Macproxy Classic v25.11.1

Macproxy Classic

This project is now Macproxy Classic!

The name represents the spirit of the original Macproxy – a simple proxy server that works out of the box, optimized for Classic computers.

We also distinguish ourselves from Macproxy Plus – a more customizable and LLM-infused version.

What's New

Ported a subset of Macproxy Plus features, while applying a host of bugfixes and code cleanup.

• proxy behavior configurable in config.py
• extensions (enabled by default: hackaday, npr, reddit, waybackmachine, wiby, wikipedia)
• presets for particular browsers
• default port changed to 5001
• complete overhaul of transcoding
• image conversion (jpg, gif)

Macproxy v24.8

What's Changed

• Add Dockerfile by @tternes in #1
• Add sample docker-compose.yml
• Bump Python library versions and freeze all dependencies

New Contributors

• @tternes made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: v22.8...v24.8

Macproxy v22.8

• Add rudimentary http error handling
• Better transliteration of the Euro symbol
• Remove redundant logging
• Improved venv cleanup logic in start script
• Add BSD 3-Clause license (merged from upstream)

Full Changelog: 21.12.3...v22.8

Macproxy v21.12.3

• Introduced conversion of common typographic symbols into ASCII characters, for browsers that cannot render them properly
• Shifted to the BeatifulSoup html5 formatter by default (previously html). This mostly has the effect of stripping the closing slash for null tags (e.g. <br> or <hr>) which makes MacWeb and early Netscape versions to recognize and render them properly.
• Introduced three advanced options:
  • --user-agent Spoof as any arbitrary web browser
  • --html-formatter Choose between the formatters offered by BeautifulSoup, currently: minimal, html, html5
  • --disable-char-conversion An option to disable the char conversion described above, for more capable browsers
• Decompose additional tag types that pulls in external resources: source, and picture
• Removed the decomposition of the noscript tag
• Pass on additional http headers from the browser to the proxy request: Accept, Accept-Language, and Referer
• Avoid crashing with malformed img tags
• Avoid crashing when Content-Type header is missing

Full Changelog: 21.12.2...21.12.3

Macproxy v21.12.2

• The proxy uses the User-Agent header of the originating browser, rather than that of Python Requests library
• Introduced automatic handling of two known broken Python venv states in startup shell script
• Fix issue in startup shell script that led to a silent failure when python3-pip wasn't installed

Full Changelog: 21.12.1...21.12.2

Macproxy v21.12.1

Macproxy v21.12.1

• Removed git repo checks from the start script, which was causing errors when run from a release package
• Renamed the start script to 'start_macproxy.sh' to more easily distinguish running processes
• Removed deprecated options from the systemd configuration file

Full Changelog: v21.11...21.12.1

Macproxy v21.11

Macproxy v21.11

Changes since the original Macproxy codebase by tghw:

New features

• Configurable port number
• Made embedded image loading work. (Pinpoint html transcoding to 'text/html' only.)
• Made binary downloads work. (Carry over the original Content-Type of responses.)
• Translation of https requests to http
• Transcoding of inline https hyperlinks to http
• Introduced a shell script (start.sh) to manage dependencies and create a Python venv
• Introduced a systemd configuration sample to run Macproxy as a daemon

Improvements under the hood

• Bumped Python library versions to recent stable ones (instead of 8 year old ones!)
• Removed transcoding of inline span and div elements, which didn't seem to do much
• Renamed modules and methods to be more descriptive
• Fixed a bs4 implicit html parsing warning
• Removed unused code