Re: (Mostly) Working Browser For W9x

On 7/13/22 1:11 PM, OldbieOne wrote:
> This is a great idea. Especially with the ability to filter content 
> before it hits the machine.

Yep.  That's one of the reasons that I do it.

> True. It's only a matter of time, the clock is definitely about to 
> strike on vintage computing and connectivity. So far I've managed 
> to take a Sinclair Spetrum 48, C64, and W9x platform "online," and 
> every day the window of opportunity is getting smaller. Less and less 
> sites convert cleanly to plain text after stripping CSS and active 
> scripted components.

I believe there are some fancy monkey in the middle type proxies that 
will go out, fetch the page in question, and render it as a graphic 
which is then served to the less capable client.  It's an interesting 
concept.  It's definitely better than nothing.

> I've predominantly been using two websites that do a lot of the 
> conversion before a site gets presented to my desktop. The browser 
> http://frogfind.com and news site http://68k.news.

I'll have to check them out.  Thank you for the pointer.

> My vintage machines are all DMZ'd with no interconnectivity between 
> them and anything else on my network, ans swapping media is sometimes 
> a chore, so I browse directly to other websites only for a download 
> link for drivers/game maps as needed, as it's more convenient to 
> download to the machine they're intended for than move the files with 
> the setup I have here.

Yep.

I tend to use a local file server that's multi-homed in my main home 
network as well as my lab network where the machines are connected.  So 
I can download the files on my workstation on my main home network and 
save them to the common local server.  Then I go over to the retro 
system and retrieve the files off of the common local file server.

> I'm currently rethinking this strategy, especially with the knowledge 
> that you've had success with Squid, especially as I'm assuming 
> that it should be possible to set it up on a machine that has a VPN 
> connection......

You can do a lot of different things.

Please feel free to ask if you would like any clarification or to 
discuss ideas.

> Thank you for the tip!

You're welcome.  :-)



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