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# WRP - Web Rendering Proxy
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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.
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## Usage
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1. [Download a WRP binary](https://github.com/tenox7/wrp/releases/) and run it on a machine that will become your WRP gateway/server. Google Chrome Browser is required.
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2. Point your legacy browser to `http://address:port` of WRP server. Do not set or use it as a "http proxy server".
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3. Type a search string or a http/https URL and click **Go**.
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4. Adjust your screen width/height/scale/#colors to fit in your old browser.
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5. Scroll web page by clicking on the in-image scroll bar.
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6. Do not use client browser history-back, instead use **Bk** button in the app.
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7. To send keystrokes, fill **K** input box and press **Go**. There also are buttons for backspace, enter and arrow keys.
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8. You can set height **H** to `0` to render pages in to one tall image without the vertical scrollbar. This feature is experimental and your mileage will vary depending ong many factors.
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9. 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.
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## Docker
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docker hub:
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```shell
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docker run -d -p 8080:8080 tenox7/wrp
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```
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gcr.io:
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```shell
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docker run -d -p 8080:8080 gcr.io/tenox7/wrp:latest
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```
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## Flags
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```flags
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-l listen address:port, default :8080
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-t image type gif (default) or png, when using PNG number of colors is ignored
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-g image geometry, WxHXC, height can be 0 for unlimited, default 1152x600x256
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-h headed mode, display browser window on the server
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-d chromedp debug logging
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-n do not free maps and gif images after use
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```
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## Minimal Requirements
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* Server Gateway should run on a modern hardware/os that supports memory hungry Chrome.
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* 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.
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## Troubleshooting
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### I can't get it to open
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This program does not have a GUI and is run from the command line. You may need to enable executable bit, for example on Mac:
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```bash
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$ cd ~/your-download-directory
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$ chmod +x wrp-amd64-macos
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$ ./wrp-amd64-macos -t png
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```
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## History
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* In 2014, version 1.0 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/).
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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//).
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* 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).
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* In 2019 WRP 3.0 has been rewritten in Golang/Chromedp as browser-in-browser instead of http proxy.
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* Later in 2019, WRP 4.0 has been completely refactored to use mouse clicks via imagemap instead parsing 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.
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## Credits
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* Uses [chromedp](https://github.com/chromedp), thanks to [mvdan](https://github.com/mvdan) for dealing with my issues
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* Uses [go-quantize](https://github.com/ericpauley/go-quantize), thanks to [ericpauley](https://github.com/ericpauley) for developing the missing go quantizer
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* Thanks to Jason Stevens of [Fun With Virtualization](https://virtuallyfun.com/) for graciously hosting my rumblings
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* Thanks to [claunia](https://github.com/claunia/) for help with the Python/Webkit version in the past
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## Legal Stuff
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License: Apache 2.0
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Copyright (c) 2013-2018 Antoni Sawicki
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Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Google LLC
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