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Updated Vintage Web Proxy (markdown)

Daniel Markstedt 2021-11-07 10:29:33 -08:00
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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Vintage Web Proxy servers to the rescue! The Raspberry Pi that RaSCSI runs on is
Despite the name, the use of macproxy is not at all limited to Macs. It is a super light-weight proxy implemented as a Python script running a Flask app, which will translate https requests to http, and strip out the vast majority of linked contents such as style sheets and JavaScript, while suppressing inline scripts as well. It has support for binary file downloading, and will retain embedded images to be decoded by vintage browsers.
Macproxy is an excellent choice for any 68k Mac, or other retro computer of a similar vintage.
Macproxy is an excellent choice for any 68k Mac, or other retro computer of a similar vintage. But don't expect contents that rely on heavy scripting to work well.
The author has [forked macproxy](https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy) and improved it to work with venv and Python3, more aggressive translation of https to http, adding support for embedded images and binary downloads, among other fixes.