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@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ A browser-in-browser "proxy" server that allows to use historical / vintage web
1. [Download a WRP binary](https://github.com/tenox7/wrp/releases/) and run it on a machine that will become your WRP gateway/server.
2. Point your legacy browser to `http://address:port` of WRP server. Do not set or use it as a "http proxy server".
3. Type a search string or a http/https URL and click Go.
3. Type a search string or a http/https URL and click **Go**.
4. Adjust your screen width/height/scale/#colors to fit in your old browser.
5. Scroll web page by clicking on the in-image scroll bar.
6. Do not use client browser history-back, instead use **Bk** button in the app.
7. To send keystrokes, fill **K** input box and press Go. There also are buttons for backspace, enter and arrow keys.
8. Experimentally you can set height **H** to `0` to render in to one tall image without the vertical scrollbar. Note it will be large, slow to process, download and display on client browser.
7. To send keystrokes, fill **K** input box and press **Go**. There also are buttons for backspace, enter and arrow keys.
8. Experimentally you can set height **H** to `0` to render pages in to one tall image without the vertical scrollbar. Note it will be large, slow to process, download and display on client browser.
9. Generally if the client browser supports PNG you should use it instead of GIF. PNG is much faster, GIF Requires a lot of processing time on both server/client for encoding/decoding, compress/decompress, color palette optimizations and so on.
## Docker
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```flags
-l listen address:port, default :8080
-t image type gif (default) or png, when using PNG number of colors is ignored
-g image geometry, WxHXC, height can be 0 for unlimited, default 1152x600x256"
-g image geometry, WxHXC, height can be 0 for unlimited, default 1152x600x256
-h headed mode, display browser window on the server
-d chromedp debug logging
-n do not free maps and gif images after use
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## Minimal Requirements
* Server Gateway should run on a modern hardware/os that supports memory hungry Chrome.
* Client Browser needs to support `HTML FORMs` and `ISMAP`. Typically Mosaic 2.0 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 ealier version.
* Client Browser needs to support `HTML FORMs` and `ISMAP`. Typically Mosaic 2.0 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.
## History
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* Later in 2014, version 2.0 became a stand alone http-proxy server, also support for both Linux/MacOS, [another post](https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2014/03/11/web-rendering-proxy-update//).
* In 2016 the whole internet migrated to HTTPS/SSL/TLS and WRP largely stopped working. Python code became unmaintainable and mostly unportable (especially to Windows, even WSL).
* In 2019 WRP 3.0 has been rewritten in Golang/Chromedp as browser-in-browser instead of http proxy.
* Later in 2019, WRP 4.0 has been completely refactored to use mouse clicks instead using a href nodes. Also in 4.1 added sending keystrokes in to input boxes. You can now login to Gmail. Also now runs as a Docker container.
* Later in 2019, WRP 4.0 has been completely refactored to use mouse clicks instead using a href nodes. Also in 4.1 added sending keystrokes in to input boxes. You can now login to Gmail. Also now runs as a Docker container. Version 4.5 introduces rendering whole pages in to one tall image image.
## Credits
## Credits
* Uses [chromedp](https://github.com/chromedp), thanks to [mvdan](https://github.com/mvdan) for dealing with my issues
* Uses [go-quantize](https://github.com/ericpauley/go-quantize), thanks to [ericpauley](https://github.com/ericpauley) for developing the missing go quantizer