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[ivimail]

I open this thread because I didn't see nothing similar. In 2025 things are very different from the way Internet had to work in the times of OS9, among others the need to use SSL on all websites.
This makes most websites work in the most "modern" browsers that we have available for OS9 and X, in my case 10.5.8, such as Classilla and Tenfourfox, or Firefox 2.0.

The best way to navigate current websites from these browsers is through a proxy, which is nothing more than an intermediate server that will translate current websites, SSL certificates and even images to old formats that our browsers can interpret without obtaining continuous failures.

So the first thing we should do is install WebOne proxy (http://github.com/atauenis/webone). It can run on Windows, MacOSX or Linux, so you can use any other computer that you have laying around to make it work. In my case I'm running it on a LXC container in my proxmox server. I'm not going to spend time explaining how to install it because the information about this is sufficient in the github page.

Once it's up and running, the only thing we have to do is to configure our OS and/or browser connect to the Internet through our proxy. To do this, just open Internet control panel (on OS9), go to Advanced>Firewalls and enter the ip and port of your proxy. And it's done.

If this doesn't work for you, go to your browser preferences and enter the values for your proxy.

And done!! Happy browsing.

Edit: For a faster browsing experience, don't forget to increment the amount of memory to your browser. With 3 tabs opened on Classilla at this moment I'm using 800MB of RAM.

[dressupgeekout]

Pretty slick.

For what it's worth, Crypto Ancienne has always been my way of getting modern TLS functional with Classilla.

* https://github.com/classilla/cryanc
* https://dressupgeekout.com/classic-macos/classilla-tls/

But in my experience, JavaScript and CSS3 are the primary "features" of the modern web which are most incompatible with Classilla (and old browsers in general). I'm curious to see how this WebOne deal overcomes those hurdles.

I also wish it wasn't written in C# (it limits its portability), but that's just me. Thanks for introducing me to WebOne, I'm keen to try it out sometime.