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Browservice: Browse the modern web on historical browsers
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Browservice doesn't open on HotJava on Solaris 7 #71

Closed nguyenthienminh closed 2 years ago

nguyenthienminh commented 2 years ago

So, Browservice doesn't even want to load on HotJava on Solaris 7. I want to try it because, well, the browser is from the '90s so it can't load modern websites. This is what I get: image HotJava does show the Browservice title, so it's clearly not a connection issue. Trying with /goto/google.com still does absolutely nothing: image Server logs from the cmd window: image How can I fix this?

ttalvitie commented 2 years ago

Browservice has not been tested on HotJava, so I really can't say whether it should work. The client browser must have sufficient JavaScript support. It was a bit difficult to find information on HotJava, but it seems that versions 1.x have no JavaScript support at all (so there's really no chance), but version 3 may have some JavaScript support (but it is unclear whether it is sufficient for Browservice).

I can't say from your screenshots which version you are using. It does not seem to be working at all as the JavaScript-based redirections are not happening.

Currently I don't have much time for improving client browser support, but I can accept good quality patches if someone else wants to do it. If you want something to work out-of-the-box, then you should try WRP, as it only requires very basic HTML support from the client browser.

nguyenthienminh commented 2 years ago

Oh, the HotJava version in the version of Solaris I'm using is HotJava 1.0.2, so yep... no JavaScript support. I just assumed that JavaScript is available on the version of HotJava (because it's from 1999), but turns out it doesn't! Thanks!