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@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Unfortunately Google Cloud Run forces you to use HTTPS.
* 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.
## Troubleshooting
## FAQ
### I can't get it to run
@ -149,11 +149,19 @@ Obtain your regular desktop browser user agent and specify it as the flag. For e
$ wrp -ua="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
```
### Why is WRP called "proxy" when it's not
WRP originally started as true http proxy. However this stopped working because the whole internet is now encrypted thanks to [Let's Encrypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Encrypt). Legacy browsers do not support modern SSL/TLS certs as well as [HTTP CONNECT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel#HTTP_CONNECT_method) so this mode had to be disabled.
### Will you support http proxy mode in future?
Some efforts are under way but it's very [difficult](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel#HTTP_CONNECT_method) to do it correctly and the priority is rather low.
## History
* 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.
* In 2016 thanks to [Let's Encrypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Encrypt) 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.