# tenox7/wrp

Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on modern web

Repository: https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wrp
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: web, www, proxy, browser, rendering, imagemap, vintage-computers, legacy-browsers, chrome-devtools, chrome, headless-chrome
Last push: 2026-08-09T10:49:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 80, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3874, "days_push": 24, "days_rel": 132, "gap_med": 20.5, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1280, forks 65 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:13.769519+00:00)

## What it is
WRP (Web Rendering Proxy) is a Go-based proxy server that lets vintage and legacy web browsers access the modern web. It renders pages using headless Chrome and serves them as clickable GIF/PNG/JPG images (ISMAP mode) or simplified HTML that old browsers can display.

## Use cases
- browse modern websites from Internet Explorer 1.5 on Windows 3.1
- use a vintage Mac or classic Netscape browser to read today's web
- serve simplified HTML versions of pages to legacy browsers
- set up a gateway so old computers can access https sites
- render web pages as clickable image maps for browsers without CSS/JS support
- run a proxy.pac-based HTTP proxy for retro machines

## When to choose
- you want a vintage or legacy browser to access modern websites
- you need a self-hosted gateway running on modern hardware with Chrome installed
- you want both graphical (screenshot/imagemap) and simple HTML rendering modes

## When to avoid
- you need full modern browsing with JavaScript and interactive web apps on the old machine itself
- you cannot run a modern host machine with Chrome/Chromium
- you need https proxying with full URL path support

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: proxy, web-framework, http-server, browser-extension
- domain: web-development, browser-extensions, self-hosted
- platform: windows, go, self-hosted, cli
- tags: vintage-computing, legacy-browsers, headless-chrome, imagemap, browser-in-browser, retro-web, retro-computing, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- tenox7/wrp (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.769519+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:02:39.216648+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tenox7/wrp (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.769519+00:00, sha 1f16faf7281c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.