MidpSSH | SSH and Telnet client for Mobile Devices

For every release version there are many different builds of MidpSSH available. This is because different devices have different capabilities and compatibilities.

The builds are:

• Full; all functionality, all protocols; available for MIDP 1 or 2;
• SSH 1; all functionality, protocols Telnet & SSH 1; available for MIDP 1 or 2;
• SSH 2 lite; lite functionality, SSH 2 only; available for MIDP 1 or 2;
• SSH 1 lite; lite functionality, SSH 1 only; available for MIDP 1 or 2;
• Blackberry; all functionality, all protocols; customised for Blackberry; available for MIDP 1 (MIDP 2 version for OS 4 coming soon);
• Blackberry Enterprise only; Blackberry build without TCP connection support (BES only)
• No obfuscation; all functionality, all protocols; is not obfuscated to reduce file size, this may work on devices that cannot handle the code obfuscation, however the file size is significantly larger because of it.

The following distinctions are made between builds:

• Telnet vs SSH 1 vs SSH2
• MIDP specification 1 vs 2
• Full vs Lite, for devices that require applications to be less than 64KB
• Special builds for certain devices
  • Blackberry
  • Devices that can’t handle the obfuscation techniques used to make the code smaller (hopefully none)

Your decision making process can usually work in that order.

1. Do you require SSH 1 or SSH2, do you require Telnet, do you require all three? Depending upon the capabilities of your device you may not have a choice though.
2. Does your device support MIDP 1 or 2? This may be discoverable in your device’s documentation, or just by trial and error. The easiest is trial and error - try the MIDP 2 build first, if it doesn’t install or won’t work, try MIDP 1. Differences between MIDP 1 and 2
3. Does your device limit the size of midlets to 64KB or smaller? If it does then you’ll need a lite build. Again the easiest way to find out is to try the full build, if the install fails try the lite. Differences between full and lite