[apetresc]

The network interface doesn't seem to be configured – when I try to open the browser it wants me to install a modem. Is the VM just not configured for that, or do I need to do something? Would love to see what today's web looks like on '98 IE :)

[copy]

It's possible, Windows 98 has drivers for the NE2000 network card we're emulating (https://github.com/copy/v86/blob/master/src/ne2k.js). However, currently the emulation isn't accurate enough, Windows 98 refuses to use it.

[duskwuff]

The bigger problem would be what to connect it to, and how. You can't make arbitrary outbound connections from Javascript.

[iso-8859-1]

I have a barely working HTTP proxy in client-side-JavaScript here: https://github.com/ysangkok/browser-http-proxy

This allows you to connect to CORS enabled sites without using the WebSocket proxy. It talks HTTP on the serial port.

I want to add SNI support to tlstunnel so that I can tunnel to google.com by navigating to https://google.com.mydomain/ and having the snitunnel tunnel to http://google.com by reading the bottom-level domain names using SNI.

Using this with browser-http-proxy, it would be possible to tunnel to HTTP sites on a request-based level (making it easier to scale) and without relying on tun/tap on the server. Also it could serve as a fallback for non-CORS enabled hosts.

[copy]

We're using this proxy script: https://github.com/benjamincburns/websockproxy

[Bino]

I can't wait until it works, you must ping HN again when it does!

[truncate]

Really cool work. Looking forward to updates.

When I tried to run Internet Explorer and open a website, the window closed (crashed I guess).

I really want to open some common websites on Win 98 :D

[khedoros]

They don't tend to work (you end up clicking a "script error" acknowledgement a lot). It's less fun than it sounds like it would be.