Hi Jerry, perhaps you could take a look at this:
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp <https://github.com/tenox7/wrp> It is a proxy that renders the website in gif/png/jpeg with clickable imagemap for links. Its intent is to make older browsers usable on modern internet (modern html/css, encryption …) Here is a blog post about it: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2014/03/11/web-rendering-proxy-update/ <https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2014/03/11/web-rendering-proxy-update/> Cheers, Matjaz > On 22 Dec 2018, at 00:18, Jerry Kemp <[email protected]> wrote: > > among other things, I have a personal collection in my home of old > workstations (SGI Irix boxes and earlier Sun workstations), older > Macs, etc. For example, a recent acquisition was a Sun SPARCserver 1000e > system (Sun4d), with several external drive units. Pics here: > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d> > > As most of you are aware, the web as we know it, continues to become > increasingly encrypted, with older, commonly used protocols > such as SSLv3 being depreciated in favor of TLS 1.2, 1.3 and beyond. > > I would like to be able to do some basic web surfing on these older boxes. > Emphasis on basic. The reality is, its very unlikely > that anyone will ever compile a newer browser for my old stuff, and, I doubt > it would have the encryption/decryption horsepower to > do so, even if modern browser software were available. > > What I'm looking at doing is setting up a web proxy, and, having that web > proxy also do the SSL/TLS termination. Ideally, this > proxy software would run on OI. > > As expected of anyone here, making a similar request, I did do some homework, > and it seems that there are several pieces of Unix > open-source software that perform this function. This is just one > particular hit, but, sharing it as it has a nice summary list of > software that has this capability: > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLS_termination_proxy> > > full disclaimer: This is not for a business, its just for me, in my home. I > have no intentions of doing Internet banking or > anything else questionable. Just want to be able to do some basic web > surfing, download source code, etc. > > Specifically, I'm solely wondering if anyone here has already done something > like this, and, if so, is there any software in > particular you might recommend, or, recommend avoiding. I'm basically just > looking for software recommendations, from there, I can > run with the compile+technicals. As commented earlier, what ever software I > use would need to compile+run on OI. > > Thanks, > > Jerry > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
