal interface.

Use cases

• provide browser-based ssh terminal access from a web app
• embed a remote shell in a web application without exposing ssh credentials
• run shell commands over http/websockets instead of ssh
• build a web terminal backed by ssh servers
• authenticate users via oauth and give them shell access to a sandboxed account

When to choose

• you want to offer terminal access to users through a web browser
• you need to hide ssh servers and credentials behind your own web application
• you want a minimal protocol to script remote shells from python or javascript

When to avoid

• you need a maintained project - the last release was in 2019
• you need full ssh protocol support on the client side
• you need production-grade security auditing for exposing shells over the web

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

websocket ssh http-server terminal-ui developer-tools web-development python browser ssh-to-websocket remote-shell browser-terminal pty-bridge command-line javascript web-server

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