Secure Networking Retrofit (6)

1 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/28 23:17

This probably exists already, but I am considering making software that lets you connect a classic OS such as Windows 95 or very early Linux with modern HTTPS or SSH by acting as a translation layer to convert the connection to HTTP or insecure Telnet.

I'm probably going to write this using Java 1.0.2, which allows for you to use it on the mass majority of 32-bit operating systems. Is there any reason not to do this beyond "the usecases are very limited?"

2 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/29 01:37

I'm sure it does exist as there are efforts to modernize old OSes, and this would be one of the things those efforts would have already tried to accomplish.
If not though, I'd say it's worth a shot.

3 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/29 17:26

are you trying to do what WebOne does?
https://github.com/atauenis/webone

4 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/29 23:16

Eh, that's like half of what I want to do. I also want to support SSH and raw TLS telnet sockets.

5 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/30 02:39

>>4
honestly, then go for it in that case

6 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/30 04:14

Alright, sounds like I'm gonna work on that. I'll let you know if anything comes of it. I'll also open source the implementations.
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