[GUACAMOLE-685] Allow Guacamole Server to Maintain Disconnected Sessions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: guacd
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nick Couchman
• Created: 01/Jan/19 22:23
• Updated: 01/May/20 12:32

Description

I'm proposing a change to Guacamole, particularly guacd, to allow for disconnecting sessions in such a way that guacd maintains the sessions in the background and allows those sessions to be resumed later.  This would allow for overall session persistence, even with connections that don't natively support it (pretty much everything but RDP).

This would, at a minimum, require some sort of signaling between the Guacamole Client and guacd stating that a session is being disconnected, or, perhaps, a change in the default behavior such that sessions are maintained by guacd unless they are explicitly shut down by the client.  The API and guacd already support joining an existing session, so the support should already be in place to allow for joining the existing session, so long as it is maintained by guacd.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: GUACAMOLE-1058 Add support to keep SSH session connected with guacd if browser disconnects