WebOne browser proxy

[pcamen]

Anyone heard of the WebOne proxy server for older browsers, started last year?

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=67165

https://github.com/atauenis/webone

Seems promising, although at the moment I don't think it does much more than help with the https problem, which, arguably, is one of the largest hurdles. 

 

[pcamen]

And what do you know, here is another one:

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp

This one has been around since 2014 but appears to have gotten a major upgrade last year. 

 

[pb3623]

IIRC, the WRP project was worked into the MacIPgw project (the Debian image and VM) and I think I got the proxy properly configured and working... once. I may need to revisit it if the WRP part got an upgrade.

 

[CC_333]

This is a neat idea!

It helps solve one of the most difficult problems old browsers have on the modern Internet.

Then, all one needs to do if they want to write a new browser for an old platform (such as, say, a new browser for Mac OS 7.x), all they'd need to do is ensure that it will render pages properly (no small feat in and of itself!), and then let proxy handle all the encryption on a helper computer of some kind, perhaps a Raspberry Pi or some such.

However, maybe to maintain some modicum of security between the proxy and the old browser, maybe rather than stripping away all encryption, maybe the proxy can downgrade it to the best available on a particular platform so that the browser-proxy connection isn't completely open (the old ciphers are obsolete for a very good reason, and as such it's good practice to avoid using them whenever possible, but I would think the risks here would be at least partly mitigated because they'd only be used on the local network; any Internet-facing traffic coming out of the proxy would still be fully secure with modern ciphers).

c