I'm sure this is a bit out in left field, but... Has anyone ever seen a rudimentary web browser that runs on ESP32? I have an ESP32 web server, and I'd like to be able to use another ESP32 as a client, to display data from the ESP32 server. It doesn't need to do anything fancy, just simple text, rudimentary image and graphics rendering.
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there is the HTTPclient class, e.g. esp32-http-get-requests
That is, perhaps, a small part of the solution. If I'm understanding correctly, that handles the HTTP protocol, but I'm looking for something to do that as well as rendering the HTTP content to a bit-mapped display. i.e. - a complete browser, albeit one with limited rendering capability, to display only relatively simple content.
HTTP content can be a lot of things. What you are looking for is probably a browser engine or HTML renderer and I do not think you will find something that will work with the relatively small amount of memory available on an ESP. Even the ultralight renderer will require at least 9MB of memory. You could look at litehtml, but I do not know anything about that project. You may have luck making your own engine to render simple HTML on an ESP, though..
You'd be best off just sending the data, no html nor formatting, just raw data. Have the receiver display the information in a more Arduinoesque method.
Just because you receive it over a network does not mean it need be a webpage.
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