Re: (Mostly) Working Browser For W9x

On 7/12/22 1:35 PM, OldbieOne wrote:
> Caution: Always keep in mind that there are elevated security risks 
> involved in taking any vintage machine online, so please do not use 
> a vintage machine for personal business, banking, etc.

Good and accurate reminder.

> The following browser supports TLS 1.2 and will allow a vintage W9x PC 
> to connect to most modern websites (for now) until TLS 1.3 is forced.
> 
> http://kmeleonbrowser.org/wiki/InstallerForWindows98

I've gone a different route.  I have a local Squid caching proxy that 
does SSL / TLS bump-in-the-wire SSL/TLS decryption.  So it will quite 
happily talk to the older SSL / TLS clients and speak newer / 
contemporary TLS 1.2 ~ 1.3 to sites.

This also allows me to filter / cache traffic that's otherwise encrypted.

All I need to do on the retro system is install my Squid server's TLS 
public root certificate so that software trusts what Squid does.

Admittedly, the Internet is starting to change enough that really old 
web browsers are not able to handle the newer web technologies like AJAX 
(XML HTTP Requests) and contemporary CSS.



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Grant. . . .
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