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Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
PRIVOXY team. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net
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<title>Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions</title>
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<sect3 id="newjb"><title>What is this new version of <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
<para>
The original <application>Internet Junkbuster</application> (tm) is a
- coyrighted product of <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com">Junkbusters
+ copyrighted product of <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com">Junkbusters
Corporation</ulink>. Development of this effort stopped some time ago as of
version 2.0.2. Stefan Waldherr started the ijbswa project on <ulink
url="http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net">Sourceforge</ulink> to rekindle
Modern browsers do indeed have <emphasis>some</emphasis> of the same
functionality as <application>Privoxy</application>. Maybe this is
adequate for you. But <application>Privoxy</application> is much more
- verstatile and powerful, and can do a number of things that browsers just can't.
+ versatile and powerful, and can do a number of things that browsers just can't.
</para>
<para>
In addition, a proxy is good choice if you use multiple browsers, or
and <quote>Secure</quote> (HTTPS) and then the number <quote>8118</quote>
for <quote>port</quote>. This tells your browser to send all web
requests to <application>Privoxy</application> instead of directly to the
- Interenet.
+ Internet.
</para>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> can also be used to proxy for
<sect3>
-<title id="noseeum">Instead of ads, now I get a checkboard pattern. I don't want to see anything.</title>
+<title id="noseeum">Instead of ads, now I get a checkerboard pattern. I don't want to see anything.</title>
<para>
This is a configuration option for images that
<application>Privoxy</application> is stopping. You have the choice <!-- of
This can be helpful for troubleshooting problems. It might also be good
for anyone new to <application>Privoxy</application> so that they can
see if their favorite pages are displaying correctly, and
- <application>Privoxy</application> is not inadvertantly removing something
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is not inadvertently removing something
important.
</para>
user a feeling of "it works".
</para>
<para>
-To modify the content of a page (i.e. make frames resizeable again, etc.) and
+To modify the content of a page (i.e. make frames resize-able again, etc.) and
not just replace ads, <application>Privoxy</application> needs to download the
entire page first, do its content magic and then send the page to the browser.
</para>
</para>
<para>
-These pages are *not* forwarded to a server on the internet - instead they are
+These pages are *not* forwarded to a server on the Internet - instead they are
handled by a special web server which is built in to <application>Privoxy</application>.
</para>
image is scaled to fill a largish area. There is not much to be done
about this, other than to use one of the other
<quote>imageblock</quote> directives: <emphasis>pattern</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>blank</emphasis>, or a URL of your chosing.
+ <emphasis>blank</emphasis>, or a URL of your choosing.
</para>
<para>
Given the above problem, we have decided to remove the logo option entirely.
If the ad had been displayed before you added its URL, it will probably be
held in the browser's cache for some time, so it will be displayed without
the need for any request to the server, and <application>Privoxy</application>
- will not be in the picture. The best thing to do is try flusing the browser's
+ will not be in the picture. The best thing to do is try flushing the browser's
caches. And then try again.
</para>
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+Revision 1.26 2002/03/25 02:54:39 hal9
+Fix typo in link.
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Revision 1.25 2002/03/24 16:08:08 swa
we are too lazy to make a block-built
privoxy logo. hence removed the option.