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69 <article id="index" class="faq">
71 <title>Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions</title>
73 <pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.53 2002/05/03 01:34:52 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
78 <orgname>By: Privoxy Developers</orgname>
87 This is here to keep vim syntax file from breaking :/
88 If I knew enough to fix it, I would.
89 PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE! HB: hal@foobox.net
94 This FAQ gives users and developers alike answers to frequently asked
95 questions about <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org">Privoxy</ulink>
96 <![%p-stable;[ v.&p-version]]>.
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104 You can find the latest version of the document at <ulink
105 url="http://www.privoxy.org/faq/">http://www.privoxy.org/faq/</ulink>.
106 Please see the Contact section if you want to contact the developers.
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124 <sect1 label="1" id="general"><title>General Information</title>
126 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="newjb"><title>What is this new version of <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
128 The original <application><trademark>Internet
129 Junkbuster</trademark></application> (tm) is a copyrighted product of <ulink
130 url="http://www.junkbusters.com">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
131 Development of this effort stopped some time ago as of version 2.0.2. Stefan
132 Waldherr started the ijbswa project on <ulink
133 url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/">Sourceforge</ulink> to
134 rekindle development. Other developers subsequently joined with Stefan, and
135 have since added many new features, refinements and enhancements. The result
136 of this effort is <application>Privoxy</application>.
139 <application>Privoxy</application> has evolved from the
140 <application>Junkbuster 2.0.2</application> code base, and has advanced
141 significantly at this point.
144 Please see the <link linkend="copyright">History section</link> for more
145 information on the history of <application>Junkbuster</application> and
146 <application>Privoxy</application>.
152 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
153 <title id="whyprivoxy">Why <quote>Privoxy</quote>? Why a name change at all?</title>
155 <application>Privoxy</application> is the
156 <quote><emphasis>Privacy Enhancing Proxy</emphasis></quote>.
159 There are potential legal complications from the continued use of the
160 <application>Junkbuster</application> name, which is a registered trademark of
161 <ulink url="http://junkbusters.com">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
162 And thus they <quote>own</quote> the rights to the name.
163 (There are, however, no objections from Junkbusters Corporation to the
164 <application>Privoxy</application> project itself, and they, in fact, still
165 share our ideals and goals.)
169 The developers also believed that there are so many changes from the original
170 code, that it was time to make a clean break from the past and make
171 a name in their own right<![%p-not-stable;[, especially now with the pending
172 release of version 3.0]]>.
177 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="differs"><title>How does <application>Privoxy</application> differ
178 from the old <application>Junkbuster?</application></title>
180 <application>Privoxy</application> picks up where
181 <application>Junkbuster</application> left off. All the old features remain.
182 The new <application>Privoxy</application> still blocks ads and banners,
183 still manages cookies, and still helps protect your privacy. But, these are
184 all enhanced, and many new features have been added, all in the same vein.
187 The configuration has changed significantly as well. This is something that
188 users will notice right off the bat if you are upgrading from
189 <application>Junkbuster</application> 2.0.x. The <quote>blocklist</quote>
190 file does not exist any more. This is replaced by <quote>actions</quote>
191 files, such as <filename>default.actions</filename>. This is where most of
192 the per site configuration is now.
196 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="features"><title>What are some of the new features?</title>
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203 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="proxymoron"><title>What is a <quote>proxy</quote>? How does
204 <application>Privoxy</application> work? </title>
206 When you connect to a web site with <application>Privoxy</application>,
207 you are really connecting to your locally running version of
208 <application>Privoxy</application>. <application>Privoxy</application>
209 intercepts your requests for the web page, and relays that to the
210 <quote>real</quote> web site. The web site sends the HTTP data stream
211 back to <application>Privoxy</application>, where
212 <application>Privoxy</application> can work its magic before it
213 relays this data back to your web browser.
217 Since <application>Privoxy</application> sits between you and the
218 WWW, it is in a position to intercept and completely manage all web traffic and
219 HTTP content before it gets to your browser.
220 <application>Privoxy</application> uses various programming methods to do
221 this, all of which is under your control via the various configuration
226 There are many kinds of proxies. <application>Privoxy</application> best
227 fits the <quote>filtering proxy</quote> category.
233 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
234 <title id="knows">How does <application>Privoxy</application> know what is
235 an ad, and what is not?</title>
237 <application>Privoxy</application> processes all the raw content of every
238 web page. So it reads everything on each page. It then compares this to the
239 rules as set up in the configuration files, and looks for any matches to
240 these rules. <application>Privoxy</application> makes heavy use of
241 <quote>regular expressions</quote>. (If you are not familiar with regular
242 expressions, it is explained briefly in <ulink
243 url="../user-manual/appendix.html">the user manual</ulink>.) Regular
244 expressions facilitate matching of one text string against another, using
245 wildcards to build complex patterns. So <application>Privoxy</application>
246 will typically look for URLs and other content that match certain key words
247 and expressions as defined in the configuration files. For instance a URL
248 that contains <quote>/banners</quote>, has a high probability of containing
249 ad banners, and thus would be a prime candidate to have a matching rule.
252 So <application>Privoxy</application> will look for these kinds of obvious
253 looking culprits. And also, will use lists of known organizations that
254 specialize in ads. Again, using complex patterns to match as many potential
255 combinations as possible since there tend to be many, many variations used by
256 advertisers, and new ones are being introduced all the time.
260 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
261 <title id="mistakes">Can <application>Privoxy</application> make mistakes?
262 This does not sound very scientific.</title>
264 Actually, it's a black art ;-) And yes, it is always possible to have a broad rule
265 accidentally block something by mistake. There is a good chance you may run
266 into such a situation at some point. It is tricky writing rules to cover
267 every conceivable possibility, and not occasionally get false positives.
271 But this should not be a big concern since the
272 <application>Privoxy</application> configuration is very flexible, and
273 includes tools to help identify these types of situations so they can be
274 addressed as needed, allowing you to customize your installation.
275 (<link linkend="badsite">See the Troubleshooting section below</link>.)
281 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="browsers2"><title>My browser does the same things as
282 <application>Privoxy</application>. Why should I use
283 <application>Privoxy</application> at all?</title>
285 Modern browsers do indeed have <emphasis>some</emphasis> of the same
286 functionality as <application>Privoxy</application>. Maybe this is
287 adequate for you. But <application>Privoxy</application> is much more
288 versatile and powerful, and can do a number of things that browsers just can't.
291 In addition, a proxy is good choice if you use multiple browsers, or
292 have a LAN with multiple computers. This way all the configuration
293 is in one place, and you don't have to maintain a similar configuration
294 for possibly many browsers.
301 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="license"><title>Is there is a license or fee? What about a
302 warranty? Registration?</title>
304 <application>Privoxy</application> is licensed under the GNU General Public
305 License (GPL). It is free to use, copy, modify or distribute as you wish
306 under the terms of this license. Please see the Copyright section for more
307 information on the license and copyright.
311 There is no warranty of any kind, expressed, implied or otherwise. That is
312 something that would cost real money ;-) There is no registration either.
313 <application>Privoxy</application> really is <emphasis>free</emphasis>
320 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="jointeam"><title>I would like to help you, what do I do?</title>
322 <sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jointeam-money"><title>Money Money Money</title>
324 We, of course, welcome donations and use the money for domain registering,
325 regular world-wide get-togethers (hahaha). Anyway, we'll soon describe the
326 process how to donate money to the team.
330 <sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jointeam-work"><title>You want to work with us?</title>
332 Well, helping the team is always a good idea. We welcome new developers,
333 RPM gurus or documentation makers. Simply get an account on sourceforge.net
334 and mail your id to the developer mailing list. Then read the
335 section Quickstart in the <ulink url="../developer-manual/quickstart.html">
336 Developer's Manual</ulink>.
339 Once we have added you to the team, you'll have write access to the CVS
340 repository, and together we'll find a suitable task for you.
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351 <sect1 label="2" id="installation"><title>Installation</title>
353 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="whichbrowsers">
354 <title>Which browsers are supported by <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
356 Any browser that can be configured to use a <quote>proxy</quote>, which
357 should be virtually all browsers. Direct browser support is not necessary
358 since <application>Privoxy</application> runs as a separate application and
359 just exchanges standard HTML data with your browser, just like a web server
364 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="whichos">
365 <title>Which operating systems are supported?</title>
367 Include supported.sgml here:
372 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="newinstall"><title>Can I install
373 <application>Privoxy</application> over <application>Junkbuster</application>?</title>
375 We recommend you uninstall <application>Junkbuster</application>
376 first to minimize conflicts and confusion. You may want to
377 save your old configuration files for future reference. The configuration
378 is substantially changed.
382 url="../user-manual/index.html">user-manual</ulink> for
383 platform specific installation instructions.
386 Note: Some installers may automatically uninstall
387 <application>Junkbuster</application>, if present!
392 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
393 <title id="firststep">I just installed <application>Privoxy</application>. Is there anything
394 special I have to do now?</title>
397 All browsers must be told to use <application>Privoxy</application>
398 as a proxy by specifying the correct proxy address and port number
399 in the appropriate configuration area for the browser. See below.
400 Also, you should flush your browser's memory and disk cache to get rid of any
408 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="localhost"><title>What is the proxy address of <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
410 If you set up the <application>Privoxy</application> to run on
411 the computer you browse from (rather than your ISP's server or some
412 networked computer on a LAN), the proxy will be on <quote>localhost</quote>
413 (which is the special name used by every computer on the Internet to refer
414 to itself) and the port will be 8118 (unless you have <application>Privoxy</application> to run on a different port with the
415 <emphasis>listen-address</emphasis> config option).
418 When configuring your browser's proxy settings you typically enter
419 the word <quote>localhost</quote> in the boxes next to <quote>HTTP</quote>
420 and <quote>Secure</quote> (HTTPS) and then the number <quote>8118</quote>
421 for <quote>port</quote>. This tells your browser to send all web
422 requests to <application>Privoxy</application> instead of directly to the
426 <application>Privoxy</application> can also be used to proxy for
427 a Local Area Network. In this case, your would enter either the IP
428 address of the LAN host where <application>Privoxy</application>
429 is running, or the equivalent hostname. Port assignment would be
433 <application>Privoxy</application> does not currently handle
434 protocols such as FTP, SMTP, IM, IRC, ICQ, or other Internet
439 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
440 <title id="nothing">I just installed <application>Privoxy</application>, and nothing is happening.
441 All the ads are there. What's wrong?</title>
444 Did you configure your browser to use <application>Privoxy</application>
445 as a proxy? It does not sound like it. See above. You might also try flushing
446 the browser's caches to force a full re-reading of pages. You can verify
447 that <application>Privoxy</application> is running, and your browser
448 is correctly configured by entering the special URL:
449 <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>. This should give you
450 a banner that says <quote>This is Privoxy</quote> and
451 access to <application>Privoxy's</application> internal configuration.
452 If you see this, then you are good to go. If not, the browser or
453 <application>Privoxy</application> are not set up correctly.
462 <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
464 <sect1 label="3" id="configuration"><title>Configuration</title>
466 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="newconfig"><title>Can I use my old config files?</title>
468 There are major changes to <application>Junkbuster</application>/
469 <application>Privoxy</application> configuration from version 2.0.x to
470 2.9.x and later. Most of the older files will not work at all. This is
471 especially true of <filename>blocklist</filename>. If this is the case, you
472 will need to re-enter your old data into the new configuration structure.
473 This is probably also a good recommendation even if upgrading from 2.9.x to
474 3.x since there were many minor changes along the way.
478 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
479 <title id="actionsfile">What is an <quote>actions</quote> file?</title>
482 <quote>actions</quote> files are where various actions that
483 <application>Privoxy</application> might take, are configured.
484 Typically, you would define a set of default actions that apply
485 to all URLs, then add exceptions to these defaults where needed.
489 Actions can be defined on a per site basis, or for groups of sites. Actions
490 can also be grouped together and then applied to one or more sites. There
491 are many possible actions that might apply to any given site. As an example,
492 if we are blocking cookies as one of our default
493 <application>actions</application>, but need to accept cookies from a given
494 site, we would define this in our <quote>actions</quote> file.
498 No longer appropriate 04/28/02 hal.
501 <application>Privoxy</application> comes with several default
502 <application>actions</application> files, with varying degrees
503 of filtering and blocking, as starting points for your own
504 configuration (see below).
509 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="actionss">
510 <title>The <quote>actions</quote> concept confuses me. Please list
511 some of these <quote>actions</quote>.</title>
513 These are all explained in the
514 <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html">user-manual</ulink>.
515 Please refer to that.
520 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
521 <title id="actconfig">How are actions files configured? What is the easiest
522 way to do this?</title>
525 The easiest way to do this, is to access <application>Privoxy</application>
526 with your web browser at <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>,
528 "<ulink url="http://config.privoxy.org">View & change the current configuration</ulink>"
529 from the selection list. You can also do this by editing the appropriate
530 file with a text editor.
536 url="../user-manual/actions-file.html">user-manual</ulink> for a
537 detailed explanation of these and other configuration files, and their
538 various options and syntax.
543 <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
544 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
545 <title>There are several different <quote>actions</quote> files. What are
546 the differences?</title>
548 As of <application>Privoxy</application> v2.9.15, three actions files
549 are being included, to be used for
550 different purposes. These are
551 <filename>default.action</filename>, <filename>standard.action</filename>,
552 and <filename>user.action</filename>. Please see
553 <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html">the User Manual</ulink>
554 for an explanation of each.
558 Earlier versions included three different versions
559 <filename>default.action</filename> files. The new scheme allows for
560 greater flexibility of local configuration, and for browser based
567 FIXME: Commenting these out until we have some data there. HB 03/17/02.
569 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="yahoo"><title>How can I make my Yahoo account work?</title>
575 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="hotmail"> <title>How can I make my Hotmail account work?</title>
581 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="gmx"> <title>How can I make my GMX account work?</title>
589 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="configfiles"> <title>What are the differences between
590 intermediate.action, basic.action, etc.?</title>
592 Configuring <application>Privoxy</application> is not easy. To help you get
593 started, we provide you with three different default configurations. The
594 following table shows you, which features are enabled in each configuration.
597 <table frame=all><title>Default Configurations</title>
598 <tgroup cols=5 align=left colsep=1 rowsep=1>
606 <entry>Feature</entry>
607 <entry>default.action</entry>
608 <entry>basic.action</entry>
609 <entry>intermediate.action</entry>
610 <entry>advanced.action</entry>
616 <!-- <entry>f1</entry> -->
617 <!-- <entry>f2</entry> -->
618 <!-- <entry>f3</entry> -->
619 <!-- <entry>f4</entry> -->
620 <!-- <entry>f5</entry> -->
627 <entry>ad-filtering</entry>
635 <entry>blank image</entry>
643 <entry>de-animate GIFs</entry>
651 <entry>referer forging</entry>
659 <entry>jon's +no-cookies-keep (i.e. session cookies only)</entry>
667 <entry>no-popup windows</entry>
675 <entry>fast redirects</entry>
683 <entry>hide-referrer</entry>
691 <entry>hide-useragent</entry>
699 <entry>content-modification</entry>
707 <entry>feature-x</entry>
715 <entry>feature-y</entry>
723 <entry>feature-z</entry>
738 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="browseconfig"> <title>Why can I change the configuration with a
739 browser? Does that not raise security issues?</title>
741 What I don't understand, is how I can browser edit the config file as a
742 regular user, while the whole <filename>/etc/privoxy</filename> hierarchy
743 belongs to the user <quote>privoxy</quote>, with only 644 permissions.
746 When you use the browser-based editor, <application>Privoxy</application>
747 itself is writing to the config files. Because
748 <application>Privoxy</application> is running as the user <quote>privoxy</quote>, it can
749 update the config files.
752 If you don't like this, setting <quote>enable-edit-actions 0</quote> in the
753 config file will disable the browser-based editor. If you're that paranoid,
754 you should also consider setting <quote>enable-remote-toggle 0</quote> to prevent
755 browser-based enabling/disabling of <application>Privoxy</application>.
758 Note that normally only local users can connect to
759 <application>Privoxy</application>, so this is not (normally) a security
765 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
766 <title id="filterfile">What is <quote>default.filter</quote>?</title>
768 The <quote>default.filter</quote> file is where <quote>filters</quote>
769 are defined, which are used to <quote>filter</quote> any
770 web page content. By <quote>filtering</quote> we mean it can modify, remove,
771 or change <emphasis>anything</emphasis> on the page, including HTML tags, and
772 JavaScript. Regular expressions are used to accomplish this, and operate
773 on a line by line basis. This is potentially a very powerful feature, but
774 requires some expertise.
778 If you are familiar with regular expressions, and HTML, you can look at
779 the provided <filename>default.filter</filename> with a text editor and see
780 some of things it can be used for.
784 Presently, there is no GUI editor option for this part of the configuration,
785 but you can disable/enable various sections of the included default
786 file with the <quote>View & change the current configuration</quote> from
792 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
793 <title id="lanconfig">How can I set up <application>Privoxy</application> to act as a proxy for my
796 By default, <application>Privoxy</application> only responds to requests
797 from localhost. To have it act as a server for a network, this needs to be
798 changed in the main config file where the <application>Privoxy</application>
799 configuration is located. In that file is a <quote>listen-address</quote>
800 option. It may be commented out with a <quote>#</quote> symbol. Make sure
801 it is uncommented, and assign it the address of the LAN gateway interface,
802 and port number to use:
807 listen-address 192.168.1.1:8118
812 Save the file, and restart <application>Privoxy</application>. Configure
813 all browsers on the network then to use this address and port number.
819 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
820 <title id="noseeum">Instead of ads, now I get a checkerboard pattern. I don't want to see anything.</title>
822 This is a configuration option for images that
823 <application>Privoxy</application> is stopping. You have the choice of a
824 checkerboard pattern, a transparent 1x1 GIF image (aka <quote>blank</quote>),
825 or a custom URL of your choice. Note that to fit this category, the URL must
826 match both the <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE"><quote>+handle-as-image</quote></ulink>
827 <emphasis>and</emphasis>
828 <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK"><quote>+block</quote></ulink> actions.
831 If you want to see nothing, then change the
832 <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER"><quote>+set-image-blocker</quote></ulink>
833 action to <quote>+image-blocker{blank}</quote>. This can be done from the
834 <quote>View & change the current configuration</quote> selection at <ulink
835 url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>. Or by hand editing the appropriate
836 actions file. This will only effect what is defined as <quote>images</quote>
837 though. Also, some URLs that generate the bright red <quote>Blocked</quote>
838 banner, can be moved to the <quote>+set-image-blocker</quote> section for the
839 same reason, but there are some limits and risks to this (see below).
845 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
846 <title id="whyseeum">Why would anybody want to see a checkerboard pattern?</title>
848 This can be helpful for troubleshooting problems. It might also be good
849 for anyone new to <application>Privoxy</application> so that they can
850 see if their favorite pages are displaying correctly, and
851 <application>Privoxy</application> is not inadvertently removing something
857 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
858 <title id="blockedisugly">I see large red banners on some pages that say
859 <quote>Blocked</quote>. Why and how do I get rid of this?</title>
861 These are URLs that match something in one of
862 <application>Privoxy's</application> block actions
864 url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK"><quote>+block</quote></ulink>).
865 It is meant to be a warning so that you know something has been blocked and
866 an easy way for you to see why. These are handled differently than what has
867 been defined explicitly as <quote>images</quote> (e.g. ads that are GIF image
868 files). Depending on the URL itself, it is sometimes hard for
869 <application>Privoxy</application> to really know whether there is indeed an
870 ad image there or not. And there are limitations as to what
871 <application>Privoxy</application> can do to <quote>fool</quote> the
876 For instance, if the ad is in a frame, then it is embedded in the separate
877 HTML page used for the frame. In this case, you cannot just substitute an
878 aribitrary image (like we would for a <quote>blank</quote> image), for an HTML
879 page. The browser is expecting an HTML page, and that is what it must have
880 for frames. Such situations can be a little trickier to deal with, and
881 <application>Privoxy</application> may show the <quote>Blocked</quote> page,
882 despite your best efforts.
886 If you want these to be treated as if they were images, so that they can be
887 made invisible, you can try moving the offending URL from the
888 <quote>+block</quote> section to the <quote>+imageblock</quote> section of
889 your actions file. Just be forewarned, if any URL is made
890 <quote>invisible</quote>, you may not have any inkling that something has
891 been removed from that page, or why. If this approach does not work, then you are
892 probably dealing with a frame (or <quote>ilayer</quote>), and the only thing
893 that can go there is an HTML page of some sort.
896 To deal with this situation, you could modify the
897 <quote><filename>block</filename></quote> HTML template that is used by
898 <application>Privoxy</application> to display this, and make it something
899 more to your liking. Currently, there is no configuration option for this.
900 You will have to modify, or create your own page, and use this to replace
901 <filename>templates/blocked</filename>, which is what
902 <application>Privoxy</application> uses to display the <quote>Blocked</quote>
906 Another way to deal with this is find why and where
907 <application>Privoxy</application> is blocking the frame, and
908 diable this. Then let the <quote>+set-image-blocker</quote> action
909 handle the ad that is embedded in the frame's HTML page.
914 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="alliseeisred">
915 <title>I cannot see all of the <quote>Blocked</quote> page banner. Help.</title>
917 There is not enough available space to fit the entire Blocked page. Try right
918 clicking on the visible portion, and select <quote>Show Frame</quote>,
919 or equivalent. This will usually allow you to see the entire Privoxy
920 <quote>Blocked</quote> page, and from there you can see just what is being
924 As of Privoxy 2.9.14, the Blocked banner page is re-sizeable, and tries
925 to adjust to the allotted space. There may be occassions where there
926 just isn't enough room to display much of anything useful though.
931 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="srvany">
932 <title>Can <application>Privoxy</application> run as a service
935 Yes, it can run as a system service using <command>srvany.exe</command>.
936 The only catch is that this will effectively disable the
937 <application>Privoxy</application> icon in the taskbar. You can have
938 one or the other, but not both at this time :(
941 There is a pending feature request for this functionality. See
943 url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118</ulink>,
944 for details, and a sample configuration.
950 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="otherproxy">
951 <title>How can I make <application>Privoxy</application> work with other
952 proxies like <application>Squid</application>?</title>
954 This can be done. See the <ulink
955 url="../user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING">user manual</ulink>,
956 which describes how to do this.
960 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="transparent">
961 <title>Can <application>Privoxy</application> run as a <quote>transparent
962 </quote> proxy?</title>
964 No, <application>Privoxy</application> currently does not have this ability,
965 though it is planned for a future release. Transparent proxies require
966 special handling of the request headers beyond what
967 <application>Privoxy</application> is now capable of.
971 Chaining <application>Privoxy</application> with another proxy that has
972 this ability should work though.
973 See the <ulink url="../user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING">user
974 manual</ulink>, which describes this, and also <ulink
975 url="http://www.transproxy.nlc.net.au/">http://www.transproxy.nlc.net.au/</ulink>.
982 <!-- ~ End section ~ -->
985 <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
987 <sect1 label="4"id="misc"><title>Miscellaneous</title>
989 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
990 <title id="slowsme">How much does <application>Privoxy</application> slow my browsing down? This
991 has to add extra time to browsing.</title>
993 It should not slow you down any in real terms, and may actually help
994 speed things up since ads, banners and other junk are not being displayed.
995 The actual processing time required by <application>Privoxy</application>
996 itself for each page, is relatively small in the overall scheme of things,
997 and happens very quickly. This is typically more than offset by time saved
998 not downloading and rendering ad images.
1002 <quote>Filtering</quote> via the <filename>filterfile</filename>
1003 mechanism may cause a perceived slowdown, since the entire page is buffered
1004 before displaying. See below.
1010 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="loadingtimes"><title>I noticed considerable
1011 delays in page requests compared to the old Junkbuster. What's wrong?</title>
1013 The entire page content must be loaded into memory in order for the filtering
1014 mechanism to work, and nothing is sent to the browser during this time. The
1015 loading time does not really change in real numbers, but the feeling is
1016 different, because most browsers are able to start rendering incomplete
1017 content, giving the user a feeling of "it works".
1020 To modify the content of a page (i.e. make frames resizeable again, etc.) and
1021 not just replace ads, <application>Privoxy</application> needs to download
1022 the entire page first, do its content magic and then send the page to the
1028 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="configurl"><title>What is the "http://p.p/"?</title>
1030 Since <application>Privoxy</application> sits between your web browser and the Internet, it can be
1031 programmed to handle certain pages specially.
1035 With recent versions of <application>Privoxy</application> (version 2.9.x and
1036 greater), you can get some information about
1037 <application>Privoxy</application> and change some settings by going to
1038 <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink> or, equivalently, <ulink
1039 url="http://config.privoxy.org/">http://config.privoxy.org/</ulink> (Note
1040 that p.p is far easier to type but may not work in some configurations. With
1041 the name change to <application>Privoxy</application>, this is changed from
1042 the previous http://i.j.b/ and earlier 2.9.x versions).
1046 These pages are <emphasis>not</emphasis> forwarded to a server on the
1047 Internet - instead they are handled by a special web server which is built in to
1048 <application>Privoxy</application>.
1052 If you are not running <application>Privoxy</application>, then <ulink
1053 url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink> will fail, and <ulink
1054 url="http://config.privoxy.org/">http://config.privoxy.org/</ulink> will
1055 return a web page telling you you're not running
1056 <application>Privoxy</application>.
1060 If you have version 2.0.2, then the equivalent is
1061 http://example.com/show-proxy-args (but you get far less information, and
1062 you should really consider upgrading to &p-version;).
1067 FIXME: commented out until we have data. HB 03/18/02.
1069 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="badfiledesc"><title>I get the message 'Bad File Descriptor', why?</title>
1077 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="blocklist"><title>Do you still maintain the blocklists?</title>
1079 No, not by this name. The format of the blocklists has changed
1080 significantly in versions 2.9.x and later. This functionality
1081 is done by the <quote>actions</quote> file now. See next question ...
1085 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="newads"><title>How can I submit new ads?</title>
1087 Please see the <ulink url="contact.html">Contact section</ulink>.
1091 This process does not work with earlier versions of <application>Privoxy</application>
1092 or <application>Junkbuster</application>.
1097 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="ip"><title>How can I hide my IP address?</title>
1099 You cannot hide your IP address with <application>Privoxy</application> or any other software, since
1100 the server needs to know your IP address to send the answers back to you.
1103 Fortunately there are many publicly usable anonymous proxies out there, which
1104 solve the problem by providing a further level of indirection between you and
1105 the web server, shared by many people and thus letting your requests "drown"
1106 in white noise of unrelated requests as far as user tracking is concerned.
1109 Most of them will, however, log your IP address and make it available to the
1110 authorities in case you abuse that anonymity for criminal purposes. In fact
1111 you can't even rule out that some of them only exist to *collect* information
1112 on (those suspicious) people with a more than average preference for privacy.
1115 You can find a list of anonymous public proxies at <ulink
1116 url="http://www.multiproxy.org/anon_list.htm">multiproxy.org</ulink> and many
1117 more through Google.
1121 <!-- <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="image"><title>What is the imagefile (simage.ini, etc.) for?</title> -->
1123 <!-- Anytime <application>Privoxy</application> determines (with the help of the blocklist) that a URL -->
1124 <!-- contains an advertisement, it has to decide whether this advertisement is an -->
1125 <!-- image or not. <application>Privoxy</application> uses the imagefile for that purpose. -->
1129 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1130 <title id="anonforsure">Can <application>Privoxy</application> guarantee I am anonymous?</title>
1132 No. Your chances of remaining anonymous are greatly improved, but unless you
1133 are an expert on Internet security it would be safest to assume that
1134 everything you do on the Web can be traced back to you.
1137 <application>Privoxy</application> can remove various information about you,
1138 and allows <emphasis>you</emphasis> more freedom to decide which sites
1139 you can trust, and what details you want to reveal. But it's still possible
1140 that web sites can find out who you are. Here's one way this can happen.
1143 A few browsers disclose the user's email address in certain situations, such
1144 as when transferring a file by FTP. <application>Privoxy</application>
1145 does not filter FTP. If you need this feature, or are concerned about the
1146 mail handler of your browser disclosing your email address, you might
1147 consider products such as <application>NSClean</application>.
1150 Browsers available only as binaries could use non-standard headers to give
1151 out any information they can have access to: see the manufacturer's license
1152 agreement. It's impossible to anticipate and prevent every breach of privacy
1153 that might occur. The professionally paranoid prefer browsers available as
1154 source code, because anticipating their behavior is easier. Trust the source,
1160 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1161 <title id="sitebreak">Might some things break because header information is
1162 being altered?</title>
1165 Definitely. More and more sites use HTTP header content to decide what to
1166 display and how to display it. There is many ways that this can be handled,
1167 so having hard and fast rules, is tricky.
1171 <quote>USER AGENT</quote> in particular is often used in this way to identify
1172 the browser, and adjust content accordingly. Changing this now is not
1173 recommended, since so many sites do look for this. You may get undesirable
1174 results by changing this.
1178 For instance, different browsers use different encodings of Russian and Czech
1179 characters, certain web servers convert pages on-the-fly according to the
1180 User Agent header. Giving a <quote>User Agent</quote> with the wrong
1181 operating system or browser manufacturer causes some sites in these languages
1182 to be garbled; Surfers to Eastern European sites should change it to
1183 something closer. And then some page access counters work by looking at the
1184 <quote>REFERER</quote> header; they may fail or break if unavailable. The
1185 weather maps of Intellicast have been blocked by their server when no
1186 <quote>REFERER</quote> or cookie is provided, is another example. There are
1187 many, many other ways things can go wrong when trying to fool a web server.
1191 If you have problems with a site, you will have to adjust your configuration
1192 accordingly. Cookies are probably the most likely adjustment that may
1193 be required, but by no means the only one.
1199 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1200 <title id="caching">Can <application>Privoxy</application> act as a <quote>caching</quote> proxy to
1201 speed up web browsing?</title>
1203 No, it does not have this ability at all. You want something like
1204 <ulink url="http://www.squid-cache.org/">Squid</ulink> for this. And, yes,
1205 before you ask, <application>Privoxy</application> can co-exist
1206 with other kinds of proxies like <application>Squid</application>.
1210 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1211 <title id="firewall">What about as a firewall? Can <application>Privoxy</application> protect me?</title>
1213 Not in the way you mean, or in the way a true firewall can, or a proxy that
1214 has this specific capability. <application>Privoxy</application> can help
1215 protect your privacy, but not really protect you from intrusion attempts.
1220 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1221 <title id="logo">The <application>Privoxy</application> logo that replaces ads is very blocky
1222 and ugly looking. Can't a better font be used?</title>
1225 This is not a font problem. The logo is an image that is created by
1226 <application>Privoxy</application> on the fly. So as to not waste
1227 memory, the image is rather small. The blockiness comes when the
1228 image is scaled to fill a largish area. There is not much to be done
1229 about this, other than to use one of the other
1230 <quote>imageblock</quote> directives: <emphasis>pattern</emphasis>,
1231 <emphasis>blank</emphasis>, or a URL of your choosing.
1234 Given the above problem, we have decided to remove the logo option entirely
1240 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1241 <title id="wasted">I have large empty spaces now where ads used to be.
1244 It would be easy enough to just eliminate this space altogether, rather than
1245 fill it with blank space. But, this would create problems with many pages
1246 that use the overall size of the ad to help organize the page layout and
1247 position the various components of the page where they were intended to be.
1248 It is best left this way.
1253 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1254 <title id="ssl">How can <application>Privoxy</application> filter Secure (HTTPS) URLs?</title>
1256 This is a limitation since HTTPS transactions are encrypted SSL sessions
1257 between your browser and the secure site, and are meant to be reliably
1258 <emphasis>secure</emphasis> and private. This means that all cookies and HTTP
1259 header information are also encrypted from the time they leave your browser,
1260 to the site, and vice versa. <application>Privoxy</application> does not
1261 try to unencrypt this information, so it just passes through as is.
1262 <application>Privoxy</application> can still catch images and ads that
1263 are embedded in the SSL stream though.
1269 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1270 <title id="secure"><application>Privoxy</application> runs as a <quote>server</quote>. How
1271 secure is it? Do I need to take any special precautions?</title>
1273 There are no known exploits that might effect
1274 <application>Privoxy</application>. On Unix-like systems,
1275 <application>Privoxy</application> can run as a non-privileged
1276 user, which is how we recommend it be run. Also, by default
1277 <application>Privoxy</application> only listens to requests
1278 from <quote>localhost</quote>. The server aspect of
1279 <application>Privoxy</application> is not itself directly exposed to the
1280 Internet in this configuration. If you want to have
1281 <application>Privoxy</application> serve as a LAN proxy, this will have to
1282 be opened up to allow for LAN requests. In this case, we'd recommend
1283 you specify only the LAN gateway address, e.g. 192.168.1.1, in the main
1284 <application>Privoxy</application> config file. All LAN hosts can then use
1285 this as their proxy address in the browser proxy configuration. In this way,
1286 <application>Privoxy</application> will not listen on any external ports.
1287 Of course, a firewall is always good too. Better safe than sorry.
1292 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="turnoff">
1293 <title>How can I temporarily disable <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
1295 The easiest way is to access <application>Privoxy</application> with your
1296 browser by using the special URL: <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>
1297 and select "Toggle Privoxy on or off" from that page.
1302 <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="seealso">
1303 <title>Where can I find more information about <application>Privoxy</application>
1304 and related issues?</title>
1305 <!-- Include seealso.sgml boilerplate: -->
1307 <!-- end boilerplate -->
1312 <ulink url="../user-manual/seealso.html">user-manual</ulink> for
1321 <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
1323 <sect1 label="5" id="trouble">
1324 <title>Troubleshooting</title>
1326 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1327 <title id="refused">I just upgraded and am getting <quote>connection refused</quote>
1328 with every web page?</title>
1330 Either <application>Privoxy</application> is not running, or your
1331 browser is configured for a different port than what
1332 <application>Privoxy</application> is using.
1336 The old <application>Privoxy</application> (and also
1337 <application>Junkbuster</application>) used port 8000 by
1338 default. This has been changed to port 8118 now, due to a conflict
1339 with NAS (Network Audio Service), which uses port 8000. If you haven't,
1340 you need to change your browser to the new port number, or alternately
1341 change <application>Privoxy's</application> <quote>listen-address</quote>
1342 setting in the <filename>config</filename> file used to start
1343 <application>Privoxy</application>.
1348 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1349 <title id="flushit">I just added a new rule, but the steenkin ad is
1350 still getting through. How?</title>
1352 If the ad had been displayed before you added its URL, it will probably be
1353 held in the browser's cache for some time, so it will be displayed without
1354 the need for any request to the server, and <application>Privoxy</application>
1355 will not be in the picture. The best thing to do is try flushing the browser's
1356 caches. And then try again.
1360 If this doesn't help, you probably have an error in the rule you
1361 applied. Try pasting the full URL of the offending ad into <ulink
1362 url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</ulink>
1363 and see if any actions match your new rule.
1368 <sect2 renderas="sect3">
1369 <title id="badsite">One of my favorite sites does not work with <application>Privoxy</application>.
1370 What can I do?</title>
1373 First verify that it is indeed a <application>Privoxy</application> problem,
1374 by disabling <application>Privoxy</application> filtering and blocking.
1375 Go to <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink> and click on
1376 <quote>Toggle Privoxy On or Off</quote>, then disable it. Now try that
1377 page again. It's probably a good idea to flush the browser cache as well
1378 with <literal>Shift+Reload</literal> to flush caches.
1382 If still a problem, go to <quote>Show which actions apply to a URL and
1383 why</quote> from <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink> and paste
1384 the full URL of the page in question into the prompt. See which actions are
1385 being applied to the URL. Now, armed with this information, go to
1386 <quote>View & change the current configuration</quote>. Here you should see various sections that have
1387 various <application>Privoxy</application> features disabled for specific
1388 sites. Most disabled <quote>actions</quote> will have a <quote>-</quote> (minus
1389 sign) in front of them. Some aliases are used just to disable other actions,
1390 e.g. <quote>shop</quote> and <quote>fragile</quote>, and won't necessarily
1391 use a <quote>+</quote> or <quote>-</quote> sign. Add your problem page
1392 URL to one of these sections that looks like it is disabling the feature that
1393 is causing the problem. Rember to flush your browser's caches when making
1394 such changes! As a last resort, try <quote>fragile</quote> which
1395 disables most actions. Now re-try the page. There might be some trial and
1396 error involved. This is discussed in more detail in the <ulink
1397 url="../user-manual/appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">user-manual appendix</ulink>.
1402 Alternately, if you are comfortable with a text editor, you can accomplish
1403 the same thing by editing the appropriate <quote>actions</quote> file.
1413 <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
1415 FIXME: Commented out until we have something to put here. HB 03/18/02.
1416 <sect1 id="knownissues"><title>Known Issues</title>
1423 <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
1424 <sect1 label="6" id="contact"><title>Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</title>
1425 <!-- Include contacting.sgml -->
1427 <!-- end contacting -->
1430 <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
1431 <sect1 label="7" id="copyright"><title>Copyright and History</title>
1433 <sect2><title>Copyright</title>
1434 <!-- Include copyright.sgml -->
1439 <sect2><title>History</title>
1440 <!-- Include history.sgml -->
1447 <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
1449 <sect1 id="seealso"><title>See also</title>
1451 <!-- Include seealso.sgml -->
1462 Tue 09/11/01 06:38:14 PM EST: Test SGML doc by Hal Burgiss.
1464 Last modified: Mon Sep 10 19:22:09 CEST 2001
1466 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
1467 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
1468 Public License as published by the Free Software
1469 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
1470 your option) any later version.
1472 This program is distributed in the hope that it will
1473 be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
1474 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
1475 PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
1476 License for more details.
1478 The GNU General Public License should be included with
1479 this file. If not, you can view it at
1480 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
1481 or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
1482 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
1485 Revision 1.53 2002/05/03 01:34:52 hal9
1486 Fix section numbering for new sections (due to TOC kludge).
1488 Revision 1.52 2002/04/29 03:08:43 hal9
1489 -Added new Q/A on new actions file set up (pointer to u-m)
1490 -Fixed a few broken links and converted old actions as a result of
1493 Revision 1.51 2002/04/26 17:24:31 swa
1494 bookmarks cleaned, changed structure of user manual, screen and programlisting cleanups, and numerous other changes that I forgot
1496 Revision 1.50 2002/04/26 05:25:23 hal9
1497 Mass commit to catch a few scattered fixes.
1499 Revision 1.49 2002/04/12 10:10:18 swa
1502 Revision 1.48 2002/04/10 18:45:15 swa
1505 Revision 1.47 2002/04/10 04:05:32 hal9
1508 Revision 1.45 2002/04/08 22:59:26 hal9
1509 Version update. Spell chkconfig correctly :)
1511 Revision 1.44 2002/04/07 21:24:29 hal9
1512 Touch up on name change.
1514 Revision 1.43 2002/04/04 21:59:53 hal9
1515 Added NT/W2K service/icon situation.
1517 Revision 1.42 2002/04/04 18:46:47 swa
1518 consistent look. reuse of copyright, history et. al.
1520 Revision 1.41 2002/04/04 06:48:37 hal9
1521 Structural changes to allow for conditional inclusion/exclusion of content
1522 based on entity toggles, e.g. 'entity % p-not-stable "INCLUDE"'. And
1523 definition of internal entities, e.g. 'entity p-version "2.9.13"' that will
1524 eventually be set by Makefile.
1525 More boilerplate text for use across multiple docs.
1527 Revision 1.40 2002/04/03 04:22:03 hal9
1528 Fixed several typos.
1530 Revision 1.39 2002/04/03 03:53:03 hal9
1531 Revert some changes, and then make some news, to layout, and appearance.
1533 Revision 1.38 2002/04/02 03:49:10 hal9
1534 Major changes to doc structure and layout. Sections are not automatically
1535 numbered now. TOC is on page by itself.
1537 Revision 1.37 2002/04/01 16:24:07 hal9
1538 -Rework of supported Q/A.
1539 -Set up entities to include boilerplate text.
1541 Revision 1.36 2002/03/31 23:18:47 hal9
1542 More on dealing with BLOCKED.
1544 Revision 1.35 2002/03/30 04:14:19 hal9
1545 Fix privoxy.org/config links.
1547 Revision 1.34 2002/03/29 04:35:56 hal9
1550 Revision 1.33 2002/03/29 01:31:48 hal9
1551 Several new Q/A's and other touch ups.
1553 Revision 1.32 2002/03/27 00:57:03 hal9
1554 Touch ups for name change.
1556 Revision 1.31 2002/03/26 22:29:55 swa
1557 we have a new homepage!
1559 Revision 1.30 2002/03/25 16:39:22 hal9
1560 A few new sections. Made all links relative to user-manual.
1562 Revision 1.29 2002/03/25 05:23:57 hal9
1563 Moved section, and touch ups.
1565 Revision 1.28 2002/03/25 04:27:33 hal9
1566 New section related to name change.
1568 Revision 1.25 2002/03/24 16:08:08 swa
1569 we are too lazy to make a block-built
1570 privoxy logo. hence removed the option.
1572 Revision 1.24 2002/03/24 15:46:20 swa
1573 name change related issue.
1575 Revision 1.23 2002/03/24 12:33:01 swa
1578 Revision 1.22 2002/03/24 11:51:00 swa
1579 name change. changed filenames.
1581 Revision 1.21 2002/03/24 11:01:06 swa
1584 Revision 1.20 2002/03/23 15:13:11 swa
1585 renamed every reference to the old name with foobar.
1586 fixed "application foobar application" tag, fixed
1587 "the foobar" with "foobar". left junkbustser in cvs
1588 comments and remarks to history untouched.
1590 Revision 1.19 2002/03/21 17:01:54 hal9
1593 Revision 1.18 2002/03/18 16:40:31 hal9
1596 Revision 1.17 2002/03/18 03:53:53 hal9
1599 Revision 1.16 2002/03/17 21:32:56 hal9
1600 A few more additions.
1602 Revision 1.15 2002/03/17 07:25:59 hal9
1603 Correcting some of my typos, and some additions.
1605 Revision 1.14 2002/03/17 02:39:13 hal9
1606 A little more added ...
1608 Revision 1.13 2002/03/17 00:22:20 hal9
1609 Adding new stuff, and trying to incorporate stuff from old faq.
1611 Revision 1.12 2002/03/11 20:13:21 swa
1614 Revision 1.11 2002/03/11 18:42:27 swa
1617 Revision 1.10 2002/03/11 13:13:27 swa
1618 correct feedback channels
1620 Revision 1.9 2002/03/10 23:34:04 swa
1621 more info on not hiding ip address
1623 Revision 1.8 2002/03/09 15:55:48 swa
1624 added default config section
1626 Revision 1.7 2002/03/07 18:16:55 swa
1629 Revision 1.6 2002/03/07 13:16:31 oes
1630 Committing changes by Stefan
1632 Revision 1.5 2002/03/02 15:50:04 swa
1633 2.9.11 version. more input for docs.
1635 Revision 1.4 2002/02/24 14:34:24 jongfoster
1636 Formatting changes. Now changing the doctype to DocBook XML 4.1
1637 will work - no other changes are needed.
1639 Revision 1.3 2001/09/23 10:13:48 swa
1640 upload process established. run make webserver and
1641 the documentation is moved to the webserver. documents
1642 are now linked correctly.
1644 Revision 1.2 2001/09/13 15:20:17 swa
1645 merged standards into developer manual
1647 Revision 1.1 2001/09/12 15:36:41 swa
1648 source files for junkbuster documentation
1650 Revision 1.3 2001/09/10 17:43:59 swa
1651 first proposal of a structure.
1653 Revision 1.2 2001/06/13 14:28:31 swa
1654 docs should have an author.
1656 Revision 1.1 2001/06/13 14:20:37 swa
1657 first import of project's documentation for the webserver.