A browser-in-browser "proxy" server that allows to use historical / vintage web browsers on the modern web. It works by rendering a web page in to a GIF or PNG image with clickable imagemap.
* [Download a WRP binary](https://github.com/tenox7/wrp/releases/) and run it on a machine that will become your WRP gateway/server. This machine should be pretty modern, high spec and Google Chrome / Chromium Browser is required to be preinstalled.
* Make sure you don't have a firewall enabled or open up the port WRP is listening on (by default 8080).
* WRP also allows **a single tall image without the vertical scrollbar** and use client scrolling. To enable this, simply height **H** to `0` . However this should not be used with old and low spec clients. Such tall images will be very large, take a lot of memory and long time to process, especially for GIFs.
* Prefer PNG over GIF if your browser supports it. PNG is much faster, whereas GIF requires a lot of additional processing on both client and server to encode/decode.
* GIF images are by default encoded with 216 colors, "web safe" palette. This uses an ultra fast but not very accurate color mapping algorithm. If you want better color representation switch to 256 color mode.
WRP supports customizing it's own UI using HTML Template file. Download [wrp.html](wrp.html) place in the same directory with wrp binary customize it to your liking.
Or from the [Azure Console](https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.ContainerInstances). Use `gcr.io/tenox7/wrp:latest` or `tenox7/wrp:latest` for image name.
* Server/Gateway requires modern hardware and operating system that is supported by [Go language](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/MinimumRequirements) and Chrome/Chromium Browser, which must be installed.
* Client Browser needs to support `HTML FORMs` and `ISMAP`. Typically [Mosaic 2.0](http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/mosaic/versions) would be minimum version for forms. However ISMAP was supported since 0.6B, so if you manually enter url using `?url=...`, you can use the earlier version.
* Version 1.0 (2014) started as a *cgi-bin* script, adaptation of `webkit2png.py` and `pcidade.py`, [blog post](https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/03/surfing-modern-web-with-ancient-browsers/).
* Version 2.0 became a stand alone http-proxy server, supporting both Linux and MacOS, [another post](https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2014/03/11/web-rendering-proxy-update//).
* In 2016 thanks to EFF/Certbot the whole internet migrated to HTTPS/SSL/TLS and WRP largely stopped working. Python code became unmaintainable and there was no easy way to make it work on Windows, even under WSL.
* Version 3.0 (2019) has been rewritten in [Go](https://golang.org/) using [Chromedp](https://github.com/chromedp) as browser-in-browser instead of http-proxy. The initial version was [less than 100 lines of code](https://gist.github.com/tenox7/b0f03c039b0a8b67f6c1bf47e2dd0df0).
* Version 4.0 has been completely refactored to use mouse clicks via imagemap instead parsing a href nodes.
* Version 4.1 added sending keystrokes in to input boxes. You can now login to Gmail. Also now runs as a Docker container and on Cloud Run/Azure Containers.
* Uses [go-quantize](https://github.com/ericpauley/go-quantize), thanks to [ericpauley](https://github.com/ericpauley) for developing the missing go quantizer