Gervase Markham wrote:
For this edge case, I would say the solution is to use a proxy, run on
one of your other (faster) computers. As noted elsewhere, that's what
jwz did to get Netscape 1.0 (which only spoke HTTP 1.0) working again.
That's a reasonable solution for one-offs, but not really viable if you
have a bunch of hobbyists who don't necessarily have the technical
background to deal with that. Even I don't know how to set up a proxy
like that. I'm sure it wouldn't take me long to learn, but I certainly
can't expect all the people who use programs I write to know how to do it.
I get, of course, that this is the way of progress. Just... would have
been nice to have more notice, since we're going to have to try to find
someone to build, produce, and market a simple, plug-and-play mechanism
to handle encryption and decryption of data in order to keep these hobby
machines online over the long term.
Will make for a fun project for someone, but will take time.
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Eric Shepherd
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