Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com Mon Nov 12 12:31:44 EST 2018
I have been meaning to set up a simple proxy for older machines that don't use SSL at all, or SSH. Just have not gotten around to it. Not too complicated I don't think but I have not done it yet so I can't say with 100% certainty until I do. When I do I will make the service available somehow. Bill
"Older machines" apparently includes Windows XP. I had the same problem, last time I ran a few recently-older systems with XP on them. I gave up at that point, figured it was some kind of XP limitation. I know from nothings about networking protocols. But this matters a bit, there's still commercial stuff (point of sale, business systems, embedded stuff) still running XP or Win2K, etc. Bill, my bet is any proxy you'd come up with, would run on a Rasp Pi. just a convenient platform. Even those have a serial port, for some really ancient system (say Win 3.1/WFW). If you come up with something, put the word out. Herb -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT info