[Oberon] A2 WebBrowser.

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 17:40, <peter at easthope.ca> wrote:
>
> From lproven at gmail.com  Wed Jun  9 18:17:08 2021
> > I have recently tried the A2 browser ...
>
> Here LinuxA2 Gen. 32-bit, rev.9799 is in Debian 11.

Oh my word. Are you referring to my email from last June? That was 6 months ago!

> Apps > WebBrowser opens the browser.

Yes.

>  The default home page is
> http://bluebottle.ethz.ch which is not available. Consequently the
> display is "Not found: http://bluebottle.ethz.ch".  OK.

Yes. But one can go to a non-HTTPS website.

E.g.
http://funshininginnersunrise.neverssl.com/online
http://www.w3.org/
http://go.com

There are others out there; see:
https://whynohttps.com/


> If a live URL is supplied, the display is "Loading..." but nothing
> else is rendered.  Appears communication is broken.
>
> Any tips?

You need to try non-HTTPS sites.

http://theoldnet.com/
... may help -- it proxies HTTPS sites to HTTP.

On the host Linux OS, you could maybe run:
https://github.com/atauenis/webone
... as a local proxy server.
>  Did you adjust Configuration.XML?

No.



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