wrp
Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on modern web (by tenox7)
retro-proxy
A https to http proxy that allow old browsers to access modern sites, with conversion and compression options. (by DrKylstein)
| wrp | retro-proxy | |
|---|---|---|
| 52 | 8 | |
| 983 | 97 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.2 | 2.8 | |
| 4 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Go | JavaScript | |
| Apache License 2.0 | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wrp
Posts with mentions or reviews of wrp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-17.
- Web Rendering Proxy – Use historical browsers with the modern web
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Browsing like it's 1994: Integrating a Mac SE, ImageWriter II into a modern LAN
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp allows you to use modern js as well, as long as you can render images
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The Future of the Web Is VNC
I use this for retrocomputing, in a way, to be very silly! tenox7's WRP [Web Rendering Proxy] basically runs headless Chrome and renders pages to gif/png/jpg and shoves them back at a client browser.
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
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I just picked up a collection of old Macs. Which should I build a gaming PC out of?
Just like the PowerBook G3 Pismo I have, the iBook uses commonly available 18650 cells, so it's easy to rebuild the battery. With built-in AirPort antennas, you can add an AirPort card and get WiFi (has to be Wireless B though, and sometimes there are issues with encryption so you usually have to run an open access point to connect). Now this is the crazy part, but you can run Web Rendering Proxy on a Raspberry Pi or other, more powerful machine, then use an old browser like Internet Explorer to browse the web. It mostly works, and it's a pretty fun way to get some strange looks in the coffee shop.
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Working graphical HTML browser on AXP?
Depending on what you're trying to do, you can use a "vintage" web browser and something like Web Rendering Proxy to make the page work.
- Connect to internet
- A buddy gave me his 2011 MBP to upgrade for him, so I stuck in an SSD and 8gb RAM, and with the help of Opencore Legacy Patcher, I got Ventura running great on it! If you have an old Mac, I would really recommend doing this, they still have a lot of life left in them!
- WRP – Web Rendering Proxy
- 16 bit Netscape Navigator for Windows 3.1 still can browse the web
- Getting the printer going didn’t even compare with trying to get on the internet. Win95 and IE 5.5
retro-proxy
Posts with mentions or reviews of retro-proxy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-25.
- Internet explorer cannot display the webpage (Windows XP, Vista)
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Just got Windows 3.11 onto the Internet! Netscape Navigator 2.02 (Google crashed the browser)
https://theoldnet.com/ https://github.com/tenox7/wrp https://github.com/DrKylstein/retro-proxy
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Taking the Color Classic online in 2022
Retro-proxy is the biggest contributor. It handles https to http, strips out javascript and css, resizes images a bit, and minifies html. It helps a lot.
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Surfing the net on the Color Classic
Net traffic is being proxied through retro-proxy to handle SSL and minifying some of the content. Details of the in-house 'ISP' I'm using can be found here.
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Best Proxy Approach for DOS Machine?
I have Linux computers and a Windows 10 mothership and have looked at https://github.com/DrKylstein/retro-proxy but there's very little documentation and I can't even tell if Retro Proxy provides a proxy address, let alone makes it available to the DOS machine.
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Browsing Reddit on an Intel 8088, using a modem from the 1960s
Also thanks to DrKylestein for [Retro Proxy](https://github.com/DrKylstein/retro-proxy)
Also thanks to DrKylestein for Retro Proxy
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The Dialup Home Lab: Featuring the Cobalt Qube 2
On the server mgetty is configured for normal tty access, but also to support /AutoPPP/, which kicks off a pppd session and allows machines to connect via PPP like any dial-up internet provider. net.ipv4.forward is set to 1, and ipfwadm is set up to forward traffic. The server acts as a router, doing NAT for the dial-up client. Works great, though I do have browservice and retro-proxy servers running on a VM to handle https -> http and/or rendering for websites too modern for older browsers.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wrp and retro-proxy you can also consider the following projects:
ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!
browservice - Browservice: Browse the modern web on historical browsers
MicroWeb - DOS Web browser for 8088 class machines
webone - HTTP 1.x proxy that makes old web browsers usable again in the Web 2.0 world.
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
docker-qemu-reactos - A Docker image for the ReactOS operating system.
wrp - Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on modern web
rpi-clone - A shell script to clone a booted disk.
docker-qemu-win2000 - A Docker image for Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4.
chromedp - A faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools Protocol.
elks - Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086