Can't get browservice to work on g5 mac with internet explorer 5, and sea monkey.

[peterto11]

Hey guys i'm trying to browse the web on my g5 mac running 10.5 leopard but i can't get it to work. I'm hosting browservice on a windows 10 laptop and the server starts up fine. I am connecting my g5 mac directly to my windows host machine with an ethernet patch cable. I haven't defined a static ip adress to the g5 it gets it automatically from DHCP. It gets internet access, i can even search on google with the old safari browser. But when i enter the browservice ip adress "http"://127.0.0.1:8080" in the link bar nothing happens, or it says can't connect to the website. I have tried internet explorer 5 which should work and sea monkey browser because i saw a macrumors post where a guy got it working. i've also tried the this command --vice-opt-http-listen-addr=0.0.0.0:8080 and trying to connect, but nothing happens. I don't know what i am doing wrong. Also for some reason after around 20 minutes i get some error on the server about not having access to files. Can someone that has gotten it working help me?

 

[Dronecatcher]

Hey guys i'm trying to browse the web on my g5 mac

Shouldn't it be set up as a proxy in network preferences?

 

[peterto11]

Shouldn't it be set up as a proxy in network preferences?

The windows 10 machine is the proxy server, the powermac g5 browser connects to the server. But I'm not doing something right. I'm getting the ip wrong, or the firewall on the windows 10 machine may be blocking the server, i don't know.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Your Windows CLI screen says it's listening on 0.0.0.0:8080 but you've put 1.0.0.0:8080 in IE 5 ?

 

[peterto11]

Your Windows CLI screen says it's listening on 0.0.0.0:8080 but you've put 1.0.0.0:8080 in IE 5 ?

I have tried using the default ip setup of webservice which I think is 127.0.0.1 also the 0.0.0.0:8000 adress and using the ipv4 ip from ipconfig of the windows 10 proxy server . The screenshot is one of the ip's i tried because I don't understand networks well.

 

[peterto11]

I got it working! The default ip of 127.0.0.1, of browservice points to the local machine and will not work. You need to use 0.0.0.0:8080 for the server and then use cmd to type ipconfig. Then you get the ipv4 ip adress. That's the adress you type in the old macs browser. Even old safari works. Keep in mind that you need a really fast server for some reason. A dual core i5 is useless for YouTube, a quad core ryzen 5 is okay for normal Web pages, but youtube sucks! The cpu usage goes to 100%. I didn't expect it to use so much resources.