1 $Id: TODO,v 1.11 2010/01/24 15:37:39 fabiankeil Exp $
3 Some Privoxy related task, not ordered in any way.
5 1) Add some regression tests. Filters should be tested automatically
6 (variables too). Could probably reuse large parts of Privoxy-Filter-Test.
8 3) Fix some more XXX: comments.
10 4) Fix some more compiler warnings. (Especially on amd64)
13 6) Remove actions that aren't needed anymore:
15 content-type-overwrite should probably stay as it's also
16 used by some of the CGI pages (XXX: name them).
18 crunch-client-header and crunch-server-header should probably
19 go, their only advantage is that their search strings can be
20 controlled through the CGI pages, other than that they only
23 crunch-if-none-match can be replaced with a header filter.
25 prevent-compression has a misleading name and could
26 be replaced with a header filter.
28 7) force-text-mode has a stupid name and should probably
29 be renamed to force-filter-mode.
31 8) handle-as-empty-document and handle-as-image should
32 be merged to something like handle-as{something} to
33 prevent them from being activated at the same time.
35 10) There's a bug in the CGI editor that turns the
36 first section's "Insert new section below" into
37 a "Insert new section above" button.
39 11) CGI templates should use semantically-correct HTML
42 12) Add pipelining support.
44 13) Use zlib to compress content before sending it to
45 the client. Measure if it makes a difference.
47 14) Log and filter POST parameters.
49 15) If trusted CGI pages are requested without trusted referrer,
50 set the status code to 403 instead of 200.
52 16) Filter SSL encrypted content as well.
54 At the beginning we could use a unencrypted connection between
55 client and Privoxy, and use an encrypted connection between
56 Privoxy and the server.
58 This should be good enough for most of the content the
59 user would want to filter.
61 19) enable-forward-fallback. Syntax? Suggested by K.R.
63 21) User Manual delivery doesn't accept multiple slashes. Should it?
65 22) Verify action files properly (Including arguments) and
66 act accordingly (should probably intercept all requests
67 with a "Invalid option foo detected" CGI page).
69 23) Do the same in case of syntax errors in the configuration file,
70 instead of just exiting or ignoring the problem.
72 25) Handle multiple filters with the same name better. Reject them?
74 26) Let show-url-info detect clearly invalid URLs.
76 27) Make errno logging less thread-unsafe.
77 Verify that it's really an improvement.
79 28) Don't take default ports in case of invalid forwarding ports.
81 31) If a string action foo is disabled csp->action->string[ACTION_STRING_FOO]
82 doesn't necessarily contain NULL, but may contain the string of an
83 enabled foo action in an overruled section. Is it a bug? Does it matter?
85 32) In case of forwarding failures with socks port == 9050,
86 show extra info about Tor (the whole FAQ entry?).
88 35) Do less work in the accept_connection() thread.
89 Partly done. Good enough?
91 36) Unload unused action files directly, even if they are
92 disabled without replacement.
94 38) In the final results, explicitly list disabled multi actions
95 with their parameters. Not as trivial as it sounds.
97 39) Verify loadcfg.c jarfile reloading and friends.
98 /* XXX: Does disabling this actually work? */
100 40) Fix core dumping in daemon mode.
102 41) Change documentation framework to one that works cross-platform.
105 42) Add DTrace hooks.
107 43) Write a tool to check URL patterns against URLs in the log file.
108 This could be included in Privoxy-Regression-Test.
110 44) Privoxy-Log-Parser: Consider highlighting "Connection" in:
111 23:13:03.506 283b6100 Header: Replaced: 'Connection: Keep-Alive' with 'Connection: close'
113 49) Add FAQ for NTLM proxies. Still necessary?
115 50) Investigate possible PCRS template speedup when searching
116 macros with strstr() before compiling pcrs commands.
117 Investigated, needs some restructuring but is probably worth it.
119 51) Make user-manual directive more generic to allow serving
120 the FAQ and other stuff, too. Consider changing the port
121 for "same origin policy" issues.
123 53) Find a more reliable hoster. Involves finding out what our
124 requirements are and which SF alternatives fulfil them.
125 It would probably also make sense to look into what other
126 projects did when migrating away from SF.
128 54) Move away from CVS to a more modern revision control system.
130 55) Apply for Coverity scans: http://scan.coverity.com/
132 56) Apply for the "free online access for qualified open-source
133 software projects" for the Co-Advisor HTTP compliance tests:
134 http://coad.measurement-factory.com/details.html#pricing
136 57) Allow piping into external programs to allow more powerful
137 filters and policy decisions.
139 58) Move more template strings from the code into the actual templates.
141 59) Import the German template translation.
143 60) Ask the Russian translators for input on how to make their
146 61) Consider (optionally?) skipping the hostname comparison when
147 checking if a connections that goes to a HTTP proxy can be reused.
148 Do all HTTP proxy support that? Is it worth it?
150 63) Reject clearly too large requests earlier?
152 64) Use proper copyright attribution. "Privoxy Developers"
157 66) Increase maximum number of action and filter files.
159 67) Clean up directory layout. Depends on 54 so we don't
160 lose the revision history.
162 68) Use standard make syntax so we don't depend on GNU make.
164 69) Update autoconf setup (or move away from it).
166 70) If the server connection is reset but the headers are
167 received, consider passing the mess to the client instead
168 of showing the connect-failed template. Relates to #2698674.
170 71) Allow to listen on multiple addresses without having to
173 73) Factor FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING out of
174 FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE so the later can be enabled
175 on platforms without mutex support as well.
177 74) Let Privoxy-Regression-Test optionally check that action
178 sections which disable actions actually are preceded by
179 sections that enable said actions.
181 75) Create a tool that creates Privoxy action (and filter?) files
182 out of adblock files. Could be implemented as option for
183 url-pattern-translator.pl.