Removal of -nohttpd arg not Documented in Release Notes for 2.2.90/ 3.0 Beta1

[flakrat]

Howdy,

We encountered an issue when upgrading clients from 2.2.6 to 2.2.90 where the VNC desktop failed to to launch with:

Unrecognized option: -nohttpd
use: X [:<display>] [option]
-a #                   default pointer acceleration (factor)

vncserver is being launched via the following command syntax:

vncserver -log "#{vnc_log}" -rfbauth "#{vnc_passwd}" -nohttpd -noxstartup #{vnc_args}

I don't see anywhere in the man page or release notes where -nohttpd is mentioned as being removed.

It appears that -novnc is now used to explicitly start a web server, as opposed to having to use -nohttpd to prevent starting one???

[dcommander]

The man page would not mention that a command-line option has been removed. It would simply cease to contain a description of that option, the implication being that you should not use any command-line options that are not therein described. The change log entry 3.0 beta1[6] implies that all command-line options and configuration directives associated with the built-in HTTP server were removed along with that feature. (It isn't common practice for software to retain command-line options for a non-existent feature.) However, I will modify the change log to make that explicit.