Hi folks, is anyone here aware of any of the standard web browsers which were available in the System 7/8 era, which either have no SSL support at all, or have the ability to entirely disable it?
This has me thinking back pretty hard. But wasn't it possible to disable SSL (v1, v2) on Netscape 4.x as well as IE 4.x. iCab offers the same function too AFAIR.
I can check If you want to, but not before tomorrrow.
My thread on WebOne died back with the data loss the forum suffered BUT you can get modern SSL to work with netscape 3.x and iCab! Check this out:
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You can install WebOne on a raspberry pi in the network and set it as a proxy. It will allow you to browse modern HTTPS websites. Just keep CSS disabled because poor ol' macs have less ram than macrumors.com uses for a background.
I had time to check in the meantime and was able to disable SSL on iCab 2.6.x (last 68k version) as well as Netscape 4.x. On IE 4.x i did not find a setting regarding SSL though.
But if you connect to any modern and incompatible server with old SSL enabled, the connection will just fail. It is the same as disabling SSL from the start so why bother?
But if you connect to any modern and incompatible server with old SSL enabled, the connection will just fail. It is the same as disabling SSL from the start so why bother?
Haven't tried in a while, so this might be inaccurate, but I do believe when it tries to establish an SSL connection to a modern TLS-protected website, it'll sit around doing effectively nothing for longer as it desperately tries to connect, than if you'd disable SSL altogether and it fails immediately.