Modern WWW browsing on IRIX
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You know, the SGI IRIX is dead at last from 2006 so there are almost no
new apps.  Definitely there  is no "current"  WWW browser  (people have
been trying hard but it seems to  be impossible). The latest one is the
Firefox 3.0.19 with ages old SSL suppurt (so almsot no https://).


What to do?

Some people  still use  the old  good HTTP protocol  so these  webs are
available [1], [2].

Many people use gopher. It just  works (in the Lynx, the Netscape, even
in the Firefox 3).

The FrogFind!  [3] of course  work, too.  There is even  images support
(images  are rather  small  as they  are sized  for  much less  capable
machines than our SGIs are).

The carl(1) utility of the Crypto  Ancienne [4] works, too. I have only
tried the direct  mode (it can work  as a proxy, too).  It comples with
the latest NekoWare gcc (4.7) quite easily.

Nothing of  this stuff is  ideal for the  "modern" Web but  it's better
than have nothing.


References:

[1] https://technomorous.eu
[2] http://www.floodgap.com/
[3] http://http://frogfind.com/
[4] https://github.com/classilla/cryanc

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