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Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	Reply #15 on: August 24, 2023, 17:34 These days probably only the part run by webmasters aware of the SSL-plague and hence offering optional https instead of enforcing it. Still, MacLynx has something that other System 7 browsers don't have built in: full SSL proxy support! So you just enter your SSL proxy server in the config and suddenly your 1993 Mac LC III browses the whole web ... in text mode I've downloaded beta 5 yesterday and played around with it. Great work with the UTF-8 support, especially we teutons & swedes should be thanksful for those ö, å, ü, ø etc. properly displaying. There's also a new mac-style menu bar on top added that holds several functions. Given its unix heritage, Lynx used keyboard shortcuts before - now you can have both! I really hope Cameron will continue his work on the browser, I'd especially like to see some (slight) improvements on the rendering engine and bookmarking.
Last Edit: August 27, 2023, 06:53 by Bolkonskij
wove 1024 MB Posts: 1363	Reply #16 on: August 24, 2023, 18:29 Lynx is a nice transition from gopher to web. Sorry to get off topic here. Is there a tutorial or documentation on using an SSL Proxy? Is it something you would setup on your home network? Are there SSL Proxies you can log into and use on the web from System 7 (8,9)?

Johnny7 64 MB Posts: 78 System 7 Newcomer!	Reply #17 on: August 24, 2023, 18:57 @wove You beat me to it! 😎

Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	Reply #18 on: August 24, 2023, 19:21 Sure, in the MacLynx folder, open the lynx.cfg config file with a text editor of your choice. I recommend our old friend BBedit. Hit STRG+F for search and type in "proxy". You should find and jump to the Proxy variables settings. Delete the one # in front of the line where it says https_proxy. Then edit the URL accordingly. Save your settings. Get out, start MacLynx. Browse https websites now (pic of MacLynx beta 5 in action) EDIT: Doh, @wove did you rephrase your question after your first post or did I really misread it? (could be, if so, mea culpa) You asked for info on how to set up a SSL proxy. Did you have a look onto the Github page for Crypto Ancienne? (modern browser needed) There might be public SSL proxies, but then you never know whether or not you can trust these enterprises. Might be cool for an occasional web search though.
Last Edit: August 24, 2023, 19:45 by Bolkonskij
Knezzen Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot	Reply #19 on: August 24, 2023, 21:21 Cameron surely is a gem. Need to email him and thank him for his generous contributions to our beloved platform.

wove 1024 MB Posts: 1363	Reply #20 on: August 24, 2023, 21:52 Thanks for the link to Crypto Ancienne. I was looking for information about setting up an SSL Proxy. I have Mac OS 9 running my my G4 Mini. Most of the time I use Classic MacOS on SheepShaver, or qemu. Since both SheepShaver and qemu, use the host system's networking, it seems like a shim/wedge could be used to add a proxy. Doing that is beyond my pay grade and it will require some study to learn. I have a NextCloud instance running on a Raspberry PI on the home network. It also seems like it should be possible to add an SSL Proxy to that setup. That would probably be ideal, since NextCloud requires SSH and getting an SSL proxy in that mix would enable me to Claris Organizer to sync with NextCloud. Again that is beyond me without additional study or perhaps more ideally in my case, idiot proof step by step instructions.

68040 512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !	Reply #21 on: August 24, 2023, 23:47 Quote from: Bolkonskij Still, MacLynx has something that other System 7 browsers don't have built in: full SSL proxy support! So you just enter your SSL proxy server in the config and suddenly your 1993 Mac LC III browses the whole web ... in text mode Has anybody tried that with stunnel yet?

Knezzen Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot	Reply #22 on: August 25, 2023, 12:09 Quote from: 68040 Has anybody tried that with stunnel yet? Yes, and it doesn't work as we discussed in another thread already. Install Crypto Ancienne and get on with it
Last Edit: August 25, 2023, 15:14 by Knezzen
Knezzen Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot	Reply #23 on: August 26, 2023, 14:54 Posting this with MacLynx on my TiBook. Let's hope it works. Would surely open up a whole new world for low end 68k based Macs.

68040 512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !	Reply #24 on: August 26, 2023, 15:43 Quote from: Knezzen Install Crypto Ancienne and get on with it Plan on doing just that with the advantage of running B-II on a Linux host. But first comes ClassicGPT with my own custom AI engine. Gosh, I am getting high on this stuff.

Knezzen Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot	Reply #25 on: August 26, 2023, 21:49 Great! Keep us posted on the progress

cballero 1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever	Reply #26 on: August 26, 2023, 22:55 I love how you are able to retrofit our old Macs to get by with the support of proxies!! Ideally, if these innovations can be documented so that the average users can implement them without bursting a forehead brain I remember how I spent over a year scratching my head on the Mac settings needed to setup Internet access on certain versions of B-II which I then made a tutorial for. Little things like that go a long way, especially for simpler minds like mine, lol

Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	Reply #27 on: August 27, 2023, 06:51 Quote from: Knezzen Posting this with MacLynx on my TiBook. Let's hope it works. Would surely open up a whole new world for low end 68k based Macs. Oh, you got that to work? I always avoid MacLynx in conjunction with any html form elements (like the Mac Garden search or the login here) as I tend to end up with an error. I don't remember but I think it had to with the location function in PHP used for redirect after login ... session was probably created, but the white error page put me off. Seen too many of them in my life :-D The more I use MacLynx beta 5 the more I wish it had a simple bookmarks menu in its new top menu bar where I could store a couple of links for easy access. I'm growing old and typing URLs again and again feels tiresome. Would be cool to have some in beta 6!
Last Edit: August 27, 2023, 11:21 by Bolkonskij
cballero 1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever	Reply #28 on: August 27, 2023, 07:01 I was sure System 7 had URL Finder clips you can double click on that would then open your default web browser? If so, you could place a folder called bookmarks in your Apple menu full of links and make that your URL launcher. Add an alias to your desktop and drop more links that way, too At least it's a workaround until the beta adds it

Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	Reply #29 on: August 29, 2023, 14:29 That might actually work, good one. But, of course, it would be much nicer to have a very simple bookmarks list.

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