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Title: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: neonix on January 05, 2019, 06:28:51 AM

Interesting idea. Script that render web pages to graphic file. Something like Opera Mini. But unfortunately I cannot run it.
 
http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2014/03/11/web-rendering-proxy-update/

Here's another interesting example.
http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/

Could you guys help me to make it work?

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: Juanito on January 05, 2019, 06:56:58 AM

Both of those links use python scripts to create the web site images.

None of the various webkit extensions in tinycore have python wrappers, so I doubt things would work  :(

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: curaga on January 05, 2019, 01:53:56 PM

WebkitFLTK can do that, it's what Fifth's screenshot menu option does. I don't remember if it works without X though. You can edit the testapp to save such a png of the site passed.

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: mocore on January 06, 2019, 07:25:42 AM

another option  PhantomJS, eg: http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: neonix on January 09, 2019, 02:01:46 PM

I tested wrp in TC 4.x. It require pyqt.tcz and qt-4.x-webkit.tcz
Then you need to set up http proxy adress in your web browser with your ip adres x.x.x.x and port 8080.
It doesn't work with https but maybe in the future this will be changed.

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: neonix on February 27, 2020, 11:41:13 AM

There's a new version but it works only with Docker that is available only on 64-bit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/cm7u1i/web_rendering_proxy_use_vintage_historical_legacy/

Simmilar project:, mostly for Windows platform:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=67165

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: neonix on May 27, 2022, 07:29:17 AM

Here is webproxy website that allow to view some sites that reguire new ssl certificates, when you have old  and outdated web browser.

https://ssl-proxy.my-addr.com/

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: vinceASPECT on November 13, 2022, 06:33:39 PM

Hello,

That  webproxy website that allows you to view some sites that require new ssl certificates, by using an 0ld web browser........ is very useful

thanks

C

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: gadget42 on November 14, 2022, 03:24:45 AM

re: ancient browsers...lol...
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/

perhaps you'll enjoy this page as well:
https://home.web.cern.ch/science/computing/birth-web#main-content

maybe:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/News/9211.html

or:
https://nocss.club

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: vinceASPECT on November 14, 2022, 03:32:37 AM

Yes

there is also "Netrik" web browser.

Thx
C

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: gadget42 on November 14, 2022, 05:45:07 AM

re: netrik

fell down that one...
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/netrik
https://netrik.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/netrik/
http://tri-ceps.blogspot.com/

see:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/netrik/files/stable/1.16.1%20%28beta%29/
(last modified-2009-06-20)

sigh...

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: neonix on May 16, 2025, 10:23:37 AM

FixProxy is http to https proxy that you can use with very old web browser.

You simply run fixproxy (64-bit) or fixproxy32 in terminal, and type http://localhost:8080/
in your ancient web browser.
https://www.fixbrowser.org

There's also version for HaikuOS (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows (32-bit) (2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11).

    [EDIT]: Modified link due to forum policy violation. fixproxy can be
            downloaded from the above link.  Rich

Title: Re: Web Rendering Proxy - Surfing The Web With Ancient Browsers
Post by: Rich on May 16, 2025, 12:27:46 PM

Hi neonix
I'm sorry but I had to modify your reply #11. The link
was modified and a note was added about fixproxy.

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