wrp/README.md

WRP - Web Rendering Proxy

A HTTP proxy server that allows to use historical and obsolete web browsers on the modern web. It works by rendering the web page in to a GIF image associated with clickable imagemap of original web links.

Current Status

• This is the new GoLang/ChromeDP version.
• It's still lacking some features of the older version but far surpasses it in terms of stability and usability.
• It's beta quality but unlike the old version, it's now fully supported an maintained.
• Currently works as browser-in-browser. A real http proxy mode is being investigated. Check issue #35 for updates.

Usage

1. Download a WRP binary and run it on a machine that will become your WRP server.
2. Point your legacy browser to http://address:port of WRP server. Do not set or use it as a "Proxy Server" (yet).
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. For very very very old browsers such as Mosaic 2.x and IBM WebExplorer 1.x tick the I checkbox to enable ISMAP mode. However this normally should not be needed.
6. Scroll web page by clicking Up/Down. To go to top enter 0 and click Go.

Flags

-l  listen address:port, default :8080
-h  headed mode, display browser window
-d  chromedp debug logging

More info and screenshots

• http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2014/03/11/web-rendering-proxy-update/
• http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2014/03/03/surfing-modern-web-with-ancient-browsers/

Credits

• Uses chromedp, thanks to mvdan for dealing with my issues
• Uses go-quantize, thanks to ericpauley for developing the missing go quantizer
• Thanks to Jason Stevens of Fun With Virtualization for graciously hosting my rumblings

Legal Stuff

License: Apache 2.0
Copyright (c) 2013-2018 Antoni Sawicki
Copyright (c) 2019 Google LLC