Legacy web proxy, but for non-7-bit-ASCII users

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goetz@3rz

New Tinkerer
Jul 28, 2025
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Hi,

I tried several web proxies that run on modern machines (e.g. MacProxy Plus, Classic ...), that enable browsers like MacWeb 2.0, Navigator 2 and the like, to connect to modern sites. These did well ... but, I'm visiting non-English-websites all day long, and the above proxies can't convert UTF-8 to MacRoman. Most modern pages are delivered as UTF-8, and most old Mac browsers can do MacRoman or Latin-1 charsets, but without conversion, the sites are quite ugly and hard to read.

tl;dr: which web proxy de-ssls, changes/scales/alters images, strips some unneeded cruft (e.g. Javascript) and converts from the web pages' code page (mostly UTF-8) to Latin-1 or MacRoman?

Bonus points if the proxy could handle image formats of the last 10 years, like WebP.
 

robin-fo

Tinkerer
Feb 17, 2022
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I had a look at MacProxy Classic. It offers the possibility to add conversion "presets". I tried "macweb2", but the conversion wasn't properly handled by the script...