WRP - Web Rendering Proxy

A HTTP proxy server that allows to use historical and obsolete web browsers on the modern web. It works by rendering the web page in to a GIF image associated with clickable imagemap of original web links.

Current Status

This is the new GoLang/ChdomeDP version.
It's still lacking some features of the older version (such as real http proxy mode) but far surpasses it in terms of stability and usability.
It's beta quality but comared to the older version, it's maintainable and supportable.
Currently works as browser-in-browser. A real http proxy mode is being investigated. Check issue #35 for updates.

Usage

Download a WRP binary and run on a server/gateway.
Point your legacy browser to the IP address:port of WRP server. Do not use it as Proxy server (yet)
Type a search string or a http/https URL and click Go.
Adjust your screen width/height/scale/#colors to fit in your old browser.
For very very very old browsers such as Mosaic 2.x and IBM WebExplorer 1.x tick the I checkbox to enable ISMAP mode. However this normally should not be needed.
Scroll web page by clicking Up/Down. To go to top enter 0 and click Go.

Flags

-l  listen address:port, default :8080
-h  headed mode, display browser window
-d  chromedp debug logging

More info and screenshots

Credits

Uses chromedp, thanks to mvdan for dealing with my issues Uses [go-quantize(github.com/ericpauley/go-quantize), thanks to ericpauley for developing the missing go quantizer Thanks to Jason Stevens of Fun With Virtualization for graciously hosting my rumblings

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