-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Coding Guidelines</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Documentation Guidelines" href=
- "documentation.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Testing Guidelines" href="testing.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Developer Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "documentation.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="testing.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="CODING" id="CODING">4. Coding
- Guidelines</a></h1>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="S1" id="S1">4.1. Introduction</a></h2>
-
- <p>This set of standards is designed to make our lives easier. It is
- developed with the simple goal of helping us keep the "new and improved
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>" consistent and reliable. Thus
- making maintenance easier and increasing chances of success of the
- project.</p>
-
- <p>And that of course comes back to us as individuals. If we can
- increase our development and product efficiencies then we can solve
- more of the request for changes/improvements and in general feel good
- about ourselves. ;-></p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Coding Guidelines
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Documentation Guidelines" href=
+ "documentation.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Testing Guidelines" href="testing.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Developer Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="documentation.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="testing.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="S2" id="S2">4.2. Using Comments</a></h2>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S3" id="S3">4.2.1. Comment, Comment,
- Comment</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Comment as much as possible without commenting the obvious. For
- example do not comment "variable_a is equal to variable_b". Instead
- explain why variable_a should be equal to the variable_b. Just
- because a person can read code does not mean they will understand why
- or what is being done. A reader may spend a lot more time figuring
- out what is going on when a simple comment or explanation would have
- prevented the extra research. Please help your fellow Privoxy
- developers out!</p>
-
- <p>The comments will also help justify the intent of the code. If the
- comment describes something different than what the code is doing
- then maybe a programming error is occurring.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="CODING">4. Coding Guidelines</a>
+ </h1>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="S1">4.1. Introduction</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ This set of standards is designed to make our lives easier. It is
+ developed with the simple goal of helping us keep the "new and
+ improved <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>" consistent and
+ reliable. Thus making maintenance easier and increasing chances of
+ success of the project.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ And that of course comes back to us as individuals. If we can
+ increase our development and product efficiencies then we can solve
+ more of the request for changes/improvements and in general feel
+ good about ourselves. ;->
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="S2">4.2. Using Comments</a>
+ </h2>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S3">4.2.1. Comment, Comment, Comment</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Comment as much as possible without commenting the obvious. For
+ example do not comment "variable_a is equal to variable_b".
+ Instead explain why variable_a should be equal to the variable_b.
+ Just because a person can read code does not mean they will
+ understand why or what is being done. A reader may spend a lot
+ more time figuring out what is going on when a simple comment or
+ explanation would have prevented the extra research. Please help
+ your fellow Privoxy developers out!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The comments will also help justify the intent of the code. If
+ the comment describes something different than what the code is
+ doing then maybe a programming error is occurring.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
/* if page size greater than 1k ... */
if (page_length() > 1024)
{
"syntax comment". The second is a comment that does not fit what
is actually being done.
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S4" id="S4">4.2.2. Use blocks for
- comments</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Comments can help or they can clutter. They help when they are
- differentiated from the code they describe. One line comments do not
- offer effective separation between the comment and the code. Block
- identifiers do, by surrounding the code with a clear, definable
- pattern.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S4">4.2.2. Use blocks for comments</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Comments can help or they can clutter. They help when they are
+ differentiated from the code they describe. One line comments do
+ not offer effective separation between the comment and the code.
+ Block identifiers do, by surrounding the code with a clear,
+ definable pattern.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
/*********************************************************************
* This will stand out clearly in your code!
*********************************************************************/
do_something_very_important();
}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Exception:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>If you are trying to add a small logic comment and do not wish to
- "disrupt" the flow of the code, feel free to use a 1 line comment
- which is NOT on the same line as the code.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S5" id="S5">4.2.3. Keep Comments on their
- own line</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>It goes back to the question of readability. If the comment is on
- the same line as the code it will be harder to read than the comment
- that is on its own line.</p>
-
- <p>There are three exceptions to this rule, which should be violated
- freely and often: during the definition of variables, at the end of
- closing braces, when used to comment parameters.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Exception:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are trying to add a small logic comment and do not wish to
+ "disrupt" the flow of the code, feel free to use a 1 line comment
+ which is NOT on the same line as the code.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S5">4.2.3. Keep Comments on their own line</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It goes back to the question of readability. If the comment is on
+ the same line as the code it will be harder to read than the
+ comment that is on its own line.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are three exceptions to this rule, which should be violated
+ freely and often: during the definition of variables, at the end
+ of closing braces, when used to comment parameters.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
/*********************************************************************
* This will stand out clearly in your code,
* But the second example won't.
} /* -END- do_something_very_important */
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S6" id="S6">4.2.4. Comment each logical
- step</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Logical steps should be commented to help others follow the intent
- of the written code and comments will make the code more
- readable.</p>
-
- <p>If you have 25 lines of code without a comment, you should
- probably go back into it to see where you forgot to put one.</p>
-
- <p>Most "for", "while", "do", etc... loops _probably_ need a comment.
- After all, these are usually major logic containers.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S7" id="S7">4.2.5. Comment All Functions
- Thoroughly</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>A reader of the code should be able to look at the comments just
- prior to the beginning of a function and discern the reason for its
- existence and the consequences of using it. The reader should not
- have to read through the code to determine if a given function is
- safe for a desired use. The proper information thoroughly presented
- at the introduction of a function not only saves time for subsequent
- maintenance or debugging, it more importantly aids in code reuse by
- allowing a user to determine the safety and applicability of any
- function for the problem at hand. As a result of such benefits, all
- functions should contain the information presented in the addendum
- section of this document.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S8" id="S8">4.2.6. Comment at the end of
- braces if the content is more than one screen length</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Each closing brace should be followed on the same line by a
- comment that describes the origination of the brace if the original
- brace is off of the screen, or otherwise far away from the closing
- brace. This will simplify the debugging, maintenance, and readability
- of the code.</p>
-
- <p>As a suggestion , use the following flags to make the comment and
- its brace more readable:</p>
-
- <p>use following a closing brace: } /* -END- if() or while () or
- etc... */</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S6">4.2.4. Comment each logical step</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Logical steps should be commented to help others follow the
+ intent of the written code and comments will make the code more
+ readable.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you have 25 lines of code without a comment, you should
+ probably go back into it to see where you forgot to put one.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Most "for", "while", "do", etc... loops _probably_ need a
+ comment. After all, these are usually major logic containers.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S7">4.2.5. Comment All Functions Thoroughly</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A reader of the code should be able to look at the comments just
+ prior to the beginning of a function and discern the reason for
+ its existence and the consequences of using it. The reader should
+ not have to read through the code to determine if a given
+ function is safe for a desired use. The proper information
+ thoroughly presented at the introduction of a function not only
+ saves time for subsequent maintenance or debugging, it more
+ importantly aids in code reuse by allowing a user to determine
+ the safety and applicability of any function for the problem at
+ hand. As a result of such benefits, all functions should contain
+ the information presented in the addendum section of this
+ document.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S8">4.2.6. Comment at the end of braces if the content
+ is more than one screen length</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Each closing brace should be followed on the same line by a
+ comment that describes the origination of the brace if the
+ original brace is off of the screen, or otherwise far away from
+ the closing brace. This will simplify the debugging, maintenance,
+ and readability of the code.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As a suggestion , use the following flags to make the comment and
+ its brace more readable:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ use following a closing brace: } /* -END- if() or while () or
+ etc... */
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
if (1 == X)
{
do_something_very_important();
...some long list of commands...
} /* -END- if (1 == X) */
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="S9" id="S9">4.3. Naming Conventions</a></h2>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S10" id="S10">4.3.1. Variable
- Names</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Use all lowercase, and separate words via an underscore ('_'). Do
- not start an identifier with an underscore. (ANSI C reserves these
- for use by the compiler and system headers.) Do not use identifiers
- which are reserved in ANSI C++. (E.g. template, class, true, false,
- ...). This is in case we ever decide to port Privoxy to C++.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="S9">4.3. Naming Conventions</a>
+ </h2>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S10">4.3.1. Variable Names</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Use all lowercase, and separate words via an underscore ('_'). Do
+ not start an identifier with an underscore. (ANSI C reserves
+ these for use by the compiler and system headers.) Do not use
+ identifiers which are reserved in ANSI C++. (E.g. template,
+ class, true, false, ...). This is in case we ever decide to port
+ Privoxy to C++.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
int ms_iis5_hack = 0;
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead
- of:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
int msiis5hack = 0; int msIis5Hack = 0;
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S11" id="S11">4.3.2. Function
- Names</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Use all lowercase, and separate words via an underscore ('_'). Do
- not start an identifier with an underscore. (ANSI C reserves these
- for use by the compiler and system headers.) Do not use identifiers
- which are reserved in ANSI C++. (E.g. template, class, true, false,
- ...). This is in case we ever decide to port Privoxy to C++.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S11">4.3.2. Function Names</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Use all lowercase, and separate words via an underscore ('_'). Do
+ not start an identifier with an underscore. (ANSI C reserves
+ these for use by the compiler and system headers.) Do not use
+ identifiers which are reserved in ANSI C++. (E.g. template,
+ class, true, false, ...). This is in case we ever decide to port
+ Privoxy to C++.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
int load_some_file(struct client_state *csp)
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead
- of:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
int loadsomefile(struct client_state *csp)
int loadSomeFile(struct client_state *csp)
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S12" id="S12">4.3.3. Header file
- prototypes</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Use a descriptive parameter name in the function prototype in
- header files. Use the same parameter name in the header file that you
- use in the c file.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S12">4.3.3. Header file prototypes</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Use a descriptive parameter name in the function prototype in
+ header files. Use the same parameter name in the header file that
+ you use in the c file.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
(.h) extern int load_aclfile(struct client_state *csp);
(.c) int load_aclfile(struct client_state *csp)
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead
- of:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
(.h) extern int load_aclfile(struct client_state *); or
(.h) extern int load_aclfile();
(.c) int load_aclfile(struct client_state *csp)
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S13" id="S13">4.3.4. Enumerations, and
- #defines</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Use all capital letters, with underscores between words. Do not
- start an identifier with an underscore. (ANSI C reserves these for
- use by the compiler and system headers.)</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S13">4.3.4. Enumerations, and #defines</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Use all capital letters, with underscores between words. Do not
+ start an identifier with an underscore. (ANSI C reserves these
+ for use by the compiler and system headers.)
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
(enumeration) : enum Boolean {FALSE, TRUE};
(#define) : #define DEFAULT_SIZE 100;
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> We
- have a standard naming scheme for #defines that toggle a feature in
- the preprocessor: FEATURE_>, where > is a short (preferably 1
- or 2 word) description.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> We
+ have a standard naming scheme for #defines that toggle a feature
+ in the preprocessor: FEATURE_>, where > is a short
+ (preferably 1 or 2 word) description.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
#define FEATURE_FORCE 1
#ifdef FEATURE_FORCE
#define FORCE_PREFIX blah
#endif /* def FEATURE_FORCE */
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S14" id="S14">4.3.5. Constants</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Spell common words out entirely (do not remove vowels).</p>
-
- <p>Use only widely-known domain acronyms and abbreviations.
- Capitalize all letters of an acronym.</p>
-
- <p>Use underscore (_) to separate adjacent acronyms and
- abbreviations. Never terminate a name with an underscore.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S14">4.3.5. Constants</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Spell common words out entirely (do not remove vowels).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Use only widely-known domain acronyms and abbreviations.
+ Capitalize all letters of an acronym.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Use underscore (_) to separate adjacent acronyms and
+ abbreviations. Never terminate a name with an underscore.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
#define USE_IMAGE_LIST 1
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead
- of:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
#define USE_IMG_LST 1 or
#define _USE_IMAGE_LIST 1 or
#define USE_IMAGE_LIST_ 1 or
#define use_image_list 1 or
#define UseImageList 1
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="S15" id="S15">4.4. Using Space</a></h2>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S16" id="S16">4.4.1. Put braces on a line
- by themselves.</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>The brace needs to be on a line all by itself, not at the end of
- the statement. Curly braces should line up with the construct that
- they're associated with. This practice makes it easier to identify
- the opening and closing braces for a block.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="S15">4.4. Using Space</a>
+ </h2>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S16">4.4.1. Put braces on a line by themselves.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The brace needs to be on a line all by itself, not at the end of
+ the statement. Curly braces should line up with the construct
+ that they're associated with. This practice makes it easier to
+ identify the opening and closing braces for a block.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
if (this == that)
{
...
}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead
- of:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>if (this == that) { ... }</p>
-
- <p>or</p>
-
- <p>if (this == that) { ... }</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> In the
- special case that the if-statement is inside a loop, and it is
- trivial, i.e. it tests for a condition that is obvious from the
- purpose of the block, one-liners as above may optically preserve the
- loop structure and make it easier to read.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
- developer-discretion.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example
- exception:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ if (this == that) { ... }
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ or
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ if (this == that) { ... }
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> In
+ the special case that the if-statement is inside a loop, and it
+ is trivial, i.e. it tests for a condition that is obvious from
+ the purpose of the block, one-liners as above may optically
+ preserve the loop structure and make it easier to read.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
+ developer-discretion.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example
+ exception:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
while (more lines are read)
{
/* Please document what is/is not a comment line here */
do_something(line);
}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S17" id="S17">4.4.2. ALL control
- statements should have a block</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Using braces to make a block will make your code more readable and
- less prone to error. All control statements should have a block
- defined.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S17">4.4.2. ALL control statements should have a
+ block</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Using braces to make a block will make your code more readable
+ and less prone to error. All control statements should have a
+ block defined.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
if (this == that)
{
do_something();
do_something_else();
}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead
- of:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>if (this == that) do_something(); do_something_else();</p>
-
- <p>or</p>
-
- <p>if (this == that) do_something();</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> The
- first example in "Instead of" will execute in a manner other than
- that which the developer desired (per indentation). Using code braces
- would have prevented this "feature". The "explanation" and
- "exception" from the point above also applies.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S18" id="S18">4.4.3. Do not
- belabor/blow-up boolean expressions</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ if (this == that) do_something(); do_something_else();
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ or
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ if (this == that) do_something();
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> The
+ first example in "Instead of" will execute in a manner other than
+ that which the developer desired (per indentation). Using code
+ braces would have prevented this "feature". The "explanation" and
+ "exception" from the point above also applies.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S18">4.4.3. Do not belabor/blow-up boolean
+ expressions</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
structure->flag = (condition);
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead
- of:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>if (condition) { structure->flag = 1; } else {
- structure->flag = 0; }</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> The
- former is readable and concise. The later is wordy and inefficient.
- Please assume that any developer new to the project has at least a
- "good" knowledge of C/C++. (Hope I do not offend by that last comment
- ... 8-)</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S19" id="S19">4.4.4. Use white space
- freely because it is free</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Make it readable. The notable exception to using white space
- freely is listed in the next guideline.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ if (condition) { structure->flag = 1; } else {
+ structure->flag = 0; }
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> The
+ former is readable and concise. The later is wordy and
+ inefficient. Please assume that any developer new to the project
+ has at least a "good" knowledge of C/C++. (Hope I do not offend
+ by that last comment ... 8-)
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S19">4.4.4. Use white space freely because it is
+ free</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Make it readable. The notable exception to using white space
+ freely is listed in the next guideline.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
int first_value = 0;
int some_value = 0;
int another_value = 0;
int this_variable = 0;
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S20" id="S20">4.4.5. Don't use white space
- around structure operators</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>- structure pointer operator ( "->" ) - member operator ( "." )
- - functions and parentheses</p>
-
- <p>It is a general coding practice to put pointers, references, and
- function parentheses next to names. With spaces, the connection
- between the object and variable/function name is not as clear.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S20">4.4.5. Don't use white space around structure
+ operators</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ - structure pointer operator ( "->" ) - member operator ( "."
+ ) - functions and parentheses
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is a general coding practice to put pointers, references, and
+ function parentheses next to names. With spaces, the connection
+ between the object and variable/function name is not as clear.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
a_struct->a_member;
a_struct.a_member;
function_name();
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
- a_struct -> a_member; a_struct . a_member; function_name ();</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S21" id="S21">4.4.6. Make the last brace
- of a function stand out</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
+ a_struct -> a_member; a_struct . a_member; function_name ();
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S21">4.4.6. Make the last brace of a function stand
+ out</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
int function1( ... )
{
...code...
{
} /* -END- function2 */
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead
- of:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>int function1( ... ) { ...code... return(ret_code); } int
- function2( ... ) { }</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> Use 1
- blank line before the closing brace and 2 lines afterward. This makes
- the end of function standout to the most casual viewer. Although
- function comments help separate functions, this is still a good
- coding practice. In fact, I follow these rules when using blocks in
- "for", "while", "do" loops, and long if {} statements too. After all
- whitespace is free!</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
- developer-discretion on the number of blank lines. Enforced is the
- end of function comments.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S22" id="S22">4.4.7. Use 3 character
- indentions</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>If some use 8 character TABs and some use 3 character TABs, the
- code can look *very* ragged. So use 3 character indentions only. If
- you like to use TABs, pass your code through a filter such as "expand
- -t3" before checking in your code.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ int function1( ... ) { ...code... return(ret_code); } int
+ function2( ... ) { }
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> Use 1
+ blank line before the closing brace and 2 lines afterward. This
+ makes the end of function standout to the most casual viewer.
+ Although function comments help separate functions, this is still
+ a good coding practice. In fact, I follow these rules when using
+ blocks in "for", "while", "do" loops, and long if {} statements
+ too. After all whitespace is free!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
+ developer-discretion on the number of blank lines. Enforced is
+ the end of function comments.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S22">4.4.7. Use 3 character indentions</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If some use 8 character TABs and some use 3 character TABs, the
+ code can look *very* ragged. So use 3 character indentions only.
+ If you like to use TABs, pass your code through a filter such as
+ "expand -t3" before checking in your code.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
static const char * const url_code_map[256] =
{
NULL, ...
}
return NEVER_GETS_HERE;
-
-}
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="S23" id="S23">4.5. Initializing</a></h2>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S24" id="S24">4.5.1. Initialize all
- variables</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Do not assume that the variables declared will not be used until
- after they have been assigned a value somewhere else in the code.
- Remove the chance of accidentally using an unassigned variable.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
-short a_short = 0;
-float a_float = 0;
-struct *ptr = NULL;
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> It is
- much easier to debug a SIGSEGV if the message says you are trying to
- access memory address 00000000 and not 129FA012; or array_ptr[20]
- causes a SIGSEV vs. array_ptr[0].</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
- developer-discretion if and only if the variable is assigned a value
- "shortly after" declaration.</p>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="S25" id="S25">4.6. Functions</a></h2>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S26" id="S26">4.6.1. Name functions that
- return a boolean as a question.</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Value should be phrased as a question that would logically be
- answered as a true or false statement</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+
+}
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="S23">4.5. Initializing</a>
+ </h2>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S24">4.5.1. Initialize all variables</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Do not assume that the variables declared will not be used until
+ after they have been assigned a value somewhere else in the code.
+ Remove the chance of accidentally using an unassigned variable.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+short a_short = 0;
+float a_float = 0;
+struct *ptr = NULL;
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> It is
+ much easier to debug a SIGSEGV if the message says you are trying
+ to access memory address 00000000 and not 129FA012; or
+ array_ptr[20] causes a SIGSEV vs. array_ptr[0].
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
+ developer-discretion if and only if the variable is assigned a
+ value "shortly after" declaration.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="S25">4.6. Functions</a>
+ </h2>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S26">4.6.1. Name functions that return a boolean as a
+ question.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Value should be phrased as a question that would logically be
+ answered as a true or false statement
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
should_we_block_this();
contains_an_image();
is_web_page_blank();
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S27" id="S27">4.6.2. Always specify a
- return type for a function.</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>The default return for a function is an int. To avoid ambiguity,
- create a return for a function when the return has a purpose, and
- create a void return type if the function does not need to return
- anything.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S28" id="S28">4.6.3. Minimize function
- calls when iterating by using variables</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>It is easy to write the following code, and a clear argument can
- be made that the code is easy to understand:</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S27">4.6.2. Always specify a return type for a
+ function.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The default return for a function is an int. To avoid ambiguity,
+ create a return for a function when the return has a purpose, and
+ create a void return type if the function does not need to return
+ anything.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S28">4.6.3. Minimize function calls when iterating by
+ using variables</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is easy to write the following code, and a clear argument can
+ be made that the code is easy to understand:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
for (size_t cnt = 0; cnt < block_list_length(); cnt++)
{
....
}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span>
- Unfortunately, this makes a function call for each and every
- iteration. This increases the overhead in the program, because the
- compiler has to look up the function each time, call it, and return a
- value. Depending on what occurs in the block_list_length() call, it
- might even be creating and destroying structures with each iteration,
- even though in each case it is comparing "cnt" to the same value,
- over and over. Remember too - even a call to block_list_length() is a
- function call, with the same overhead.</p>
-
- <p>Instead of using a function call during the iterations, assign the
- value to a variable, and evaluate using the variable.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span>
+ Unfortunately, this makes a function call for each and every
+ iteration. This increases the overhead in the program, because
+ the compiler has to look up the function each time, call it, and
+ return a value. Depending on what occurs in the
+ block_list_length() call, it might even be creating and
+ destroying structures with each iteration, even though in each
+ case it is comparing "cnt" to the same value, over and over.
+ Remember too - even a call to block_list_length() is a function
+ call, with the same overhead.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Instead of using a function call during the iterations, assign
+ the value to a variable, and evaluate using the variable.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
size_t len = block_list_length();
for (size_t cnt = 0; cnt < len; cnt++)
....
}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Exceptions:</i></span>
- if the value of block_list_length() *may* change or could
- *potentially* change, then you must code the function call in the
- for/while loop.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S29" id="S29">4.6.4. Pass and Return by
- Const Reference</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>This allows a developer to define a const pointer and call your
- function. If your function does not have the const keyword, we may
- not be able to use your function. Consider strcmp, if it were defined
- as: extern int strcmp(char *s1, char *s2);</p>
-
- <p>I could then not use it to compare argv's in main: int main(int
- argc, const char *argv[]) { strcmp(argv[0], "privoxy"); }</p>
-
- <p>Both these pointers are *const*! If the c runtime library
- maintainers do it, we should too.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S30" id="S30">4.6.5. Pass and Return by
- Value</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Most structures cannot fit onto a normal stack entry (i.e. they
- are not 4 bytes or less). Aka, a function declaration like: int
- load_aclfile(struct client_state csp)</p>
-
- <p>would not work. So, to be consistent, we should declare all
- prototypes with "pass by value": int load_aclfile(struct client_state
- *csp)</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S31" id="S31">4.6.6. Names of include
- files</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Your include statements should contain the file name without a
- path. The path should be listed in the Makefile, using -I as
- processor directive to search the indicated paths. An exception to
- this would be for some proprietary software that utilizes a partial
- path to distinguish their header files from system or other header
- files.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Exceptions:</i></span>
+ if the value of block_list_length() *may* change or could
+ *potentially* change, then you must code the function call in the
+ for/while loop.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S29">4.6.4. Pass and Return by Const Reference</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This allows a developer to define a const pointer and call your
+ function. If your function does not have the const keyword, we
+ may not be able to use your function. Consider strcmp, if it were
+ defined as: extern int strcmp(char *s1, char *s2);
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ I could then not use it to compare argv's in main: int main(int
+ argc, const char *argv[]) { strcmp(argv[0], "privoxy"); }
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Both these pointers are *const*! If the c runtime library
+ maintainers do it, we should too.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S30">4.6.5. Pass and Return by Value</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Most structures cannot fit onto a normal stack entry (i.e. they
+ are not 4 bytes or less). Aka, a function declaration like: int
+ load_aclfile(struct client_state csp)
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ would not work. So, to be consistent, we should declare all
+ prototypes with "pass by value": int load_aclfile(struct
+ client_state *csp)
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S31">4.6.6. Names of include files</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Your include statements should contain the file name without a
+ path. The path should be listed in the Makefile, using -I as
+ processor directive to search the indicated paths. An exception
+ to this would be for some proprietary software that utilizes a
+ partial path to distinguish their header files from system or
+ other header files.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
#include <iostream.h> /* This is not a local include */
#include "config.h" /* This IS a local include */
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Exception:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Exception:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
/* This is not a local include, but requires a path element. */
#include <sys/fileName.h>
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span>
- Please! do not add "-I." to the Makefile without a _very_ good
- reason. This duplicates the #include "file.h" behavior.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S32" id="S32">4.6.7. Provide multiple
- inclusion protection</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Prevents compiler and linker errors resulting from redefinition of
- items.</p>
-
- <p>Wrap each header file with the following syntax to prevent
- multiple inclusions of the file. Of course, replace PROJECT_H with
- your file name, with "." Changed to "_", and make it uppercase.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span>
+ Please! do not add "-I." to the Makefile without a _very_ good
+ reason. This duplicates the #include "file.h" behavior.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S32">4.6.7. Provide multiple inclusion protection</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Prevents compiler and linker errors resulting from redefinition
+ of items.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Wrap each header file with the following syntax to prevent
+ multiple inclusions of the file. Of course, replace PROJECT_H
+ with your file name, with "." Changed to "_", and make it
+ uppercase.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
#ifndef PROJECT_H_INCLUDED
#define PROJECT_H_INCLUDED
...
#endif /* ndef PROJECT_H_INCLUDED */
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S33" id="S33">4.6.8. Use `extern "C"` when
- appropriate</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>If our headers are included from C++, they must declare our
- functions as `extern "C"`. This has no cost in C, but increases the
- potential re-usability of our code.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S33">4.6.8. Use `extern "C"` when appropriate</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If our headers are included from C++, they must declare our
+ functions as `extern "C"`. This has no cost in C, but increases
+ the potential re-usability of our code.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
}
#endif /* def __cplusplus */
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S34" id="S34">4.6.9. Where Possible, Use
- Forward Struct Declaration Instead of Includes</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Useful in headers that include pointers to other struct's.
- Modifications to excess header files may cause needless compiles.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S34">4.6.9. Where Possible, Use Forward Struct
+ Declaration Instead of Includes</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Useful in headers that include pointers to other struct's.
+ Modifications to excess header files may cause needless compiles.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
/*********************************************************************
* We're avoiding an include statement here!
*********************************************************************/
struct file_list;
extern file_list *xyz;
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> If you
- declare "file_list xyz;" (without the pointer), then including the
- proper header file is necessary. If you only want to prototype a
- pointer, however, the header file is unnecessary.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span> Use
- with discretion.</p>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="S35" id="S35">4.7. General Coding
- Practices</a></h2>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S36" id="S36">4.7.1. Turn on
- warnings</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Compiler warnings are meant to help you find bugs. You should turn
- on as many as possible. With GCC, the switch is "-Wall". Try and fix
- as many warnings as possible.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> If
+ you declare "file_list xyz;" (without the pointer), then
+ including the proper header file is necessary. If you only want
+ to prototype a pointer, however, the header file is unnecessary.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span> Use
+ with discretion.
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S37" id="S37">4.7.2. Provide a default
- case for all switch statements</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>What you think is guaranteed is never really guaranteed. The value
- that you don't think you need to check is the one that someday will
- be passed. So, to protect yourself from the unknown, always have a
- default step in a switch statement.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="S35">4.7. General Coding Practices</a>
+ </h2>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S36">4.7.1. Turn on warnings</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Explanation</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Compiler warnings are meant to help you find bugs. You should
+ turn on as many as possible. With GCC, the switch is "-Wall". Try
+ and fix as many warnings as possible.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S37">4.7.2. Provide a default case for all switch
+ statements</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ What you think is guaranteed is never really guaranteed. The
+ value that you don't think you need to check is the one that
+ someday will be passed. So, to protect yourself from the unknown,
+ always have a default step in a switch statement.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
switch (hash_string(cmd))
{
case hash_actions_file:
} /* end switch (hash_string(cmd)) */
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> If you
- already have a default condition, you are obviously exempt from this
- point. Of note, most of the WIN32 code calls `DefWindowProc' after
- the switch statement. This API call *should* be included in a default
- statement.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Another
- Note:</i></span> This is not so much a readability issue as a robust
- programming issue. The "anomaly code goes here" may be no more than a
- print to the STDERR stream (as in load_config). Or it may really be
- an abort condition.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
- Programmer discretion is advised.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S38" id="S38">4.7.3. Try to avoid falling
- through cases in a switch statement.</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>In general, you will want to have a 'break' statement within each
- 'case' of a switch statement. This allows for the code to be more
- readable and understandable, and furthermore can prevent unwanted
- surprises if someone else later gets creative and moves the code
- around.</p>
-
- <p>The language allows you to plan the fall through from one case
- statement to another simply by omitting the break statement within
- the case statement. This feature does have benefits, but should only
- be used in rare cases. In general, use a break statement for each
- case statement.</p>
-
- <p>If you choose to allow fall through, you should comment both the
- fact of the fall through and reason why you felt it was
- necessary.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S40" id="S40">4.7.4. Don't mix size_t and
- other types</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>The type of size_t varies across platforms. Do not make
- assumptions about whether it is signed or unsigned, or about how long
- it is. Do not compare a size_t against another variable of a
- different type (or even against a constant) without casting one of
- the values.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S41" id="S41">4.7.5. Declare each variable
- and struct on its own line.</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>It can be tempting to declare a series of variables all on one
- line. Don't.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> If
+ you already have a default condition, you are obviously exempt
+ from this point. Of note, most of the WIN32 code calls
+ `DefWindowProc' after the switch statement. This API call
+ *should* be included in a default statement.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Another
+ Note:</i></span> This is not so much a readability issue as a
+ robust programming issue. The "anomaly code goes here" may be no
+ more than a print to the STDERR stream (as in load_config). Or it
+ may really be an abort condition.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
+ Programmer discretion is advised.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S38">4.7.3. Try to avoid falling through cases in a
+ switch statement.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In general, you will want to have a 'break' statement within each
+ 'case' of a switch statement. This allows for the code to be more
+ readable and understandable, and furthermore can prevent unwanted
+ surprises if someone else later gets creative and moves the code
+ around.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The language allows you to plan the fall through from one case
+ statement to another simply by omitting the break statement
+ within the case statement. This feature does have benefits, but
+ should only be used in rare cases. In general, use a break
+ statement for each case statement.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you choose to allow fall through, you should comment both the
+ fact of the fall through and reason why you felt it was
+ necessary.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S40">4.7.4. Don't mix size_t and other types</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The type of size_t varies across platforms. Do not make
+ assumptions about whether it is signed or unsigned, or about how
+ long it is. Do not compare a size_t against another variable of a
+ different type (or even against a constant) without casting one
+ of the values.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S41">4.7.5. Declare each variable and struct on its own
+ line.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It can be tempting to declare a series of variables all on one
+ line. Don't.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
long a = 0;
long b = 0;
long c = 0;
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead
- of:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>long a, b, c;</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
- - there is more room for comments on the individual variables -
- easier to add new variables without messing up the original ones -
- when searching on a variable to find its type, there is less clutter
- to "visually" eliminate</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Exceptions:</i></span>
- when you want to declare a bunch of loop variables or other trivial
- variables; feel free to declare them on one line. You should,
- although, provide a good comment on their functions.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
- developer-discretion.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S42" id="S42">4.7.6. Use malloc/zalloc
- sparingly</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Create a local struct (on the stack) if the variable will live and
- die within the context of one function call.</p>
-
- <p>Only "malloc" a struct (on the heap) if the variable's life will
- extend beyond the context of one function call.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Instead of:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ long a, b, c;
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span> - there is more room for
+ comments on the individual variables - easier to add new
+ variables without messing up the original ones - when searching
+ on a variable to find its type, there is less clutter to
+ "visually" eliminate
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Exceptions:</i></span>
+ when you want to declare a bunch of loop variables or other
+ trivial variables; feel free to declare them on one line. You
+ should, although, provide a good comment on their functions.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
+ developer-discretion.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S42">4.7.6. Use malloc/zalloc sparingly</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Create a local struct (on the stack) if the variable will live
+ and die within the context of one function call.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Only "malloc" a struct (on the heap) if the variable's life will
+ extend beyond the context of one function call.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
If a function creates a struct and stores a pointer to it in a
list, then it should definitely be allocated via `malloc'.
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S43" id="S43">4.7.7. The Programmer Who
- Uses 'malloc' is Responsible for Ensuring 'free'</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>If you have to "malloc" an instance, you are responsible for
- insuring that the instance is `free'd, even if the deallocation event
- falls within some other programmer's code. You are also responsible
- for ensuring that deletion is timely (i.e. not too soon, not too
- late). This is known as "low-coupling" and is a "good thing (tm)".
- You may need to offer a free/unload/destructor type function to
- accommodate this.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S43">4.7.7. The Programmer Who Uses 'malloc' is
+ Responsible for Ensuring 'free'</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you have to "malloc" an instance, you are responsible for
+ insuring that the instance is `free'd, even if the deallocation
+ event falls within some other programmer's code. You are also
+ responsible for ensuring that deletion is timely (i.e. not too
+ soon, not too late). This is known as "low-coupling" and is a
+ "good thing (tm)". You may need to offer a free/unload/destructor
+ type function to accommodate this.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
int load_re_filterfile(struct client_state *csp) { ... }
static void unload_re_filterfile(void *f) { ... }
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Exceptions:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>The developer cannot be expected to provide `free'ing functions
- for C run-time library functions ... such as `strdup'.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
- developer-discretion. The "main" use of this standard is for
- allocating and freeing data structures (complex or nested).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S44" id="S44">4.7.8. Add loaders to the
- `file_list' structure and in order</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>I have ordered all of the "blocker" file code to be in alpha
- order. It is easier to add/read new blockers when you expect a
- certain order.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> It may
- appear that the alpha order is broken in places by POPUP tests coming
- before PCRS tests. But since POPUPs can also be referred to as
- KILLPOPUPs, it is clear that it should come first.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="S45" id="S45">4.7.9. "Uncertain" new code
- and/or changes to existing code, use XXX</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span></p>
-
- <p>If you have enough confidence in new code or confidence in your
- changes, but are not *quite* sure of the repercussions, add this:</p>
-
- <p>/* XXX: this code has a logic error on platform XYZ, * attempting
- to fix */ #ifdef PLATFORM ...changed code here... #endif</p>
-
- <p>or:</p>
-
- <p>/* XXX: I think the original author really meant this... */
- ...changed code here...</p>
-
- <p>or:</p>
-
- <p>/* XXX: new code that *may* break something else... */ ...new code
- here...</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> If you
- make it clear that this may or may not be a "good thing (tm)", it
- will be easier to identify and include in the project (or conversely
- exclude from the project).</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Exceptions:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The developer cannot be expected to provide `free'ing functions
+ for C run-time library functions ... such as `strdup'.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Status:</i></span>
+ developer-discretion. The "main" use of this standard is for
+ allocating and freeing data structures (complex or nested).
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S44">4.7.8. Add loaders to the `file_list' structure and
+ in order</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ I have ordered all of the "blocker" file code to be in alpha
+ order. It is easier to add/read new blockers when you expect a
+ certain order.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> It
+ may appear that the alpha order is broken in places by POPUP
+ tests coming before PCRS tests. But since POPUPs can also be
+ referred to as KILLPOPUPs, it is clear that it should come first.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="S45">4.7.9. "Uncertain" new code and/or changes to
+ existing code, use XXX</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Explanation:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you have enough confidence in new code or confidence in your
+ changes, but are not *quite* sure of the repercussions, add this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ /* XXX: this code has a logic error on platform XYZ, * attempting
+ to fix */ #ifdef PLATFORM ...changed code here... #endif
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ or:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ /* XXX: I think the original author really meant this... */
+ ...changed code here...
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ or:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ /* XXX: new code that *may* break something else... */ ...new
+ code here...
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> If
+ you make it clear that this may or may not be a "good thing
+ (tm)", it will be easier to identify and include in the project
+ (or conversely exclude from the project).
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="S46" id="S46">4.8. Addendum: Template for
- files and function comment blocks:</a></h2>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example for file
- comments:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
-
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="S46">4.8. Addendum: Template for files and function
+ comment blocks:</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example for file
+ comments:</i></span>
+ </p>
+
<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
const char FILENAME_rcs[] = "$I<!-- Break CVS Substitution -->d$";
/*********************************************************************
*
const char FILENAME_h_rcs[] = FILENAME_H_VERSION;
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> This
- declares the rcs variables that should be added to the
- "show-proxy-args" page. If this is a brand new creation by you, you are
- free to change the "Copyright" section to represent the rights you wish
- to maintain.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> The
- formfeed character that is present right after the comment flower box
- is handy for (X|GNU)Emacs users to skip the verbiage and get to the
- heart of the code (via `forward-page' and `backward-page'). Please
- include it if you can.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example for file header
- comments:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> This
+ declares the rcs variables that should be added to the
+ "show-proxy-args" page. If this is a brand new creation by you, you
+ are free to change the "Copyright" section to represent the rights
+ you wish to maintain.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> The
+ formfeed character that is present right after the comment flower
+ box is handy for (X|GNU)Emacs users to skip the verbiage and get to
+ the heart of the code (via `forward-page' and `backward-page').
+ Please include it if you can.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example for file header
+ comments:</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
#ifndef _FILENAME_H
#define _FILENAME_H
#define FILENAME_H_VERSION "$I<!-- Break CVS Substitution -->d$"
end:
*/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example for function
- comments:</i></span></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
-
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Example for function
+ comments:</i></span>
+ </p>
+
<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
/*********************************************************************
*
* Function : FUNCTION_NAME
}
</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> If we
+ all follow this practice, we should be able to parse our code to
+ create a "self-documenting" web page.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="documentation.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="testing.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Documentation Guidelines
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Testing Guidelines
</td>
</tr>
</table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Note:</i></span> If we
- all follow this practice, we should be able to parse our code to create
- a "self-documenting" web page.</p>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href=
- "documentation.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="testing.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Documentation
- Guidelines</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Testing Guidelines</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>The CVS Repository</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Introduction" href="introduction.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Documentation Guidelines" href=
- "documentation.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Developer Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "introduction.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "documentation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="CVS" id="CVS">2. The CVS Repository</a></h1>
-
- <p>If you become part of the active development team, you will eventually
- need write access to our holy grail, the CVS repository. One of the team
- members will need to set this up for you. Please read this chapter
- completely before accessing via CVS.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="CVSACCESS" id="CVSACCESS">2.1. Access to
- CVS</a></h2>
-
- <p>The project's CVS repository is hosted on <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/" target="_top">SourceForge.</a> For
- historical reasons, the CVS server is called <tt class=
- "LITERAL">ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net</tt>, the repository is called
- <tt class="LITERAL">ijbswa</tt>, and the source tree module is called
- <tt class="LITERAL">current</tt>.</p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ The CVS Repository
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Introduction" href="introduction.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Documentation Guidelines" href=
+ "documentation.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Developer Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="introduction.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="documentation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="CVSBRANCHES" id="CVSBRANCHES">2.2.
- Branches</a></h2>
-
- <p>Within the CVS repository, there are modules and branches. As
- mentioned, the sources are in the <tt class="LITERAL">current</tt>
- <span class="QUOTE">"module"</span>. Other modules are present for
- platform specific issues. There is a webview of the CVS hierarchy at
- <a href="http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/" target=
- "_top">http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/</a>, which
- might help with visualizing how these pieces fit together.</p>
-
- <p>At one time there were two distinct branches: stable and unstable.
- The more drastic changes were to be in the unstable branch. These
- branches have now been merged to minimize time and effort of
- maintaining two branches.</p>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="CVS">2. The CVS Repository</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ If you become part of the active development team, you will
+ eventually need write access to our holy grail, the CVS repository.
+ One of the team members will need to set this up for you. Please read
+ this chapter completely before accessing via CVS.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CVSACCESS">2.1. Access to CVS</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The project's CVS repository is hosted on <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/" target="_top">SourceForge.</a> For
+ historical reasons, the CVS server is called <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net</tt>, the repository is called
+ <tt class="LITERAL">ijbswa</tt>, and the source tree module is
+ called <tt class="LITERAL">current</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CVSBRANCHES">2.2. Branches</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Within the CVS repository, there are modules and branches. As
+ mentioned, the sources are in the <tt class="LITERAL">current</tt>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"module"</span>. Other modules are present for
+ platform specific issues. There is a webview of the CVS hierarchy
+ at <a href="http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/"
+ target="_top">http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/</a>,
+ which might help with visualizing how these pieces fit together.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ At one time there were two distinct branches: stable and unstable.
+ The more drastic changes were to be in the unstable branch. These
+ branches have now been merged to minimize time and effort of
+ maintaining two branches.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CVSCOMMIT">2.3. CVS Commit Guidelines</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The source tree is the heart of every software project. Every
+ effort must be made to ensure that it is readable, compilable and
+ consistent at all times. We expect anyone with CVS access to
+ strictly adhere to the following guidelines:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Basic Guidelines, for all branches:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Please don't commit even a small change without testing it
+ thoroughly first. When we're close to a public release, ask a
+ fellow developer to review your changes.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Your commit message should give a concise overview of <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">what you
+ changed</i></span> (no big details) and <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">why you changed it</i></span>
+ Just check previous messages for good examples.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Don't use the same message on multiple files, unless it equally
+ applies to all those files.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ If your changes span multiple files, and the code won't
+ recompile unless all changes are committed (e.g. when changing
+ the signature of a function), then commit all files one after
+ another, without long delays in between. If necessary, prepare
+ the commit messages in advance.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Before changing things on CVS, make sure that your changes are
+ in line with the team's general consensus on what should be
+ done.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Note that near a major public release, we get more cautious.
+ There is always the possibility to submit a patch to the <a
+ href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=311118&group_id=11118&func=browse"
+ target="_top">patch tracker</a> instead.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="CVSCOMMIT" id="CVSCOMMIT">2.3. CVS Commit
- Guidelines</a></h2>
-
- <p>The source tree is the heart of every software project. Every effort
- must be made to ensure that it is readable, compilable and consistent
- at all times. We expect anyone with CVS access to strictly adhere to
- the following guidelines:</p>
-
- <p>Basic Guidelines, for all branches:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Please don't commit even a small change without testing it
- thoroughly first. When we're close to a public release, ask a
- fellow developer to review your changes.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Your commit message should give a concise overview of
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">what you
- changed</i></span> (no big details) and <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">why you changed it</i></span> Just
- check previous messages for good examples.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Don't use the same message on multiple files, unless it equally
- applies to all those files.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>If your changes span multiple files, and the code won't
- recompile unless all changes are committed (e.g. when changing the
- signature of a function), then commit all files one after another,
- without long delays in between. If necessary, prepare the commit
- messages in advance.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Before changing things on CVS, make sure that your changes are
- in line with the team's general consensus on what should be
- done.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Note that near a major public release, we get more cautious.
- There is always the possibility to submit a patch to the <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=311118&group_id=11118&func=browse"
- target="_top">patch tracker</a> instead.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="introduction.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="documentation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Introduction
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Documentation Guidelines
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="introduction.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href=
- "documentation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Introduction</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Documentation
- Guidelines</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Documentation Guidelines</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="The CVS Repository" href="cvs.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Coding Guidelines" href="coding.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Developer Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="cvs.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="coding.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="DOCUMENTATION" id="DOCUMENTATION">3.
- Documentation Guidelines</a></h1>
-
- <p>All formal documents are maintained in Docbook SGML and located in the
- <samp class="COMPUTEROUTPUT">doc/source/*</samp> directory. You will need
- <a href="http://www.docbook.org" target="_top">Docbook</a>, the Docbook
- DTD's and the Docbook modular stylesheets (or comparable alternatives),
- and either <span class="APPLICATION">jade</span> or <span class=
- "APPLICATION">openjade</span> (recommended) installed in order to build
- docs from source. Currently there is <a href="../user-manual/index.html"
- target="_top"><i class="CITETITLE">user-manual</i></a>, <a href=
- "../faq/index.html" target="_top"><i class="CITETITLE">FAQ</i></a>, and,
- of course this, the <i class="CITETITLE">developer-manual</i> in this
- format. The <i class="CITETITLE">README</i>, <i class=
- "CITETITLE">AUTHORS</i>, <i class="CITETITLE">INSTALL</i>, <i class=
- "CITETITLE">privoxy.1</i> (man page), and <i class="CITETITLE">config</i>
- files are also now maintained as Docbook SGML. These files, when built,
- in the top-level source directory are generated files! Also, the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <tt class=
- "FILENAME">index.html</tt> (and a variation on this file, <tt class=
- "FILENAME">privoxy-index.html</tt>, meant for inclusion with doc
- packages), are maintained as SGML as well. <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">DO NOT edit these directly</i></span>.
- Edit the SGML source, or contact someone involved in the
- documentation.</p>
-
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> requires some special handling. The
- reason it is maintained this way is so that the extensive comments in the
- file mirror those in <i class="CITETITLE">user-manual</i>. But the
- conversion process requires going from SGML to HTML to text to special
- formatting required for the embedded comments. Some of this does not
- survive so well. Especially some of the examples that are longer than 80
- characters. The build process for this file outputs to <tt class=
- "FILENAME">config.new</tt>, which should be reviewed for errors and
- mis-formatting. Once satisfied that it is correct, then it should be hand
- copied to <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>Other, less formal documents (e.g. <tt class="FILENAME">LICENSE</tt>)
- are maintained as plain text files in the top-level source directory.</p>
-
- <p>Packagers are encouraged to include this documentation. For those
- without the ability to build the docs locally, text versions of each are
- kept in CVS. HTML versions are also being kept in CVS under <tt class=
- "FILENAME">doc/webserver/*</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>Formal documents are built with the Makefile targets of <samp class=
- "COMPUTEROUTPUT">make dok</samp>. The build process uses the document
- SGML sources in <samp class="COMPUTEROUTPUT">doc/source/*/*</samp> to
- update all text files in <samp class="COMPUTEROUTPUT">doc/text/</samp>
- and to update all HTML documents in <samp class=
- "COMPUTEROUTPUT">doc/webserver/</samp>.</p>
-
- <p>Documentation writers should please make sure documents build
- successfully before committing to CVS, if possible.</p>
-
- <p>How do you update the webserver (i.e. the pages on privoxy.org)?</p>
-
- <ol type="1">
- <li>
- <p>First, build the docs by running <samp class="COMPUTEROUTPUT">make
- dok</samp>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Run <samp class="COMPUTEROUTPUT">make webserver</samp> which
- copies all files from <samp class=
- "COMPUTEROUTPUT">doc/webserver</samp> to the sourceforge webserver
- via scp.</p>
- </li>
- </ol>
-
- <p>Finished docs should be occasionally submitted to CVS (<tt class=
- "FILENAME">doc/webserver/*/*.html</tt>) so that those without the ability
- to build them locally, have access to them if needed. This is especially
- important just prior to a new release! Please do this <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">after</i></span> the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">$VERSION</tt> and other release specific data in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">configure.in</tt> has been updated (this is done just prior to
- a new release).</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="SGML" id="SGML">3.1. Quickstart to Docbook
- and SGML</a></h2>
-
- <p>If you are not familiar with SGML, it is a markup language similar
- to HTML. Actually, not a mark up language per se, but a language used
- to define markup languages. In fact, HTML is an SGML application. Both
- will use <span class="QUOTE">"tags"</span> to format text and other
- content. SGML tags can be much more varied, and flexible, but do much
- of the same kinds of things. The tags, or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"elements"</span>, are definable in SGML. There is no set
- <span class="QUOTE">"standards"</span>. Since we are using <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Docbook</span>, our tags are those that are defined by
- <span class="APPLICATION">Docbook</span>. Much of how the finish
- document is rendered is determined by the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"stylesheets"</span>. The stylesheets determine how each tag
- gets translated to HTML, or other formats.</p>
-
- <p>Tags in Docbook SGML need to be always <span class=
- "QUOTE">"closed"</span>. If not, you will likely generate errors.
- Example: <tt class="LITERAL"><title>My Title</title></tt>.
- They are also case-insensitive, but we strongly suggest using all lower
- case. This keeps compatibility with [Docbook] <span class=
- "APPLICATION">XML</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Our documents use <span class="QUOTE">"sections"</span> for the most
- part. Sections will be processed into HTML headers (e.g. <tt class=
- "LITERAL">h1</tt> for <tt class="LITERAL">sect1</tt>). The <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Docbook</span> stylesheets will use these to also
- generate the Table of Contents for each doc. Our TOC's are set to a
- depth of three. Meaning <tt class="LITERAL">sect1</tt>, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">sect2</tt>, and <tt class="LITERAL">sect3</tt> will have TOC
- entries, but <tt class="LITERAL">sect4</tt> will not. Each section
- requires a <tt class="LITERAL"><title></tt> element, and at least
- one <tt class="LITERAL"><para></tt>. There is a limit of five
- section levels in Docbook, but generally three should be sufficient for
- our purposes.</p>
-
- <p>Some common elements that you likely will use:</p>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS"><para></para></i></span>, paragraph
- delimiter. Most text needs to be within paragraph elements (there
- are some exceptions).</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS"><emphasis></emphasis></i></span>, the
- stylesheets make this italics.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS"><filename></filename></i></span>, files
- and directories.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS"><command></command></i></span>, command
- examples.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS"><literallayout></literallayout></i></span>,
- like <tt class="LITERAL"><pre></tt>, more or less.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS"><itemizedlist></itemizedlist></i></span>,
- list with bullets.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS"><listitem></listitem></i></span>, member
- of the above.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS"><screen></screen></i></span>, screen
- output, implies <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><literallayout></tt>.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS"><ulink
- url="example.com"></ulink></i></span>, like HTML
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a></tt> tag.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS"><quote></quote></i></span>, for, doh,
- quoting text.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Documentation Guidelines
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="The CVS Repository" href="cvs.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Coding Guidelines" href="coding.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Developer Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="cvs.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="coding.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
</table>
-
- <p>Look at any of the existing docs for examples of all these and
- more.</p>
-
- <p>You might also find <span class="QUOTE">"<a href=
- "http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/crash-course/index.html" target=
- "_top">Writing Documentation Using DocBook - A Crash Course</a>"</span>
- useful.</p>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="DOCSTYLE" id="DOCSTYLE">3.2. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Documentation Style</a></h2>
-
- <p>It will be easier if everyone follows a similar writing style. This
- just makes it easier to read what someone else has written if it is all
- done in a similar fashion.</p>
-
- <p>Here it is:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>All tags should be lower case.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Tags delimiting a <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">block</i></span> of text (even small blocks) should be
- on their own line. Like:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"> <para><br>
- Some text goes here.<br>
- </para><br>
- </p>Tags marking
- individual words, or few words, should be in-line:
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- Just to <emphasis>emphasize</emphasis>, some text goes here.<br>
-
- </p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Tags should be nested and step indented for block text like:
- (except in-line tags)</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"> <para><br>
- <itemizedlist><br>
- <para><br>
- <listitem><br>
- Some text goes here in our list example.<br>
-
- </listitem><br>
- </para><br>
- </itemizedlist><br>
- </para><br>
- </p>This makes it easier
- to find the text amongst the tags ;-)
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Use white space to separate logical divisions within a document,
- like between sections. Running everything together consistently
- makes it harder to read and work on.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Do not hesitate to make comments. Comments can either use the
- <comment> element, or the <!-- --> style comment
- familiar from HTML. (Note in Docbook v4.x <comment> is
- replaced by <remark>.)</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>We have an international audience. Refrain from slang, or
- English idiosyncrasies (too many to list :). Humor also does not
- translate well sometimes.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Try to keep overall line lengths in source files to 80
- characters or less for obvious reasons. This is not always
- possible, with lengthy URLs for instance.</p>
- </li>
-
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="DOCUMENTATION">3. Documentation Guidelines</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ All formal documents are maintained in Docbook SGML and located in
+ the <samp class="COMPUTEROUTPUT">doc/source/*</samp> directory. You
+ will need <a href="http://www.docbook.org" target="_top">Docbook</a>,
+ the Docbook DTD's and the Docbook modular stylesheets (or comparable
+ alternatives), and either <span class="APPLICATION">jade</span> or
+ <span class="APPLICATION">openjade</span> (recommended) installed in
+ order to build docs from source. Currently there is <a href=
+ "../user-manual/index.html" target="_top"><i class=
+ "CITETITLE">user-manual</i></a>, <a href="../faq/index.html" target=
+ "_top"><i class="CITETITLE">FAQ</i></a>, and, of course this, the <i
+ class="CITETITLE">developer-manual</i> in this format. The <i class=
+ "CITETITLE">README</i>, <i class="CITETITLE">AUTHORS</i>, <i class=
+ "CITETITLE">INSTALL</i>, <i class="CITETITLE">privoxy.1</i> (man
+ page), and <i class="CITETITLE">config</i> files are also now
+ maintained as Docbook SGML. These files, when built, in the top-level
+ source directory are generated files! Also, the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <tt class="FILENAME">index.html</tt>
+ (and a variation on this file, <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">privoxy-index.html</tt>, meant for inclusion with doc
+ packages), are maintained as SGML as well. <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">DO NOT edit these directly</i></span>. Edit the SGML
+ source, or contact someone involved in the documentation.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> requires some special handling. The
+ reason it is maintained this way is so that the extensive comments in
+ the file mirror those in <i class="CITETITLE">user-manual</i>. But
+ the conversion process requires going from SGML to HTML to text to
+ special formatting required for the embedded comments. Some of this
+ does not survive so well. Especially some of the examples that are
+ longer than 80 characters. The build process for this file outputs to
+ <tt class="FILENAME">config.new</tt>, which should be reviewed for
+ errors and mis-formatting. Once satisfied that it is correct, then it
+ should be hand copied to <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Other, less formal documents (e.g. <tt class="FILENAME">LICENSE</tt>)
+ are maintained as plain text files in the top-level source directory.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Packagers are encouraged to include this documentation. For those
+ without the ability to build the docs locally, text versions of each
+ are kept in CVS. HTML versions are also being kept in CVS under <tt
+ class="FILENAME">doc/webserver/*</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Formal documents are built with the Makefile targets of <samp class=
+ "COMPUTEROUTPUT">make dok</samp>. The build process uses the document
+ SGML sources in <samp class="COMPUTEROUTPUT">doc/source/*/*</samp> to
+ update all text files in <samp class=
+ "COMPUTEROUTPUT">doc/text/</samp> and to update all HTML documents in
+ <samp class="COMPUTEROUTPUT">doc/webserver/</samp>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Documentation writers should please make sure documents build
+ successfully before committing to CVS, if possible.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ How do you update the webserver (i.e. the pages on privoxy.org)?
+ </p>
+ <ol type="1">
<li>
- <p>Our documents are available in differing formats. Right now,
- they are just plain text and/or HTML, but others are always a
- future possibility. Be careful with URLs (<ulink>), and avoid
- this mistake:</p>
-
- <p>My favorite site is <ulink
- url="http://example.com">here</ulink>.</p>
-
- <p>This will render as <span class="QUOTE">"My favorite site is
- here"</span>, which is not real helpful in a text doc. Better like
- this:</p>
-
- <p>My favorite site is <ulink
- url="http://example.com">example.com</ulink>.</p>
+ <p>
+ First, build the docs by running <samp class=
+ "COMPUTEROUTPUT">make dok</samp>.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>All documents should be spell checked occasionally. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">aspell</span> can check SGML with the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">-H</tt> option. (<span class="APPLICATION">ispell</span>
- I think too.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Run <samp class="COMPUTEROUTPUT">make webserver</samp> which
+ copies all files from <samp class=
+ "COMPUTEROUTPUT">doc/webserver</samp> to the sourceforge
+ webserver via scp.
+ </p>
</li>
- </ul>
+ </ol>
+
+ <p>
+ Finished docs should be occasionally submitted to CVS (<tt class=
+ "FILENAME">doc/webserver/*/*.html</tt>) so that those without the
+ ability to build them locally, have access to them if needed. This is
+ especially important just prior to a new release! Please do this
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">after</i></span> the <tt
+ class="LITERAL">$VERSION</tt> and other release specific data in <tt
+ class="FILENAME">configure.in</tt> has been updated (this is done
+ just prior to a new release).
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SGML">3.1. Quickstart to Docbook and SGML</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ If you are not familiar with SGML, it is a markup language similar
+ to HTML. Actually, not a mark up language per se, but a language
+ used to define markup languages. In fact, HTML is an SGML
+ application. Both will use <span class="QUOTE">"tags"</span> to
+ format text and other content. SGML tags can be much more varied,
+ and flexible, but do much of the same kinds of things. The tags, or
+ <span class="QUOTE">"elements"</span>, are definable in SGML. There
+ is no set <span class="QUOTE">"standards"</span>. Since we are
+ using <span class="APPLICATION">Docbook</span>, our tags are those
+ that are defined by <span class="APPLICATION">Docbook</span>. Much
+ of how the finish document is rendered is determined by the <span
+ class="QUOTE">"stylesheets"</span>. The stylesheets determine how
+ each tag gets translated to HTML, or other formats.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Tags in Docbook SGML need to be always <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"closed"</span>. If not, you will likely generate errors.
+ Example: <tt class="LITERAL"><title>My
+ Title</title></tt>. They are also case-insensitive, but we
+ strongly suggest using all lower case. This keeps compatibility
+ with [Docbook] <span class="APPLICATION">XML</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Our documents use <span class="QUOTE">"sections"</span> for the
+ most part. Sections will be processed into HTML headers (e.g. <tt
+ class="LITERAL">h1</tt> for <tt class="LITERAL">sect1</tt>). The
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Docbook</span> stylesheets will use these
+ to also generate the Table of Contents for each doc. Our TOC's are
+ set to a depth of three. Meaning <tt class="LITERAL">sect1</tt>,
+ <tt class="LITERAL">sect2</tt>, and <tt class="LITERAL">sect3</tt>
+ will have TOC entries, but <tt class="LITERAL">sect4</tt> will not.
+ Each section requires a <tt class="LITERAL"><title></tt>
+ element, and at least one <tt class="LITERAL"><para></tt>.
+ There is a limit of five section levels in Docbook, but generally
+ three should be sufficient for our purposes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Some common elements that you likely will use:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS"><para></para></i></span>, paragraph
+ delimiter. Most text needs to be within paragraph elements
+ (there are some exceptions).
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS"><emphasis></emphasis></i></span>, the
+ stylesheets make this italics.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS"><filename></filename></i></span>,
+ files and directories.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS"><command></command></i></span>,
+ command examples.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS"><literallayout></literallayout></i></span>,
+ like <tt class="LITERAL"><pre></tt>, more or less.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS"><itemizedlist></itemizedlist></i></span>,
+ list with bullets.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS"><listitem></listitem></i></span>,
+ member of the above.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS"><screen></screen></i></span>, screen
+ output, implies <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><literallayout></tt>.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS"><ulink
+ url="example.com"></ulink></i></span>, like HTML <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a></tt> tag.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS"><quote></quote></i></span>, for, doh,
+ quoting text.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Look at any of the existing docs for examples of all these and
+ more.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You might also find <span class="QUOTE">"<a href=
+ "http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/crash-course/index.html"
+ target="_top">Writing Documentation Using DocBook - A Crash
+ Course</a>"</span> useful.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DOCSTYLE">3.2. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ Documentation Style</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ It will be easier if everyone follows a similar writing style. This
+ just makes it easier to read what someone else has written if it is
+ all done in a similar fashion.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Here it is:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ All tags should be lower case.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Tags delimiting a <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">block</i></span> of text (even small blocks) should
+ be on their own line. Like:
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <para><br>
+ Some text goes here.<br>
+ </para><br>
+
+ </p>
+ Tags marking individual words, or few words, should be in-line:
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ Just to <emphasis>emphasize</emphasis>, some text goes here.<br>
+
+
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Tags should be nested and step indented for block text like:
+ (except in-line tags)
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <para><br>
+ <itemizedlist><br>
+ <para><br>
+ <listitem><br>
+ Some text goes here in our list example.<br>
+
+ </listitem><br>
+ </para><br>
+ </itemizedlist><br>
+ </para><br>
+
+ </p>
+ This makes it easier to find the text amongst the tags ;-)<br>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Use white space to separate logical divisions within a
+ document, like between sections. Running everything together
+ consistently makes it harder to read and work on.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Do not hesitate to make comments. Comments can either use the
+ <comment> element, or the <!-- --> style comment
+ familiar from HTML. (Note in Docbook v4.x <comment> is
+ replaced by <remark>.)
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ We have an international audience. Refrain from slang, or
+ English idiosyncrasies (too many to list :). Humor also does
+ not translate well sometimes.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Try to keep overall line lengths in source files to 80
+ characters or less for obvious reasons. This is not always
+ possible, with lengthy URLs for instance.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Our documents are available in differing formats. Right now,
+ they are just plain text and/or HTML, but others are always a
+ future possibility. Be careful with URLs (<ulink>), and
+ avoid this mistake:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ My favorite site is <ulink
+ url="http://example.com">here</ulink>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This will render as <span class="QUOTE">"My favorite site is
+ here"</span>, which is not real helpful in a text doc. Better
+ like this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ My favorite site is <ulink
+ url="http://example.com">example.com</ulink>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ All documents should be spell checked occasionally. <span
+ class="APPLICATION">aspell</span> can check SGML with the <tt
+ class="LITERAL">-H</tt> option. (<span class=
+ "APPLICATION">ispell</span> I think too.)
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="AEN207">3.3. Privoxy Custom Entities</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> documentation is using a
+ number of customized <span class="QUOTE">"entities"</span> to
+ facilitate documentation maintenance.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ We are using a set of <span class="QUOTE">"boilerplate"</span>
+ files with generic text, that is used by multiple docs. This way we
+ can write something once, and use it repeatedly without having to
+ re-write the same content over and over again. If editing such a
+ file, keep in mind that it should be <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">generic</i></span>. That is the purpose; so it can
+ be used in varying contexts without additional modifications.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ We are also using what <span class="APPLICATION">Docbook</span>
+ calls <span class="QUOTE">"internal entities"</span>. These are
+ like variables in programming. Well, sort of. For instance, we have
+ the <tt class="LITERAL">p-version</tt> entity that contains the
+ current <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version string.
+ You are strongly encouraged to use these where possible. Some of
+ these obviously require re-setting with each release (done by the
+ Makefile). A sampling of custom entities are listed below. See any
+ of the main docs for examples.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Re- <span class="QUOTE">"boilerplate"</span> text entities are
+ defined like:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><!entity supported SYSTEM
+ "supported.sgml"></tt>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In this example, the contents of the file, <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">supported.sgml</tt> is available for inclusion
+ anywhere in the doc. To make this happen, just reference the
+ now defined entity: <tt class="LITERAL">&supported;</tt>
+ (starts with an ampersand and ends with a semi-colon), and the
+ contents will be dumped into the finished doc at that point.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Commonly used <span class="QUOTE">"internal entities"</span>:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">p-version</i></span>: the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version string, e.g. <span
+ class="QUOTE">"3.0.25"</span>.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">p-status</i></span>: the project status,
+ either <span class="QUOTE">"alpha"</span>, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"beta"</span>, or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"stable"</span>.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">p-not-stable</i></span>: use to conditionally
+ include text in <span class="QUOTE">"not stable"</span>
+ releases (e.g. <span class="QUOTE">"beta"</span>).
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">p-stable</i></span>: just the opposite.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">p-text</i></span>: this doc is only generated
+ as text.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ There are others in various places that are defined for a specific
+ purpose. Read the source!
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN207" id="AEN207">3.3. Privoxy Custom
- Entities</a></h2>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> documentation is using a
- number of customized <span class="QUOTE">"entities"</span> to
- facilitate documentation maintenance.</p>
-
- <p>We are using a set of <span class="QUOTE">"boilerplate"</span> files
- with generic text, that is used by multiple docs. This way we can write
- something once, and use it repeatedly without having to re-write the
- same content over and over again. If editing such a file, keep in mind
- that it should be <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">generic</i></span>. That is the purpose; so it can be used
- in varying contexts without additional modifications.</p>
-
- <p>We are also using what <span class="APPLICATION">Docbook</span>
- calls <span class="QUOTE">"internal entities"</span>. These are like
- variables in programming. Well, sort of. For instance, we have the
- <tt class="LITERAL">p-version</tt> entity that contains the current
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version string. You are
- strongly encouraged to use these where possible. Some of these
- obviously require re-setting with each release (done by the Makefile).
- A sampling of custom entities are listed below. See any of the main
- docs for examples.</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Re- <span class="QUOTE">"boilerplate"</span> text entities are
- defined like:</p>
-
- <p><tt class="LITERAL"><!entity supported SYSTEM
- "supported.sgml"></tt></p>
-
- <p>In this example, the contents of the file, <tt class=
- "FILENAME">supported.sgml</tt> is available for inclusion anywhere
- in the doc. To make this happen, just reference the now defined
- entity: <tt class="LITERAL">&supported;</tt> (starts with an
- ampersand and ends with a semi-colon), and the contents will be
- dumped into the finished doc at that point.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Commonly used <span class="QUOTE">"internal
- entities"</span>:</p>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">p-version</i></span>: the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version string, e.g.
- <span class="QUOTE">"3.0.25"</span>.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">p-status</i></span>: the project status, either
- <span class="QUOTE">"alpha"</span>, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"beta"</span>, or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"stable"</span>.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">p-not-stable</i></span>: use to conditionally
- include text in <span class="QUOTE">"not stable"</span>
- releases (e.g. <span class="QUOTE">"beta"</span>).</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">p-stable</i></span>: just the opposite.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">p-text</i></span>: this doc is only generated as
- text.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>There are others in various places that are defined for a specific
- purpose. Read the source!</p>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="cvs.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="coding.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ The CVS Repository
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Coding Guidelines
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="cvs.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="coding.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">The CVS Repository</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Coding Guidelines</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Privoxy Developer Manual</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Introduction" href="introduction.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="ARTICLE" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="ARTICLE">
- <div class="TITLEPAGE">
- <h1 class="TITLE"><a name="AEN2" id="AEN2">Privoxy Developer
- Manual</a></h1>
-
- <p class="PUBDATE"><sub><a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html" target=
- "_top">Copyright</a> © 2001-2016 by <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy
- Developers</a></sub><br></p>
-
- <p class="PUBDATE">$Id: developer-manual.sgml,v 2.71 2016/05/27
- 15:24:13 fabiankeil Exp $<br></p>
-
- <div>
- <div class="ABSTRACT">
- <a name="AEN9" id="AEN9"></a>
-
- <p>The developer manual provides guidance on coding, testing,
- packaging, documentation and other issues of importance to those
- involved with <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> development.
- It is mandatory (and helpful!) reading for anyone who wants to join
- the team. Note that it's currently out of date and may not be
- entirely correct. As always, patches are welcome.</p>
-
- <p>Please note that this document is constantly evolving. This copy
- represents the state at the release of version 3.0.25. You can find
- the latest version of the this manual at <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/</a>. Please have a
- look at the <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/contact.html" target=
- "_top">contact section in the user manual</a> if you are interested
- in contacting the developers.</p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Privoxy Developer Manual
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Introduction" href="introduction.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="ARTICLE" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF"
+ vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="ARTICLE">
+ <div class="TITLEPAGE">
+ <h1 class="TITLE">
+ <a name="AEN2">Privoxy Developer Manual</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p class="PUBDATE">
+ <sub><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html"
+ target="_top">Copyright</a> © 2001-2016 by <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy
+ Developers</a></sub><br>
+ </p>
+ <p class="PUBDATE">
+ $Id: developer-manual.sgml,v 2.71 2016/05/27 15:24:13 fabiankeil
+ Exp $<br>
+ </p>
+ <div>
+ <div class="ABSTRACT">
+ <a name="AEN9"></a>
+ <p>
+ The developer manual provides guidance on coding, testing,
+ packaging, documentation and other issues of importance to
+ those involved with <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ development. It is mandatory (and helpful!) reading for anyone
+ who wants to join the team. Note that it's currently out of
+ date and may not be entirely correct. As always, patches are
+ welcome.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please note that this document is constantly evolving. This
+ copy represents the state at the release of version 3.0.25. You
+ can find the latest version of the this manual at <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/</a>. Please
+ have a look at the <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/contact.html" target=
+ "_top">contact section in the user manual</a> if you are
+ interested in contacting the developers.
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
+ <hr>
+ </div>
+ <div class="TOC">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ <b>Table of Contents</b>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1. <a href="introduction.html">Introduction</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 1.1. <a href="introduction.html#QUICKSTART">Quickstart to
+ Privoxy Development</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 2. <a href="cvs.html">The CVS Repository</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 2.1. <a href="cvs.html#CVSACCESS">Access to CVS</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.2. <a href="cvs.html#CVSBRANCHES">Branches</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.3. <a href="cvs.html#CVSCOMMIT">CVS Commit Guidelines</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 3. <a href="documentation.html">Documentation Guidelines</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 3.1. <a href="documentation.html#SGML">Quickstart to Docbook
+ and SGML</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.2. <a href="documentation.html#DOCSTYLE"><span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Documentation Style</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.3. <a href="documentation.html#AEN207">Privoxy Custom
+ Entities</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 4. <a href="coding.html">Coding Guidelines</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 4.1. <a href="coding.html#S1">Introduction</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.2. <a href="coding.html#S2">Using Comments</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 4.2.1. <a href="coding.html#S3">Comment, Comment,
+ Comment</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.2.2. <a href="coding.html#S4">Use blocks for
+ comments</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.2.3. <a href="coding.html#S5">Keep Comments on their
+ own line</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.2.4. <a href="coding.html#S6">Comment each logical
+ step</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.2.5. <a href="coding.html#S7">Comment All Functions
+ Thoroughly</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.2.6. <a href="coding.html#S8">Comment at the end of
+ braces if the content is more than one screen length</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 4.3. <a href="coding.html#S9">Naming Conventions</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 4.3.1. <a href="coding.html#S10">Variable Names</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.3.2. <a href="coding.html#S11">Function Names</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.3.3. <a href="coding.html#S12">Header file
+ prototypes</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.3.4. <a href="coding.html#S13">Enumerations, and
+ #defines</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.3.5. <a href="coding.html#S14">Constants</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 4.4. <a href="coding.html#S15">Using Space</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 4.4.1. <a href="coding.html#S16">Put braces on a line by
+ themselves.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.4.2. <a href="coding.html#S17">ALL control statements
+ should have a block</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.4.3. <a href="coding.html#S18">Do not belabor/blow-up
+ boolean expressions</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.4.4. <a href="coding.html#S19">Use white space freely
+ because it is free</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.4.5. <a href="coding.html#S20">Don't use white space
+ around structure operators</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.4.6. <a href="coding.html#S21">Make the last brace of a
+ function stand out</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.4.7. <a href="coding.html#S22">Use 3 character
+ indentions</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 4.5. <a href="coding.html#S23">Initializing</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 4.5.1. <a href="coding.html#S24">Initialize all
+ variables</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6. <a href="coding.html#S25">Functions</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6.1. <a href="coding.html#S26">Name functions that
+ return a boolean as a question.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6.2. <a href="coding.html#S27">Always specify a return
+ type for a function.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6.3. <a href="coding.html#S28">Minimize function calls
+ when iterating by using variables</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6.4. <a href="coding.html#S29">Pass and Return by Const
+ Reference</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6.5. <a href="coding.html#S30">Pass and Return by
+ Value</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6.6. <a href="coding.html#S31">Names of include
+ files</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6.7. <a href="coding.html#S32">Provide multiple
+ inclusion protection</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6.8. <a href="coding.html#S33">Use `extern "C"` when
+ appropriate</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6.9. <a href="coding.html#S34">Where Possible, Use
+ Forward Struct Declaration Instead of Includes</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7. <a href="coding.html#S35">General Coding Practices</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7.1. <a href="coding.html#S36">Turn on warnings</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7.2. <a href="coding.html#S37">Provide a default case
+ for all switch statements</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7.3. <a href="coding.html#S38">Try to avoid falling
+ through cases in a switch statement.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7.4. <a href="coding.html#S40">Don't mix size_t and
+ other types</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7.5. <a href="coding.html#S41">Declare each variable
+ and struct on its own line.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7.6. <a href="coding.html#S42">Use malloc/zalloc
+ sparingly</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7.7. <a href="coding.html#S43">The Programmer Who Uses
+ 'malloc' is Responsible for Ensuring 'free'</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7.8. <a href="coding.html#S44">Add loaders to the
+ `file_list' structure and in order</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7.9. <a href="coding.html#S45">"Uncertain" new code
+ and/or changes to existing code, use XXX</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 4.8. <a href="coding.html#S46">Addendum: Template for files
+ and function comment blocks:</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 5. <a href="testing.html">Testing Guidelines</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 5.1. <a href="testing.html#TESTING-PLAN">Testplan for
+ releases</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 6. <a href="newrelease.html">Releasing a New Version</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 6.1. <a href="newrelease.html#VERSIONNUMBERS">Version
+ numbers</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.2. <a href="newrelease.html#BEFORERELEASE">Before the
+ Release: Freeze</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3. <a href="newrelease.html#THERELEASE">Building and
+ Releasing the Packages</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.1. <a href="newrelease.html#PACK-GUIDELINES">Note on
+ Privoxy Packaging</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.2. <a href=
+ "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-TARBALL">Source Tarball</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.3. <a href="newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-RPM">SuSE,
+ Conectiva or Red Hat RPM</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.4. <a href="newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-OS2">OS/2</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.5. <a href=
+ "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-SOLARIS">Solaris</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.6. <a href=
+ "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-WINDOWS">Windows</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.7. <a href=
+ "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-DEBIAN">Debian</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.8. <a href="newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-MACOSX">Mac OS
+ X</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.9. <a href=
+ "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-FREEBSD">FreeBSD</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 6.4. <a href="newrelease.html#RELEASING">Uploading and
+ Releasing Your Package</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.5. <a href="newrelease.html#AFTERRELEASE">After the
+ Release</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 7. <a href="webserver-update.html">Update the Webserver</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
</div>
- <hr>
</div>
-
- <div class="TOC">
- <dl>
- <dt><b>Table of Contents</b></dt>
-
- <dt>1. <a href="introduction.html">Introduction</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>1.1. <a href="introduction.html#QUICKSTART">Quickstart to
- Privoxy Development</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>2. <a href="cvs.html">The CVS Repository</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>2.1. <a href="cvs.html#CVSACCESS">Access to CVS</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.2. <a href="cvs.html#CVSBRANCHES">Branches</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.3. <a href="cvs.html#CVSCOMMIT">CVS Commit
- Guidelines</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>3. <a href="documentation.html">Documentation Guidelines</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>3.1. <a href="documentation.html#SGML">Quickstart to Docbook
- and SGML</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.2. <a href="documentation.html#DOCSTYLE"><span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Documentation Style</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.3. <a href="documentation.html#AEN207">Privoxy Custom
- Entities</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>4. <a href="coding.html">Coding Guidelines</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>4.1. <a href="coding.html#S1">Introduction</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.2. <a href="coding.html#S2">Using Comments</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>4.2.1. <a href="coding.html#S3">Comment, Comment,
- Comment</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.2.2. <a href="coding.html#S4">Use blocks for
- comments</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.2.3. <a href="coding.html#S5">Keep Comments on their
- own line</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.2.4. <a href="coding.html#S6">Comment each logical
- step</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.2.5. <a href="coding.html#S7">Comment All Functions
- Thoroughly</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.2.6. <a href="coding.html#S8">Comment at the end of
- braces if the content is more than one screen length</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>4.3. <a href="coding.html#S9">Naming Conventions</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>4.3.1. <a href="coding.html#S10">Variable Names</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.3.2. <a href="coding.html#S11">Function Names</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.3.3. <a href="coding.html#S12">Header file
- prototypes</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.3.4. <a href="coding.html#S13">Enumerations, and
- #defines</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.3.5. <a href="coding.html#S14">Constants</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>4.4. <a href="coding.html#S15">Using Space</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>4.4.1. <a href="coding.html#S16">Put braces on a line by
- themselves.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.4.2. <a href="coding.html#S17">ALL control statements
- should have a block</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.4.3. <a href="coding.html#S18">Do not belabor/blow-up
- boolean expressions</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.4.4. <a href="coding.html#S19">Use white space freely
- because it is free</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.4.5. <a href="coding.html#S20">Don't use white space
- around structure operators</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.4.6. <a href="coding.html#S21">Make the last brace of a
- function stand out</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.4.7. <a href="coding.html#S22">Use 3 character
- indentions</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>4.5. <a href="coding.html#S23">Initializing</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>4.5.1. <a href="coding.html#S24">Initialize all
- variables</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>4.6. <a href="coding.html#S25">Functions</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>4.6.1. <a href="coding.html#S26">Name functions that
- return a boolean as a question.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.6.2. <a href="coding.html#S27">Always specify a return
- type for a function.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.6.3. <a href="coding.html#S28">Minimize function calls
- when iterating by using variables</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.6.4. <a href="coding.html#S29">Pass and Return by Const
- Reference</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.6.5. <a href="coding.html#S30">Pass and Return by
- Value</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.6.6. <a href="coding.html#S31">Names of include
- files</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.6.7. <a href="coding.html#S32">Provide multiple
- inclusion protection</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.6.8. <a href="coding.html#S33">Use `extern "C"` when
- appropriate</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.6.9. <a href="coding.html#S34">Where Possible, Use
- Forward Struct Declaration Instead of Includes</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>4.7. <a href="coding.html#S35">General Coding
- Practices</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>4.7.1. <a href="coding.html#S36">Turn on
- warnings</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.7.2. <a href="coding.html#S37">Provide a default case
- for all switch statements</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.7.3. <a href="coding.html#S38">Try to avoid falling
- through cases in a switch statement.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.7.4. <a href="coding.html#S40">Don't mix size_t and
- other types</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.7.5. <a href="coding.html#S41">Declare each variable
- and struct on its own line.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.7.6. <a href="coding.html#S42">Use malloc/zalloc
- sparingly</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.7.7. <a href="coding.html#S43">The Programmer Who Uses
- 'malloc' is Responsible for Ensuring 'free'</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.7.8. <a href="coding.html#S44">Add loaders to the
- `file_list' structure and in order</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.7.9. <a href="coding.html#S45">"Uncertain" new code
- and/or changes to existing code, use XXX</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>4.8. <a href="coding.html#S46">Addendum: Template for files
- and function comment blocks:</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>5. <a href="testing.html">Testing Guidelines</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>5.1. <a href="testing.html#TESTING-PLAN">Testplan for
- releases</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>6. <a href="newrelease.html">Releasing a New Version</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>6.1. <a href="newrelease.html#VERSIONNUMBERS">Version
- numbers</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.2. <a href="newrelease.html#BEFORERELEASE">Before the
- Release: Freeze</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3. <a href="newrelease.html#THERELEASE">Building and
- Releasing the Packages</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>6.3.1. <a href="newrelease.html#PACK-GUIDELINES">Note on
- Privoxy Packaging</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3.2. <a href=
- "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-TARBALL">Source Tarball</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3.3. <a href="newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-RPM">SuSE,
- Conectiva or Red Hat RPM</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3.4. <a href=
- "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-OS2">OS/2</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3.5. <a href=
- "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-SOLARIS">Solaris</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3.6. <a href=
- "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-WINDOWS">Windows</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3.7. <a href=
- "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-DEBIAN">Debian</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3.8. <a href="newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-MACOSX">Mac OS
- X</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3.9. <a href=
- "newrelease.html#NEWRELEASE-FREEBSD">FreeBSD</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>6.4. <a href="newrelease.html#RELEASING">Uploading and
- Releasing Your Package</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.5. <a href="newrelease.html#AFTERRELEASE">After the
- Release</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>7. <a href="webserver-update.html">Update the Webserver</a></dt>
- </dl>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="introduction.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Introduction
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href=
- "introduction.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Introduction</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Introduction</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="The CVS Repository" href="cvs.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Developer Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="cvs.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="INTRODUCTION" id="INTRODUCTION">1.
- Introduction</a></h1>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, as an heir to <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span>, is a Free Software project and the code
- is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. As such,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> development is potentially open
- to anyone who has the time, knowledge, and desire to contribute in any
- capacity. Our goals are simply to continue the mission, to improve
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, and to make it available to as
- wide an audience as possible.</p>
-
- <p>One does not have to be a programmer to contribute. Packaging,
- testing, documenting and porting, are all important jobs as well.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="QUICKSTART" id="QUICKSTART">1.1. Quickstart
- to Privoxy Development</a></h2>
-
- <p>The first step is to join the <a href=
- "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-devel" target=
- "_top">privoxy-devel mailing list</a>. You can submit your ideas, or
- even better patches. Patches are best submitted to the Sourceforge
- tracker set up for this purpose, but can be sent to the list for review
- too.</p>
-
- <p>You will also need to have a cvs package installed, which will
- entail having ssh installed as well (which seems to be a requirement of
- SourceForge), in order to access the cvs repository. Having the GNU
- build tools is also going to be important (particularly, autoconf and
- gmake).</p>
-
- <p>For the time being (read, this section is under construction), you
- can also refer to the extensive comments in the source code. In fact,
- reading the code is recommended in any case.</p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Introduction
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="The CVS Repository" href="cvs.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Developer Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="cvs.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="cvs.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Privoxy Developer
- Manual</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">The CVS Repository</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="INTRODUCTION">1. Introduction</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, as an heir to <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span>, is a Free Software project and the
+ code is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. As
+ such, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> development is
+ potentially open to anyone who has the time, knowledge, and desire to
+ contribute in any capacity. Our goals are simply to continue the
+ mission, to improve <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, and to
+ make it available to as wide an audience as possible.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ One does not have to be a programmer to contribute. Packaging,
+ testing, documenting and porting, are all important jobs as well.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="QUICKSTART">1.1. Quickstart to Privoxy Development</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The first step is to join the <a href=
+ "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-devel" target=
+ "_top">privoxy-devel mailing list</a>. You can submit your ideas,
+ or even better patches. Patches are best submitted to the
+ Sourceforge tracker set up for this purpose, but can be sent to the
+ list for review too.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You will also need to have a cvs package installed, which will
+ entail having ssh installed as well (which seems to be a
+ requirement of SourceForge), in order to access the cvs repository.
+ Having the GNU build tools is also going to be important
+ (particularly, autoconf and gmake).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For the time being (read, this section is under construction), you
+ can also refer to the extensive comments in the source code. In
+ fact, reading the code is recommended in any case.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="cvs.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Privoxy Developer Manual
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ The CVS Repository
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Releasing a New Version</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Testing Guidelines" href="testing.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Update the Webserver" href="webserver-update.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Developer Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="testing.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "webserver-update.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="NEWRELEASE" id="NEWRELEASE">6. Releasing a New
- Version</a></h1>
-
- <p>When we release versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
- our work leaves our cozy secret lab and has to work in the cold
- RealWorld[tm]. Once it is released, there is no way to call it back, so
- it is very important that great care is taken to ensure that everything
- runs fine, and not to introduce problems in the very last minute.</p>
-
- <p>So when releasing a new version, please adhere exactly to the
- procedure outlined in this chapter.</p>
-
- <p>The following programs are required to follow this process: <tt class=
- "FILENAME">ncftpput</tt> (ncftp), <tt class="FILENAME">scp, ssh</tt>
- (ssh), <tt class="FILENAME">gmake</tt> (GNU's version of make), autoconf,
- cvs.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="VERSIONNUMBERS" id="VERSIONNUMBERS">6.1.
- Version numbers</a></h2>
-
- <p>First you need to determine which version number the release will
- have. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version numbers consist
- of three numbers, separated by dots, like in X.Y.Z (e.g. 3.0.0),
- where:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>X, the version major, is rarely ever changed. It is increased by
- one if turning a development branch into stable substantially
- changes the functionality, user interface or configuration syntax.
- Majors 1 and 2 were <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span>,
- and 3 will be the first stable <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Y, the version minor, represents the branch within the major
- version. At any point in time, there are two branches being
- maintained: The stable branch, with an even minor, say, 2N, in
- which no functionality is being added and only bug-fixes are made,
- and 2N+1, the development branch, in which the further development
- of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> takes place. This
- enables us to turn the code upside down and inside out, while at
- the same time providing and maintaining a stable version. The minor
- is reset to zero (and one) when the major is incremented. When a
- development branch has matured to the point where it can be turned
- into stable, the old stable branch 2N is given up (i.e. no longer
- maintained), the former development branch 2N+1 becomes the new
- stable branch 2N+2, and a new development branch 2N+3 is
- opened.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Z, the point or sub version, represents a release of the
- software within a branch. It is therefore incremented immediately
- before each code freeze. In development branches, only the even
- point versions correspond to actual releases, while the odd ones
- denote the evolving state of the sources on CVS in between. It
- follows that Z is odd on CVS in development branches most of the
- time. There, it gets increased to an even number immediately before
- a code freeze, and is increased to an odd number again immediately
- thereafter. This ensures that builds from CVS snapshots are easily
- distinguished from released versions. The point version is reset to
- zero when the minor changes.</p>
-
- <p>Stable branches work a little differently, since there should be
- little to no development happening in such branches. Remember, only
- bugfixes, which presumably should have had some testing before
- being committed. Stable branches will then have their version
- reported as <tt class="LITERAL">0.0.0</tt>, during that period
- between releases when changes are being added. This is to denote
- that this code is <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not
- for release</i></span>. Then as the release nears, the version is
- bumped according: e.g. <tt class="LITERAL">3.0.1 -> 0.0.0 ->
- 3.0.2</tt>.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>In summary, the main CVS trunk is the development branch where new
- features are being worked on for the next stable series. This should
- almost always be where the most activity takes place. There is always
- at least one stable branch from the trunk, e.g now it is <tt class=
- "LITERAL">3.0</tt>, which is only used to release stable versions. Once
- the initial *.0 release of the stable branch has been done, then as a
- rule, only bugfixes that have had prior testing should be committed to
- the stable branch. Once there are enough bugfixes to justify a new
- release, the version of this branch is again incremented Example: 3.0.0
- -> 3.0.1 -> 3.0.2, etc are all stable releases from within the
- stable branch. 3.1.x is currently the main trunk, and where work on
- 3.2.x is taking place. If any questions, please post to the devel list
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">before</i></span> committing
- to a stable branch!</p>
-
- <p>Developers should remember too that if they commit a bugfix to the
- stable branch, this will more than likely require a separate submission
- to the main trunk, since these are separate development trees within
- CVS. If you are working on both, then this would require at least two
- separate check outs (i.e main trunk, <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">and</i></span> the stable release branch, which is
- <tt class="LITERAL">v_3_0_branch</tt> at the moment).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="BEFORERELEASE" id="BEFORERELEASE">6.2.
- Before the Release: Freeze</a></h2>
-
- <p>The following <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">must be
- done by one of the developers</i></span> prior to each new release.</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Make sure that everybody who has worked on the code in the last
- couple of days has had a chance to yell <span class=
- "QUOTE">"no!"</span> in case they have pending changes/fixes in
- their pipelines. Announce the freeze so that nobody will interfere
- with last minute changes.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Increment the version number (point from odd to even in
- development branches!) in <tt class="FILENAME">configure.in</tt>.
- (RPM spec files will need to be incremented as well.)</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>If <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> has changed since
- last release (i.e. software release or standalone actions file
- release), bump up its version info to A.B in this line:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- {+add-header{X-Actions-File-Version: A.B} -filter -no-popups}
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Then change the version info in doc/webserver/actions/index.php,
- line: '$required_actions_file_version = "A.B";'</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>All documentation should be rebuild after the version bump.
- Finished docs should be then be committed to CVS (for those without
- the ability to build these). Some docs may require rather obscure
- processing tools. <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt>, the man page
- (and the html version of the man page) fall in this category.
- REAMDE, the man page, AUTHORS, and config should all also be
- committed to CVS for other packagers. The formal docs should be
- uploaded to the webserver. See the Section "Updating the webserver"
- in this manual for details.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The <i class="CITETITLE">User Manual</i> is also used for
- context sensitive help for the CGI editor. This is version
- sensitive, so that the user will get appropriate help for his/her
- release. So with each release a fresh version should be uploaded to
- the webserver (this is in addition to the main <i class=
- "CITETITLE">User Manual</i> link from the main page since we need
- to keep manuals for various versions available). The CGI pages will
- link to something like <tt class=
- "LITERAL">http://privoxy.org/$(VERSION)/user-manual/</tt>. This
- will need to be updated for each new release. There is no Makefile
- target for this at this time!!! It needs to be done manually.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>All developers should look at the <tt class=
- "FILENAME">ChangeLog</tt> and make sure noteworthy changes are
- referenced.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Commit all files that
- were changed in the above steps!</i></span></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Tag all files in CVS with the version number with <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<b class="COMMAND">cvs tag v_X_Y_Z</b>"</span>. Don't use
- vX_Y_Z, ver_X_Y_Z, v_X.Y.Z (won't work) etc.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>If the release was in a development branch, increase the point
- version from even to odd (X.Y.(Z+1)) again in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">configure.in</tt> and commit your change.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>On the webserver, copy the user manual to a new top-level
- directory called <tt class="FILENAME">X.Y.Z</tt>. This ensures that
- help links from the CGI pages, which have the version as a prefix,
- will go into the right version of the manual. If this is a
- development branch release, also symlink <tt class=
- "FILENAME">X.Y.(Z-1)</tt> to <tt class="FILENAME">X.Y.Z</tt> and
- <tt class="FILENAME">X.Y.(Z+1)</tt> to <tt class="FILENAME">.</tt>
- (i.e. dot).</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="THERELEASE" id="THERELEASE">6.3. Building
- and Releasing the Packages</a></h2>
-
- <p>Now the individual packages can be built and released. Note that for
- GPL reasons the first package to be released is always the source
- tarball.</p>
-
- <p>For <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> types
- of packages, including the source tarball, <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">you must make sure that you build from
- clean sources by exporting the right version from CVS into an empty
- directory</i></span> (just press return when asked for a password):</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Releasing a New Version
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Testing Guidelines" href="testing.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Update the Webserver" href=
+ "webserver-update.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- mkdir dist # delete or choose different name if it already exists
- cd dist
- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa export -r v_X_Y_Z current
-</pre>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Developer Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="testing.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="webserver-update.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="NEWRELEASE">6. Releasing a New Version</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ When we release versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
+ our work leaves our cozy secret lab and has to work in the cold
+ RealWorld[tm]. Once it is released, there is no way to call it back,
+ so it is very important that great care is taken to ensure that
+ everything runs fine, and not to introduce problems in the very last
+ minute.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ So when releasing a new version, please adhere exactly to the
+ procedure outlined in this chapter.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The following programs are required to follow this process: <tt
+ class="FILENAME">ncftpput</tt> (ncftp), <tt class="FILENAME">scp,
+ ssh</tt> (ssh), <tt class="FILENAME">gmake</tt> (GNU's version of
+ make), autoconf, cvs.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="VERSIONNUMBERS">6.1. Version numbers</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ First you need to determine which version number the release will
+ have. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version numbers
+ consist of three numbers, separated by dots, like in X.Y.Z (e.g.
+ 3.0.0), where:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ X, the version major, is rarely ever changed. It is increased
+ by one if turning a development branch into stable
+ substantially changes the functionality, user interface or
+ configuration syntax. Majors 1 and 2 were <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span>, and 3 will be the first stable
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Y, the version minor, represents the branch within the major
+ version. At any point in time, there are two branches being
+ maintained: The stable branch, with an even minor, say, 2N, in
+ which no functionality is being added and only bug-fixes are
+ made, and 2N+1, the development branch, in which the further
+ development of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> takes
+ place. This enables us to turn the code upside down and inside
+ out, while at the same time providing and maintaining a stable
+ version. The minor is reset to zero (and one) when the major is
+ incremented. When a development branch has matured to the point
+ where it can be turned into stable, the old stable branch 2N is
+ given up (i.e. no longer maintained), the former development
+ branch 2N+1 becomes the new stable branch 2N+2, and a new
+ development branch 2N+3 is opened.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Z, the point or sub version, represents a release of the
+ software within a branch. It is therefore incremented
+ immediately before each code freeze. In development branches,
+ only the even point versions correspond to actual releases,
+ while the odd ones denote the evolving state of the sources on
+ CVS in between. It follows that Z is odd on CVS in development
+ branches most of the time. There, it gets increased to an even
+ number immediately before a code freeze, and is increased to an
+ odd number again immediately thereafter. This ensures that
+ builds from CVS snapshots are easily distinguished from
+ released versions. The point version is reset to zero when the
+ minor changes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Stable branches work a little differently, since there should
+ be little to no development happening in such branches.
+ Remember, only bugfixes, which presumably should have had some
+ testing before being committed. Stable branches will then have
+ their version reported as <tt class="LITERAL">0.0.0</tt>,
+ during that period between releases when changes are being
+ added. This is to denote that this code is <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not for release</i></span>. Then
+ as the release nears, the version is bumped according: e.g. <tt
+ class="LITERAL">3.0.1 -> 0.0.0 -> 3.0.2</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Do NOT change</i></span>
- a single bit, including, but not limited to version information after
- export from CVS. This is to make sure that all release packages, and
- with them, all future bug reports, are based on exactly the same
- code.</p>
-
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>Every significant release of Privoxy has included at least
- one package that either had incorrect versions of files,
- missing files, or incidental leftovers from a previous build
- process that gave unknown numbers of users headaches to try to
- figure out what was wrong. PLEASE, make sure you are using
- pristene sources, and are following the prescribed process!</p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
+ <p>
+ In summary, the main CVS trunk is the development branch where new
+ features are being worked on for the next stable series. This
+ should almost always be where the most activity takes place. There
+ is always at least one stable branch from the trunk, e.g now it is
+ <tt class="LITERAL">3.0</tt>, which is only used to release stable
+ versions. Once the initial *.0 release of the stable branch has
+ been done, then as a rule, only bugfixes that have had prior
+ testing should be committed to the stable branch. Once there are
+ enough bugfixes to justify a new release, the version of this
+ branch is again incremented Example: 3.0.0 -> 3.0.1 -> 3.0.2,
+ etc are all stable releases from within the stable branch. 3.1.x is
+ currently the main trunk, and where work on 3.2.x is taking place.
+ If any questions, please post to the devel list <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">before</i></span> committing to a
+ stable branch!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Developers should remember too that if they commit a bugfix to the
+ stable branch, this will more than likely require a separate
+ submission to the main trunk, since these are separate development
+ trees within CVS. If you are working on both, then this would
+ require at least two separate check outs (i.e main trunk, <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and</i></span> the stable
+ release branch, which is <tt class="LITERAL">v_3_0_branch</tt> at
+ the moment).
+ </p>
</div>
-
- <p>Please find additional instructions for the source tarball and the
- individual platform dependent binary packages below. And details on the
- Sourceforge release process below that.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="PACK-GUIDELINES" id=
- "PACK-GUIDELINES">6.3.1. Note on Privoxy Packaging</a></h3>
-
- <p>Please keep these general guidelines in mind when putting together
- your package. These apply to <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">all</i></span> platforms!</p>
-
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="BEFORERELEASE">6.2. Before the Release: Freeze</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The following <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">must be
+ done by one of the developers</i></span> prior to each new release.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">requires</i></span> write access
- to: all <tt class="FILENAME">*.action</tt> files, all logfiles,
- and the <tt class="FILENAME">trust</tt> file. You will need to
- determine the best way to do this for your platform.</p>
+ <p>
+ Make sure that everybody who has worked on the code in the last
+ couple of days has had a chance to yell <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"no!"</span> in case they have pending changes/fixes in
+ their pipelines. Announce the freeze so that nobody will
+ interfere with last minute changes.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Please include up to date documentation. At a bare
- minimum:</p>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><tt class="FILENAME">LICENSE</tt> (top-level
- directory)</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><tt class="FILENAME">README</tt> (top-level
- directory)</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><tt class="FILENAME">AUTHORS</tt> (top-level
- directory)</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><tt class="FILENAME">man page</tt> (top-level
- directory, Unix-like platforms only)</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><tt class="FILENAME">The User Manual</tt>
- (doc/webserver/user-manual/)</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><tt class="FILENAME">FAQ</tt> (doc/webserver/faq/)</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
+ <p>
+ Increment the version number (point from odd to even in
+ development branches!) in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">configure.in</tt>. (RPM spec files will need to be
+ incremented as well.)
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ If <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> has changed since
+ last release (i.e. software release or standalone actions file
+ release), bump up its version info to A.B in this line:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ {+add-header{X-Actions-File-Version: A.B} -filter -no-popups}
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
</table>
- <p>Also suggested: <tt class="FILENAME">Developer Manual</tt>
- (doc/webserver/developer-manual) and <tt class=
- "FILENAME">ChangeLog</tt> (top-level directory). <tt class=
- "FILENAME">FAQ</tt> and the manuals are HTML docs. There are also
- text versions in <tt class="FILENAME">doc/text/</tt> which could
- conceivably also be included.</p>
-
- <p>The documentation has been designed such that the manuals are
- linked to each other from parallel directories, and should be
- packaged that way. <tt class="FILENAME">privoxy-index.html</tt>
- can also be included and can serve as a focal point for docs and
- other links of interest (and possibly renamed to <tt class=
- "FILENAME">index.html</tt>). This should be one level up from the
- manuals. There is a link also on this page to an HTMLized version
- of the man page. To avoid 404 for this, it is in CVS as
- <tt class="FILENAME">doc/webserver/man-page/privoxy-man-page.html</tt>,
- and should be included along with the manuals. There is also a
- css stylesheets that can be included for better presentation:
- <tt class="FILENAME">p_doc.css</tt>. This should be in the same
- directory with <tt class="FILENAME">privoxy-index.html</tt>,
- (i.e. one level up from the manual directories).</p>
+ <p>
+ Then change the version info in
+ doc/webserver/actions/index.php, line:
+ '$required_actions_file_version = "A.B";'
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> and <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.filter</tt> are designed for local preferences.
- Make sure these do not get overwritten! <tt class=
- "FILENAME">config</tt> should not be overwritten either. This has
- especially important configuration data in it. <tt class=
- "FILENAME">trust</tt> should be left in tact as well.</p>
+ <p>
+ All documentation should be rebuild after the version bump.
+ Finished docs should be then be committed to CVS (for those
+ without the ability to build these). Some docs may require
+ rather obscure processing tools. <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">config</tt>, the man page (and the html version of
+ the man page) fall in this category. REAMDE, the man page,
+ AUTHORS, and config should all also be committed to CVS for
+ other packagers. The formal docs should be uploaded to the
+ webserver. See the Section "Updating the webserver" in this
+ manual for details.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Other configuration files (<tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt> and <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.filter</tt>) should be installed as the new
- defaults, but all previously installed configuration files should
- be preserved as backups. This is just good manners :-) These
- files are likely to change between releases and contain important
- new features and bug fixes.</p>
+ <p>
+ The <i class="CITETITLE">User Manual</i> is also used for
+ context sensitive help for the CGI editor. This is version
+ sensitive, so that the user will get appropriate help for
+ his/her release. So with each release a fresh version should be
+ uploaded to the webserver (this is in addition to the main <i
+ class="CITETITLE">User Manual</i> link from the main page since
+ we need to keep manuals for various versions available). The
+ CGI pages will link to something like <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">http://privoxy.org/$(VERSION)/user-manual/</tt>. This
+ will need to be updated for each new release. There is no
+ Makefile target for this at this time!!! It needs to be done
+ manually.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Please check platform specific notes in this doc, if you
- haven't done <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span> packaging
- before for other platform specific issues. Conversely, please add
- any notes that you know are important for your platform (or
- contact one of the doc maintainers to do this if you can't).</p>
+ <p>
+ All developers should look at the <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">ChangeLog</tt> and make sure noteworthy changes are
+ referenced.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Commit all files
+ that were changed in the above steps!</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Tag all files in CVS with the version number with <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"<b class="COMMAND">cvs tag v_X_Y_Z</b>"</span>. Don't
+ use vX_Y_Z, ver_X_Y_Z, v_X.Y.Z (won't work) etc.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ If the release was in a development branch, increase the point
+ version from even to odd (X.Y.(Z+1)) again in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">configure.in</tt> and commit your change.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Packagers should do a <span class="QUOTE">"clean"</span>
- install of their package after building it. So any previous
- installs should be removed first to ensure the integrity of the
- newly built package. Then run the package for a while to make
- sure there are no obvious problems, before uploading.</p>
+ <p>
+ On the webserver, copy the user manual to a new top-level
+ directory called <tt class="FILENAME">X.Y.Z</tt>. This ensures
+ that help links from the CGI pages, which have the version as a
+ prefix, will go into the right version of the manual. If this
+ is a development branch release, also symlink <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">X.Y.(Z-1)</tt> to <tt class="FILENAME">X.Y.Z</tt>
+ and <tt class="FILENAME">X.Y.(Z+1)</tt> to <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">.</tt> (i.e. dot).
+ </p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="NEWRELEASE-TARBALL" id=
- "NEWRELEASE-TARBALL">6.3.2. Source Tarball</a></h3>
-
- <p>First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
- you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
- directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages" above).
- Then run:</p>
-
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="THERELEASE">6.3. Building and Releasing the Packages</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Now the individual packages can be built and released. Note that
+ for GPL reasons the first package to be released is always the
+ source tarball.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> types
+ of packages, including the source tarball, <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">you must make sure that you build
+ from clean sources by exporting the right version from CVS into an
+ empty directory</i></span> (just press return when asked for a
+ password):
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- cd current
- autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ mkdir dist # delete or choose different name if it already exists
+ cd dist
+ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
+ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa export -r v_X_Y_Z current
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- <p>Then do:</p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Do NOT change</i></span>
+ a single bit, including, but not limited to version information
+ after export from CVS. This is to make sure that all release
+ packages, and with them, all future bug reports, are based on
+ exactly the same code.
+ </p>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ Every significant release of Privoxy has included at least
+ one package that either had incorrect versions of files,
+ missing files, or incidental leftovers from a previous
+ build process that gave unknown numbers of users headaches
+ to try to figure out what was wrong. PLEASE, make sure you
+ are using pristene sources, and are following the
+ prescribed process!
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ Please find additional instructions for the source tarball and the
+ individual platform dependent binary packages below. And details on
+ the Sourceforge release process below that.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="PACK-GUIDELINES">6.3.1. Note on Privoxy Packaging</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Please keep these general guidelines in mind when putting
+ together your package. These apply to <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> platforms!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">requires</i></span> write
+ access to: all <tt class="FILENAME">*.action</tt> files, all
+ logfiles, and the <tt class="FILENAME">trust</tt> file. You
+ will need to determine the best way to do this for your
+ platform.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Please include up to date documentation. At a bare minimum:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">LICENSE</tt> (top-level directory)
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">README</tt> (top-level directory)
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">AUTHORS</tt> (top-level directory)
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">man page</tt> (top-level
+ directory, Unix-like platforms only)
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">The User Manual</tt>
+ (doc/webserver/user-manual/)
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">FAQ</tt> (doc/webserver/faq/)
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ Also suggested: <tt class="FILENAME">Developer Manual</tt>
+ (doc/webserver/developer-manual) and <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">ChangeLog</tt> (top-level directory). <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">FAQ</tt> and the manuals are HTML docs. There are
+ also text versions in <tt class="FILENAME">doc/text/</tt>
+ which could conceivably also be included.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The documentation has been designed such that the manuals are
+ linked to each other from parallel directories, and should be
+ packaged that way. <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">privoxy-index.html</tt> can also be included and
+ can serve as a focal point for docs and other links of
+ interest (and possibly renamed to <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">index.html</tt>). This should be one level up from
+ the manuals. There is a link also on this page to an HTMLized
+ version of the man page. To avoid 404 for this, it is in CVS
+ as <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">doc/webserver/man-page/privoxy-man-page.html</tt>,
+ and should be included along with the manuals. There is also
+ a css stylesheets that can be included for better
+ presentation: <tt class="FILENAME">p_doc.css</tt>. This
+ should be in the same directory with <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">privoxy-index.html</tt>, (i.e. one level up from
+ the manual directories).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> and <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.filter</tt> are designed for local
+ preferences. Make sure these do not get overwritten! <tt
+ class="FILENAME">config</tt> should not be overwritten
+ either. This has especially important configuration data in
+ it. <tt class="FILENAME">trust</tt> should be left in tact as
+ well.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Other configuration files (<tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt> and <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.filter</tt>) should be installed as the
+ new defaults, but all previously installed configuration
+ files should be preserved as backups. This is just good
+ manners :-) These files are likely to change between releases
+ and contain important new features and bug fixes.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Please check platform specific notes in this doc, if you
+ haven't done <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span> packaging
+ before for other platform specific issues. Conversely, please
+ add any notes that you know are important for your platform
+ (or contact one of the doc maintainers to do this if you
+ can't).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Packagers should do a <span class="QUOTE">"clean"</span>
+ install of their package after building it. So any previous
+ installs should be removed first to ensure the integrity of
+ the newly built package. Then run the package for a while to
+ make sure there are no obvious problems, before uploading.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="NEWRELEASE-TARBALL">6.3.2. Source Tarball</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
+ you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
+ directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages"
+ above). Then run:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ cd current
+ autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ Then do:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
make tarball-dist
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply issue</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply issue
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
make tarball-upload
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Go to the displayed URL and release the file publicly on
- Sourceforge. For the change log field, use the relevant section of
- the <tt class="FILENAME">ChangeLog</tt> file.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="NEWRELEASE-RPM" id="NEWRELEASE-RPM">6.3.3.
- SuSE, Conectiva or Red Hat RPM</a></h3>
-
- <p>In following text, replace <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>dist</i></tt> with either <span class=
- "QUOTE">"rh"</span> for Red Hat or <span class="QUOTE">"suse"</span>
- for SuSE.</p>
-
- <p>First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
- you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
- directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages"
- above).</p>
-
- <p>As the only exception to not changing anything after export from
- CVS, now examine the file <tt class=
- "FILENAME">privoxy-</tt><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dist</i></tt><tt class="FILENAME">.spec</tt>
- and make sure that the version information and the RPM release number
- are correct. The RPM release numbers for each version start at one.
- Hence it must be reset to one if this is the first RPM for <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>dist</i></tt> which is built from version X.Y.Z.
- Check the <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118"
- target="_top">file list</a> if unsure. Else, it must be set to the
- highest already available RPM release number for that version plus
- one.</p>
-
- <p>Then run:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ Go to the displayed URL and release the file publicly on
+ Sourceforge. For the change log field, use the relevant section
+ of the <tt class="FILENAME">ChangeLog</tt> file.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="NEWRELEASE-RPM">6.3.3. SuSE, Conectiva or Red Hat
+ RPM</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ In following text, replace <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>dist</i></tt> with either <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"rh"</span> for Red Hat or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"suse"</span> for SuSE.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
+ you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
+ directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages"
+ above).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As the only exception to not changing anything after export from
+ CVS, now examine the file <tt class="FILENAME">privoxy-</tt><tt
+ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dist</i></tt><tt class=
+ "FILENAME">.spec</tt> and make sure that the version information
+ and the RPM release number are correct. The RPM release numbers
+ for each version start at one. Hence it must be reset to one if
+ this is the first RPM for <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>dist</i></tt> which is built from version X.Y.Z.
+ Check the <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118"
+ target="_top">file list</a> if unsure. Else, it must be set to
+ the highest already available RPM release number for that version
+ plus one.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Then run:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
cd current
autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Then do</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ Then do
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
make <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dist</i></tt>-dist
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply issue</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply issue
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
make <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dist</i></tt>-upload <tt class=
"REPLACEABLE"><i>rpm_packagerev</i></tt>
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>where <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>rpm_packagerev</i></tt> is the
- RPM release number as determined above. Go to the displayed URL and
- release the file publicly on Sourceforge. Use the release notes and
- change log from the source tarball package.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="NEWRELEASE-OS2" id="NEWRELEASE-OS2">6.3.4.
- OS/2</a></h3>
-
- <p>First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
- you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
- directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages" above).
- Then get the OS/2 Setup module:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ where <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>rpm_packagerev</i></tt> is the
+ RPM release number as determined above. Go to the displayed URL
+ and release the file publicly on Sourceforge. Use the release
+ notes and change log from the source tarball package.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="NEWRELEASE-OS2">6.3.4. OS/2</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
+ you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
+ directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages"
+ above). Then get the OS/2 Setup module:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co os2setup
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>You will need a mix of development tools. The main compilation
- takes place with IBM Visual Age C++. Some ancillary work takes place
- with GNU tools, available from various sources like hobbes.nmsu.edu.
- Specificially, you will need <tt class="FILENAME">autoheader</tt>,
- <tt class="FILENAME">autoconf</tt> and <tt class="FILENAME">sh</tt>
- tools. The packaging takes place with WarpIN, available from various
- sources, including its home page: <a href=
- "http://www.xworkplace.org/" target="_top">xworkplace</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Change directory to the <tt class="FILENAME">os2setup</tt>
- directory. Edit the os2build.cmd file to set the final executable
- filename. For example,</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ You will need a mix of development tools. The main compilation
+ takes place with IBM Visual Age C++. Some ancillary work takes
+ place with GNU tools, available from various sources like
+ hobbes.nmsu.edu. Specificially, you will need <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">autoheader</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">autoconf</tt>
+ and <tt class="FILENAME">sh</tt> tools. The packaging takes place
+ with WarpIN, available from various sources, including its home
+ page: <a href="http://www.xworkplace.org/" target=
+ "_top">xworkplace</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Change directory to the <tt class="FILENAME">os2setup</tt>
+ directory. Edit the os2build.cmd file to set the final executable
+ filename. For example,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
installExeName='privoxyos2_setup_X.Y.Z.exe'
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Next, edit the <tt class="FILENAME">IJB.wis</tt> file so the
- release number matches in the <tt class="FILENAME">PACKAGEID</tt>
- section:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ Next, edit the <tt class="FILENAME">IJB.wis</tt> file so the
+ release number matches in the <tt class="FILENAME">PACKAGEID</tt>
+ section:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
PACKAGEID="Privoxy Team\Privoxy\Privoxy Package\X\Y\Z"
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>You're now ready to build. Run:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ You're now ready to build. Run:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
os2build
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>You will find the WarpIN-installable executable in the <tt class=
- "FILENAME">./files</tt> directory. Upload this anonymously to
- <tt class="FILENAME">uploads.sourceforge.net/incoming</tt>, create a
- release for it, and you're done. Use the release notes and Change Log
- from the source tarball package.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="NEWRELEASE-SOLARIS" id=
- "NEWRELEASE-SOLARIS">6.3.5. Solaris</a></h3>
-
- <p>Login to Sourceforge's compilefarm via ssh:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ You will find the WarpIN-installable executable in the <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">./files</tt> directory. Upload this anonymously to <tt
+ class="FILENAME">uploads.sourceforge.net/incoming</tt>, create a
+ release for it, and you're done. Use the release notes and Change
+ Log from the source tarball package.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="NEWRELEASE-SOLARIS">6.3.5. Solaris</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Login to Sourceforge's compilefarm via ssh:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
ssh cf.sourceforge.net
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Choose the right operating system (not the Debian one). When
- logged in, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
- you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
- directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages" above).
- Then run:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ Choose the right operating system (not the Debian one). When
+ logged in, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure
+ that you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
+ directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages"
+ above). Then run:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
cd current
autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Then run</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ Then run
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
gmake solaris-dist
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>which creates a gzip'ed tar archive. Sadly, you cannot use
- <b class="COMMAND">make solaris-upload</b> on the Sourceforge machine
- (no ncftpput). You now have to manually upload the archive to
- Sourceforge's ftp server and release the file publicly. Use the
- release notes and Change Log from the source tarball package.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="NEWRELEASE-WINDOWS" id=
- "NEWRELEASE-WINDOWS">6.3.6. Windows</a></h3>
-
- <p>Use the <a href=
- "http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca" target=
- "_top">Cygwin Time Machine</a> to install the last 1.5 version of
- Cygwin. Run the following commands from within the Cygwin 1.5 bash
- shell.</p>
-
- <p>First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
- you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
- directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages" above).
- Then get the Windows setup module:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ which creates a gzip'ed tar archive. Sadly, you cannot use <b
+ class="COMMAND">make solaris-upload</b> on the Sourceforge
+ machine (no ncftpput). You now have to manually upload the
+ archive to Sourceforge's ftp server and release the file
+ publicly. Use the release notes and Change Log from the source
+ tarball package.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="NEWRELEASE-WINDOWS">6.3.6. Windows</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Use the <a href=
+ "http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca" target=
+ "_top">Cygwin Time Machine</a> to install the last 1.5 version of
+ Cygwin. Run the following commands from within the Cygwin 1.5
+ bash shell.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
+ you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
+ directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages"
+ above). Then get the Windows setup module:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co winsetup
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Then you can build the package. This is fully automated, and is
- controlled by <tt class="FILENAME">winsetup/GNUmakefile</tt>. All you
- need to do is:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- cd winsetup
- make
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Now you can manually rename <tt class=
- "FILENAME">privoxy_setup.exe</tt> to <tt class=
- "FILENAME">privoxy_setup_X_Y_Z.exe</tt>, and upload it to
- SourceForge. When releasing the package on SourceForge, use the
- release notes and Change Log from the source tarball package.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="NEWRELEASE-DEBIAN" id=
- "NEWRELEASE-DEBIAN">6.3.7. Debian</a></h3>
-
- <p>First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
- you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
- directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages" above).
- Then add a log entry to <tt class="FILENAME">debian/changelog</tt>,
- if it is not already there, for example by running:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- debchange -v 3.0.25-beta-1 "New upstream version"
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Then, run:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>This will create <tt class=
- "FILENAME">../privoxy_3.0.25-beta-1_i386.deb</tt> which can be
- uploaded. To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply issue</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- make debian-upload
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="NEWRELEASE-MACOSX" id=
- "NEWRELEASE-MACOSX">6.3.8. Mac OS X</a></h3>
-
- <p>First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
- you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
- directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages"
- above).</p>
-
- <p>There are three modules available in the CVS repository for use on
- Mac OS X, though technically only two of them generate a release (the
- other can be used to install from source).</p>
-
- <div class="SECT4">
- <h4 class="SECT4"><a name="OS-X-OSXPACKAGEBUILDER-MODULE" id=
- "OS-X-OSXPACKAGEBUILDER-MODULE">6.3.8.1. OSXPackageBuilder
- module</a></h4>
-
- <p>The OSXPackageBuilder module generates OS X installer packages
- supporting all Macs running OS X 10.4 and above. Obtain it from CVS
- as follows into a folder parallel to the exported privoxy
- source:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ Then you can build the package. This is fully automated, and is
+ controlled by <tt class="FILENAME">winsetup/GNUmakefile</tt>. All
+ you need to do is:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co OSXPackageBuilder
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ cd winsetup
+ make
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- <p>The module contains complete instructions on its usage in the
- file <tt class="FILENAME">OS X Package Builder HOWTO.txt</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>Once the package(s) have been generated, you can then upload
- them directly to the Files section of the Sourceforge project in
- the Macintosh (OS X) folder. Each new version release of Privoxy
- should have a new subfolder created in which to store its files.
- Please ensure that the folder contains a readme file that makes it
- clear which package is for whichversion of OS X.</p>
+ <p>
+ Now you can manually rename <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">privoxy_setup.exe</tt> to <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">privoxy_setup_X_Y_Z.exe</tt>, and upload it to
+ SourceForge. When releasing the package on SourceForge, use the
+ release notes and Change Log from the source tarball package.
+ </p>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT4">
- <h4 class="SECT4"><a name="OS-X-OSXSETUP-MODULE" id=
- "OS-X-OSXSETUP-MODULE">6.3.8.2. osxsetup module
- (DEPRECATED)</a></h4>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">This module is
- deprecated since the installer it generates places all Privoxy
- files in one folder in a non-standard location, and supports only
- Intel Macs running OS X 10.6 or higher.</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Check out the module from CVS as follows into a folder parallel
- to the exported privoxy source:</p>
-
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="NEWRELEASE-DEBIAN">6.3.7. Debian</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
+ you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
+ directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages"
+ above). Then add a log entry to <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">debian/changelog</tt>, if it is not already there, for
+ example by running:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
-
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co osxsetup
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ debchange -v 3.0.25-beta-1 "New upstream version"
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- <p>Then run:</p>
-
+ <p>
+ Then, run:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- cd osxsetup
- build
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- <p>This will run <tt class="FILENAME">autoheader</tt>, <tt class=
- "FILENAME">autoconf</tt> and <tt class="FILENAME">configure</tt> as
- well as <tt class="FILENAME">make</tt>. Finally, it will copy over
- the necessary files to the ./osxsetup/files directory for further
- processing by <tt class="FILENAME">PackageMaker</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>Bring up PackageMaker with the PrivoxyPackage.pmsp definition
- file, modify the package name to match the release, and hit the
- "Create package" button. If you specify ./Privoxy.pkg as the output
- package name, you can then create the distributable zip file with
- the command:</p>
-
+ <p>
+ This will create <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">../privoxy_3.0.25-beta-1_i386.deb</tt> which can be
+ uploaded. To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply issue
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
-
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- zip -r privoxyosx_setup_x.y.z.zip Privoxy.pkg
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ make debian-upload
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
-
- <p>You can then upload this file directly to the Files section of
- the Sourceforge project in the Macintosh (OS X) folder. Each new
- version release of Privoxy should have a new subfolder created in
- which to store its files. Please ensure that the folder contains a
- readme file that makes it clear which version(s) of OS X the
- package supports.</p>
</div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="NEWRELEASE-MACOSX">6.3.8. Mac OS X</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ First, <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">make sure that
+ you have freshly exported the right version into an empty
+ directory</i></span>. (See "Building and releasing packages"
+ above).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are three modules available in the CVS repository for use
+ on Mac OS X, though technically only two of them generate a
+ release (the other can be used to install from source).
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT4">
+ <h4 class="SECT4">
+ <a name="OS-X-OSXPACKAGEBUILDER-MODULE">6.3.8.1.
+ OSXPackageBuilder module</a>
+ </h4>
+ <p>
+ The OSXPackageBuilder module generates OS X installer packages
+ supporting all Macs running OS X 10.4 and above. Obtain it from
+ CVS as follows into a folder parallel to the exported privoxy
+ source:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co OSXPackageBuilder
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <div class="SECT4">
- <h4 class="SECT4"><a name="OS-X-MACSETUP-MODULE" id=
- "OS-X-MACSETUP-MODULE">6.3.8.3. macsetup module</a></h4>
+ <p>
+ The module contains complete instructions on its usage in the
+ file <tt class="FILENAME">OS X Package Builder HOWTO.txt</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Once the package(s) have been generated, you can then upload
+ them directly to the Files section of the Sourceforge project
+ in the Macintosh (OS X) folder. Each new version release of
+ Privoxy should have a new subfolder created in which to store
+ its files. Please ensure that the folder contains a readme file
+ that makes it clear which package is for whichversion of OS X.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT4">
+ <h4 class="SECT4">
+ <a name="OS-X-OSXSETUP-MODULE">6.3.8.2. osxsetup module
+ (DEPRECATED)</a>
+ </h4>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">This module is
+ deprecated since the installer it generates places all Privoxy
+ files in one folder in a non-standard location, and supports
+ only Intel Macs running OS X 10.6 or higher.</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Check out the module from CVS as follows into a folder parallel
+ to the exported privoxy source:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co osxsetup
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>The macsetup module is ideal if you wish to build and install
- Privoxy from source on a single machine.</p>
+ <p>
+ Then run:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ cd osxsetup
+ build
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>Check out the module from CVS as follows into a folder parallel
- to the exported privoxy source:</p>
+ <p>
+ This will run <tt class="FILENAME">autoheader</tt>, <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">autoconf</tt> and <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">configure</tt> as well as <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">make</tt>. Finally, it will copy over the necessary
+ files to the ./osxsetup/files directory for further processing
+ by <tt class="FILENAME">PackageMaker</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Bring up PackageMaker with the PrivoxyPackage.pmsp definition
+ file, modify the package name to match the release, and hit the
+ "Create package" button. If you specify ./Privoxy.pkg as the
+ output package name, you can then create the distributable zip
+ file with the command:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ zip -r privoxyosx_setup_x.y.z.zip Privoxy.pkg
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ You can then upload this file directly to the Files section of
+ the Sourceforge project in the Macintosh (OS X) folder. Each
+ new version release of Privoxy should have a new subfolder
+ created in which to store its files. Please ensure that the
+ folder contains a readme file that makes it clear which
+ version(s) of OS X the package supports.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT4">
+ <h4 class="SECT4">
+ <a name="OS-X-MACSETUP-MODULE">6.3.8.3. macsetup module</a>
+ </h4>
+ <p>
+ The macsetup module is ideal if you wish to build and install
+ Privoxy from source on a single machine.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Check out the module from CVS as follows into a folder parallel
+ to the exported privoxy source:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co macsetup
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>The module contains complete instructions on its usage in its
- <tt class="FILENAME">README</tt> file. The end result will be the
- exported version of Privoxy installed on the build machine.</p>
+ <p>
+ The module contains complete instructions on its usage in its
+ <tt class="FILENAME">README</tt> file. The end result will be
+ the exported version of Privoxy installed on the build machine.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="NEWRELEASE-FREEBSD">6.3.9. FreeBSD</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Update the www/privoxy port and submit a diff upstream. For
+ details see the <a href=
+ "https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/"
+ target="_top">FreeBSD Porter's Handbook</a>.
+ </p>
</div>
</div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="RELEASING">6.4. Uploading and Releasing Your Package</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ After the package is ready, it is time to upload it to SourceForge,
+ and go through the release steps. The upload is done via FTP:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Upload to: <a href="ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/incoming"
+ target="_top">ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/incoming</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ user: <tt class="LITERAL">anonymous</tt>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ password: <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</tt>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="NEWRELEASE-FREEBSD" id=
- "NEWRELEASE-FREEBSD">6.3.9. FreeBSD</a></h3>
-
- <p>Update the www/privoxy port and submit a diff upstream. For
- details see the <a href=
- "https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/"
- target="_top">FreeBSD Porter's Handbook</a>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Or use the <b class="COMMAND">make</b> targets as described above.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Once this done go to <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/project/admin/editpackages.php?group_id=11118"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/project/admin/editpackages.php?group_id=11118</a>,
+ making sure you are logged in. Find your target platform in the
+ second column, and click <tt class="LITERAL">Add Release</tt>. You
+ will then need to create a new release for your package, using the
+ format of <tt class="LITERAL">$VERSION ($CODE_STATUS)</tt>, e.g.
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">3.0.25
+ (beta)</i></span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Now just follow the prompts. Be sure to add any appropriate Release
+ notes. You should see your freshly uploaded packages in <span
+ class="QUOTE">"Step 2. Add Files To This Release"</span>. Check the
+ appropriate box(es). Remember at each step to hit the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Refresh/Submit"</span> buttons! You should now see your
+ file(s) listed in Step 3. Fill out the forms with the appropriate
+ information for your platform, being sure to hit <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Update"</span> for each file. If anyone is monitoring your
+ platform, check the <span class="QUOTE">"email"</span> box at the
+ very bottom to notify them of the new package. This should do it!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you have made errors, or need to make changes, you can go
+ through essentially the same steps, but select <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">Edit Release</tt>, instead of <tt class="LITERAL">Add
+ Release</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="AFTERRELEASE">6.5. After the Release</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ When all (or: most of the) packages have been uploaded and made
+ available, send an email to the <a href=
+ "mailto:privoxy-announce@lists.privoxy.org" target="_top">announce
+ mailing list</a>, Subject: "Version X.Y.Z available for download".
+ Be sure to include the <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118"
+ target="_top">download location</a>, the release notes and the
+ Changelog. Also, post an updated News item on the project page
+ Sourceforge, and update the Home page and docs linked from the Home
+ page (see below). Other news sites and release oriented sites, such
+ as Freshmeat, should also be notified.
+ </p>
</div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="RELEASING" id="RELEASING">6.4. Uploading and
- Releasing Your Package</a></h2>
-
- <p>After the package is ready, it is time to upload it to SourceForge,
- and go through the release steps. The upload is done via FTP:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Upload to: <a href="ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/incoming"
- target="_top">ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/incoming</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>user: <tt class="LITERAL">anonymous</tt></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>password: <tt class=
- "LITERAL">ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</tt></p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Or use the <b class="COMMAND">make</b> targets as described
- above.</p>
-
- <p>Once this done go to <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/project/admin/editpackages.php?group_id=11118"
- target=
- "_top">https://sourceforge.net/project/admin/editpackages.php?group_id=11118</a>,
- making sure you are logged in. Find your target platform in the second
- column, and click <tt class="LITERAL">Add Release</tt>. You will then
- need to create a new release for your package, using the format of
- <tt class="LITERAL">$VERSION ($CODE_STATUS)</tt>, e.g. <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">3.0.25 (beta)</i></span>.</p>
-
- <p>Now just follow the prompts. Be sure to add any appropriate Release
- notes. You should see your freshly uploaded packages in <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Step 2. Add Files To This Release"</span>. Check the
- appropriate box(es). Remember at each step to hit the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Refresh/Submit"</span> buttons! You should now see your
- file(s) listed in Step 3. Fill out the forms with the appropriate
- information for your platform, being sure to hit <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Update"</span> for each file. If anyone is monitoring your
- platform, check the <span class="QUOTE">"email"</span> box at the very
- bottom to notify them of the new package. This should do it!</p>
-
- <p>If you have made errors, or need to make changes, you can go through
- essentially the same steps, but select <tt class="LITERAL">Edit
- Release</tt>, instead of <tt class="LITERAL">Add Release</tt>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AFTERRELEASE" id="AFTERRELEASE">6.5. After
- the Release</a></h2>
-
- <p>When all (or: most of the) packages have been uploaded and made
- available, send an email to the <a href=
- "mailto:privoxy-announce@lists.privoxy.org" target="_top">announce
- mailing list</a>, Subject: "Version X.Y.Z available for download". Be
- sure to include the <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118" target=
- "_top">download location</a>, the release notes and the Changelog.
- Also, post an updated News item on the project page Sourceforge, and
- update the Home page and docs linked from the Home page (see below).
- Other news sites and release oriented sites, such as Freshmeat, should
- also be notified.</p>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="testing.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="webserver-update.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Testing Guidelines
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Update the Webserver
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="testing.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href=
- "webserver-update.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Testing Guidelines</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Update the Webserver</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Testing Guidelines</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Coding Guidelines" href="coding.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Releasing a New Version" href="newrelease.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Developer Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="coding.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "newrelease.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="TESTING" id="TESTING">5. Testing
- Guidelines</a></h1>
-
- <p>To be filled.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="TESTING-PLAN" id="TESTING-PLAN">5.1.
- Testplan for releases</a></h2>
-
- <p>Explain release numbers. major, minor. developer releases. etc.</p>
-
- <ol type="1">
- <li>
- <p>Remove any existing rpm with rpm -e</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove any file that was left over. This includes (but is not
- limited to)</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>/var/log/privoxy</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>/etc/privoxy</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>/usr/sbin/privoxy</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>/etc/init.d/privoxy</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>/usr/doc/privoxy*</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Install the rpm. Any error messages?</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>start,stop,status <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with
- the specific script (e.g. /etc/rc.d/init/privoxy stop). Reboot your
- machine. Does autostart work?</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Start browsing. Does <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- work? Logfile written?</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove the rpm. Any error messages? All files removed?</p>
- </li>
- </ol>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Testing Guidelines
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Coding Guidelines" href="coding.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Releasing a New Version" href="newrelease.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Developer Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="coding.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="newrelease.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="coding.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="newrelease.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Coding Guidelines</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Releasing a New
- Version</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="TESTING">5. Testing Guidelines</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ To be filled.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="TESTING-PLAN">5.1. Testplan for releases</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Explain release numbers. major, minor. developer releases. etc.
+ </p>
+ <ol type="1">
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Remove any existing rpm with rpm -e
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Remove any file that was left over. This includes (but is not
+ limited to)
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ /var/log/privoxy
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ /etc/privoxy
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ /usr/sbin/privoxy
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ /etc/init.d/privoxy
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ /usr/doc/privoxy*
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Install the rpm. Any error messages?
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ start,stop,status <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with
+ the specific script (e.g. /etc/rc.d/init/privoxy stop). Reboot
+ your machine. Does autostart work?
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Start browsing. Does <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ work? Logfile written?
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Remove the rpm. Any error messages? All files removed?
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="coding.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="newrelease.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Coding Guidelines
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Releasing a New Version
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Update the Webserver</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Releasing a New Version" href=
- "newrelease.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Developer Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "newrelease.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"> </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="WEBSERVER-UPDATE" id="WEBSERVER-UPDATE">7.
- Update the Webserver</a></h1>
-
- <p>The webserver should be updated at least with each stable release.
- When updating, please follow these steps to make sure that no broken
- links, inconsistent contents or permission problems will occur (as it has
- many times in the past!):</p>
-
- <p>If you have changed anything in the stable-branch documentation source
- SGML files, do:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Update the Webserver
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Developer Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Releasing a New Version" href=
+ "newrelease.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Developer Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="newrelease.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="WEBSERVER-UPDATE">7. Update the Webserver</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ The webserver should be updated at least with each stable release.
+ When updating, please follow these steps to make sure that no broken
+ links, inconsistent contents or permission problems will occur (as it
+ has many times in the past!):
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you have changed anything in the stable-branch documentation
+ source SGML files, do:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
make dok
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>That will generate <tt class=
- "FILENAME">doc/webserver/user-manual</tt>, <tt class=
- "FILENAME">doc/webserver/developer-manual</tt>, <tt class=
- "FILENAME">doc/webserver/faq</tt>, <tt class=
- "FILENAME">doc/webserver/index.html</tt> automatically.</p>
-
- <p>If you changed the manual page sources, generate <tt class=
- "FILENAME">doc/webserver/man-page/privoxy-man-page.html</tt> by running
- <span class="QUOTE">"<b class="COMMAND">make man</b>"</span>. (This is a
- separate target due to dependencies on some obscure perl scripts [now in
- CVS, but not well tested]. See comments in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">GNUmakefile</tt>.)</p>
-
- <p>If you want to add new files to the webserver, create them locally in
- the <tt class="FILENAME">doc/webserver/*</tt> directory (or create new
- directories under <tt class="FILENAME">doc/webserver</tt>).</p>
-
- <p>Next, commit any changes from the above steps to CVS. All set? If
- these are docs in the stable branch, then do:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ That will generate <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">doc/webserver/user-manual</tt>, <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">doc/webserver/developer-manual</tt>, <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">doc/webserver/faq</tt>, <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">doc/webserver/index.html</tt> automatically.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you changed the manual page sources, generate <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">doc/webserver/man-page/privoxy-man-page.html</tt> by
+ running <span class="QUOTE">"<b class="COMMAND">make man</b>"</span>.
+ (This is a separate target due to dependencies on some obscure perl
+ scripts [now in CVS, but not well tested]. See comments in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">GNUmakefile</tt>.)
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you want to add new files to the webserver, create them locally in
+ the <tt class="FILENAME">doc/webserver/*</tt> directory (or create
+ new directories under <tt class="FILENAME">doc/webserver</tt>).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Next, commit any changes from the above steps to CVS. All set? If
+ these are docs in the stable branch, then do:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
make webserver
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>This will do the upload to <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">the webserver</a> (www.privoxy.org) and ensure all files and
- directories there are group writable.</p>
-
- <p>Please do <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">NOT</i></span>
- use any other means of transferring files to the webserver to avoid
- permission problems. Also, please do not upload docs from development
- branches or versions. The publicly posted docs should be in sync with the
- last official release.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="newrelease.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"> </td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Releasing a New
- Version</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"> </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ This will do the upload to <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">the webserver</a> (www.privoxy.org) and ensure all files and
+ directories there are group writable.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please do <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">NOT</i></span>
+ use any other means of transferring files to the webserver to avoid
+ permission problems. Also, please do not upload docs from development
+ branches or versions. The publicly posted docs should be in sync with
+ the last official release.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="newrelease.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Releasing a New Version
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Configuration</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
- "index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Installation" href="installation.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Miscellaneous" href="misc.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Frequently Asked
- Questions</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "installation.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="misc.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="CONFIGURATION" id="CONFIGURATION">3.
- Configuration</a></h1>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="ACTIONSFILE" id="ACTIONSFILE">3.1. What
- exactly is an <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> file?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> utilizes the concept of
- <span class="QUOTE">" <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ACTIONS" target=
- "_top">actions</a>"</span> that are used to manipulate and control web
- page data. <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html" target=
- "_top">Actions files</a> are where these <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ACTIONS" target="_top">actions</a>
- that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> could take while
- processing a certain request, are configured. Typically, you would
- define a set of default actions that apply globally to all URLs, then
- add exceptions to these defaults where needed. There is a wide array of
- actions available that give the user a high degree of control and
- flexibility on how to process each and every web page.</p>
-
- <p>Actions can be defined on a <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS" target="_top">URL
- pattern</a> basis, i.e. for single URLs, whole web sites, groups or
- parts thereof etc. Actions can also be grouped together and then
- applied to requests matching one or more patterns. There are many
- possible actions that might apply to any given site. As an example, if
- you are blocking <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie"
- target="_top">cookies</a> as one of your default actions, but need to
- accept cookies from a given site, you would need to define an exception
- for this site in one of your actions files, preferably in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.action</tt>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="ACTIONSS" id="ACTIONSS">3.2. The
- <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> concept confuses me. Please list
- some of these <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span>.</a></h3>
-
- <p>For a comprehensive discussion of the actions concept, please refer
- to the <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html" target="_top">actions
- file chapter</a> in the <a href="../user-manual/index.html" target=
- "_top">User Manual</a>. It includes a <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ACTIONS" target="_top">list of all
- actions</a> and an <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES" target="_top">actions
- file tutorial</a> to get you started.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="ACTCONFIG" id="ACTCONFIG">3.3. How are
- actions files configured? What is the easiest way to do this?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Actions files are just text files in a special syntax and can be
- edited with a text editor. But probably the easiest way is to access
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s user interface with your web
- browser at <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> (Shortcut: <a href="http://p.p/"
- target="_top">http://p.p/</a>) and then select <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
- "_top">View & change the current configuration</a>"</span> from the
- menu. Note that this feature must be explicitly enabled in the main
- config file (see <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS" target=
- "_top">enable-edit-actions</a>).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN393" id="AEN393">3.4. There are several
- different <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> files. What are the
- differences?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Please have a look at the <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html"
- target="_top">the actions chapter</a> in the <a href=
- "../user-manual/index.html" target="_top">User Manual</a> for a
- detailed explanation.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="GETUPDATES" id="GETUPDATES">3.5. Where can I
- get updated Actions Files?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Based on your feedback and the continuing development, updates of
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> will be made available from
- time to time on the <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118" target=
- "_top">files section</a> of our <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/" target="_top">project
- page</a>.</p>
-
- <p>If you wish to receive an email notification whenever we release
- updates of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> or the actions
- file, <a href=
- "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-announce" target=
- "_top">subscribe to our announce mailing list</a>,
- privoxy-announce@lists.privoxy.org.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NEWCONFIG" id="NEWCONFIG">3.6. Can I use my
- old config files?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The syntax and purpose of configuration files has remained roughly
- the same throughout the 3.x series, but backwards compatibility is not
- guaranteed. Also each release contains updated, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"improved"</span> versions and it is therefore strongly
- recommended to install the newer configuration files and merge back
- your modifications.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="DIFFICULT" id="DIFFICULT">3.7. Why is the
- configuration so complicated?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"Complicated"</span> is in the eye of the
- beholder.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is currently mainly written by and for people who are
- already familiar with the underlying concepts like regular expressions,
- HTTP and HTML, or are willing to become familiar with them to be able
- to get the most out of a powerful and flexible tool such as
- Privoxy.</p>
-
- <p>While everybody is expected to be able to get a Privoxy default
- installation up and running, fine-tuning requires a certain amount of
- background information and Privoxy's documentation mainly concentrates
- on the Privoxy-specific parts while only providing references to the
- rest.</p>
-
- <p>If you or anyone you know has the skills, time and energy to reduce
- the barrier of entry, please <a href="general.html#PARTICIPATE">get
- involved</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="YAHOO" id="YAHOO">3.8. How can I make my
- Yahoo/Hotmail/Gmail account work?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The default configuration shouldn't impact the usability of any of
- these services. It may, however, make all <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target="_top">cookies</a>
- temporary, so that your browser will forget your login credentials in
- between browser sessions. If you would like not to have to log in
- manually each time you access those websites, simply turn off all
- cookie handling for them in the <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>
- file. An example for yahoo might look like:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Configuration
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
+ "index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Installation" href="installation.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Miscellaneous" href="misc.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions
+ </th>
+ </tr>
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="installation.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="misc.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="CONFIGURATION">3. Configuration</a>
+ </h1>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ACTIONSFILE">3.1. What exactly is an <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"actions"</span> file?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> utilizes the concept of
+ <span class="QUOTE">" <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ACTIONS" target=
+ "_top">actions</a>"</span> that are used to manipulate and control
+ web page data. <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html" target=
+ "_top">Actions files</a> are where these <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ACTIONS" target=
+ "_top">actions</a> that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ could take while processing a certain request, are configured.
+ Typically, you would define a set of default actions that apply
+ globally to all URLs, then add exceptions to these defaults where
+ needed. There is a wide array of actions available that give the
+ user a high degree of control and flexibility on how to process
+ each and every web page.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Actions can be defined on a <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS" target="_top">URL
+ pattern</a> basis, i.e. for single URLs, whole web sites, groups or
+ parts thereof etc. Actions can also be grouped together and then
+ applied to requests matching one or more patterns. There are many
+ possible actions that might apply to any given site. As an example,
+ if you are blocking <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
+ "_top">cookies</a> as one of your default actions, but need to
+ accept cookies from a given site, you would need to define an
+ exception for this site in one of your actions files, preferably in
+ <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ACTIONSS">3.2. The <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span>
+ concept confuses me. Please list some of these <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"actions"</span>.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ For a comprehensive discussion of the actions concept, please refer
+ to the <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html" target=
+ "_top">actions file chapter</a> in the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/index.html" target="_top">User Manual</a>. It
+ includes a <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#ACTIONS"
+ target="_top">list of all actions</a> and an <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES" target=
+ "_top">actions file tutorial</a> to get you started.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ACTCONFIG">3.3. How are actions files configured? What is
+ the easiest way to do this?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Actions files are just text files in a special syntax and can be
+ edited with a text editor. But probably the easiest way is to
+ access <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s user interface
+ with your web browser at <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/"
+ target="_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> (Shortcut: <a href=
+ "http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>) and then select <span
+ class="QUOTE">"<a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status"
+ target="_top">View & change the current
+ configuration</a>"</span> from the menu. Note that this feature
+ must be explicitly enabled in the main config file (see <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS" target=
+ "_top">enable-edit-actions</a>).
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="AEN418">3.4. There are several different <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"actions"</span> files. What are the differences?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Please have a look at the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html" target="_top">the actions
+ chapter</a> in the <a href="../user-manual/index.html" target=
+ "_top">User Manual</a> for a detailed explanation.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="GETUPDATES">3.5. Where can I get updated Actions
+ Files?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Based on your feedback and the continuing development, updates of
+ <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> will be made available
+ from time to time on the <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118"
+ target="_top">files section</a> of our <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/" target="_top">project
+ page</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you wish to receive an email notification whenever we release
+ updates of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> or the actions
+ file, <a href=
+ "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-announce"
+ target="_top">subscribe to our announce mailing list</a>,
+ privoxy-announce@lists.privoxy.org.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="NEWCONFIG">3.6. Can I use my old config files?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ The syntax and purpose of configuration files has remained roughly
+ the same throughout the 3.x series, but backwards compatibility is
+ not guaranteed. Also each release contains updated, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"improved"</span> versions and it is therefore strongly
+ recommended to install the newer configuration files and merge back
+ your modifications.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DIFFICULT">3.7. Why is the configuration so
+ complicated?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Complicated"</span> is in the eye of the
+ beholder.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is currently mainly written by and for people who are
+ already familiar with the underlying concepts like regular
+ expressions, HTTP and HTML, or are willing to become familiar with
+ them to be able to get the most out of a powerful and flexible tool
+ such as Privoxy.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ While everybody is expected to be able to get a Privoxy default
+ installation up and running, fine-tuning requires a certain amount
+ of background information and Privoxy's documentation mainly
+ concentrates on the Privoxy-specific parts while only providing
+ references to the rest.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you or anyone you know has the skills, time and energy to reduce
+ the barrier of entry, please <a href="general.html#PARTICIPATE">get
+ involved</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="YAHOO">3.8. How can I make my Yahoo/Hotmail/Gmail account
+ work?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ The default configuration shouldn't impact the usability of any of
+ these services. It may, however, make all <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
+ "_top">cookies</a> temporary, so that your browser will forget your
+ login credentials in between browser sessions. If you would like
+ not to have to log in manually each time you access those websites,
+ simply turn off all cookie handling for them in the <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt> file. An example for yahoo might look
+ like:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Allow all cookies for Yahoo login:
#
{ -<a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES" target=
"_top">session-cookies-only</a> }
.login.yahoo.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>These kinds of sites are often quite complex and heavy with <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript" target="_top">Javascript</a>
- and thus <span class="QUOTE">"fragile"</span>. So if <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">still</i></span> a problem, we have an
- <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#ALIASES" target=
- "_top">alias</a> just for such sticky situations:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ These kinds of sites are often quite complex and heavy with <a
+ href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript" target=
+ "_top">Javascript</a> and thus <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"fragile"</span>. So if <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">still</i></span> a problem, we have an <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ALIASES" target="_top">alias</a>
+ just for such sticky situations:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Gmail is a _fragile_ site:
#
{ <tt class="LITERAL">fragile</tt> }
# Gmail is ...
mail.google.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Be sure to flush your browser's caches whenever making these kinds
- of changes, just to make sure the changes <span class=
- "QUOTE">"take"</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Make sure the domain, host and path are appropriate as well. Your
- browser can tell you where you are specifically and you should use that
- information for your configuration settings. Note that above it is not
- referenced as <tt class="LITERAL">gmail.com</tt>, which is a valid
- domain name.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="CONFIGFILES" id="CONFIGFILES">3.9. What's
- the difference between the <span class="QUOTE">"Cautious"</span>,
- <span class="QUOTE">"Medium"</span> and <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Advanced"</span> defaults?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Configuring <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not entirely
- trivial. To help you get started, we provide you with three different
- default action <span class="QUOTE">"profiles"</span> in the web based
- actions file editor at <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status"
- target="_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a>. See the
- <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html" target="_top"><i class=
- "CITETITLE">User Manual</i></a> for a list of actions, and how the
- default profiles are set.</p>
-
- <p>Where the defaults are likely to break some sites, exceptions for
- known popular <span class="QUOTE">"problem"</span> sites are included,
- but in general, the more aggressive your default settings are, the more
- exceptions you will have to make later. New users are best to start off
- in <span class="QUOTE">"Cautious"</span> setting. This is safest and
- will have the fewest problems. See the <a href=
- "../user-manual/index.html" target="_top"><i class="CITETITLE">User
- Manual</i></a> for a more detailed discussion.</p>
-
- <p>It should be noted that the <span class="QUOTE">"Advanced"</span>
- profile (formerly known as the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Adventuresome"</span> profile) is more aggressive, and will
- make use of some of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> advanced
- features. Use at your own risk!</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="BROWSECONFIG" id="BROWSECONFIG">3.10. Why
- can I change the configuration with a browser? Does that not raise
- security issues?</a></h3>
-
- <p>It may seem strange that regular users can edit the config files
- with their browsers, although the whole <tt class=
- "FILENAME">/etc/privoxy</tt> hierarchy belongs to the user <span class=
- "QUOTE">"privoxy"</span>, with only 644 permissions.</p>
-
- <p>When you use the browser-based editor, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself is writing to the config files.
- Because <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is running as the user
- <span class="QUOTE">"privoxy"</span>, it can update its own config
- files.</p>
-
- <p>If you run <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> for multiple
- untrusted users (e.g. in a LAN) or aren't entirely in control of your
- own browser, you will probably want to make sure that the web-based
- editor and remote toggle features are <span class="QUOTE">"off"</span>
- by setting <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS" target=
- "_top">enable-edit-actions</a> 0</tt>"</span> and <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE" target=
- "_top">enable-remote-toggle</a> 0</tt>"</span> in the <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html" target="_top">main configuration
- file</a>.</p>
-
- <p>As of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.7 these options
- are disabled by default.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="FILTERFILE" id="FILTERFILE">3.11. What is
- the <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> file? What is a
- <span class="QUOTE">"filter"</span>?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The <a href="../user-manual/filter-file.html" target=
- "_top"><tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt></a> file is where
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">filters</i></span> as
- supplied by the developers are defined. Filters are a special subset of
- actions that can be used to modify or remove web page content or
- headers on the fly. Content filters can be applied to <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">anything</i></span> in the page source,
- header filters can be applied to either server or client headers.
- Regular expressions are used to accomplish this.</p>
-
- <p>There are a number of pre-defined filters to deal with common
- annoyances. The filters are only defined here, to invoke them, you need
- to use the <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#FILTER" target=
- "_top"><tt class="LITERAL">filter</tt> action</a> in one of the actions
- files. Content filtering is automatically disabled for inappropriate
- MIME types, but if you know better than Privoxy what should or should
- not be filtered you can filter any content you like.</p>
-
- <p>Filters should <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">not</i></span> be confused with <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK" target="_top"><tt class=
- "LITERAL">blocks</tt></a>, which is a completely different action, and
- is more typically used to block ads and unwanted sites.</p>
-
- <p>If you are familiar with regular expressions, and HTML, you can look
- at the provided <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> with a text
- editor and define your own filters. This is potentially a very powerful
- feature, but requires some expertise in both regular expressions and
- HTML/HTTP. You should place any modifications to the default filters,
- or any new ones you create in a separate file, such as <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.filter</tt>, so they won't be overwritten during
- upgrades. The ability to define multiple filter files in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">config</tt> is a new feature as of v. 3.0.5.</p>
-
- <p>There is no GUI editor option for this part of the configuration,
- but you can disable/enable the various pre-defined filters of the
- included <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> file with the
- <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target="_top">web-based
- actions file editor</a>. Note that the custom actions editor must be
- explicitly enabled in the main config file (see <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS" target=
- "_top">enable-edit-actions</a>).</p>
-
- <p>If you intend to develop your own filters, you might want to have a
- look at <a href="https://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/pft/" target=
- "_top">Privoxy-Filter-Test</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="LANCONFIG" id="LANCONFIG">3.12. How can I
- set up Privoxy to act as a proxy for my LAN?</a></h3>
-
- <p>By default, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> only responds
- to requests from <tt class="LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt> (localhost). To
- have it act as a server for a network, this needs to be changed in the
- <a href="../user-manual/config.html" target="_top">main configuration
- file</a>. Look for the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS" target=
- "_top">listen-address</a></tt> option, which may be commented out with
- a <span class="QUOTE">"#"</span> symbol. Make sure it is uncommented,
- and assign it the address of the LAN gateway interface, and port number
- to use. Assuming your LAN address is 192.168.1.1 and you wish to run
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on port 8118, this line should
- look like:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Be sure to flush your browser's caches whenever making these kinds
+ of changes, just to make sure the changes <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"take"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Make sure the domain, host and path are appropriate as well. Your
+ browser can tell you where you are specifically and you should use
+ that information for your configuration settings. Note that above
+ it is not referenced as <tt class="LITERAL">gmail.com</tt>, which
+ is a valid domain name.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CONFIGFILES">3.9. What's the difference between the <span
+ class="QUOTE">"Cautious"</span>, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Medium"</span> and <span class="QUOTE">"Advanced"</span>
+ defaults?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Configuring <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not
+ entirely trivial. To help you get started, we provide you with
+ three different default action <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"profiles"</span> in the web based actions file editor at
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a>. See the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html" target="_top"><i class=
+ "CITETITLE">User Manual</i></a> for a list of actions, and how the
+ default profiles are set.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Where the defaults are likely to break some sites, exceptions for
+ known popular <span class="QUOTE">"problem"</span> sites are
+ included, but in general, the more aggressive your default settings
+ are, the more exceptions you will have to make later. New users are
+ best to start off in <span class="QUOTE">"Cautious"</span> setting.
+ This is safest and will have the fewest problems. See the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/index.html" target="_top"><i class="CITETITLE">User
+ Manual</i></a> for a more detailed discussion.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It should be noted that the <span class="QUOTE">"Advanced"</span>
+ profile (formerly known as the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Adventuresome"</span> profile) is more aggressive, and
+ will make use of some of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span>
+ advanced features. Use at your own risk!
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="BROWSECONFIG">3.10. Why can I change the configuration
+ with a browser? Does that not raise security issues?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ It may seem strange that regular users can edit the config files
+ with their browsers, although the whole <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">/etc/privoxy</tt> hierarchy belongs to the user <span
+ class="QUOTE">"privoxy"</span>, with only 644 permissions.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When you use the browser-based editor, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself is writing to the config files.
+ Because <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is running as the
+ user <span class="QUOTE">"privoxy"</span>, it can update its own
+ config files.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you run <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> for multiple
+ untrusted users (e.g. in a LAN) or aren't entirely in control of
+ your own browser, you will probably want to make sure that the
+ web-based editor and remote toggle features are <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"off"</span> by setting <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href="../user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS"
+ target="_top">enable-edit-actions</a> 0</tt>"</span> and <span
+ class="QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE" target=
+ "_top">enable-remote-toggle</a> 0</tt>"</span> in the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html" target="_top">main configuration
+ file</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.7 these options
+ are disabled by default.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="FILTERFILE">3.11. What is the <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.filter</tt> file? What is a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"filter"</span>?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ The <a href="../user-manual/filter-file.html" target="_top"><tt
+ class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt></a> file is where <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">filters</i></span> as supplied by
+ the developers are defined. Filters are a special subset of actions
+ that can be used to modify or remove web page content or headers on
+ the fly. Content filters can be applied to <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">anything</i></span> in the page
+ source, header filters can be applied to either server or client
+ headers. Regular expressions are used to accomplish this.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are a number of pre-defined filters to deal with common
+ annoyances. The filters are only defined here, to invoke them, you
+ need to use the <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#FILTER"
+ target="_top"><tt class="LITERAL">filter</tt> action</a> in one of
+ the actions files. Content filtering is automatically disabled for
+ inappropriate MIME types, but if you know better than Privoxy what
+ should or should not be filtered you can filter any content you
+ like.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Filters should <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">not</i></span> be confused with <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK" target="_top"><tt class=
+ "LITERAL">blocks</tt></a>, which is a completely different action,
+ and is more typically used to block ads and unwanted sites.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are familiar with regular expressions, and HTML, you can
+ look at the provided <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> with
+ a text editor and define your own filters. This is potentially a
+ very powerful feature, but requires some expertise in both regular
+ expressions and HTML/HTTP. You should place any modifications to
+ the default filters, or any new ones you create in a separate file,
+ such as <tt class="FILENAME">user.filter</tt>, so they won't be
+ overwritten during upgrades. The ability to define multiple filter
+ files in <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> is a new feature as of v.
+ 3.0.5.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There is no GUI editor option for this part of the configuration,
+ but you can disable/enable the various pre-defined filters of the
+ included <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> file with the <a
+ href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">web-based actions file editor</a>. Note that the custom
+ actions editor must be explicitly enabled in the main config file
+ (see <a href="../user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS"
+ target="_top">enable-edit-actions</a>).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you intend to develop your own filters, you might want to have a
+ look at <a href="https://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/pft/" target=
+ "_top">Privoxy-Filter-Test</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="LANCONFIG">3.12. How can I set up Privoxy to act as a
+ proxy for my LAN?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ By default, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> only responds
+ to requests from <tt class="LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt> (localhost). To
+ have it act as a server for a network, this needs to be changed in
+ the <a href="../user-manual/config.html" target="_top">main
+ configuration file</a>. Look for the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS" target=
+ "_top">listen-address</a></tt> option, which may be commented out
+ with a <span class="QUOTE">"#"</span> symbol. Make sure it is
+ uncommented, and assign it the address of the LAN gateway
+ interface, and port number to use. Assuming your LAN address is
+ 192.168.1.1 and you wish to run <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on port 8118, this line should look
+ like:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
listen-address 192.168.1.1:8118
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Save the file, and restart <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
- Configure all browsers on the network then to use this address and port
- number.</p>
-
- <p>Alternately, you can have <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- listen on all available interfaces:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Save the file, and restart <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Configure all browsers on the network
+ then to use this address and port number.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Alternately, you can have <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ listen on all available interfaces:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
listen-address :8118
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>And then use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#PERMIT-ACCESS" target=
- "_top">permit-access</a> feature to limit connections. A firewall in
- this situation is recommended as well.</p>
-
- <p>The above steps should be the same for any TCP network, regardless
- of operating system.</p>
-
- <p>If you run <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on a LAN with
- untrusted users, we recommend that you double-check the <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL" target="_top">access
- control and security</a> options!</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NOSEEUM" id="NOSEEUM">3.13. Instead of ads,
- now I get a checkerboard pattern. I don't want to see
- anything.</a></h3>
-
- <p>The replacement for blocked images can be controlled with the
- <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER" target=
- "_top"><tt class="LITERAL">set-image-blocker</tt> action</a>. You have
- the choice of a checkerboard pattern, a transparent 1x1 GIF image (aka
- <span class="QUOTE">"blank"</span>), or a redirect to a custom image of
- your choice. Note that this choice only has effect for images which are
- blocked as images, i.e. whose URLs match both a <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE"
- target="_top">handle-as-image</a></tt> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">and</i></span> <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK" target="_top">block</a></tt>
- action.</p>
-
- <p>If you want to see nothing, then change the <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER" target=
- "_top"><tt class="LITERAL">set-image-blocker</tt> action</a> to
- <span class="QUOTE">"blank"</span>. This can be done by editing the
- <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> file, or through the <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target="_top">web-based actions
- file editor</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHYSEEUM" id="WHYSEEUM">3.14. Why would
- anybody want to see a checkerboard pattern?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Remember that <a href="general.html#WHATSANAD">telling which image
- is an ad and which isn't</a>, is an educated guess. While we hope that
- the standard configuration is rather smart, it will make occasional
- mistakes. The checkerboard image is visually decent, and it shows you
- where images have been blocked, which can be very helpful in case some
- navigation aid or otherwise innocent image was erroneously blocked. It
- is recommended for new users so they can <span class=
- "QUOTE">"see"</span> what is happening. Some people might also enjoy
- seeing how many banners they <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">don't</i></span> have to see.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="BLOCKEDBYTEXT" id="BLOCKEDBYTEXT">3.15. I
- see some images being replaced with text instead of the checkerboard
- image. Why and how do I get rid of this?</a></h3>
-
- <p>This happens when the banners are not embedded in the HTML code of
- the page itself, but in separate HTML (sub)documents that are loaded
- into (i)frames or (i)layers, and these external HTML documents are
- blocked. Being non-images they get replaced by a substitute HTML page
- rather than a substitute image, which wouldn't work out technically,
- since the browser expects and accepts only HTML when it has requested
- an HTML document.</p>
-
- <p>The substitute page adapts to the available space and shows itself
- as a miniature two-liner if loaded into small frames, or full-blown
- with a large red "BLOCKED" banner if space allows.</p>
-
- <p>If you prefer the banners to be blocked by images, you must see to
- it that the HTML documents in which they are embedded are not blocked.
- Clicking the <span class="QUOTE">"See why"</span> link offered in the
- substitute page will show you which rule blocked the page. After
- changing the rule and un-blocking the HTML documents, the browser will
- try to load the actual banner images and the usual image blocking will
- (hopefully!) kick in.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SRVANY" id="SRVANY">3.16. Can Privoxy run as
- a service on Win2K/NT/XP?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Yes. Version 3.0.5 introduces full <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Windows</span> service functionality. See <a href=
- "../user-manual/installation.html#installation-pack-win" target=
- "_top">the <i class="CITETITLE">User Manual</i></a> for details on how
- to install and configure <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a
- service.</p>
-
- <p>Earlier 3.x versions could run as a system service using <b class=
- "COMMAND">srvany.exe</b>. See the discussion at <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118"
- target=
- "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118</a>,
- for details, and a sample configuration.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="OTHERPROXY" id="OTHERPROXY">3.17. How can I
- make Privoxy work with other proxies?</a></h3>
-
- <p>This can be done and is often useful to combine the benefits of
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with those of a another proxy,
- for example to cache content. See the <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING" target="_top">forwarding
- chapter</a> in the <a href="../user-manual/index.html" target=
- "_top">User Manual</a> which describes how to do this. If you intend to
- use Privoxy with Tor, please also have a look at <a href=
- "misc.html#TOR">How do I use Privoxy together with Tor</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="PORT-80" id="PORT-80">3.18. Can I just set
- Privoxy to use port 80 and thus avoid individual browser
- configuration?</a></h3>
-
- <p>No, its more complicated than that. This only works with special
- kinds of proxies known as <span class="QUOTE">"intercepting"</span>
- proxies (<a href="configuration.html#INTERCEPTING">see below</a>).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="TRANSPARENT" id="TRANSPARENT">3.19. Can
- Privoxy run as a <span class="QUOTE">"transparent"</span>
- proxy?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The whole idea of Privoxy is to modify client requests and server
- responses in all sorts of ways and therefore it's not a transparent
- proxy as described in <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616"
- target="_top">RFC 2616</a>.</p>
-
- <p>However, some people say <span class="QUOTE">"transparent
- proxy"</span> when they mean <span class="QUOTE">"intercepting
- proxy"</span>. If you are one of them, please read the <a href=
- "configuration.html#INTERCEPTING">next entry</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="INTERCEPTING" id="INTERCEPTING">3.20. Can
- Privoxy run as a <span class="QUOTE">"intercepting"</span>
- proxy?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can't intercept traffic
- itself, but it can handle requests that where intercepted and
- redirected with a packet filter (like <span class=
- "APPLICATION">PF</span> or <span class="APPLICATION">iptables</span>),
- as long as the <tt class="LITERAL">Host</tt> header is present.</p>
-
- <p>As the <tt class="LITERAL">Host</tt> header is required by HTTP/1.1
- and as most web sites rely on it anyway, this limitation shouldn't be a
- problem.</p>
-
- <p>Please refer to your packet filter's documentation to learn how to
- intercept and redirect traffic into <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Afterward you just have to configure
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS" target=
- "_top">accept intercepted requests</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="OUTLOOK" id="OUTLOOK">3.21. How can I
- configure Privoxy for use with Outlook?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Outlook</span> prior to Office
- 2007, use <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Explorer</span> components
- to both render HTML, and fetch any HTTP requests that may be embedded
- in an HTML email. So however you have <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configured to work with IE, this
- configuration should automatically be shared, at least with older
- version of Internet Explorer.</p>
-
- <p>Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft is instead using the MS-Word
- rendering engine with Outlook. It is unknown whether this can be
- configured to use a proxy.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="OUTLOOK-MORE" id="OUTLOOK-MORE">3.22. How
- can I have separate rules just for HTML mail?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The short answer is, you can't. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has no way of knowing which particular
- application makes a request, so there is no way to distinguish between
- web pages and HTML mail. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> just
- blindly proxies all requests. In the case of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Outlook Express</span> (see above), OE uses IE anyway,
- and there is no way for <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
- ever be able to distinguish between them (nor could any other proxy
- type application for that matter).</p>
-
- <p>For a good discussion of some of the issues involved (including
- privacy and security issues), see <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=629518&group_id=11118"
- target=
- "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=629518&group_id=11118</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SNEAKY-COOKIES" id="SNEAKY-COOKIES">3.23. I
- sometimes notice cookies sneaking through. How?</a></h3>
-
- <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
- "_top">Cookies</a> can be set in several ways. The classic method is
- via the <tt class="LITERAL">Set-Cookie</tt> HTTP header. This is
- straightforward, and an easy one to manipulate, such as the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> concept of <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY" target=
- "_top">session-cookies-only</a>. There is also the possibility of using
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript" target=
- "_top">Javascript</a> to set cookies (<span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> calls these <tt class=
- "LITERAL">content-cookies</tt>). This is trickier because the syntax
- can vary widely, and thus requires a certain amount of guesswork. It is
- not realistic to catch all of these short of disabling Javascript,
- which would break many sites. And lastly, if the cookies are embedded
- in a HTTPS/SSL secure session via Javascript, they are beyond
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> reach.</p>
-
- <p>All in all, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can help manage
- cookies in general, can help minimize the loss of privacy posed by
- cookies, but can't realistically stop all cookies.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="EVIL-COOKIES" id="EVIL-COOKIES">3.24. Are
- all cookies bad? Why?</a></h3>
-
- <p>No, in fact there are many beneficial uses of <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
- "_top">cookies</a>. Cookies are just a method that browsers can use to
- store data between pages, or between browser sessions. Sometimes there
- is a good reason for this, and the user's life is a bit easier as a
- result. But there is a long history of some websites taking advantage
- of this layer of trust, and using the data they glean from you and your
- browsing habits for their own purposes, and maybe to your potential
- detriment. Such sites are using you and storing their data on your
- system. That is why the privacy conscious watch from whom those cookies
- come, and why they really <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">need</i></span> to be there.</p>
-
- <p>See the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie"
- target="_top">Wikipedia cookie definition</a> for more.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="ALLOW-COOKIES" id="ALLOW-COOKIES">3.25. How
- can I allow permanent cookies for my trusted sites?</a></h3>
-
- <p>There are several actions that relate to cookies. The default
- behavior is to allow only <span class="QUOTE">"session cookies"</span>,
- which means the cookies only last for the current browser session. This
- eliminates most kinds of abuse related to cookies. But there may be
- cases where you want cookies to last.</p>
-
- <p>To disable all cookie actions, so that cookies are allowed
- unrestricted, both in and out, for <tt class=
- "LITERAL">example.com</tt>:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ And then use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#PERMIT-ACCESS" target=
+ "_top">permit-access</a> feature to limit connections. A firewall
+ in this situation is recommended as well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The above steps should be the same for any TCP network, regardless
+ of operating system.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you run <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on a LAN with
+ untrusted users, we recommend that you double-check the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL" target="_top">access
+ control and security</a> options!
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="NOSEEUM">3.13. Instead of ads, now I get a checkerboard
+ pattern. I don't want to see anything.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ The replacement for blocked images can be controlled with the <a
+ href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER" target=
+ "_top"><tt class="LITERAL">set-image-blocker</tt> action</a>. You
+ have the choice of a checkerboard pattern, a transparent 1x1 GIF
+ image (aka <span class="QUOTE">"blank"</span>), or a redirect to a
+ custom image of your choice. Note that this choice only has effect
+ for images which are blocked as images, i.e. whose URLs match both
+ a <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE" target=
+ "_top">handle-as-image</a></tt> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">and</i></span> <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK" target=
+ "_top">block</a></tt> action.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you want to see nothing, then change the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER" target=
+ "_top"><tt class="LITERAL">set-image-blocker</tt> action</a> to
+ <span class="QUOTE">"blank"</span>. This can be done by editing the
+ <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> file, or through the <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target="_top">web-based
+ actions file editor</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WHYSEEUM">3.14. Why would anybody want to see a
+ checkerboard pattern?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Remember that <a href="general.html#WHATSANAD">telling which image
+ is an ad and which isn't</a>, is an educated guess. While we hope
+ that the standard configuration is rather smart, it will make
+ occasional mistakes. The checkerboard image is visually decent, and
+ it shows you where images have been blocked, which can be very
+ helpful in case some navigation aid or otherwise innocent image was
+ erroneously blocked. It is recommended for new users so they can
+ <span class="QUOTE">"see"</span> what is happening. Some people
+ might also enjoy seeing how many banners they <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">don't</i></span> have to see.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="BLOCKEDBYTEXT">3.15. I see some images being replaced with
+ text instead of the checkerboard image. Why and how do I get rid of
+ this?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ This happens when the banners are not embedded in the HTML code of
+ the page itself, but in separate HTML (sub)documents that are
+ loaded into (i)frames or (i)layers, and these external HTML
+ documents are blocked. Being non-images they get replaced by a
+ substitute HTML page rather than a substitute image, which wouldn't
+ work out technically, since the browser expects and accepts only
+ HTML when it has requested an HTML document.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The substitute page adapts to the available space and shows itself
+ as a miniature two-liner if loaded into small frames, or full-blown
+ with a large red "BLOCKED" banner if space allows.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you prefer the banners to be blocked by images, you must see to
+ it that the HTML documents in which they are embedded are not
+ blocked. Clicking the <span class="QUOTE">"See why"</span> link
+ offered in the substitute page will show you which rule blocked the
+ page. After changing the rule and un-blocking the HTML documents,
+ the browser will try to load the actual banner images and the usual
+ image blocking will (hopefully!) kick in.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SRVANY">3.16. Can Privoxy run as a service on
+ Win2K/NT/XP?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Yes. Version 3.0.5 introduces full <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Windows</span> service functionality. See <a href=
+ "../user-manual/installation.html#installation-pack-win" target=
+ "_top">the <i class="CITETITLE">User Manual</i></a> for details on
+ how to install and configure <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a service.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Earlier 3.x versions could run as a system service using <b class=
+ "COMMAND">srvany.exe</b>. See the discussion at <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118</a>,
+ for details, and a sample configuration.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="OTHERPROXY">3.17. How can I make Privoxy work with other
+ proxies?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ This can be done and is often useful to combine the benefits of
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with those of a another
+ proxy, for example to cache content. See the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING" target="_top">forwarding
+ chapter</a> in the <a href="../user-manual/index.html" target=
+ "_top">User Manual</a> which describes how to do this. If you
+ intend to use Privoxy with Tor, please also have a look at <a href=
+ "misc.html#TOR">How do I use Privoxy together with Tor</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="PORT-80">3.18. Can I just set Privoxy to use port 80 and
+ thus avoid individual browser configuration?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ No, its more complicated than that. This only works with special
+ kinds of proxies known as <span class="QUOTE">"intercepting"</span>
+ proxies (<a href="configuration.html#INTERCEPTING">see below</a>).
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="TRANSPARENT">3.19. Can Privoxy run as a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"transparent"</span> proxy?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ The whole idea of Privoxy is to modify client requests and server
+ responses in all sorts of ways and therefore it's not a transparent
+ proxy as described in <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616"
+ target="_top">RFC 2616</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ However, some people say <span class="QUOTE">"transparent
+ proxy"</span> when they mean <span class="QUOTE">"intercepting
+ proxy"</span>. If you are one of them, please read the <a href=
+ "configuration.html#INTERCEPTING">next entry</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="INTERCEPTING">3.20. Can Privoxy run as a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"intercepting"</span> proxy?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can't intercept traffic
+ itself, but it can handle requests that where intercepted and
+ redirected with a packet filter (like <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">PF</span> or <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">iptables</span>), as long as the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">Host</tt> header is present.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As the <tt class="LITERAL">Host</tt> header is required by HTTP/1.1
+ and as most web sites rely on it anyway, this limitation shouldn't
+ be a problem.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please refer to your packet filter's documentation to learn how to
+ intercept and redirect traffic into <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Afterward you just have to configure
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS" target=
+ "_top">accept intercepted requests</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="OUTLOOK">3.21. How can I configure Privoxy for use with
+ Outlook?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Outlook</span> prior to
+ Office 2007, use <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Explorer</span>
+ components to both render HTML, and fetch any HTTP requests that
+ may be embedded in an HTML email. So however you have <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configured to work with IE, this
+ configuration should automatically be shared, at least with older
+ version of Internet Explorer.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft is instead using the MS-Word
+ rendering engine with Outlook. It is unknown whether this can be
+ configured to use a proxy.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="OUTLOOK-MORE">3.22. How can I have separate rules just for
+ HTML mail?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ The short answer is, you can't. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has no way of knowing which particular
+ application makes a request, so there is no way to distinguish
+ between web pages and HTML mail. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> just blindly proxies all requests. In
+ the case of <span class="APPLICATION">Outlook Express</span> (see
+ above), OE uses IE anyway, and there is no way for <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to ever be able to distinguish between
+ them (nor could any other proxy type application for that matter).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For a good discussion of some of the issues involved (including
+ privacy and security issues), see <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=629518&group_id=11118"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=629518&group_id=11118</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SNEAKY-COOKIES">3.23. I sometimes notice cookies sneaking
+ through. How?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
+ "_top">Cookies</a> can be set in several ways. The classic method
+ is via the <tt class="LITERAL">Set-Cookie</tt> HTTP header. This is
+ straightforward, and an easy one to manipulate, such as the <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> concept of <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY" target=
+ "_top">session-cookies-only</a>. There is also the possibility of
+ using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript" target=
+ "_top">Javascript</a> to set cookies (<span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> calls these <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">content-cookies</tt>). This is trickier because the
+ syntax can vary widely, and thus requires a certain amount of
+ guesswork. It is not realistic to catch all of these short of
+ disabling Javascript, which would break many sites. And lastly, if
+ the cookies are embedded in a HTTPS/SSL secure session via
+ Javascript, they are beyond <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> reach.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ All in all, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can help
+ manage cookies in general, can help minimize the loss of privacy
+ posed by cookies, but can't realistically stop all cookies.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="EVIL-COOKIES">3.24. Are all cookies bad? Why?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ No, in fact there are many beneficial uses of <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
+ "_top">cookies</a>. Cookies are just a method that browsers can use
+ to store data between pages, or between browser sessions. Sometimes
+ there is a good reason for this, and the user's life is a bit
+ easier as a result. But there is a long history of some websites
+ taking advantage of this layer of trust, and using the data they
+ glean from you and your browsing habits for their own purposes, and
+ maybe to your potential detriment. Such sites are using you and
+ storing their data on your system. That is why the privacy
+ conscious watch from whom those cookies come, and why they really
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">need</i></span> to be
+ there.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ See the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie"
+ target="_top">Wikipedia cookie definition</a> for more.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ALLOW-COOKIES">3.25. How can I allow permanent cookies for
+ my trusted sites?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ There are several actions that relate to cookies. The default
+ behavior is to allow only <span class="QUOTE">"session
+ cookies"</span>, which means the cookies only last for the current
+ browser session. This eliminates most kinds of abuse related to
+ cookies. But there may be cases where you want cookies to last.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To disable all cookie actions, so that cookies are allowed
+ unrestricted, both in and out, for <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">example.com</tt>:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ -crunch-incoming-cookies -crunch-outgoing-cookies -session-cookies-only -filter{content-cookies} }
.example.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Place the above in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>. Note that
- some of these may be off by default anyway, so this might be redundant,
- but there is no harm being explicit in what you want to happen.
- <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> includes an alias for this
- situation, called <tt class="LITERAL">allow-all-cookies</tt>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="MULTIPLES" id="MULTIPLES">3.26. Can I have
- separate configurations for different users?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Each instance of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has its
- own configuration, including such attributes as the TCP port that it
- listens on. What you can do is run multiple instances of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, each with a unique <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS" target=
- "_top">listen-address</a> configuration setting, and configuration
- path, and then each of these can have their own configurations. Think
- of it as per-port configuration.</p>
-
- <p>Simple enough for a few users, but for large installations, consider
- having groups of users that might share like configurations.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHITELISTS" id="WHITELISTS">3.27. Can I
- set-up Privoxy as a whitelist of <span class="QUOTE">"good"</span>
- sites?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Sure. There are a couple of things you can do for simple
- white-listing. Here's one real easy one:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Place the above in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>. Note that
+ some of these may be off by default anyway, so this might be
+ redundant, but there is no harm being explicit in what you want to
+ happen. <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> includes an alias for
+ this situation, called <tt class="LITERAL">allow-all-cookies</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="MULTIPLES">3.26. Can I have separate configurations for
+ different users?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Each instance of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has its
+ own configuration, including such attributes as the TCP port that
+ it listens on. What you can do is run multiple instances of <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, each with a unique <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS" target=
+ "_top">listen-address</a> configuration setting, and configuration
+ path, and then each of these can have their own configurations.
+ Think of it as per-port configuration.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Simple enough for a few users, but for large installations,
+ consider having groups of users that might share like
+ configurations.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WHITELISTS">3.27. Can I set-up Privoxy as a whitelist of
+ <span class="QUOTE">"good"</span> sites?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Sure. There are a couple of things you can do for simple
+ white-listing. Here's one real easy one:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
############################################################
# Blacklist
############################################################
toys.example.com
games.example.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>This allows access to only those three sites by first blocking all
- URLs, and then subsequently allowing three specific exceptions.</p>
-
- <p>Another approach is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span>
- <tt class="LITERAL">trustfile</tt> concept, which incorporates the
- notion of <span class="QUOTE">"trusted referrers"</span>. See the
- <a href="../user-manual/config.html#TRUSTFILE" target="_top">Trust
- documentation</a> for details.</p>
-
- <p>These are fairly simple approaches and are not completely foolproof.
- There are various other configuration options that should be disabled
- (described elsewhere here and in <a href="../user-manual/" target=
- "_top">the User Manual</a>) so that users can't modify their own
- configuration and easily circumvent the whitelist.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NO-ADBLOCK" id="NO-ADBLOCK">3.28. How can I
- turn off ad-blocking?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Ad blocking is achieved through a complex application of various
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html" target="_top">actions</a>. These
- actions are deployed against simple images, banners, flash animations,
- text pages, JavaScript, pop-ups and pop-unders, etc., so its not as
- simple as just turning one or two actions off. The various actions that
- make up <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ad blocking are
- hard-coded into the default configuration files. It has been assumed
- that everyone using <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is
- interested in this particular feature.</p>
-
- <p>If you want to do without this, there are several approaches you can
- take: You can manually undo the many block rules in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt>. Or even easier, just create your own
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file from scratch without the
- many ad blocking rules, and corresponding exceptions. Or lastly, if you
- are not concerned about the additional blocks that are done for privacy
- reasons, you can very easily over-ride <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">all</i></span> blocking with the following very simple rule
- in your <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ This allows access to only those three sites by first blocking all
+ URLs, and then subsequently allowing three specific exceptions.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Another approach is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> <tt
+ class="LITERAL">trustfile</tt> concept, which incorporates the
+ notion of <span class="QUOTE">"trusted referrers"</span>. See the
+ <a href="../user-manual/config.html#TRUSTFILE" target="_top">Trust
+ documentation</a> for details.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ These are fairly simple approaches and are not completely
+ foolproof. There are various other configuration options that
+ should be disabled (described elsewhere here and in <a href=
+ "../user-manual/" target="_top">the User Manual</a>) so that users
+ can't modify their own configuration and easily circumvent the
+ whitelist.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="NO-ADBLOCK">3.28. How can I turn off ad-blocking?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Ad blocking is achieved through a complex application of various
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html" target="_top">actions</a>. These
+ actions are deployed against simple images, banners, flash
+ animations, text pages, JavaScript, pop-ups and pop-unders, etc.,
+ so its not as simple as just turning one or two actions off. The
+ various actions that make up <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ad blocking are hard-coded into the
+ default configuration files. It has been assumed that everyone
+ using <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is interested in
+ this particular feature.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you want to do without this, there are several approaches you
+ can take: You can manually undo the many block rules in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt>. Or even easier, just create your
+ own <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file from scratch
+ without the many ad blocking rules, and corresponding exceptions.
+ Or lastly, if you are not concerned about the additional blocks
+ that are done for privacy reasons, you can very easily over-ride
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> blocking
+ with the following very simple rule in your <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt>:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Unblock everybody, everywhere
{ <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK" target=
"_top">-block</a> }
/ # UN-Block *all* URLs
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Or even a more comprehensive reversing of various ad related
- actions:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Or even a more comprehensive reversing of various ad related
+ actions:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Unblock everybody, everywhere, and turn off appropriate filtering, etc
{ <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK" target=
"_top">-block</a> \
}
/ # UN-Block *all* URLs and allow ads
</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ This last <span class="QUOTE">"action"</span> in this compound
+ statement, <tt class="LITERAL">allow-popups</tt>, is an <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ALIASES" target="_top">alias</a>
+ that disables various pop-up blocking features.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="TEMPLATES">3.29. How can I have custom template pages,
+ like the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">BLOCKED</i></span> page?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"templates"</span> are specialized text files utilized by
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> for various purposes and
+ can easily be modified using any text editor. All the template
+ pages are installed in a sub-directory appropriately named: <tt
+ class="FILENAME">templates</tt>. Knowing something about HTML
+ syntax will of course be helpful.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Be forewarned that the default templates are subject to being
+ overwritten during upgrades. You can, however, create completely
+ new templates, place them in another directory and specify the
+ alternate path in the main <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt>. For
+ details, have a look at the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#templdir" target="_top">templdir</a>
+ option.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="BLOCKALL">3.30. How can I remove the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Go There Anyway"</span> link from the <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">BLOCKED</i></span> page?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ There is more than one way to do it (although Perl is not
+ involved).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Editing the BLOCKED template page (see above) may dissuade some
+ users, but this method is easily circumvented. Where you need this
+ level of control, you might want to build <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> from source, and disable various
+ features that are available as compile-time options. You should <b
+ class="COMMAND">configure</b> the sources as follows:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ ./configure --disable-toggle --disable-editor --disable-force
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ This will create an executable with hard-coded security features so
+ that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does not allow easy
+ bypassing of blocked sites, or changing the current configuration
+ via any connected user's web browser.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Finally, all of these features can also be toggled on/off via
+ options in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> main <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL" target=
+ "_top">config</a> file which means you don't have to recompile
+ anything.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="installation.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="misc.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>This last <span class="QUOTE">"action"</span> in this compound
- statement, <tt class="LITERAL">allow-popups</tt>, is an <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ALIASES" target="_top">alias</a> that
- disables various pop-up blocking features.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="TEMPLATES" id="TEMPLATES">3.29. How can I
- have custom template pages, like the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">BLOCKED</i></span> page?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <span class=
- "QUOTE">"templates"</span> are specialized text files utilized by
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> for various purposes and can
- easily be modified using any text editor. All the template pages are
- installed in a sub-directory appropriately named: <tt class=
- "FILENAME">templates</tt>. Knowing something about HTML syntax will of
- course be helpful.</p>
-
- <p>Be forewarned that the default templates are subject to being
- overwritten during upgrades. You can, however, create completely new
- templates, place them in another directory and specify the alternate
- path in the main <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt>. For details, have a
- look at the <a href="../user-manual/config.html#templdir" target=
- "_top">templdir</a> option.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="BLOCKALL" id="BLOCKALL">3.30. How can I
- remove the <span class="QUOTE">"Go There Anyway"</span> link from the
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">BLOCKED</i></span>
- page?</a></h3>
-
- <p>There is more than one way to do it (although Perl is not
- involved).</p>
-
- <p>Editing the BLOCKED template page (see above) may dissuade some
- users, but this method is easily circumvented. Where you need this
- level of control, you might want to build <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> from source, and disable various features
- that are available as compile-time options. You should <b class=
- "COMMAND">configure</b> the sources as follows:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- ./configure --disable-toggle --disable-editor --disable-force
-</pre>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Installation
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Miscellaneous
</td>
</tr>
</table>
-
- <p>This will create an executable with hard-coded security features so
- that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does not allow easy
- bypassing of blocked sites, or changing the current configuration via
- any connected user's web browser.</p>
-
- <p>Finally, all of these features can also be toggled on/off via
- options in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> main <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL" target="_top">config</a>
- file which means you don't have to recompile anything.</p>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="installation.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="misc.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Installation</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Miscellaneous</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature
- Requests</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
- "index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Troubleshooting" href="trouble.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Privoxy Copyright, License and History" href=
- "copyright.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Frequently Asked
- Questions</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="trouble.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "copyright.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="CONTACT" id="CONTACT">6. Contacting the
- developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</a></h1>
-
- <p>We value your feedback. In fact, we rely on it to improve <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and its configuration. However, please note
- the following hints, so we can provide you with the best support.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="SUFFICIENT-INFORMATION" id=
- "SUFFICIENT-INFORMATION">6.1. Please provide sufficient
- information</a></h2>
-
- <p>A lot of support requests don't contain enough information and can't
- be solved without a lot of back and forth which causes unnecessary
- delays. Reading this section should help to prevent that.</p>
-
- <p>Before contacting us to report a problem, please try to verify that
- it is a <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> problem, and not a
- browser or site problem or documented behaviour that just happens to be
- different than what you expected. If unsure, try <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=disable" target="_top">toggling
- off</a> <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, and see if the
- problem persists.</p>
-
- <p>If you are using your own custom configuration, please try the
- default configuration to see if the problem is configuration related.
- If you're having problems with a feature that is disabled by default,
- please ask around on the mailing list if others can reproduce the
- problem.</p>
-
- <p>If you aren't using the latest Privoxy version, the problem may have
- been found and fixed in the meantime. We would appreciate if you could
- take the time to <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/installation.html" target=
- "_top">upgrade to the latest version</a> and verify that the problem
- still exists.</p>
-
- <p>Please be sure to provide the following information when reporting
- problems or requesting support:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>The exact <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version you
- are using.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The operating system and versions you run <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on, e.g. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Windows XP SP2</span>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The name, platform, and version of the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">browser</span> you were using (e.g. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Internet Explorer v5.5</span> for Mac).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The URL where the problem occurred, or some way for us to
- duplicate the problem (e.g. <tt class=
- "LITERAL">http://somesite.example.com/?somethingelse=123</tt>).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Whether your version of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- is one supplied by the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- developers via SourceForge, or if you got your copy somewhere
- else.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Whether you are using <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- together with another proxy such as <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Tor</span>. If so, please temporary disable the other
- proxy to see if the symptoms change.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Whether you are using a personal firewall product. If so, does
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> work without it?</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Any other pertinent information to help identify the problem
- such as config or log file excerpts (yes, you should have log file
- entries for each action taken). To get a meaningful logfile, please
- make sure that the <a href="../user-manual/config.html#LOGFILE"
- target="_top">logfile directive</a> is being used and the following
- <a href="../user-manual/config.html#DEBUG" target="_top">debug
- options</a> are enabled (all of them):</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- debug 1 # Log the destination for each request Privoxy let through. See also debug 1024.<br>
-
- debug 2 # show each connection status<br>
-
- debug 4 # show I/O status<br>
-
- debug 8 # show header parsing<br>
-
- debug 128 # debug redirects<br>
- debug 256 # debug GIF de-animation<br>
-
- debug 512 # Common Log Format<br>
-
- debug 1024 # Log the destination for requests Privoxy didn't let through, and the reason why.<br>
-
- debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings.<br>
-
- debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors</p>
-
- <p>If you are having trouble with a filter, please additionally
- enable</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- debug 64 # debug regular expression filters</p>If
- you are using Privoxy 3.0.17 or later and suspect that it
- interprets the request or the response incorrectly, please enable
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- debug 32768 # log all data read from the network</p>
-
- <p>It's easy for us to ignore log messages that aren't relevant but
- missing log messages may make it impossible to investigate a
- problem. If you aren't sure which of the debug directives are
- relevant, please just enable all of them and let us worry about
- it.</p>
-
- <p>Note that Privoxy log files may contain sensitive information so
- please don't submit any logfiles you didn't read first. You can
- mask sensitive information as long as it's clear that you removed
- something.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>You don't have to tell us your actual name when filing a problem
- report, but if you don't, please use a nickname so we can differentiate
- between your messages and the ones entered by other "anonymous" users
- that may respond to your request if they have the same problem or
- already found a solution. Note that due to spam the trackers may not
- always allow to post without being logged into SourceForge. If that's
- the case, you are still free to create a login that isn't directly
- linked to your name, though.</p>
-
- <p>Please also check the status of your request a few days after
- submitting it, as we may request additional information. If you use a
- SF id, you should automatically get a mail when someone responds to
- your request. Please don't bother to add an email address when using
- the tracker. If you prefer to communicate through email, just use one
- of the mailing lists directly.</p>
-
- <p>If you are new to reporting problems, you might be interested in
- <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html" target=
- "_top">How to Report Bugs Effectively</a>.</p>
-
- <p>The <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT" target=
- "_top">appendix of the Privoxy User Manual</a> also has helpful
- information on understanding <tt class="LITERAL">actions</tt>, and
- <tt class="LITERAL">action</tt> debugging.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="CONTACT-SUPPORT" id="CONTACT-SUPPORT">6.2.
- Get Support</a></h2>
-
- <p>All users are welcome to discuss their issues on the <a href=
- "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-users" target=
- "_top">users mailing list</a>, where the developers also hang
- around.</p>
-
- <p>Please don't send private support requests to individual Privoxy
- developers, either use the mailing lists or the support trackers.</p>
-
- <p>If you have to contact a Privoxy developer directly for other
- reasons, please send a real mail and do not bother with SourceForge's
- messaging system. Answers to SourceForge messages are usually bounced
- by SourceForge's mail server in which case the developer wasted time
- writing a response you don't get. From your point of view it will look
- like your message has been completely ignored, so this is frustrating
- for all parties involved.</p>
-
- <p>Note that the Privoxy mailing lists are moderated. Posts from
- unsubscribed addresses have to be accepted manually by a moderator.
- This may cause a delay of several days and if you use a subject that
- doesn't clearly mention Privoxy or one of its features, your message
- may be accidentally discarded as spam.</p>
-
- <p>If you aren't subscribed, you should therefore spend a few seconds
- to come up with a proper subject. Additionally you should make it clear
- that you want to get CC'd. Otherwise some responses will be directed to
- the mailing list only, and you won't see them.</p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
+ "index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Troubleshooting" href="trouble.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Privoxy Copyright, License and History" href=
+ "copyright.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="trouble.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="copyright.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="REPORTING" id="REPORTING">6.3. Reporting
- Problems</a></h2>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"Problems"</span> for our purposes, come in two
- forms:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Configuration issues, such as ads that slip through, or sites
- that don't function properly due to one <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <span class="QUOTE">"action"</span> or
- another being turned <span class="QUOTE">"on"</span>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"Bugs"</span> in the programming code that
- makes up <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, such as that
- might cause a crash. Documentation issues, for example spelling
- errors and unclear descriptions, are bugs, too.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="CONTACT-ADS" id="CONTACT-ADS">6.3.1.
- Reporting Ads or Other Configuration Problems</a></h3>
-
- <p>Please send feedback on ads that slipped through, innocent images
- that were blocked, sites that don't work properly, and other
- configuration related problem of <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt> file, to <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288"
- target=
- "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288</a>,
- the Actions File Tracker.</p>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="CONTACT">6. Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and
+ Feature Requests</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ We value your feedback. In fact, we rely on it to improve <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and its configuration. However,
+ please note the following hints, so we can provide you with the best
+ support.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SUFFICIENT-INFORMATION">6.1. Please provide sufficient
+ information</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ A lot of support requests don't contain enough information and
+ can't be solved without a lot of back and forth which causes
+ unnecessary delays. Reading this section should help to prevent
+ that.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Before contacting us to report a problem, please try to verify that
+ it is a <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> problem, and not a
+ browser or site problem or documented behaviour that just happens
+ to be different than what you expected. If unsure, try <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=disable" target=
+ "_top">toggling off</a> <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
+ and see if the problem persists.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are using your own custom configuration, please try the
+ default configuration to see if the problem is configuration
+ related. If you're having problems with a feature that is disabled
+ by default, please ask around on the mailing list if others can
+ reproduce the problem.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you aren't using the latest Privoxy version, the problem may
+ have been found and fixed in the meantime. We would appreciate if
+ you could take the time to <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/installation.html" target=
+ "_top">upgrade to the latest version</a> and verify that the
+ problem still exists.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please be sure to provide the following information when reporting
+ problems or requesting support:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The exact <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version you
+ are using.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The operating system and versions you run <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on, e.g. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Windows XP SP2</span>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The name, platform, and version of the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">browser</span> you were using (e.g. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Internet Explorer v5.5</span> for Mac).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The URL where the problem occurred, or some way for us to
+ duplicate the problem (e.g. <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">http://somesite.example.com/?somethingelse=123</tt>).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Whether your version of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is one supplied by the <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> developers via SourceForge,
+ or if you got your copy somewhere else.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Whether you are using <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ together with another proxy such as <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span>. If so, please temporary disable the
+ other proxy to see if the symptoms change.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Whether you are using a personal firewall product. If so, does
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> work without it?
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Any other pertinent information to help identify the problem
+ such as config or log file excerpts (yes, you should have log
+ file entries for each action taken). To get a meaningful
+ logfile, please make sure that the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#LOGFILE" target="_top">logfile
+ directive</a> is being used and the following <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#DEBUG" target="_top">debug
+ options</a> are enabled (all of them):
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ debug 1 # Log the destination for each request Privoxy let through. See also debug 1024.<br>
+
+ debug 2 # show each connection status<br>
+
+ debug 4 # show I/O status<br>
+
+ debug 8 # show header parsing<br>
+
+ debug 128 # debug redirects<br>
+
+ debug 256 # debug GIF de-animation<br>
+
+ debug 512 # Common Log Format<br>
+
+ debug 1024 # Log the destination for requests Privoxy didn't let through, and the reason why.<br>
+
+ debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings.<br>
+
+ debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ If you are having trouble with a filter, please additionally
+ enable
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ debug 64 # debug regular expression filters
+ </p>
+ If you are using Privoxy 3.0.17 or later and suspect that it
+ interprets the request or the response incorrectly, please enable
+
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ debug 32768 # log all data read from the network
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ It's easy for us to ignore log messages that aren't relevant
+ but missing log messages may make it impossible to investigate
+ a problem. If you aren't sure which of the debug directives are
+ relevant, please just enable all of them and let us worry about
+ it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that Privoxy log files may contain sensitive information
+ so please don't submit any logfiles you didn't read first. You
+ can mask sensitive information as long as it's clear that you
+ removed something.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ You don't have to tell us your actual name when filing a problem
+ report, but if you don't, please use a nickname so we can
+ differentiate between your messages and the ones entered by other
+ "anonymous" users that may respond to your request if they have the
+ same problem or already found a solution. Note that due to spam the
+ trackers may not always allow to post without being logged into
+ SourceForge. If that's the case, you are still free to create a
+ login that isn't directly linked to your name, though.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please also check the status of your request a few days after
+ submitting it, as we may request additional information. If you use
+ a SF id, you should automatically get a mail when someone responds
+ to your request. Please don't bother to add an email address when
+ using the tracker. If you prefer to communicate through email, just
+ use one of the mailing lists directly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are new to reporting problems, you might be interested in <a
+ href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html"
+ target="_top">How to Report Bugs Effectively</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT"
+ target="_top">appendix of the Privoxy User Manual</a> also has
+ helpful information on understanding <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">actions</tt>, and <tt class="LITERAL">action</tt>
+ debugging.
+ </p>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="CONTACT-BUGS" id="CONTACT-BUGS">6.3.2.
- Reporting Bugs</a></h3>
-
- <p>Before reporting bugs, please make sure that the bug has
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not already been
- submitted</i></span> and observe the additional hints at the top of
- the <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=11118&atid=111118"
- target="_top">submit form</a>. If already submitted, please feel free
- to add any info to the original report that might help to solve the
- issue.</p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CONTACT-SUPPORT">6.2. Get Support</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ All users are welcome to discuss their issues on the <a href=
+ "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-users" target=
+ "_top">users mailing list</a>, where the developers also hang
+ around.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please don't send private support requests to individual Privoxy
+ developers, either use the mailing lists or the support trackers.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you have to contact a Privoxy developer directly for other
+ reasons, please send a real mail and do not bother with
+ SourceForge's messaging system. Answers to SourceForge messages are
+ usually bounced by SourceForge's mail server in which case the
+ developer wasted time writing a response you don't get. From your
+ point of view it will look like your message has been completely
+ ignored, so this is frustrating for all parties involved.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that the Privoxy mailing lists are moderated. Posts from
+ unsubscribed addresses have to be accepted manually by a moderator.
+ This may cause a delay of several days and if you use a subject
+ that doesn't clearly mention Privoxy or one of its features, your
+ message may be accidentally discarded as spam.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you aren't subscribed, you should therefore spend a few seconds
+ to come up with a proper subject. Additionally you should make it
+ clear that you want to get CC'd. Otherwise some responses will be
+ directed to the mailing list only, and you won't see them.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="REPORTING">6.3. Reporting Problems</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Problems"</span> for our purposes, come in two
+ forms:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Configuration issues, such as ads that slip through, or sites
+ that don't function properly due to one <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"action"</span> or another being turned <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"on"</span>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Bugs"</span> in the programming code that
+ makes up <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, such as that
+ might cause a crash. Documentation issues, for example spelling
+ errors and unclear descriptions, are bugs, too.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CONTACT-ADS">6.3.1. Reporting Ads or Other Configuration
+ Problems</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Please send feedback on ads that slipped through, innocent images
+ that were blocked, sites that don't work properly, and other
+ configuration related problem of <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt> file, to <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288</a>,
+ the Actions File Tracker.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CONTACT-BUGS">6.3.2. Reporting Bugs</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Before reporting bugs, please make sure that the bug has <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not already been
+ submitted</i></span> and observe the additional hints at the top
+ of the <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=11118&atid=111118"
+ target="_top">submit form</a>. If already submitted, please feel
+ free to add any info to the original report that might help to
+ solve the issue.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SECURITY-CONTACT">6.4. Reporting security problems</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ If you discovered a security problem or merely suspect that a bug
+ might be a security issue, please mail Fabian Keil
+ <fk@fabiankeil.de> (OpenPGP fingerprint: 4F36 C17F 3816 9136
+ 54A1 E850 6918 2291 8BA2 371C).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Usually you should get a response within a day, otherwise it's
+ likely that either your mail or the response didn't make it. If
+ that happens, please mail to the developer list to request a status
+ update.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="MAILING-LISTS">6.5. Mailing Lists</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ If you prefer to communicate through email, instead of using a web
+ interface, feel free to use one of the mailing lists. To discuss
+ issues that haven't been completely diagnosed yet, please use the
+ Privoxy users list. Technically interested users and people who
+ wish to contribute to the project are always welcome on the
+ developers list. You can find an overview of all <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>-related mailing lists, including list
+ archives, at: <a href="https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo"
+ target="_top">https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo</a>. The
+ lists hosted on privoxy.org have been created in 2016, the
+ previously-used lists hosted at SourceForge are deprecated but the
+ archives may still be useful: <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=11118" target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=11118</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SF-TRACKERS">6.6. SourceForge support trackers</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=211118"
+ target="_top">SourceForge support trackers</a> may be used as well,
+ but have various technical problems that are unlikely to be fixed
+ anytime soon. If you don't get a timely response, please try the
+ mailing list as well. While it's hosted at SourceForge as well, it
+ usually works as expected.
+ </p>
</div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="SECURITY-CONTACT" id="SECURITY-CONTACT">6.4.
- Reporting security problems</a></h2>
-
- <p>If you discovered a security problem or merely suspect that a bug
- might be a security issue, please mail Fabian Keil
- <fk@fabiankeil.de> (OpenPGP fingerprint: 4F36 C17F 3816 9136 54A1
- E850 6918 2291 8BA2 371C).</p>
-
- <p>Usually you should get a response within a day, otherwise it's
- likely that either your mail or the response didn't make it. If that
- happens, please mail to the developer list to request a status
- update.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="MAILING-LISTS" id="MAILING-LISTS">6.5.
- Mailing Lists</a></h2>
-
- <p>If you prefer to communicate through email, instead of using a web
- interface, feel free to use one of the mailing lists. To discuss issues
- that haven't been completely diagnosed yet, please use the Privoxy
- users list. Technically interested users and people who wish to
- contribute to the project are always welcome on the developers list.
- You can find an overview of all <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>-related mailing lists, including list
- archives, at: <a href="https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo"
- target="_top">https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo</a>. The lists
- hosted on privoxy.org have been created in 2016, the previously-used
- lists hosted at SourceForge are deprecated but the archives may still
- be useful: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=11118"
- target="_top">https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=11118</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="SF-TRACKERS" id="SF-TRACKERS">6.6.
- SourceForge support trackers</a></h2>
-
- <p>The <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=211118"
- target="_top">SourceForge support trackers</a> may be used as well, but
- have various technical problems that are unlikely to be fixed anytime
- soon. If you don't get a timely response, please try the mailing list
- as well. While it's hosted at SourceForge as well, it usually works as
- expected.</p>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="trouble.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="copyright.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Troubleshooting
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Privoxy Copyright, License and History
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="trouble.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="copyright.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Troubleshooting</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Privoxy Copyright, License
- and History</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Privoxy Copyright, License and History</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
- "index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title=
- "Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests" href=
- "contact.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Frequently Asked
- Questions</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="contact.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"> </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy
- Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
-
- <p>Copyright © 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
- "EMAIL"><<a href=
- "mailto:privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org">privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org</a>></code></p>
-
- <p>Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous
- Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
- "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.</p>
-
- <p>Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
- from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm) FAQ,
- and modified as appropriate for <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1480" id="AEN1480">7.1. License</a></h2>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
- redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
- "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published by
- the Free Software Foundation.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is distributed in the hope
- that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
- implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. See the <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#LICENSE" target=
- "_top"><i class="CITETITLE">license</i></a> for details.</p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Privoxy Copyright, License and History
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
+ "index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title=
+ "Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests" href=
+ "contact.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="contact.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN1489" id="AEN1489">7.2. History</a></h2>
-
- <p>A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
- Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
- This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
- advertising and user tracking.</p>
-
- <p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
- techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
- browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
- 2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release, available from
- Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the
- GNU <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
- target="_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
-
- <p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
- software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
- It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
- first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
- the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
- support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
- last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
- 2000.</p>
-
- <p>Then, some <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
- "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
- software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
- <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
- target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
-
- <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
- whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
-
- <p>As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
- (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is still
- actively maintained.</p>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="COPYRIGHT">7. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ Copyright © 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
+ "EMAIL"><<a href=
+ "mailto:privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org">privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org</a>></code>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous
+ Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
+ "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Portions of this document are <span class="QUOTE">"borrowed"</span>
+ from the original <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> (tm)
+ FAQ, and modified as appropriate for <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="AEN1505">7.1. License</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
+ redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
+ "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published
+ by the Free Software Foundation.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is distributed in the hope
+ that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
+ implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+ PURPOSE. See the <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#LICENSE"
+ target="_top"><i class="CITETITLE">license</i></a> for details.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="AEN1514">7.2. History</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
+ Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
+ This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
+ advertising and user tracking.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
+ techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
+ browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not.
+ Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release,
+ available from Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been
+ released under the GNU <a href=
+ "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
+ "_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
+ software, to which eventually a number of people contributed
+ patches. It could already replace banners with a transparent image,
+ and had a first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very
+ closely based on the original, with all its limitations, such as
+ the lack of HTTP/1.1 support, flexible per-site configuration, or
+ content modification. The last release from this effort was version
+ 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Then, some <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
+ target="_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started
+ turning the software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled
+ it, adding many <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
+ target="_top">new features</a> along the way.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
+ whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
+ (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is
+ still actively maintained.
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="contact.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"> </td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Contacting the developers,
- Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"> </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="contact.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>General Information</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
- "index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
- "index.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Installation" href="installation.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Frequently Asked
- Questions</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "installation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="GENERAL" id="GENERAL">1. General
- Information</a></h1>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHO-USES" id="WHO-USES">1.1. Who should give
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> a try?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Anyone who is interested in security, privacy, or in finer-grained
- control over their web and Internet experience.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="BESTCHOICE" id="BESTCHOICE">1.2. Is Privoxy
- the best choice for me?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is certainly a good choice,
- especially for those who want more control and security. Those with the
- willingness to read the documentation and the ability to fine-tune
- their installation will benefit the most.</p>
-
- <p>One of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> strengths is that
- it is highly configurable giving you the ability to completely
- personalize your installation. Being familiar with, or at least having
- an interest in learning about <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http" target="_top">HTTP</a> and other
- networking protocols, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html"
- target="_top">HTML</a>, and <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
- "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a> will be a
- big plus and will help you get the most out of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. A new installation just includes a very
- basic configuration. The user should take this as a starting point
- only, and enhance it as he or she sees fit. In fact, the user is
- encouraged, and expected to, fine-tune the configuration.</p>
-
- <p>Much of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration can
- be done with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser"
- target="_top">Web browser</a>. But there are areas where configuration
- is done using a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editors"
- target="_top">text editor</a> to edit configuration files. Also note
- that the web-based action editor doesn't use authentication and should
- only be enabled in environments where all clients with access to
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> listening port can be
- trusted.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="PROXYMORON" id="PROXYMORON">1.3. What is a
- <span class="QUOTE">"proxy"</span>? How does Privoxy work?</a></h3>
-
- <p>A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" target=
- "_top">web proxy</a> is a service, based on a software such as
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, that clients (i.e. browsers)
- can use instead of connecting to web servers directly. The clients then
- ask the proxy to request objects (web pages, images, movies etc) on
- their behalf and to forward the data to the clients. It is a
- <span class="QUOTE">"go-between"</span>. For details, see <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" target="_top">Wikipedia's
- proxy definition</a>.</p>
-
- <p>There are many reasons to use web proxies, such as security
- (firewalling), efficiency (caching) and others, and there are any
- number of proxies to accommodate those needs.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is a proxy that is
- primarily focused on privacy enhancement, ad and junk elimination and
- freeing the user from restrictions placed on his activities. Sitting
- between your browser(s) and the Internet, it is in a perfect position
- to filter outbound personal information that your browser is leaking,
- as well as inbound junk. It uses a variety of techniques to do this,
- all of which are under your complete control via the various
- configuration files and options. Being a proxy also makes it easier to
- share configurations among multiple browsers and/or users.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="OTHERSTUFF" id="OTHERSTUFF">1.4. Does
- Privoxy do anything more than ad blocking?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Yes, ad blocking is but one possible use. There are many, many ways
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can be used to sanitize and
- customize web browsing.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NEWJB" id="NEWJB">1.5. What is this new
- version of <span class="QUOTE">"Junkbuster"</span>?</a></h3>
-
- <p>A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
- Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
- This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
- advertising and user tracking.</p>
-
- <p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
- techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
- browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
- 2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release, available from
- Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the
- GNU <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
- target="_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
-
- <p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
- software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
- It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
- first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
- the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
- support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
- last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
- 2000.</p>
-
- <p>Then, some <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
- "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
- software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
- <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
- target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
-
- <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
- whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
-
- <p>As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
- (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is still
- actively maintained.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHYPRIVOXY" id="WHYPRIVOXY">1.6. Why
- <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span>? Why change the name from
- Junkbuster at all?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Though outdated, Junkbusters Corporation continued to offer their
- original version of the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
- Junkbuster</span> for a while, so publishing our <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span>-derived software under the same name
- would have led to confusion.</p>
-
- <p>There were also potential legal reasons not to use the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> name, as it was (and maybe still is) a
- registered trademark of Junkbusters Corporation. There were, however,
- no objections from Junkbusters Corporation to the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> project itself, and they, in fact, shared
- our ideals and goals.</p>
-
- <p>The Privoxy developers also believed that there were so many
- improvements over the original code, that it was time to make a clean
- break from the past and make a name in their own right.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Privacy Enhancing
- Proxy</i></span>"</span>. Also, its content modification and junk
- suppression gives <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">you</i></span>, the user, more control, more freedom, and
- allows you to browse your personal and <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">private</i></span>
- edition"</span> of the web.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="DIFFERS" id="DIFFERS">1.7. How does Privoxy
- differ from the old Junkbuster?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> picks up where <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> left off. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> still blocks ads and banners, still
- manages <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
- "_top">cookies</a>, and still helps protect your privacy. But, most of
- these features have been enhanced, and many new ones have been added,
- all in the same vein.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s new features include:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be
- kept alive independently from the client.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too, and
- the configure script detects it.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on
- client and server headers.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need
- to configure browsers individually.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server
- and client headers.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Can be chained with other proxies.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Integrated browser-based configuration and control utility at
- <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> (shortcut: <a href=
- "http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>). Browser-based tracing
- of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on
- size, invisible <span class="QUOTE">"web-bugs"</span> and HTML
- annoyances, etc.)</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and
- user settings to reside in separate files, so that installing
- updated actions files won't overwrite individual user settings.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the
- configuration files, and a more sophisticated and flexible
- configuration syntax.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>GIF de-animation.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script
- redirection).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages
- (e.g. "blocked" page).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location
- basis.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Many smaller new features added, limitations and bugs
- removed.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ General Information
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
+ "index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
+ "index.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Installation" href="installation.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="installation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHATSANAD" id="WHATSANAD">1.8. How does
- Privoxy know what is an ad, and what is not?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s approach to blocking ads
- is twofold:</p>
-
- <p>First, there are certain patterns in the <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">locations</i></span> (URLs) of banner
- images. This applies to both the path (you wouldn't guess how many web
- sites serve their banners from a directory called <span class=
- "QUOTE">"banners"</span>!) and the host (blocking the big banner
- hosting services like doublecklick.net already helps a lot).
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> takes advantage of this fact
- by using <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS" target=
- "_top">URL patterns</a> to sort out and block the requests for things
- that sound like they would be ads or banners.</p>
-
- <p>Second, banners tend to come in certain <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">sizes</i></span>. But you can't tell the
- size of an image by its URL without downloading it, and if you do, it's
- too late to save bandwidth. Therefore, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> also inspects the HTML sources of web
- pages while they are loaded, and replaces references to images with
- standard banner sizes by dummy references, so that your browser doesn't
- request them anymore in the first place.</p>
-
- <p>Both of this involves a certain amount of guesswork and is, of
- course, freely and readily configurable.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="MISTAKES" id="MISTAKES">1.9. Can Privoxy
- make mistakes? This does not sound very scientific.</a></h3>
-
- <p>Actually, it's a black art ;-) And yes, it is always possible to
- have a broad rule accidentally block or change something by mistake.
- You will almost surely run into such situations at some point. It is
- tricky writing rules to cover every conceivable possibility, and not
- occasionally get false positives.</p>
-
- <p>But this should not be a big concern since the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration is very flexible, and
- includes tools to help identify these types of situations so they can
- be addressed as needed, allowing you to customize your installation.
- (<a href="trouble.html#BADSITE">See the Troubleshooting section
- below</a>.)</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="CONFIGORNOT" id="CONFIGORNOT">1.10. Will I
- have to configure Privoxy before I can use it?</a></h3>
-
- <p>That depends on your expectations. The default installation should
- give you a good starting point, and block <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">most</i></span> ads and unwanted
- content, but many of the more advanced features are off by default, and
- require you to activate them.</p>
-
- <p>You do have to set up your browser to use <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (see the <a href=
- "installation.html#FIRSTSTEP">Installation section below</a>).</p>
-
- <p>And you will certainly run into situations where there are false
- positives, or ads not being blocked that you may not want to see. In
- these cases, you would certainly benefit by customizing <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration to more closely match your
- individual situation. And we encourage you to do this. This is where
- the real power of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> lies!</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="LAN" id="LAN">1.11. Can Privoxy run as a
- server on a network?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Yes, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs as a server
- already, and can easily be configured to <span class=
- "QUOTE">"serve"</span> more than one client. See <a href=
- "configuration.html#LANCONFIG">How can I set up Privoxy to act as a
- proxy for my LAN</a> below.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="BROWSERS2" id="BROWSERS2">1.12. My browser
- does the same things as Privoxy. Why should I use Privoxy at
- all?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Modern browsers do indeed have <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">some</i></span> of the same functionality as <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Maybe this is adequate for you. But
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is very versatile and
- powerful, and can probably do a number of things your browser just
- can't.</p>
-
- <p>In addition, a proxy is good choice if you use multiple browsers, or
- have a LAN with multiple computers since <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can run as a server application. This way
- all the configuration is in one place, and you don't have to maintain a
- similar configuration for possibly many browsers or users.</p>
-
- <p>Note, however, that it's recommended to leverage both your browser's
- and <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> privacy enhancing
- features at the same time. While your browser probably lacks some
- features <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> offers, it should
- also be able to do some things more reliably, for example restricting
- and suppressing JavaScript.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHYTRUST" id="WHYTRUST">1.13. Why should I
- trust Privoxy?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The most important reason is because you have access to <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">everything</i></span>, and you can
- control everything. You can check every line of every configuration
- file yourself. You can check every last bit of source code should you
- desire. And even if you can't read code, there should be some comfort
- in knowing that other people can, and do read it. You can build the
- software from scratch, if you want, so that you know the executable is
- clean, and that it is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">yours</i></span>. In fact, we encourage this level of
- scrutiny. It is one reason we use <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ourselves.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="LICENSE" id="LICENSE">1.14. Is there is a
- license or fee? What about a warranty? Registration?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software and
- licensed under the <a href=
- "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
- "_top">GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2</a>. It is free to
- use, copy, modify or distribute as you wish under the terms of this
- license. Please see the <a href="copyright.html">Copyright</a> section
- for more information on the license and copyright. Or the <tt class=
- "FILENAME">LICENSE</tt> file that should be included.</p>
-
- <p>There is <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">no
- warranty</i></span> of any kind, expressed, implied or otherwise. That
- is something that would cost real money ;-) There is no registration
- either.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SPYWARE" id="SPYWARE">1.15. Can Privoxy
- remove spyware? Adware? Viruses?</a></h3>
-
- <p>No, at least not reliably enough to trust it. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not designed to be a malware removal
- tool and the default configuration doesn't even try to filter out any
- malware.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> could help prevent contact
- from (known) sites that use such tactics with appropriate configuration
- rules, and thus could conceivably prevent contamination from such
- sites. However, keeping such a configuration up to date would require a
- lot of time and effort that would be better spend on keeping your
- software itself up to date so it doesn't have known
- vulnerabilities.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="OTHERADS" id="OTHERADS">1.16. Can I use
- Privoxy with other ad-blocking software?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> should work fine with other
- proxies and other software in general.</p>
-
- <p>But it is probably not necessary to use <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in conjunction with other ad-blocking
- products, and this could conceivably cause undesirable results. It
- might be better to choose one software or the other and work a little
- to tweak its configuration to your liking.</p>
-
- <p>Note that this is an advice specific to ad blocking.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="HELP-THE-DEVELOPERS" id=
- "HELP-THE-DEVELOPERS">1.17. I would like to help you, what can I
- do?</a></h3>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="PARTICIPATE" id="PARTICIPATE">1.17.1.
- Would you like to participate?</a></h4>
-
- <p>Well, we <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">always</i></span> need help. There is something for
- everybody who wants to help us. We welcome new developers, packagers,
- testers, documentation writers or really anyone with a desire to help
- in any way. You <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">DO
- NOT</i></span> need to be a <span class="QUOTE">"programmer"</span>.
- There are many other tasks available. In fact, the programmers often
- can't spend as much time programming because of some of the other,
- more mundane things that need to be done, like checking the Tracker
- feedback sections or responding to user questions on the mailing
- lists.</p>
-
- <p>So first thing, subscribe to the <a href=
- "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-users" target=
- "_top">Privoxy Users</a> or the <a href=
- "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-devel" target=
- "_top">Privoxy Developers</a> mailing list, join the discussion, help
- out other users, provide general feedback or report problems you
- noticed.</p>
-
- <p>If you intend to help out with the trackers, you also might want
- to <a href="https://sourceforge.net/user/registration" target=
- "_top">get an account on SourceForge.net</a> so we don't confuse you
- with the other name-less users.</p>
-
- <p>We also have a <a href="../developer-manual/index.html" target=
- "_top">Developer's Manual</a>. While it is partly out of date, it's
- still worth reading.</p>
-
- <p>Our <a href=
- "http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO?view=markup"
- target="_top">TODO list</a> may be of interest to you as well. Please
- let us know if you want to work on one of the items listed.</p>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="GENERAL">1. General Information</a>
+ </h1>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WHO-USES">1.1. Who should give <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> a try?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Anyone who is interested in security, privacy, or in finer-grained
+ control over their web and Internet experience.
+ </p>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="DONATE" id="DONATE">1.17.2. Would you like
- to donate?</a></h4>
-
- <p>Donations are welcome. Our <a href=
- "http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO?view=markup"
- target="_top">TODO list</a> is rather long and being able to pay one
- (or more) developers to work on Privoxy would make a huge difference,
- even if it was only for a couple of weeks. Donations may also be used
- for Privoxy-related travel expenses (for example to attend
- conferences), for hardware used for Privoxy development and for
- hosting expenses etc.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is an associated project
- of <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/" target="_top">Software in the
- Public Interest (SPI)</a>, which allows us to receive tax-deductible
- donations in the United States. If you want to donate through SPI,
- please use <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations" target=
- "_top">SPI's donation page</a> to see what the options are.</p>
-
- <p>You can also donate to Privoxy using a bank account or a "Paypal"
- address:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- Name on account: <a href=
- "https://www.zwiebelfreunde.de/" target="_top">Zwiebelfreunde
- e.V.</a><br>
- IBAN: DE95430609671126825604<br>
- BIC: GENODEM1GLS<br>
- Bank: GLS Bank</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- "Paypal" address: privoxy@zwiebelfreunde.de</p>
-
- <p>Donations made through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. are tax-deductible in
- Germany and other countries that recognize German charitable clubs.
- Feel free to use the Subject field to provide a name to be credited
- and a list of TODO list items you are interested in the most. For
- example: Max Mustermann: #16, #1, #14.</p>
-
- <p>Note that donations made through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
- can't be checked automatically so you may not get credited right
- away. The credits currently reflect donations received before
- 2016-01-14.</p>
-
- <p>If you have any questions regarding donations please mail to
- either the public user mailing list or, if it's a private matter, to
- <a href="mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de" target="_top">Fabian Keil</a>
- (Privoxy's SPI liaison) directly.</p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="BESTCHOICE">1.2. Is Privoxy the best choice for me?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is certainly a good
+ choice, especially for those who want more control and security.
+ Those with the willingness to read the documentation and the
+ ability to fine-tune their installation will benefit the most.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ One of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> strengths is that
+ it is highly configurable giving you the ability to completely
+ personalize your installation. Being familiar with, or at least
+ having an interest in learning about <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http" target="_top">HTTP</a> and
+ other networking protocols, <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html" target="_top">HTML</a>, and <a
+ href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
+ "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a> will be
+ a big plus and will help you get the most out of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. A new installation just includes a
+ very basic configuration. The user should take this as a starting
+ point only, and enhance it as he or she sees fit. In fact, the user
+ is encouraged, and expected to, fine-tune the configuration.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Much of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration
+ can be done with a <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser" target="_top">Web
+ browser</a>. But there are areas where configuration is done using
+ a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editors" target=
+ "_top">text editor</a> to edit configuration files. Also note that
+ the web-based action editor doesn't use authentication and should
+ only be enabled in environments where all clients with access to
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> listening port can be
+ trusted.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="PROXYMORON">1.3. What is a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"proxy"</span>? How does Privoxy work?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" target=
+ "_top">web proxy</a> is a service, based on a software such as
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, that clients (i.e.
+ browsers) can use instead of connecting to web servers directly.
+ The clients then ask the proxy to request objects (web pages,
+ images, movies etc) on their behalf and to forward the data to the
+ clients. It is a <span class="QUOTE">"go-between"</span>. For
+ details, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server"
+ target="_top">Wikipedia's proxy definition</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are many reasons to use web proxies, such as security
+ (firewalling), efficiency (caching) and others, and there are any
+ number of proxies to accommodate those needs.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is a proxy that is
+ primarily focused on privacy enhancement, ad and junk elimination
+ and freeing the user from restrictions placed on his activities.
+ Sitting between your browser(s) and the Internet, it is in a
+ perfect position to filter outbound personal information that your
+ browser is leaking, as well as inbound junk. It uses a variety of
+ techniques to do this, all of which are under your complete control
+ via the various configuration files and options. Being a proxy also
+ makes it easier to share configurations among multiple browsers
+ and/or users.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="OTHERSTUFF">1.4. Does Privoxy do anything more than ad
+ blocking?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Yes, ad blocking is but one possible use. There are many, many ways
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can be used to sanitize
+ and customize web browsing.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="NEWJB">1.5. What is this new version of <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Junkbuster"</span>?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
+ Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
+ This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
+ advertising and user tracking.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
+ techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
+ browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not.
+ Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release,
+ available from Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been
+ released under the GNU <a href=
+ "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
+ "_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
+ software, to which eventually a number of people contributed
+ patches. It could already replace banners with a transparent image,
+ and had a first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very
+ closely based on the original, with all its limitations, such as
+ the lack of HTTP/1.1 support, flexible per-site configuration, or
+ content modification. The last release from this effort was version
+ 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Then, some <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
+ target="_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started
+ turning the software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled
+ it, adding many <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
+ target="_top">new features</a> along the way.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
+ whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
+ (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is
+ still actively maintained.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WHYPRIVOXY">1.6. Why <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span>?
+ Why change the name from Junkbuster at all?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Though outdated, Junkbusters Corporation continued to offer their
+ original version of the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
+ Junkbuster</span> for a while, so publishing our <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span>-derived software under the same
+ name would have led to confusion.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There were also potential legal reasons not to use the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> name, as it was (and maybe still
+ is) a registered trademark of Junkbusters Corporation. There were,
+ however, no objections from Junkbusters Corporation to the <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> project itself, and they, in
+ fact, shared our ideals and goals.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The Privoxy developers also believed that there were so many
+ improvements over the original code, that it was time to make a
+ clean break from the past and make a name in their own right.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"<span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Privacy
+ Enhancing Proxy</i></span>"</span>. Also, its content modification
+ and junk suppression gives <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">you</i></span>, the user, more control, more freedom,
+ and allows you to browse your personal and <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"<span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">private</i></span> edition"</span> of the web.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DIFFERS">1.7. How does Privoxy differ from the old
+ Junkbuster?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> picks up where <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> left off. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> still blocks ads and banners, still
+ manages <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie"
+ target="_top">cookies</a>, and still helps protect your privacy.
+ But, most of these features have been enhanced, and many new ones
+ have been added, all in the same vein.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s new features include:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be
+ kept alive independently from the client.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too, and
+ the configure script detects it.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on
+ client and server headers.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need
+ to configure browsers individually.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server
+ and client headers.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Can be chained with other proxies.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Integrated browser-based configuration and control utility at
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> (shortcut: <a href=
+ "http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>). Browser-based
+ tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on
+ size, invisible <span class="QUOTE">"web-bugs"</span> and HTML
+ annoyances, etc.)
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and
+ user settings to reside in separate files, so that installing
+ updated actions files won't overwrite individual user settings.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the
+ configuration files, and a more sophisticated and flexible
+ configuration syntax.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ GIF de-animation.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages
+ (e.g. "blocked" page).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location
+ basis.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Many smaller new features added, limitations and bugs removed.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WHATSANAD">1.8. How does Privoxy know what is an ad, and
+ what is not?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s approach to blocking ads
+ is twofold:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ First, there are certain patterns in the <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">locations</i></span> (URLs) of banner images. This
+ applies to both the path (you wouldn't guess how many web sites
+ serve their banners from a directory called <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"banners"</span>!) and the host (blocking the big banner
+ hosting services like doublecklick.net already helps a lot). <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> takes advantage of this fact by
+ using <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS"
+ target="_top">URL patterns</a> to sort out and block the requests
+ for things that sound like they would be ads or banners.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Second, banners tend to come in certain <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">sizes</i></span>. But you can't tell the size of
+ an image by its URL without downloading it, and if you do, it's too
+ late to save bandwidth. Therefore, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> also inspects the HTML sources of web
+ pages while they are loaded, and replaces references to images with
+ standard banner sizes by dummy references, so that your browser
+ doesn't request them anymore in the first place.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Both of this involves a certain amount of guesswork and is, of
+ course, freely and readily configurable.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="MISTAKES">1.9. Can Privoxy make mistakes? This does not
+ sound very scientific.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Actually, it's a black art ;-) And yes, it is always possible to
+ have a broad rule accidentally block or change something by
+ mistake. You will almost surely run into such situations at some
+ point. It is tricky writing rules to cover every conceivable
+ possibility, and not occasionally get false positives.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But this should not be a big concern since the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration is very flexible, and
+ includes tools to help identify these types of situations so they
+ can be addressed as needed, allowing you to customize your
+ installation. (<a href="trouble.html#BADSITE">See the
+ Troubleshooting section below</a>.)
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CONFIGORNOT">1.10. Will I have to configure Privoxy before
+ I can use it?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ That depends on your expectations. The default installation should
+ give you a good starting point, and block <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">most</i></span> ads and unwanted content, but many
+ of the more advanced features are off by default, and require you
+ to activate them.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You do have to set up your browser to use <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (see the <a href=
+ "installation.html#FIRSTSTEP">Installation section below</a>).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ And you will certainly run into situations where there are false
+ positives, or ads not being blocked that you may not want to see.
+ In these cases, you would certainly benefit by customizing <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration to more closely
+ match your individual situation. And we encourage you to do this.
+ This is where the real power of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> lies!
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="LAN">1.11. Can Privoxy run as a server on a network?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Yes, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs as a server
+ already, and can easily be configured to <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"serve"</span> more than one client. See <a href=
+ "configuration.html#LANCONFIG">How can I set up Privoxy to act as a
+ proxy for my LAN</a> below.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="BROWSERS2">1.12. My browser does the same things as
+ Privoxy. Why should I use Privoxy at all?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Modern browsers do indeed have <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">some</i></span> of the same functionality as <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Maybe this is adequate for you.
+ But <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is very versatile and
+ powerful, and can probably do a number of things your browser just
+ can't.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In addition, a proxy is good choice if you use multiple browsers,
+ or have a LAN with multiple computers since <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can run as a server application. This
+ way all the configuration is in one place, and you don't have to
+ maintain a similar configuration for possibly many browsers or
+ users.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note, however, that it's recommended to leverage both your
+ browser's and <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> privacy
+ enhancing features at the same time. While your browser probably
+ lacks some features <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ offers, it should also be able to do some things more reliably, for
+ example restricting and suppressing JavaScript.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WHYTRUST">1.13. Why should I trust Privoxy?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ The most important reason is because you have access to <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">everything</i></span>, and you
+ can control everything. You can check every line of every
+ configuration file yourself. You can check every last bit of source
+ code should you desire. And even if you can't read code, there
+ should be some comfort in knowing that other people can, and do
+ read it. You can build the software from scratch, if you want, so
+ that you know the executable is clean, and that it is <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">yours</i></span>. In fact, we
+ encourage this level of scrutiny. It is one reason we use <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ourselves.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="LICENSE">1.14. Is there is a license or fee? What about a
+ warranty? Registration?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software and
+ licensed under the <a href=
+ "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
+ "_top">GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2</a>. It is free
+ to use, copy, modify or distribute as you wish under the terms of
+ this license. Please see the <a href="copyright.html">Copyright</a>
+ section for more information on the license and copyright. Or the
+ <tt class="FILENAME">LICENSE</tt> file that should be included.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There is <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">no
+ warranty</i></span> of any kind, expressed, implied or otherwise.
+ That is something that would cost real money ;-) There is no
+ registration either.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SPYWARE">1.15. Can Privoxy remove spyware? Adware?
+ Viruses?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ No, at least not reliably enough to trust it. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not designed to be a malware
+ removal tool and the default configuration doesn't even try to
+ filter out any malware.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> could help prevent contact
+ from (known) sites that use such tactics with appropriate
+ configuration rules, and thus could conceivably prevent
+ contamination from such sites. However, keeping such a
+ configuration up to date would require a lot of time and effort
+ that would be better spend on keeping your software itself up to
+ date so it doesn't have known vulnerabilities.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="OTHERADS">1.16. Can I use Privoxy with other ad-blocking
+ software?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> should work fine with
+ other proxies and other software in general.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But it is probably not necessary to use <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in conjunction with other ad-blocking
+ products, and this could conceivably cause undesirable results. It
+ might be better to choose one software or the other and work a
+ little to tweak its configuration to your liking.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that this is an advice specific to ad blocking.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="HELP-THE-DEVELOPERS">1.17. I would like to help you, what
+ can I do?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="PARTICIPATE">1.17.1. Would you like to participate?</a>
+ </h4>
+ <p>
+ Well, we <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">always</i></span> need help. There is something for
+ everybody who wants to help us. We welcome new developers,
+ packagers, testers, documentation writers or really anyone with a
+ desire to help in any way. You <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">DO NOT</i></span> need to be a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"programmer"</span>. There are many other tasks
+ available. In fact, the programmers often can't spend as much
+ time programming because of some of the other, more mundane
+ things that need to be done, like checking the Tracker feedback
+ sections or responding to user questions on the mailing lists.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ So first thing, subscribe to the <a href=
+ "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-users"
+ target="_top">Privoxy Users</a> or the <a href=
+ "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-devel"
+ target="_top">Privoxy Developers</a> mailing list, join the
+ discussion, help out other users, provide general feedback or
+ report problems you noticed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you intend to help out with the trackers, you also might want
+ to <a href="https://sourceforge.net/user/registration" target=
+ "_top">get an account on SourceForge.net</a> so we don't confuse
+ you with the other name-less users.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ We also have a <a href="../developer-manual/index.html" target=
+ "_top">Developer's Manual</a>. While it is partly out of date,
+ it's still worth reading.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Our <a href=
+ "http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO?view=markup"
+ target="_top">TODO list</a> may be of interest to you as well.
+ Please let us know if you want to work on one of the items
+ listed.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="DONATE">1.17.2. Would you like to donate?</a>
+ </h4>
+ <p>
+ Donations are welcome. Our <a href=
+ "http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO?view=markup"
+ target="_top">TODO list</a> is rather long and being able to pay
+ one (or more) developers to work on Privoxy would make a huge
+ difference, even if it was only for a couple of weeks. Donations
+ may also be used for Privoxy-related travel expenses (for example
+ to attend conferences), for hardware used for Privoxy development
+ and for hosting expenses etc.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is an associated project
+ of <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/" target="_top">Software in
+ the Public Interest (SPI)</a>, which allows us to receive
+ tax-deductible donations in the United States. If you want to
+ donate through SPI, please use <a href=
+ "http://www.spi-inc.org/donations" target="_top">SPI's donation
+ page</a> to see what the options are.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You can also donate to Privoxy using a bank account or a "Paypal"
+ address:
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ Name on account: <a href=
+ "https://www.zwiebelfreunde.de/" target="_top">Zwiebelfreunde
+ e.V.</a><br>
+ IBAN: DE95430609671126825604<br>
+ BIC: GENODEM1GLS<br>
+ Bank: GLS Bank
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ "Paypal" address: privoxy@zwiebelfreunde.de
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Donations made through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. are tax-deductible in
+ Germany and other countries that recognize German charitable
+ clubs. Feel free to use the Subject field to provide a name to be
+ credited and a list of TODO list items you are interested in the
+ most. For example: Max Mustermann: #16, #1, #14.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that donations made through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
+ can't be checked automatically so you may not get credited right
+ away. The credits currently reflect donations received before
+ 2016-01-14.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you have any questions regarding donations please mail to
+ either the public user mailing list or, if it's a private matter,
+ to <a href="mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de" target="_top">Fabian
+ Keil</a> (Privoxy's SPI liaison) directly.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SPONSOR">1.18. How can I become a sponsor and get my logo
+ or link on privoxy.org?</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ We are currently offering the following sponsor levels as an
+ experiment:
+ </p>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Gold (10000 EUR/year)
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Logo shown at the bottom of the <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy
+ homepage</a>. Logo, link and self description on the <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/sponsors/" target="_top">sponsor
+ page</a>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Silver (1000 EUR/year)
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Logo shown randomly at the bottom of the <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy
+ homepage</a>. Logo, link and self description on the <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/sponsors/" target="_top">sponsor
+ page</a>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Bronze (500 EUR/year)
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Logo and link on the <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/sponsors/" target="_top">sponsor
+ page</a>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ The logo sizes depend on the sponsor level.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The details may change over time but changes will only affect new
+ sponsors (or existing sponsors that explicitly agreed to the
+ changes).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you want to become a sponsor, please contact <a href=
+ "mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de" target="_top">Fabian Keil</a>. New
+ sponsors are only accepted if no developer objects.
+ </p>
</div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href=
- "installation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Privoxy Frequently Asked
- Questions</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Installation</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="installation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Installation
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="General Information" href="general.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="ARTICLE" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="ARTICLE">
- <div class="TITLEPAGE">
- <h1 class="TITLE"><a name="AEN2" id="AEN2">Privoxy Frequently Asked
- Questions</a></h1>
-
- <p class="PUBDATE"><sub><a href="copyright.html">Copyright</a> ©
- 2001-2014 by <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy
- Developers</a></sub><br></p>
-
- <p class="PUBDATE">$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.125 2016/05/27 15:24:13 fabiankeil
- Exp $<br></p>
-
- <div>
- <div class="ABSTRACT">
- <a name="AEN9" id="AEN9"></a>
-
- <p>This FAQ gives quick answers to frequently asked questions about
- <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy</a>. It is
- not a substitute for the <a href="../user-manual/index.html"
- target="_top"><i class="CITETITLE">Privoxy User Manual</i></a>.</p>
-
- <p>What is Privoxy?</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
- capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and
- HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other
- obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and
- can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has
- application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
- networks.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public
- Interest (SPI).</p>
-
- <p>Helping hands and donations are welcome:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE"
- target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE</a></p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Please note that this document is a work in progress. This copy
- represents the state at the release of version 3.0.25. You can find
- the latest version of the document at <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/</a>. Please see the <a href=
- "contact.html">Contact section</a> if you want to contact the
- developers.</p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="General Information" href="general.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="ARTICLE" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF"
+ vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="ARTICLE">
+ <div class="TITLEPAGE">
+ <h1 class="TITLE">
+ <a name="AEN2">Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p class="PUBDATE">
+ <sub><a href="copyright.html">Copyright</a> © 2001-2016 by <a
+ href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy
+ Developers</a></sub><br>
+ </p>
+ <p class="PUBDATE">
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.125 2016/05/27 15:24:13 fabiankeil Exp $<br>
+ </p>
+ <div>
+ <div class="ABSTRACT">
+ <a name="AEN9"></a>
+ <p>
+ This FAQ gives quick answers to frequently asked questions
+ about <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">Privoxy</a>. It is not a substitute for the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/index.html" target="_top"><i class=
+ "CITETITLE">Privoxy User Manual</i></a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ What is Privoxy?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
+ capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and
+ HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other
+ obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration
+ and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It
+ has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
+ networks.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public
+ Interest (SPI).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Helping hands and donations are welcome:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ Please note that this document is a work in progress. This copy
+ represents the state at the release of version 3.0.25. You can
+ find the latest version of the document at <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/</a>. Please see the <a
+ href="contact.html">Contact section</a> if you want to contact
+ the developers.
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
+ <hr>
+ </div>
+ <div class="TOC">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ <b>Table of Contents</b>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1. <a href="general.html">General Information</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 1.1. <a href="general.html#WHO-USES">Who should give <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> a try?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.2. <a href="general.html#BESTCHOICE">Is Privoxy the best
+ choice for me?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.3. <a href="general.html#PROXYMORON">What is a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"proxy"</span>? How does Privoxy work?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.4. <a href="general.html#OTHERSTUFF">Does Privoxy do
+ anything more than ad blocking?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.5. <a href="general.html#NEWJB">What is this new version of
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Junkbuster"</span>?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.6. <a href="general.html#WHYPRIVOXY">Why <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span>? Why change the name from Junkbuster
+ at all?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.7. <a href="general.html#DIFFERS">How does Privoxy differ
+ from the old Junkbuster?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.8. <a href="general.html#WHATSANAD">How does Privoxy know
+ what is an ad, and what is not?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.9. <a href="general.html#MISTAKES">Can Privoxy make
+ mistakes? This does not sound very scientific.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.10. <a href="general.html#CONFIGORNOT">Will I have to
+ configure Privoxy before I can use it?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.11. <a href="general.html#LAN">Can Privoxy run as a server
+ on a network?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.12. <a href="general.html#BROWSERS2">My browser does the
+ same things as Privoxy. Why should I use Privoxy at all?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.13. <a href="general.html#WHYTRUST">Why should I trust
+ Privoxy?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.14. <a href="general.html#LICENSE">Is there is a license or
+ fee? What about a warranty? Registration?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.15. <a href="general.html#SPYWARE">Can Privoxy remove
+ spyware? Adware? Viruses?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.16. <a href="general.html#OTHERADS">Can I use Privoxy with
+ other ad-blocking software?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.17. <a href="general.html#HELP-THE-DEVELOPERS">I would like
+ to help you, what can I do?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 1.17.1. <a href="general.html#PARTICIPATE">Would you like
+ to participate?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1.17.2. <a href="general.html#DONATE">Would you like to
+ donate?</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 1.18. <a href="general.html#SPONSOR">How can I become a
+ sponsor and get my logo or link on privoxy.org?</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 2. <a href="installation.html">Installation</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 2.1. <a href="installation.html#WHICHBROWSERS">Which browsers
+ are supported by Privoxy?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.2. <a href="installation.html#WHICHOS">Which operating
+ systems are supported?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.3. <a href="installation.html#EMAIL-CLIENT">Can I use
+ Privoxy with my email client?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.4. <a href="installation.html#FIRSTSTEP">I just installed
+ Privoxy. Is there anything special I have to do now?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.5. <a href="installation.html#LOCALHOST">What is the proxy
+ address of Privoxy?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.6. <a href="installation.html#NOTHING">I just installed
+ Privoxy, and nothing is happening. All the ads are there.
+ What's wrong?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.7. <a href="installation.html#NOTUSED">I get a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Privoxy is not being used"</span> dummy page
+ although Privoxy is running and being used.</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 3. <a href="configuration.html">Configuration</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 3.1. <a href="configuration.html#ACTIONSFILE">What exactly is
+ an <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> file?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.2. <a href="configuration.html#ACTIONSS">The <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"actions"</span> concept confuses me. Please list
+ some of these <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span>.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.3. <a href="configuration.html#ACTCONFIG">How are actions
+ files configured? What is the easiest way to do this?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.4. <a href="configuration.html#AEN418">There are several
+ different <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> files. What
+ are the differences?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.5. <a href="configuration.html#GETUPDATES">Where can I get
+ updated Actions Files?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.6. <a href="configuration.html#NEWCONFIG">Can I use my old
+ config files?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.7. <a href="configuration.html#DIFFICULT">Why is the
+ configuration so complicated?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.8. <a href="configuration.html#YAHOO">How can I make my
+ Yahoo/Hotmail/Gmail account work?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.9. <a href="configuration.html#CONFIGFILES">What's the
+ difference between the <span class="QUOTE">"Cautious"</span>,
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Medium"</span> and <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Advanced"</span> defaults?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.10. <a href="configuration.html#BROWSECONFIG">Why can I
+ change the configuration with a browser? Does that not raise
+ security issues?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.11. <a href="configuration.html#FILTERFILE">What is the <tt
+ class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> file? What is a <span
+ class="QUOTE">"filter"</span>?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.12. <a href="configuration.html#LANCONFIG">How can I set up
+ Privoxy to act as a proxy for my LAN?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.13. <a href="configuration.html#NOSEEUM">Instead of ads,
+ now I get a checkerboard pattern. I don't want to see
+ anything.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.14. <a href="configuration.html#WHYSEEUM">Why would anybody
+ want to see a checkerboard pattern?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.15. <a href="configuration.html#BLOCKEDBYTEXT">I see some
+ images being replaced with text instead of the checkerboard
+ image. Why and how do I get rid of this?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.16. <a href="configuration.html#SRVANY">Can Privoxy run as
+ a service on Win2K/NT/XP?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.17. <a href="configuration.html#OTHERPROXY">How can I make
+ Privoxy work with other proxies?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.18. <a href="configuration.html#PORT-80">Can I just set
+ Privoxy to use port 80 and thus avoid individual browser
+ configuration?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.19. <a href="configuration.html#TRANSPARENT">Can Privoxy
+ run as a <span class="QUOTE">"transparent"</span> proxy?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.20. <a href="configuration.html#INTERCEPTING">Can Privoxy
+ run as a <span class="QUOTE">"intercepting"</span> proxy?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.21. <a href="configuration.html#OUTLOOK">How can I
+ configure Privoxy for use with Outlook?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.22. <a href="configuration.html#OUTLOOK-MORE">How can I
+ have separate rules just for HTML mail?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.23. <a href="configuration.html#SNEAKY-COOKIES">I sometimes
+ notice cookies sneaking through. How?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.24. <a href="configuration.html#EVIL-COOKIES">Are all
+ cookies bad? Why?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.25. <a href="configuration.html#ALLOW-COOKIES">How can I
+ allow permanent cookies for my trusted sites?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.26. <a href="configuration.html#MULTIPLES">Can I have
+ separate configurations for different users?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.27. <a href="configuration.html#WHITELISTS">Can I set-up
+ Privoxy as a whitelist of <span class="QUOTE">"good"</span>
+ sites?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.28. <a href="configuration.html#NO-ADBLOCK">How can I turn
+ off ad-blocking?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.29. <a href="configuration.html#TEMPLATES">How can I have
+ custom template pages, like the <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">BLOCKED</i></span> page?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 3.30. <a href="configuration.html#BLOCKALL">How can I remove
+ the <span class="QUOTE">"Go There Anyway"</span> link from
+ the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">BLOCKED</i></span> page?</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 4. <a href="misc.html">Miscellaneous</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 4.1. <a href="misc.html#SLOWSME">How much does Privoxy slow
+ my browsing down? This has to add extra time to browsing.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.2. <a href="misc.html#LOADINGTIMES">I notice considerable
+ delays in page requests. What's wrong?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.3. <a href="misc.html#CONFIGURL">What are
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/" and "http://p.p/"?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.4. <a href="misc.html#NEWADS">How can I submit new ads, or
+ report problems?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.5. <a href="misc.html#NEWADS2">If I do submit missed ads,
+ will they be included in future updates?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.6. <a href="misc.html#NOONECARES">Why doesn't anyone answer
+ my support request?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.7. <a href="misc.html#IP">How can I hide my IP address?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.8. <a href="misc.html#ANONFORSURE">Can Privoxy guarantee I
+ am anonymous?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.9. <a href="misc.html#PROXYTEST">A test site says I am not
+ using a Proxy.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.10. <a href="misc.html#TOR">How do I use Privoxy together
+ with Tor?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.11. <a href="misc.html#SITEBREAK">Might some things break
+ because header information or content is being altered?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.12. <a href="misc.html#CACHING">Can Privoxy act as a <span
+ class="QUOTE">"caching"</span> proxy to speed up web
+ browsing?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.13. <a href="misc.html#FIREWALL">What about as a firewall?
+ Can Privoxy protect me?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.14. <a href="misc.html#WASTED">I have large empty spaces /
+ a checkerboard pattern now where ads used to be. Why?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.15. <a href="misc.html#SSL">How can Privoxy filter Secure
+ (HTTPS) URLs?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.16. <a href="misc.html#SECURE">Privoxy runs as a <span
+ class="QUOTE">"server"</span>. How secure is it? Do I need to
+ take any special precautions?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.17. <a href="misc.html#TURNOFF">Can I temporarily disable
+ Privoxy?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.18. <a href="misc.html#REALLYOFF">When <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"disabled"</span> is Privoxy totally out of the
+ picture?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.19. <a href="misc.html#TURNOFF2">How can I tell Privoxy to
+ totally ignore certain sites?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.20. <a href="misc.html#CRUNCH">My logs show Privoxy <span
+ class="QUOTE">"crunches"</span> ads, but also its own
+ internal CGI pages. What is a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"crunch"</span>?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.21. <a href="misc.html#DOWNLOADS">Can Privoxy affect files
+ that I download from a webserver? FTP server?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.22. <a href="misc.html#DOWNLOADS2">I just downloaded a Perl
+ script, and Privoxy altered it! Yikes, what is wrong!</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.23. <a href="misc.html#HOSTSFILE">Should I continue to use
+ a <span class="QUOTE">"HOSTS"</span> file for
+ ad-blocking?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.24. <a href="misc.html#SEEALSO">Where can I find more
+ information about Privoxy and related issues?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.25. <a href="misc.html#MICROSUCK">I've noticed that Privoxy
+ changes <span class="QUOTE">"Microsoft"</span> to <span
+ class="QUOTE">"MicroSuck"</span>! Why are you manipulating my
+ browsing?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.26. <a href="misc.html#VALID">Does Privoxy produce <span
+ class="QUOTE">"valid"</span> HTML (or XHTML)?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 4.27. <a href="misc.html#SURPRISE-PRIVOXY">How did you manage
+ to get Privoxy on my computer without my consent?</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 5. <a href="trouble.html">Troubleshooting</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 5.1. <a href="trouble.html#REFUSED">I cannot connect to any
+ websites. Or, I am getting <span class="QUOTE">"connection
+ refused"</span> message with every web page. Why?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.2. <a href="trouble.html#ERROR503">Why am I getting a 503
+ Error (WSAECONNREFUSED) on every page?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.3. <a href="trouble.html#FLUSHIT">I just added a new rule,
+ but the steenkin ad is still getting through. How?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.4. <a href="trouble.html#BADSITE">One of my favorite sites
+ does not work with Privoxy. What can I do?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.5. <a href="trouble.html#DUN">After installing Privoxy, I
+ have to log in every time I start IE. What gives?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.6. <a href="trouble.html#FTP">I cannot connect to any FTP
+ sites. Privoxy is blocking me.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.7. <a href="trouble.html#MACOSXIE">In Mac OS X, I can't
+ configure Microsoft Internet Explorer to use Privoxy as the
+ HTTP proxy.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.8. <a href="trouble.html#MACOSXUNINSTALL">In Mac OS X, I
+ dragged the Privoxy folder to the trash in order to uninstall
+ it. Now the finder tells me I don't have sufficient
+ privileges to empty the trash.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.9. <a href="trouble.html#MACOSXIMAGES">In Mac OS X Panther
+ (10.3), images often fail to load and/or I experience random
+ delays in page loading. I'm using <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">localhost</tt> as my browser's proxy setting.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.10. <a href="trouble.html#MACOSXACCOUNTDELETION">I just
+ upgraded to Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and now <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has stopped working.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.11. <a href="trouble.html#NOHOSTNAME">My logs show many
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Unable to get my own hostname"</span>
+ lines. Why?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.12. <a href="trouble.html#INUSE">When I try to launch
+ Privoxy, I get an error message <span class="QUOTE">"port
+ 8118 is already in use"</span> (or similar wording). Why?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.13. <a href="trouble.html#DEMORONIZER">Pages with UTF-8
+ fonts are garbled.</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.14. <a href="trouble.html#DEMORONIZER2">Why are binary
+ files (such as images) corrupted when Privoxy is used?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.15. <a href="trouble.html#DEMORONIZER3">What is the <span
+ class="QUOTE">"demoronizer"</span> and why is it there?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.16. <a href="trouble.html#WINDOWOPEN">Why do I keep seeing
+ <span class="QUOTE">"PrivoxyWindowOpen()"</span> in raw
+ source code?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.17. <a href="trouble.html#DNSERRORS">I am getting too many
+ DNS errors like <span class="QUOTE">"404 No Such
+ Domain"</span>. Why can't Privoxy do this better?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.18. <a href="trouble.html#ALLCPU">At one site Privoxy just
+ hangs, and starts taking all CPU. Why is this?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.19. <a href="trouble.html#SLOWCRAWL">I just installed
+ Privoxy, and all my browsing has slowed to a crawl. What
+ gives?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.20. <a href="trouble.html#PREVENTCOMP">Why do my filters
+ work on some sites but not on others?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.21. <a href="trouble.html#SSL-WARNINGS">On some HTTPS sites
+ my browser warns me about unauthenticated content, the URL
+ bar doesn't get highlighted and the lock symbol appears to be
+ broken. What's going on?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.22. <a href="trouble.html#SE-LINUX">I get selinux error
+ messages. How can I fix this?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.23. <a href="trouble.html#GENTOO-RICERS">I compiled <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with Gentoo's portage and
+ it appears to be very slow. Why?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.24. <a href="trouble.html#TAINTED-SOCKETS">What are tainted
+ sockets and how do I prevent them?</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.25. <a href="trouble.html#PCRE-STACK-LIMIT">After adding my
+ custom filters, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ crashes when visitting certain websites</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 6. <a href="contact.html">Contacting the developers, Bug
+ Reporting and Feature Requests</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 6.1. <a href="contact.html#SUFFICIENT-INFORMATION">Please
+ provide sufficient information</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.2. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-SUPPORT">Get Support</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3. <a href="contact.html#REPORTING">Reporting Problems</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.1. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-ADS">Reporting Ads
+ or Other Configuration Problems</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.3.2. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-BUGS">Reporting
+ Bugs</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 6.4. <a href="contact.html#SECURITY-CONTACT">Reporting
+ security problems</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.5. <a href="contact.html#MAILING-LISTS">Mailing Lists</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.6. <a href="contact.html#SF-TRACKERS">SourceForge support
+ trackers</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 7. <a href="copyright.html">Privoxy Copyright, License and
+ History</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 7.1. <a href="copyright.html#AEN1505">License</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.2. <a href="copyright.html#AEN1514">History</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
</div>
- <hr>
</div>
-
- <div class="TOC">
- <dl>
- <dt><b>Table of Contents</b></dt>
-
- <dt>1. <a href="general.html">General Information</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>1.1. <a href="general.html#WHO-USES">Who should give
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> a try?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.2. <a href="general.html#BESTCHOICE">Is Privoxy the best
- choice for me?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.3. <a href="general.html#PROXYMORON">What is a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"proxy"</span>? How does Privoxy work?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.4. <a href="general.html#OTHERSTUFF">Does Privoxy do
- anything more than ad blocking?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.5. <a href="general.html#NEWJB">What is this new version of
- <span class="QUOTE">"Junkbuster"</span>?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.6. <a href="general.html#WHYPRIVOXY">Why <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span>? Why change the name from Junkbuster at
- all?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.7. <a href="general.html#DIFFERS">How does Privoxy differ
- from the old Junkbuster?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.8. <a href="general.html#WHATSANAD">How does Privoxy know
- what is an ad, and what is not?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.9. <a href="general.html#MISTAKES">Can Privoxy make
- mistakes? This does not sound very scientific.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.10. <a href="general.html#CONFIGORNOT">Will I have to
- configure Privoxy before I can use it?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.11. <a href="general.html#LAN">Can Privoxy run as a server
- on a network?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.12. <a href="general.html#BROWSERS2">My browser does the
- same things as Privoxy. Why should I use Privoxy at all?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.13. <a href="general.html#WHYTRUST">Why should I trust
- Privoxy?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.14. <a href="general.html#LICENSE">Is there is a license or
- fee? What about a warranty? Registration?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.15. <a href="general.html#SPYWARE">Can Privoxy remove
- spyware? Adware? Viruses?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.16. <a href="general.html#OTHERADS">Can I use Privoxy with
- other ad-blocking software?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.17. <a href="general.html#HELP-THE-DEVELOPERS">I would like
- to help you, what can I do?</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>1.17.1. <a href="general.html#PARTICIPATE">Would you like
- to participate?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>1.17.2. <a href="general.html#DONATE">Would you like to
- donate?</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>2. <a href="installation.html">Installation</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>2.1. <a href="installation.html#WHICHBROWSERS">Which browsers
- are supported by Privoxy?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.2. <a href="installation.html#WHICHOS">Which operating
- systems are supported?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.3. <a href="installation.html#EMAIL-CLIENT">Can I use
- Privoxy with my email client?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.4. <a href="installation.html#FIRSTSTEP">I just installed
- Privoxy. Is there anything special I have to do now?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.5. <a href="installation.html#LOCALHOST">What is the proxy
- address of Privoxy?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.6. <a href="installation.html#NOTHING">I just installed
- Privoxy, and nothing is happening. All the ads are there. What's
- wrong?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.7. <a href="installation.html#NOTUSED">I get a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Privoxy is not being used"</span> dummy page although
- Privoxy is running and being used.</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>3. <a href="configuration.html">Configuration</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>3.1. <a href="configuration.html#ACTIONSFILE">What exactly is
- an <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> file?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.2. <a href="configuration.html#ACTIONSS">The <span class=
- "QUOTE">"actions"</span> concept confuses me. Please list some of
- these <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span>.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.3. <a href="configuration.html#ACTCONFIG">How are actions
- files configured? What is the easiest way to do this?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.4. <a href="configuration.html#AEN393">There are several
- different <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> files. What are
- the differences?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.5. <a href="configuration.html#GETUPDATES">Where can I get
- updated Actions Files?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.6. <a href="configuration.html#NEWCONFIG">Can I use my old
- config files?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.7. <a href="configuration.html#DIFFICULT">Why is the
- configuration so complicated?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.8. <a href="configuration.html#YAHOO">How can I make my
- Yahoo/Hotmail/Gmail account work?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.9. <a href="configuration.html#CONFIGFILES">What's the
- difference between the <span class="QUOTE">"Cautious"</span>,
- <span class="QUOTE">"Medium"</span> and <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Advanced"</span> defaults?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.10. <a href="configuration.html#BROWSECONFIG">Why can I
- change the configuration with a browser? Does that not raise
- security issues?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.11. <a href="configuration.html#FILTERFILE">What is the
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> file? What is a
- <span class="QUOTE">"filter"</span>?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.12. <a href="configuration.html#LANCONFIG">How can I set up
- Privoxy to act as a proxy for my LAN?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.13. <a href="configuration.html#NOSEEUM">Instead of ads,
- now I get a checkerboard pattern. I don't want to see
- anything.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.14. <a href="configuration.html#WHYSEEUM">Why would anybody
- want to see a checkerboard pattern?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.15. <a href="configuration.html#BLOCKEDBYTEXT">I see some
- images being replaced with text instead of the checkerboard
- image. Why and how do I get rid of this?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.16. <a href="configuration.html#SRVANY">Can Privoxy run as
- a service on Win2K/NT/XP?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.17. <a href="configuration.html#OTHERPROXY">How can I make
- Privoxy work with other proxies?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.18. <a href="configuration.html#PORT-80">Can I just set
- Privoxy to use port 80 and thus avoid individual browser
- configuration?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.19. <a href="configuration.html#TRANSPARENT">Can Privoxy
- run as a <span class="QUOTE">"transparent"</span> proxy?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.20. <a href="configuration.html#INTERCEPTING">Can Privoxy
- run as a <span class="QUOTE">"intercepting"</span>
- proxy?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.21. <a href="configuration.html#OUTLOOK">How can I
- configure Privoxy for use with Outlook?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.22. <a href="configuration.html#OUTLOOK-MORE">How can I
- have separate rules just for HTML mail?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.23. <a href="configuration.html#SNEAKY-COOKIES">I sometimes
- notice cookies sneaking through. How?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.24. <a href="configuration.html#EVIL-COOKIES">Are all
- cookies bad? Why?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.25. <a href="configuration.html#ALLOW-COOKIES">How can I
- allow permanent cookies for my trusted sites?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.26. <a href="configuration.html#MULTIPLES">Can I have
- separate configurations for different users?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.27. <a href="configuration.html#WHITELISTS">Can I set-up
- Privoxy as a whitelist of <span class="QUOTE">"good"</span>
- sites?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.28. <a href="configuration.html#NO-ADBLOCK">How can I turn
- off ad-blocking?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.29. <a href="configuration.html#TEMPLATES">How can I have
- custom template pages, like the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">BLOCKED</i></span> page?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>3.30. <a href="configuration.html#BLOCKALL">How can I remove
- the <span class="QUOTE">"Go There Anyway"</span> link from the
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">BLOCKED</i></span>
- page?</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>4. <a href="misc.html">Miscellaneous</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>4.1. <a href="misc.html#SLOWSME">How much does Privoxy slow
- my browsing down? This has to add extra time to
- browsing.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.2. <a href="misc.html#LOADINGTIMES">I notice considerable
- delays in page requests. What's wrong?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.3. <a href="misc.html#CONFIGURL">What are
- "http://config.privoxy.org/" and "http://p.p/"?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.4. <a href="misc.html#NEWADS">How can I submit new ads, or
- report problems?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.5. <a href="misc.html#NEWADS2">If I do submit missed ads,
- will they be included in future updates?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.6. <a href="misc.html#NOONECARES">Why doesn't anyone answer
- my support request?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.7. <a href="misc.html#IP">How can I hide my IP
- address?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.8. <a href="misc.html#ANONFORSURE">Can Privoxy guarantee I
- am anonymous?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.9. <a href="misc.html#PROXYTEST">A test site says I am not
- using a Proxy.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.10. <a href="misc.html#TOR">How do I use Privoxy together
- with Tor?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.11. <a href="misc.html#SITEBREAK">Might some things break
- because header information or content is being altered?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.12. <a href="misc.html#CACHING">Can Privoxy act as a
- <span class="QUOTE">"caching"</span> proxy to speed up web
- browsing?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.13. <a href="misc.html#FIREWALL">What about as a firewall?
- Can Privoxy protect me?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.14. <a href="misc.html#WASTED">I have large empty spaces /
- a checkerboard pattern now where ads used to be. Why?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.15. <a href="misc.html#SSL">How can Privoxy filter Secure
- (HTTPS) URLs?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.16. <a href="misc.html#SECURE">Privoxy runs as a
- <span class="QUOTE">"server"</span>. How secure is it? Do I need
- to take any special precautions?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.17. <a href="misc.html#TURNOFF">Can I temporarily disable
- Privoxy?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.18. <a href="misc.html#REALLYOFF">When <span class=
- "QUOTE">"disabled"</span> is Privoxy totally out of the
- picture?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.19. <a href="misc.html#TURNOFF2">How can I tell Privoxy to
- totally ignore certain sites?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.20. <a href="misc.html#CRUNCH">My logs show Privoxy
- <span class="QUOTE">"crunches"</span> ads, but also its own
- internal CGI pages. What is a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"crunch"</span>?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.21. <a href="misc.html#DOWNLOADS">Can Privoxy affect files
- that I download from a webserver? FTP server?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.22. <a href="misc.html#DOWNLOADS2">I just downloaded a Perl
- script, and Privoxy altered it! Yikes, what is wrong!</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.23. <a href="misc.html#HOSTSFILE">Should I continue to use
- a <span class="QUOTE">"HOSTS"</span> file for
- ad-blocking?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.24. <a href="misc.html#SEEALSO">Where can I find more
- information about Privoxy and related issues?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.25. <a href="misc.html#MICROSUCK">I've noticed that Privoxy
- changes <span class="QUOTE">"Microsoft"</span> to <span class=
- "QUOTE">"MicroSuck"</span>! Why are you manipulating my
- browsing?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.26. <a href="misc.html#VALID">Does Privoxy produce
- <span class="QUOTE">"valid"</span> HTML (or XHTML)?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>4.27. <a href="misc.html#SURPRISE-PRIVOXY">How did you manage
- to get Privoxy on my computer without my consent?</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>5. <a href="trouble.html">Troubleshooting</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>5.1. <a href="trouble.html#REFUSED">I cannot connect to any
- websites. Or, I am getting <span class="QUOTE">"connection
- refused"</span> message with every web page. Why?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.2. <a href="trouble.html#ERROR503">Why am I getting a 503
- Error (WSAECONNREFUSED) on every page?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.3. <a href="trouble.html#FLUSHIT">I just added a new rule,
- but the steenkin ad is still getting through. How?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.4. <a href="trouble.html#BADSITE">One of my favorite sites
- does not work with Privoxy. What can I do?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.5. <a href="trouble.html#DUN">After installing Privoxy, I
- have to log in every time I start IE. What gives?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.6. <a href="trouble.html#FTP">I cannot connect to any FTP
- sites. Privoxy is blocking me.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.7. <a href="trouble.html#MACOSXIE">In Mac OS X, I can't
- configure Microsoft Internet Explorer to use Privoxy as the HTTP
- proxy.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.8. <a href="trouble.html#MACOSXUNINSTALL">In Mac OS X, I
- dragged the Privoxy folder to the trash in order to uninstall it.
- Now the finder tells me I don't have sufficient privileges to
- empty the trash.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.9. <a href="trouble.html#MACOSXIMAGES">In Mac OS X Panther
- (10.3), images often fail to load and/or I experience random
- delays in page loading. I'm using <tt class=
- "LITERAL">localhost</tt> as my browser's proxy setting.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.10. <a href="trouble.html#MACOSXACCOUNTDELETION">I just
- upgraded to Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and now <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has stopped working.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.11. <a href="trouble.html#NOHOSTNAME">My logs show many
- <span class="QUOTE">"Unable to get my own hostname"</span> lines.
- Why?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.12. <a href="trouble.html#INUSE">When I try to launch
- Privoxy, I get an error message <span class="QUOTE">"port 8118 is
- already in use"</span> (or similar wording). Why?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.13. <a href="trouble.html#DEMORONIZER">Pages with UTF-8
- fonts are garbled.</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.14. <a href="trouble.html#DEMORONIZER2">Why are binary
- files (such as images) corrupted when Privoxy is used?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.15. <a href="trouble.html#DEMORONIZER3">What is the
- <span class="QUOTE">"demoronizer"</span> and why is it
- there?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.16. <a href="trouble.html#WINDOWOPEN">Why do I keep seeing
- <span class="QUOTE">"PrivoxyWindowOpen()"</span> in raw source
- code?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.17. <a href="trouble.html#DNSERRORS">I am getting too many
- DNS errors like <span class="QUOTE">"404 No Such Domain"</span>.
- Why can't Privoxy do this better?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.18. <a href="trouble.html#ALLCPU">At one site Privoxy just
- hangs, and starts taking all CPU. Why is this?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.19. <a href="trouble.html#SLOWCRAWL">I just installed
- Privoxy, and all my browsing has slowed to a crawl. What
- gives?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.20. <a href="trouble.html#PREVENTCOMP">Why do my filters
- work on some sites but not on others?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.21. <a href="trouble.html#SSL-WARNINGS">On some HTTPS sites
- my browser warns me about unauthenticated content, the URL bar
- doesn't get highlighted and the lock symbol appears to be broken.
- What's going on?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.22. <a href="trouble.html#SE-LINUX">I get selinux error
- messages. How can I fix this?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.23. <a href="trouble.html#GENTOO-RICERS">I compiled
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with Gentoo's portage
- and it appears to be very slow. Why?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.24. <a href="trouble.html#TAINTED-SOCKETS">What are tainted
- sockets and how do I prevent them?</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.25. <a href="trouble.html#PCRE-STACK-LIMIT">After adding my
- custom filters, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> crashes
- when visitting certain websites</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>6. <a href="contact.html">Contacting the developers, Bug
- Reporting and Feature Requests</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>6.1. <a href="contact.html#SUFFICIENT-INFORMATION">Please
- provide sufficient information</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.2. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-SUPPORT">Get
- Support</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3. <a href="contact.html#REPORTING">Reporting
- Problems</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>6.3.1. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-ADS">Reporting Ads
- or Other Configuration Problems</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.3.2. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-BUGS">Reporting
- Bugs</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>6.4. <a href="contact.html#SECURITY-CONTACT">Reporting
- security problems</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.5. <a href="contact.html#MAILING-LISTS">Mailing
- Lists</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.6. <a href="contact.html#SF-TRACKERS">SourceForge support
- trackers</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>7. <a href="copyright.html">Privoxy Copyright, License and
- History</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>7.1. <a href="copyright.html#AEN1480">License</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.2. <a href="copyright.html#AEN1489">History</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="general.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ General Information
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="general.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">General Information</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Installation</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
- "index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="General Information" href="general.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Configuration" href="configuration.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Frequently Asked
- Questions</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="general.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "configuration.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="INSTALLATION" id="INSTALLATION">2.
- Installation</a></h1>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHICHBROWSERS" id="WHICHBROWSERS">2.1. Which
- browsers are supported by Privoxy?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Any browser that can be configured to use a proxy, which should be
- virtually all browsers, including <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Firefox</span>, <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
- Explorer</span>, <span class="APPLICATION">Opera</span>, and
- <span class="APPLICATION">Safari</span> among others. Direct browser
- support is not an absolute requirement since <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs as a separate application and talks
- to the browser in the standardized HTTP protocol, just like a web
- server does.</p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Installation
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
+ "index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="General Information" href="general.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Configuration" href="configuration.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="general.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="configuration.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHICHOS" id="WHICHOS">2.2. Which operating
- systems are supported?</a></h3>
-
- <p>At present, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is known to run
- on Windows 95 and later versions (98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7
- etc.), GNU/Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and
- others), Mac OS X (10.4 and upwards on PPC and Intel processors), OS/2,
- Haiku, DragonFly, ElectroBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and
- various other flavors of Unix.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> used to work on AmigaOS and
- QNX, too, but the code currently isn't maintained and its status
- unknown. It might no longer compile, but getting it working again
- shouldn't be too hard.</p>
-
- <p>But any operating system that runs TCP/IP, can conceivably take
- advantage of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in a networked
- situation where <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> would run as a
- server on a LAN gateway. Then only the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"gateway"</span> needs to be running one of the above operating
- systems.</p>
-
- <p>Source code is freely available, so porting to other operating
- systems is always a possibility.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="EMAIL-CLIENT" id="EMAIL-CLIENT">2.3. Can I
- use Privoxy with my email client?</a></h3>
-
- <p>As long as there is some way to set a HTTP proxy for the client,
- then yes, any application can be used, whether it is strictly speaking
- a <span class="QUOTE">"browser"</span> or not. Though this may not be
- the best approach for dealing with some of the common abuses of HTML in
- email. See <a href="configuration.html#OUTLOOK">How can I configure
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Outlook</span>?</a> below for more on this.</p>
-
- <p>Be aware that HTML email presents a number of unique security and
- privacy related issues, that can require advanced skills to overcome.
- The developers recommend using email clients that can be configured to
- convert HTML to plain text for these reasons.</p>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="INSTALLATION">2. Installation</a>
+ </h1>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WHICHBROWSERS">2.1. Which browsers are supported by
+ Privoxy?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Any browser that can be configured to use a proxy, which should be
+ virtually all browsers, including <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Firefox</span>, <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
+ Explorer</span>, <span class="APPLICATION">Opera</span>, and <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Safari</span> among others. Direct browser
+ support is not an absolute requirement since <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs as a separate application and
+ talks to the browser in the standardized HTTP protocol, just like a
+ web server does.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WHICHOS">2.2. Which operating systems are supported?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ At present, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is known to
+ run on Windows 95 and later versions (98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista,
+ Windows 7 etc.), GNU/Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo,
+ Slackware and others), Mac OS X (10.4 and upwards on PPC and Intel
+ processors), OS/2, Haiku, DragonFly, ElectroBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
+ OpenBSD, Solaris, and various other flavors of Unix.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> used to work on AmigaOS
+ and QNX, too, but the code currently isn't maintained and its
+ status unknown. It might no longer compile, but getting it working
+ again shouldn't be too hard.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But any operating system that runs TCP/IP, can conceivably take
+ advantage of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in a
+ networked situation where <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ would run as a server on a LAN gateway. Then only the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"gateway"</span> needs to be running one of the above
+ operating systems.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Source code is freely available, so porting to other operating
+ systems is always a possibility.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="EMAIL-CLIENT">2.3. Can I use Privoxy with my email
+ client?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ As long as there is some way to set a HTTP proxy for the client,
+ then yes, any application can be used, whether it is strictly
+ speaking a <span class="QUOTE">"browser"</span> or not. Though this
+ may not be the best approach for dealing with some of the common
+ abuses of HTML in email. See <a href=
+ "configuration.html#OUTLOOK">How can I configure <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Outlook</span>?</a> below for more on this.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Be aware that HTML email presents a number of unique security and
+ privacy related issues, that can require advanced skills to
+ overcome. The developers recommend using email clients that can be
+ configured to convert HTML to plain text for these reasons.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="FIRSTSTEP">2.4. I just installed Privoxy. Is there
+ anything special I have to do now?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ All browsers should be told to use <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a proxy by specifying the correct
+ proxy address and port number in the appropriate configuration area
+ for the browser. It's possible to combine <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with a packet filter to intercept HTTP
+ requests even if the client isn't explicitly configured to use
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, but where possible,
+ configuring the client is recommended. See <a href=
+ "../user-manual/startup.html" target="_top">the User Manual for
+ more details</a>. You should also flush your browser's memory and
+ disk cache to get rid of any cached junk items, and remove any
+ stored <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie"
+ target="_top">cookies</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="LOCALHOST">2.5. What is the proxy address of Privoxy?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ If you set up the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to run
+ on the computer you browse from (rather than your ISP's server or
+ some networked computer on a LAN), the proxy will be on <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt> (sometimes referred to as <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"localhost"</span>, which is the special name used by every
+ computer on the Internet to refer to itself) and the port will be
+ 8118 (unless you used the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS" target=
+ "_top">listen-address</a> config option to tell <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to run on a different port).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When configuring your browser's proxy settings you typically enter
+ the word <span class="QUOTE">"localhost"</span> or the IP address
+ <span class="QUOTE">"127.0.0.1"</span> in the boxes next to <span
+ class="QUOTE">"HTTP"</span> and <span class="QUOTE">"Secure"</span>
+ (HTTPS) and then the number <span class="QUOTE">"8118"</span> for
+ <span class="QUOTE">"port"</span>. This tells your browser to send
+ all web requests to <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ instead of directly to the Internet.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can also be used to proxy
+ for a Local Area Network. In this case, your would enter either the
+ IP address of the LAN host where <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is running, or the equivalent
+ hostname, e.g. <tt class="LITERAL">192.168.1.1</tt>. Port
+ assignment would be same as above. Note that <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> doesn't listen on any LAN interfaces
+ by default.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does not currently handle
+ any other protocols such as FTP, SMTP, IM, IRC, ICQ, etc.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="NOTHING">2.6. I just installed Privoxy, and nothing is
+ happening. All the ads are there. What's wrong?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Did you configure your browser to use <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a proxy? It does not sound like it.
+ See above. You might also try flushing the browser's caches to
+ force a full re-reading of pages. You can verify that <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is running, and your browser is
+ correctly configured by entering the special URL: <a href=
+ "http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>. This should take you
+ to a page titled <span class="QUOTE">"This is Privoxy.."</span>
+ with access to <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> internal
+ configuration. If you see this, then you are good to go. If you
+ receive a page saying <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy is not
+ running"</span>, then the browser is not set up to use your <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> installation. If you receive
+ anything else (probably nothing at all), it could either be that
+ the browser is not set up correctly, or that <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not running at all. Check the <a
+ href="../user-manual/config.html#LOGFILE" target="_top">log
+ file</a>. For instructions on starting <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and browser configuration, see the <a
+ href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/startup.html" target=
+ "_top">chapter on starting <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span></a> in the <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/" target="_top">User
+ Manual</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="NOTUSED">2.7. I get a <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy is not
+ being used"</span> dummy page although Privoxy is running and being
+ used.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ First, make sure that Privoxy is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">really</i></span> running and being used by visiting <a
+ href="http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>. You should see
+ the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> main page. If not, see
+ the <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/startup.html"
+ target="_top">chapter on starting <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span></a> in the <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/" target="_top">User
+ Manual</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Now if <a href="http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a> works
+ for you, but other parts of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s web interface show the dummy page,
+ your browser has cached a redirection it encountered before <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> was being used. You need to
+ clear your browser's cache. Note that shift-reloading the dummy
+ page won't help, since that'll only refresh the dummy page, not the
+ redirection that lead you there.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The procedure for clearing the cache varies from browser to
+ browser. For example, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Mozilla/Netscape</span> users would click <span
+ class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> --> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Preferences</span> --> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Advanced</span> --> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Cache</span> and then click both <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">Clear Memory Cache</span>"</span>
+ and <span class="QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">Clear Disk
+ Cache</span>"</span>. In some <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Firefox</span> versions it's <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Tools</span> --> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Options</span> --> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Privacy</span> --> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Cache</span> and then click <span class="QUOTE">"<span
+ class="GUIBUTTON">Clear Cache Now</span>"</span>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="FIRSTSTEP" id="FIRSTSTEP">2.4. I just
- installed Privoxy. Is there anything special I have to do now?</a></h3>
-
- <p>All browsers should be told to use <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a proxy by specifying the correct proxy
- address and port number in the appropriate configuration area for the
- browser. It's possible to combine <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with a packet filter to intercept HTTP
- requests even if the client isn't explicitly configured to use
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, but where possible,
- configuring the client is recommended. See <a href=
- "../user-manual/startup.html" target="_top">the User Manual for more
- details</a>. You should also flush your browser's memory and disk cache
- to get rid of any cached junk items, and remove any stored <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
- "_top">cookies</a>.</p>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="general.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="configuration.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ General Information
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Configuration
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="LOCALHOST" id="LOCALHOST">2.5. What is the
- proxy address of Privoxy?</a></h3>
-
- <p>If you set up the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to run on
- the computer you browse from (rather than your ISP's server or some
- networked computer on a LAN), the proxy will be on <tt class=
- "LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt> (sometimes referred to as <span class=
- "QUOTE">"localhost"</span>, which is the special name used by every
- computer on the Internet to refer to itself) and the port will be 8118
- (unless you used the <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS" target=
- "_top">listen-address</a> config option to tell <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to run on a different port).</p>
-
- <p>When configuring your browser's proxy settings you typically enter
- the word <span class="QUOTE">"localhost"</span> or the IP address
- <span class="QUOTE">"127.0.0.1"</span> in the boxes next to
- <span class="QUOTE">"HTTP"</span> and <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Secure"</span> (HTTPS) and then the number <span class=
- "QUOTE">"8118"</span> for <span class="QUOTE">"port"</span>. This tells
- your browser to send all web requests to <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> instead of directly to the Internet.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can also be used to proxy
- for a Local Area Network. In this case, your would enter either the IP
- address of the LAN host where <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- is running, or the equivalent hostname, e.g. <tt class=
- "LITERAL">192.168.1.1</tt>. Port assignment would be same as above.
- Note that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> doesn't listen on
- any LAN interfaces by default.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does not currently handle
- any other protocols such as FTP, SMTP, IM, IRC, ICQ, etc.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NOTHING" id="NOTHING">2.6. I just installed
- Privoxy, and nothing is happening. All the ads are there. What's
- wrong?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Did you configure your browser to use <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a proxy? It does not sound like it. See
- above. You might also try flushing the browser's caches to force a full
- re-reading of pages. You can verify that <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is running, and your browser is correctly
- configured by entering the special URL: <a href="http://p.p/" target=
- "_top">http://p.p/</a>. This should take you to a page titled
- <span class="QUOTE">"This is Privoxy.."</span> with access to
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> internal configuration. If
- you see this, then you are good to go. If you receive a page saying
- <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy is not running"</span>, then the browser
- is not set up to use your <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- installation. If you receive anything else (probably nothing at all),
- it could either be that the browser is not set up correctly, or that
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not running at all. Check
- the <a href="../user-manual/config.html#LOGFILE" target="_top">log
- file</a>. For instructions on starting <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and browser configuration, see the
- <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/startup.html" target=
- "_top">chapter on starting <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span></a>
- in the <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/" target=
- "_top">User Manual</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NOTUSED" id="NOTUSED">2.7. I get a
- <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy is not being used"</span> dummy page
- although Privoxy is running and being used.</a></h3>
-
- <p>First, make sure that Privoxy is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">really</i></span> running and being used by visiting
- <a href="http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>. You should see the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> main page. If not, see the
- <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/startup.html" target=
- "_top">chapter on starting <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span></a>
- in the <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/" target=
- "_top">User Manual</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Now if <a href="http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a> works for
- you, but other parts of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s web
- interface show the dummy page, your browser has cached a redirection it
- encountered before <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> was being
- used. You need to clear your browser's cache. Note that shift-reloading
- the dummy page won't help, since that'll only refresh the dummy page,
- not the redirection that lead you there.</p>
-
- <p>The procedure for clearing the cache varies from browser to browser.
- For example, <span class="APPLICATION">Mozilla/Netscape</span> users
- would click <span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> --> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Preferences</span> --> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Advanced</span> --> <span class="GUIBUTTON">Cache</span>
- and then click both <span class="QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">Clear
- Memory Cache</span>"</span> and <span class="QUOTE">"<span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Clear Disk Cache</span>"</span>. In some <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Firefox</span> versions it's <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Tools</span> --> <span class="GUIBUTTON">Options</span>
- --> <span class="GUIBUTTON">Privacy</span> --> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Cache</span> and then click <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">Clear Cache Now</span>"</span>.</p>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="general.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href=
- "configuration.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">General Information</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Configuration</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Miscellaneous</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
- "index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Configuration" href="configuration.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Troubleshooting" href="trouble.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Frequently Asked
- Questions</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "configuration.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="trouble.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="MISC" id="MISC">4. Miscellaneous</a></h1>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SLOWSME" id="SLOWSME">4.1. How much does
- Privoxy slow my browsing down? This has to add extra time to
- browsing.</a></h3>
-
- <p>How much of an impact depends on many things, including the CPU of
- the host system, how aggressive the configuration is, which specific
- actions are being triggered, the size of the page, the bandwidth of the
- connection, etc.</p>
-
- <p>Overall, it should not slow you down any in real terms, and may
- actually help speed things up since ads, banners and other junk are not
- typically being retrieved and displayed. The actual processing time
- required by <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself for each
- page, is relatively small in the overall scheme of things, and happens
- very quickly. This is typically more than offset by time saved not
- downloading and rendering ad images and other junk content (if ad
- blocking is being used).</p>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"Filtering"</span> content via the <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#FILTER" target=
- "_top">filter</a></tt> or <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS" target=
- "_top">deanimate-gifs</a></tt> actions may cause a perceived slowdown,
- since the entire document needs to be buffered before displaying. And
- on very large documents, filtering may have some measurable impact. How
- much depends on the page size, the actual definition of the filter(s),
- etc. See below. Most other actions have little to no impact on
- speed.</p>
-
- <p>Also, when filtering is enabled but zlib support isn't available,
- compression is often disabled (see <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#PREVENT-COMPRESSION" target=
- "_top">prevent-compression</a>). This can have an impact on speed as
- well, although it's probably smaller than you might think. Again, the
- page size, etc. will determine how much of an impact.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="LOADINGTIMES" id="LOADINGTIMES">4.2. I
- notice considerable delays in page requests. What's wrong?</a></h3>
-
- <p>If you use any <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#FILTER" target="_top">filter</a></tt>
- action, such as filtering banners by size, web-bugs etc, or the
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS" target=
- "_top">deanimate-gifs</a></tt> action, the entire document must be
- loaded into memory in order for the filtering mechanism to work, and
- nothing is sent to the browser during this time.</p>
-
- <p>The loading time typically does not really change much in real
- numbers, but the feeling is different, because most browsers are able
- to start rendering incomplete content, giving the user a feeling of "it
- works". This effect is more noticeable on slower dialup connections.
- Extremely large documents may have some impact on the time to load the
- page where there is filtering being done. But overall, the difference
- should be very minimal. If there is a big impact, then probably some
- other situation is contributing (like anti-virus software).</p>
-
- <p>Filtering is automatically disabled for inappropriate MIME types.
- But note that if the web server mis-reports the MIME type, then content
- that should not be filtered, could be. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> only knows how to differentiate filterable
- content because of the MIME type as reported by the server, or because
- of some configuration setting that enables/disables filtering.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="CONFIGURL" id="CONFIGURL">4.3. What are
- "http://config.privoxy.org/" and "http://p.p/"?</a></h3>
-
- <p><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> is the address of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s built-in user interface, and <a href=
- "http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a> is a shortcut for it.</p>
-
- <p>Since <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> sits between your web
- browser and the Internet, it can simply intercept requests for these
- addresses and answer them with its built-in <span class="QUOTE">"web
- server"</span>.</p>
-
- <p>This also makes for a good test for your browser configuration: If
- entering the URL <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> takes you to a page saying
- <span class="QUOTE">"This is Privoxy ..."</span>, everything is OK. If
- you get a page saying <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy is not
- working"</span> instead, then your browser didn't use <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> for the request, hence it could not be
- intercepted, and you have accessed the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">real</i></span> web site at config.privoxy.org.</p>
-
- <p>Note that config.privoxy.org resolves to a public IP address. If you
- use config.privoxy.org as ping or traceroute target you will reach the
- system on the Internet (Privoxy can't intercept ICMP requests). If you
- want to ping the system Privoxy runs on, you should use its IP address
- or local DNS name (if it has got one).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NEWADS" id="NEWADS">4.4. How can I submit
- new ads, or report problems?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Please see the <a href="contact.html">Contact section</a> for
- various ways to interact with the developers.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NEWADS2" id="NEWADS2">4.5. If I do submit
- missed ads, will they be included in future updates?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Whether such submissions are eventually included in the <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt> configuration file depends on how
- significant the issue is. We of course want to address any potential
- problem with major, high-profile sites such as <i class=
- "CITETITLE">Google</i>, <i class="CITETITLE">Yahoo</i>, etc. Any site
- with global or regional reach, has a good chance of being a candidate.
- But at the other end of the spectrum are any number of smaller,
- low-profile sites such as for local clubs or schools. Since their reach
- and impact are much less, they are best handled by inclusion in the
- user's <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>, and thus would be
- unlikely to be included.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NOONECARES" id="NOONECARES">4.6. Why doesn't
- anyone answer my support request?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Rest assured that it has been read and considered. Why it is not
- answered, could be for various reasons, including no one has a good
- answer for it, no one has had time to yet investigate it thoroughly, it
- has been reported numerous times already, or because not enough
- information was provided to help us help you. Your efforts are not
- wasted, and we do appreciate them.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="IP" id="IP">4.7. How can I hide my IP
- address?</a></h3>
-
- <p>If you run both the browser and <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> locally, you cannot hide your IP address
- with <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> or ultimately any other
- software alone. The server needs to know your IP address so that it
- knows where to send the responses back.</p>
-
- <p>There are many publicly usable "anonymous" proxies out there, which
- provide a further level of indirection between you and the web
- server.</p>
-
- <p>However, these proxies are called "anonymous" because you don't need
- to authenticate, not because they would offer any real anonymity. Most
- of them will log your IP address and make it available to the
- authorities in case you violate the law of the country they run in. In
- fact you can't even rule out that some of them only exist to *collect*
- information on (those suspicious) people with a more than average
- preference for privacy.</p>
-
- <p>If you want to hide your IP address from most adversaries, you
- should consider chaining <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with
- <a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target="_top">Tor</a>. The
- configuration details can be found in <a href="#TOR" target="_top">How
- do I use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> together with
- <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> section</a> just below.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="ANONFORSURE" id="ANONFORSURE">4.8. Can
- Privoxy guarantee I am anonymous?</a></h3>
-
- <p>No. Your chances of remaining anonymous are improved, but unless you
- <a href="#TOR" target="_top">chain <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Tor</span></a> or a similar proxy and know what you're
- doing when it comes to configuring the rest of your system, you should
- assume that everything you do on the Web can be traced back to you.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can remove various
- information about you, and allows <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">you</i></span> more freedom to decide which sites you can
- trust, and what details you want to reveal. But it neither hides your
- IP address, nor can it guarantee that the rest of the system behaves
- correctly. There are several possibilities how a web sites can find out
- who you are, even if you are using a strict <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration and chained it with
- <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Most of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> privacy-enhancing
- features can be easily subverted by an insecure browser configuration,
- therefore you should use a browser that can be configured to only
- execute code from trusted sites, and be careful which sites you trust.
- For example there is no point in having <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> modify the User-Agent header, if websites
- can get all the information they want through JavaScript, ActiveX,
- Flash, Java etc.</p>
-
- <p>A few browsers disclose the user's email address in certain
- situations, such as when transferring a file by FTP. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does not filter FTP. If you need this
- feature, or are concerned about the mail handler of your browser
- disclosing your email address, you might consider products such as
- <span class="APPLICATION">NSClean</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Browsers available only as binaries could use non-standard headers
- to give out any information they can have access to: see the
- manufacturer's license agreement. It's impossible to anticipate and
- prevent every breach of privacy that might occur. The professionally
- paranoid prefer browsers available as source code, because anticipating
- their behavior is easier. Trust the source, Luke!</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="PROXYTEST" id="PROXYTEST">4.9. A test site
- says I am not using a Proxy.</a></h3>
-
- <p>Good! Actually, they are probably testing for some other kinds of
- proxies. Hiding yourself completely would require additional steps.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="TOR" id="TOR">4.10. How do I use Privoxy
- together with Tor?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Before you configure <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to use
- <a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target="_top">Tor</a>, please
- follow the <i class="CITETITLE">User Manual</i> chapters <a href=
- "../user-manual/installation.html" target="_top">2. Installation</a>
- and <a href="../user-manual/startup.html" target="_top">5. Startup</a>
- to make sure <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself is setup
- correctly.</p>
-
- <p>If it is, refer to <a href=
- "https://www.torproject.org/documentation.html" target="_top">Tor's
- extensive documentation</a> to learn how to install <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Tor</span>, and make sure <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Tor</span>'s logfile says that <span class="QUOTE">"Tor
- has successfully opened a circuit"</span> and it <span class=
- "QUOTE">"looks like client functionality is working"</span>.</p>
-
- <p>If either <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> or <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't working, their combination most
- likely will neither. Testing them on their own will also help you to
- direct problem reports to the right audience. If <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't working, don't bother the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> developers. If <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Tor</span> isn't working, don't send bug reports to the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Team.</p>
-
- <p>If you verified that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and
- <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> are working, it is time to connect
- them. As far as <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is concerned,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> is just another proxy that can be
- reached by socks4, socks4a and socks5. Most likely you are interested
- in <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> to increase your anonymity
- level, therefore you should use socks5, to make sure DNS requests are
- done through <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> and thus invisible to
- your local network. Using socks4a would work too, but with socks5 you
- get more precise error messages.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html" target="_top">main configuration file</a>
- is already prepared for <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span>, if you
- are using a default <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> configuration
- and run it on the same system as <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, you just have to edit the <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING" target="_top">forwarding
- section</a> and uncomment the line:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Miscellaneous
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
+ "index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Configuration" href="configuration.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Troubleshooting" href="trouble.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-# forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
-
-</pre>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="configuration.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="trouble.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
-
- <p>Note that if you got Tor through one of the bundles, you may have to
- change the port from 9050 to 9150 (or even another one). For details,
- please check the documentation on the <a href="https://torproject.org/"
- target="_top">Tor website</a>.</p>
-
- <p>This is enough to reach the Internet, but additionally you might
- want to uncomment the following forward rules, to make sure your local
- network is still reachable through Privoxy:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="MISC">4. Miscellaneous</a>
+ </h1>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SLOWSME">4.1. How much does Privoxy slow my browsing down?
+ This has to add extra time to browsing.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ How much of an impact depends on many things, including the CPU of
+ the host system, how aggressive the configuration is, which
+ specific actions are being triggered, the size of the page, the
+ bandwidth of the connection, etc.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Overall, it should not slow you down any in real terms, and may
+ actually help speed things up since ads, banners and other junk are
+ not typically being retrieved and displayed. The actual processing
+ time required by <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself
+ for each page, is relatively small in the overall scheme of things,
+ and happens very quickly. This is typically more than offset by
+ time saved not downloading and rendering ad images and other junk
+ content (if ad blocking is being used).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Filtering"</span> content via the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#FILTER" target=
+ "_top">filter</a></tt> or <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS" target=
+ "_top">deanimate-gifs</a></tt> actions may cause a perceived
+ slowdown, since the entire document needs to be buffered before
+ displaying. And on very large documents, filtering may have some
+ measurable impact. How much depends on the page size, the actual
+ definition of the filter(s), etc. See below. Most other actions
+ have little to no impact on speed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Also, when filtering is enabled but zlib support isn't available,
+ compression is often disabled (see <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#PREVENT-COMPRESSION" target=
+ "_top">prevent-compression</a>). This can have an impact on speed
+ as well, although it's probably smaller than you might think.
+ Again, the page size, etc. will determine how much of an impact.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="LOADINGTIMES">4.2. I notice considerable delays in page
+ requests. What's wrong?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ If you use any <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#FILTER" target=
+ "_top">filter</a></tt> action, such as filtering banners by size,
+ web-bugs etc, or the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS" target=
+ "_top">deanimate-gifs</a></tt> action, the entire document must be
+ loaded into memory in order for the filtering mechanism to work,
+ and nothing is sent to the browser during this time.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The loading time typically does not really change much in real
+ numbers, but the feeling is different, because most browsers are
+ able to start rendering incomplete content, giving the user a
+ feeling of "it works". This effect is more noticeable on slower
+ dialup connections. Extremely large documents may have some impact
+ on the time to load the page where there is filtering being done.
+ But overall, the difference should be very minimal. If there is a
+ big impact, then probably some other situation is contributing
+ (like anti-virus software).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Filtering is automatically disabled for inappropriate MIME types.
+ But note that if the web server mis-reports the MIME type, then
+ content that should not be filtered, could be. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> only knows how to differentiate
+ filterable content because of the MIME type as reported by the
+ server, or because of some configuration setting that
+ enables/disables filtering.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CONFIGURL">4.3. What are "http://config.privoxy.org/" and
+ "http://p.p/"?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> is the address of <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s built-in user interface, and
+ <a href="http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a> is a shortcut
+ for it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Since <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> sits between your
+ web browser and the Internet, it can simply intercept requests for
+ these addresses and answer them with its built-in <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"web server"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This also makes for a good test for your browser configuration: If
+ entering the URL <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> takes you to a page saying
+ <span class="QUOTE">"This is Privoxy ..."</span>, everything is OK.
+ If you get a page saying <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy is not
+ working"</span> instead, then your browser didn't use <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> for the request, hence it could not be
+ intercepted, and you have accessed the <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">real</i></span> web site at config.privoxy.org.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that config.privoxy.org resolves to a public IP address. If
+ you use config.privoxy.org as ping or traceroute target you will
+ reach the system on the Internet (Privoxy can't intercept ICMP
+ requests). If you want to ping the system Privoxy runs on, you
+ should use its IP address or local DNS name (if it has got one).
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="NEWADS">4.4. How can I submit new ads, or report
+ problems?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Please see the <a href="contact.html">Contact section</a> for
+ various ways to interact with the developers.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="NEWADS2">4.5. If I do submit missed ads, will they be
+ included in future updates?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Whether such submissions are eventually included in the <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt> configuration file depends on how
+ significant the issue is. We of course want to address any
+ potential problem with major, high-profile sites such as <i class=
+ "CITETITLE">Google</i>, <i class="CITETITLE">Yahoo</i>, etc. Any
+ site with global or regional reach, has a good chance of being a
+ candidate. But at the other end of the spectrum are any number of
+ smaller, low-profile sites such as for local clubs or schools.
+ Since their reach and impact are much less, they are best handled
+ by inclusion in the user's <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>,
+ and thus would be unlikely to be included.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="NOONECARES">4.6. Why doesn't anyone answer my support
+ request?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Rest assured that it has been read and considered. Why it is not
+ answered, could be for various reasons, including no one has a good
+ answer for it, no one has had time to yet investigate it
+ thoroughly, it has been reported numerous times already, or because
+ not enough information was provided to help us help you. Your
+ efforts are not wasted, and we do appreciate them.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="IP">4.7. How can I hide my IP address?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ If you run both the browser and <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> locally, you cannot hide your IP
+ address with <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> or ultimately
+ any other software alone. The server needs to know your IP address
+ so that it knows where to send the responses back.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are many publicly usable "anonymous" proxies out there, which
+ provide a further level of indirection between you and the web
+ server.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ However, these proxies are called "anonymous" because you don't
+ need to authenticate, not because they would offer any real
+ anonymity. Most of them will log your IP address and make it
+ available to the authorities in case you violate the law of the
+ country they run in. In fact you can't even rule out that some of
+ them only exist to *collect* information on (those suspicious)
+ people with a more than average preference for privacy.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you want to hide your IP address from most adversaries, you
+ should consider chaining <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ with <a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target="_top">Tor</a>.
+ The configuration details can be found in <a href="#TOR" target=
+ "_top">How do I use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ together with <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> section</a> just
+ below.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ANONFORSURE">4.8. Can Privoxy guarantee I am
+ anonymous?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ No. Your chances of remaining anonymous are improved, but unless
+ you <a href="#TOR" target="_top">chain <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span></a> or a similar proxy and know what
+ you're doing when it comes to configuring the rest of your system,
+ you should assume that everything you do on the Web can be traced
+ back to you.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can remove various
+ information about you, and allows <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">you</i></span> more freedom to decide which sites you
+ can trust, and what details you want to reveal. But it neither
+ hides your IP address, nor can it guarantee that the rest of the
+ system behaves correctly. There are several possibilities how a web
+ sites can find out who you are, even if you are using a strict
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration and chained
+ it with <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Most of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span>
+ privacy-enhancing features can be easily subverted by an insecure
+ browser configuration, therefore you should use a browser that can
+ be configured to only execute code from trusted sites, and be
+ careful which sites you trust. For example there is no point in
+ having <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> modify the
+ User-Agent header, if websites can get all the information they
+ want through JavaScript, ActiveX, Flash, Java etc.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A few browsers disclose the user's email address in certain
+ situations, such as when transferring a file by FTP. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does not filter FTP. If you need this
+ feature, or are concerned about the mail handler of your browser
+ disclosing your email address, you might consider products such as
+ <span class="APPLICATION">NSClean</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Browsers available only as binaries could use non-standard headers
+ to give out any information they can have access to: see the
+ manufacturer's license agreement. It's impossible to anticipate and
+ prevent every breach of privacy that might occur. The
+ professionally paranoid prefer browsers available as source code,
+ because anticipating their behavior is easier. Trust the source,
+ Luke!
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="PROXYTEST">4.9. A test site says I am not using a
+ Proxy.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Good! Actually, they are probably testing for some other kinds of
+ proxies. Hiding yourself completely would require additional steps.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="TOR">4.10. How do I use Privoxy together with Tor?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Before you configure <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
+ use <a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target="_top">Tor</a>,
+ please follow the <i class="CITETITLE">User Manual</i> chapters <a
+ href="../user-manual/installation.html" target="_top">2.
+ Installation</a> and <a href="../user-manual/startup.html" target=
+ "_top">5. Startup</a> to make sure <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself is setup correctly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If it is, refer to <a href=
+ "https://www.torproject.org/documentation.html" target="_top">Tor's
+ extensive documentation</a> to learn how to install <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span>, and make sure <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span>'s logfile says that <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Tor has successfully opened a circuit"</span> and it <span
+ class="QUOTE">"looks like client functionality is working"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If either <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> or <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't working, their combination most
+ likely will neither. Testing them on their own will also help you
+ to direct problem reports to the right audience. If <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't working, don't bother the <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> developers. If <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span> isn't working, don't send bug reports to
+ the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Team.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you verified that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> are working, it is time to
+ connect them. As far as <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is
+ concerned, <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> is just another
+ proxy that can be reached by socks4, socks4a and socks5. Most
+ likely you are interested in <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span>
+ to increase your anonymity level, therefore you should use socks5,
+ to make sure DNS requests are done through <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span> and thus invisible to your local network.
+ Using socks4a would work too, but with socks5 you get more precise
+ error messages.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html" target="_top">main configuration
+ file</a> is already prepared for <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span>, if you are using a default <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span> configuration and run it on the same
+ system as <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, you just have
+ to edit the <a href="../user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING" target=
+ "_top">forwarding section</a> and uncomment the line:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+# forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Note that if you got Tor through one of the bundles, you may have
+ to change the port from 9050 to 9150 (or even another one). For
+ details, please check the documentation on the <a href=
+ "https://torproject.org/" target="_top">Tor website</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This is enough to reach the Internet, but additionally you might
+ want to uncomment the following forward rules, to make sure your
+ local network is still reachable through Privoxy:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# forward 192.168.*.*/ .
# forward 10.*.*.*/ .
# forward 127.*.*.*/ .
-
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Unencrypted connections to systems in these address ranges will be
- as (un)secure as the local network is, but the alternative is that your
- browser can't reach the network at all. Then again, that may actually
- be desired and if you don't know for sure that your browser has to be
- able to reach the local network, there's no reason to allow it.</p>
-
- <p>If you want your browser to be able to reach servers in your local
- network by using their names, you will need additional exceptions that
- look like this:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Unencrypted connections to systems in these address ranges will be
+ as (un)secure as the local network is, but the alternative is that
+ your browser can't reach the network at all. Then again, that may
+ actually be desired and if you don't know for sure that your
+ browser has to be able to reach the local network, there's no
+ reason to allow it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you want your browser to be able to reach servers in your local
+ network by using their names, you will need additional exceptions
+ that look like this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# forward localhost/ .
-
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Save the modified configuration file and open <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a> in your browser,
- confirm that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has reloaded its
- configuration and that there are no other forward lines, unless you
- know that you need them. If everything looks good, refer to <a href=
- "https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#IsMyConnectionPrivate"
- target="_top">Tor Faq 4.2</a> to learn how to verify that you are
- really using <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Afterward, please take the time to at least skim through the rest of
- <span class="APPLICATION">Tor's</span> documentation. Make sure you
- understand what <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> does, why it is no
- replacement for application level security, and why you probably don't
- want to use it for unencrypted logins.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SITEBREAK" id="SITEBREAK">4.11. Might some
- things break because header information or content is being
- altered?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Definitely. It is common for sites to use browser type, browser
- version, HTTP header content, and various other techniques in order to
- dynamically decide what to display and how to display it. What you see,
- and what I see, might be very different. There are many, many ways that
- this can be handled, so having hard and fast rules, is tricky.</p>
-
- <p>The <span class="QUOTE">"User-Agent"</span> is sometimes used in
- this way to identify the browser, and adjust content accordingly.</p>
-
- <p>Also, different browsers use different encodings of non-English
- characters, certain web servers convert pages on-the-fly according to
- the User Agent header. Giving a <span class="QUOTE">"User Agent"</span>
- with the wrong operating system or browser manufacturer causes some
- sites in these languages to be garbled; Surfers to Eastern European
- sites should change it to something closer. And then some page access
- counters work by looking at the <span class="QUOTE">"Referer"</span>
- header; they may fail or break if unavailable. The weather maps of
- Intellicast have been blocked by their server when no <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Referer"</span> or cookie is provided, is another example.
- (But you can forge both headers without giving information away). There
- are many other ways things can go wrong when trying to fool a web
- server. The results of which could inadvertently cause pages to load
- incorrectly, partially, or even not at all. And there may be no obvious
- clues as to just what went wrong, or why. Nowhere will there be a
- message that says <span class="QUOTE">"<span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Turn off <tt class="LITERAL">fast-redirects</tt> or
- else!</i></span> "</span></p>
-
- <p>Similar thoughts apply to modifying JavaScript, and, to a lesser
- degree, HTML elements.</p>
-
- <p>If you have problems with a site, you will have to adjust your
- configuration accordingly. Cookies are probably the most likely
- adjustment that may be required, but by no means the only one.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="CACHING" id="CACHING">4.12. Can Privoxy act
- as a <span class="QUOTE">"caching"</span> proxy to speed up web
- browsing?</a></h3>
-
- <p>No, it does not have this ability at all. You want something like
- <a href="http://www.squid-cache.org/" target="_top">Squid</a> or
- <a href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/" target=
- "_top">Polipo</a> for this. And, yes, before you ask, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can co-exist with other kinds of proxies
- like <span class="APPLICATION">Squid</span>. See the <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING" target="_top">forwarding
- chapter</a> in the <a href="../user-manual/index.html" target=
- "_top">user manual</a> for details.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="FIREWALL" id="FIREWALL">4.13. What about as
- a firewall? Can Privoxy protect me?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Not in the way you mean, or in the way some firewall vendors claim
- they can. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can help protect
- your privacy, but can't protect your system from intrusion attempts. It
- is, of course, perfectly possible to use <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WASTED" id="WASTED">4.14. I have large empty
- spaces / a checkerboard pattern now where ads used to be. Why?</a></h3>
-
- <p>It is technically possible to eliminate banners and ads in a way
- that frees their allocated page space. This could easily be done by
- blocking with <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> filters, and
- eliminating the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">entire</i></span> image references from the HTML page
- source.</p>
-
- <p>But, this would consume considerably more CPU resources (IOW, slow
- things down), would likely destroy the layout of some web pages which
- rely on the banners utilizing a certain amount of page space, and might
- fail in other cases, where the screen space is reserved (e.g. by HTML
- tables for instance). Also, making ads and banners disappear without
- any trace complicates troubleshooting, and would sooner or later be
- problematic.</p>
-
- <p>The better alternative is to instead let them stay, and block the
- resulting requests for the banners themselves as is now the case. This
- leaves either empty space, or the familiar checkerboard pattern.</p>
-
- <p>So the developers won't support this in the default configuration,
- but you can of course define appropriate filters yourself to achieve
- this.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SSL" id="SSL">4.15. How can Privoxy filter
- Secure (HTTPS) URLs?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Since secure HTTP connections are encrypted SSL sessions between
- your browser and the secure site, and are meant to be reliably
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">secure</i></span>, there is
- little that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can do but hand
- the raw gibberish data though from one end to the other
- unprocessed.</p>
-
- <p>The only exception to this is blocking by host patterns, as the
- client needs to tell <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> the name
- of the remote server, so that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- can establish the connection. If that name matches a host-only pattern,
- the connection will be blocked.</p>
-
- <p>As far as ad blocking is concerned, this is less of a restriction
- than it may seem, since ad sources are often identifiable by the host
- name, and often the banners to be placed in an encrypted page come
- unencrypted nonetheless for efficiency reasons, which exposes them to
- the full power of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s ad
- blocking.</p>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"Content cookies"</span> (those that are
- embedded in the actual HTML or JS page content, see <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#FILTER-CONTENT-COOKIES" target=
- "_top">filter{content-cookies}</a></tt>), in an SSL transaction will be
- impossible to block under these conditions. Fortunately, this does not
- seem to be a very common scenario since most cookies come by
- traditional means.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SECURE" id="SECURE">4.16. Privoxy runs as a
- <span class="QUOTE">"server"</span>. How secure is it? Do I need to
- take any special precautions?</a></h3>
-
- <p>On Unix-like systems, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can
- run as a non-privileged user, which is how we recommend it be run.
- Also, by default <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> listens to
- requests from <span class="QUOTE">"localhost"</span> only.</p>
-
- <p>The server aspect of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not
- itself directly exposed to the Internet in this configuration. If you
- want to have <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> serve as a LAN
- proxy, this will have to be opened up to allow for LAN requests. In
- this case, we'd recommend you specify only the LAN gateway address,
- e.g. 192.168.1.1, in the main <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- configuration file and check all <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL" target="_top">access
- control and security options</a>. All LAN hosts can then use this as
- their proxy address in the browser proxy configuration, but
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will not listen on any
- external interfaces. ACLs can be defined in addition, and using a
- firewall is always good too. Better safe than sorry.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="TURNOFF" id="TURNOFF">4.17. Can I
- temporarily disable Privoxy?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> doesn't have a transparent
- proxy mode, but you can toggle off blocking and content filtering.</p>
-
- <p>The easiest way to do that is to point your browser to the remote
- toggle URL: <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle</a>.</p>
-
- <p>See the <a href="../user-manual/appendix.html#BOOKMARKLETS" target=
- "_top">Bookmarklets section</a> of the <i class="CITETITLE">User
- Manual</i> for an easy way to access this feature. Note that this is a
- feature that may need to be enabled in the main <tt class=
- "FILENAME">config</tt> file.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="REALLYOFF" id="REALLYOFF">4.18. When
- <span class="QUOTE">"disabled"</span> is Privoxy totally out of the
- picture?</a></h3>
-
- <p>No, this just means all optional filtering and actions are disabled.
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is still acting as a proxy,
- but just doing less of the things that <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> would normally be expected to do. It is
- still a <span class="QUOTE">"middle-man"</span> in the interaction
- between your browser and web sites. See below to bypass the proxy.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="TURNOFF2" id="TURNOFF2">4.19. How can I tell
- Privoxy to totally ignore certain sites?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Bypassing a proxy, or proxying based on arbitrary criteria, is
- purely a browser configuration issue, not a <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> issue. Modern browsers typically do have
- settings for not proxying certain sites. Check your browser's help
- files.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="CRUNCH" id="CRUNCH">4.20. My logs show
- Privoxy <span class="QUOTE">"crunches"</span> ads, but also its own
- internal CGI pages. What is a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"crunch"</span>?</a></h3>
-
- <p>A <span class="QUOTE">"crunch"</span> simply means <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> intercepted <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">something</i></span>, nothing more.
- Often this is indeed ads or banners, but <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> uses the same mechanism for trapping
- requests for its own internal pages. For instance, a request for
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration page at:
- <a href="http://config.privoxy.org" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org</a>, is intercepted (i.e. it does not
- go out to the 'net), and the familiar CGI configuration is returned to
- the browser, and the log consequently will show a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"crunch"</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Since version 3.0.7, Privoxy will also log the crunch reason. If you
- are using an older version you might want to upgrade.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="DOWNLOADS" id="DOWNLOADS">4.21. Can Privoxy
- affect files that I download from a webserver? FTP server?</a></h3>
-
- <p>From the webserver's perspective, there is no difference between
- viewing a document (i.e. a page), and downloading a file. The same is
- true of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. If there is a match
- for a <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK" target="_top">block</a></tt>
- pattern, it will still be blocked, and of course this is obvious.</p>
-
- <p>Filtering is potentially more of a concern since the results are not
- always so obvious, and the effects of filtering are there whether the
- file is simply viewed, or downloaded. And potentially whether the
- content is some obnoxious advertisement, or Mr. Jimmy's latest/greatest
- source code jewel. Of course, one of these presumably is <span class=
- "QUOTE">"bad"</span> content that we don't want, and the other is
- <span class="QUOTE">"good"</span> content that we do want. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is blind to the differences, and can only
- distinguish <span class="QUOTE">"good from bad"</span> by the
- configuration parameters <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">we</i></span> give it.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> knows the differences in
- files according to the <span class="QUOTE">"Content Type"</span> as
- reported by the webserver. If this is reported accurately (e.g.
- <span class="QUOTE">"application/zip"</span> for a zip archive), then
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> knows to ignore these where
- appropriate. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> potentially can
- filter HTML as well as plain text documents, subject to configuration
- parameters of course. Also, documents that are of an unknown type
- (generally assumed to be <span class="QUOTE">"text/plain"</span>) can
- be filtered, as will those that might be incorrectly reported by the
- webserver. If such a file is a downloaded file that is intended to be
- saved to disk, then any content that might have been altered by
- filtering, will be saved too, for these (probably rare) cases.</p>
-
- <p>Note that versions later than 3.0.2 do NOT filter document types
- reported as <span class="QUOTE">"text/plain"</span>. Prior to this,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> did filter this document
- type.</p>
-
- <p>In short, filtering is <span class="QUOTE">"ON"</span> if a) the
- content type as reported by the webserver is appropriate <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and</i></span> b) the configuration
- allows it (or at least does not disallow it). That's it. There is no
- magic cookie anywhere to say this is <span class="QUOTE">"good"</span>
- and this is <span class="QUOTE">"bad"</span>. It's the configuration
- that lets it all happen or not.</p>
-
- <p>If you download text files, you probably do not want these to be
- filtered, particularly if the content is source code, or other critical
- content. Source code sometimes might be mistaken for Javascript (i.e.
- the kind that might open a pop-up window). It is recommended to turn
- off filtering for download sites (particularly if the content may be
- plain text files and you are using version 3.0.2 or earlier) in your
- <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> file. And also, for any site or
- page where making <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">any</i></span> changes at all to the content is to be
- avoided.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does not do FTP at all,
- only HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) protocols.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="DOWNLOADS2" id="DOWNLOADS2">4.22. I just
- downloaded a Perl script, and Privoxy altered it! Yikes, what is
- wrong!</a></h3>
-
- <p>Please read above.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="HOSTSFILE" id="HOSTSFILE">4.23. Should I
- continue to use a <span class="QUOTE">"HOSTS"</span> file for
- ad-blocking?</a></h3>
-
- <p>One time-tested technique to defeat common ads is to trick the local
- DNS system by giving a phony IP address for the ad generator in the
- local <tt class="FILENAME">HOSTS</tt> file, typically using <tt class=
- "LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt>, aka <tt class="LITERAL">localhost</tt>. This
- effectively blocks the ad.</p>
-
- <p>There is no reason to use this technique in conjunction with
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does essentially the same thing, much more
- elegantly and with much more flexibility. A large <tt class=
- "FILENAME">HOSTS</tt> file, in fact, not only duplicates effort, but
- may get in the way and seriously slow down your system. It is
- recommended to remove such entries from your <tt class=
- "FILENAME">HOSTS</tt> file. If you think your hosts list is neglected
- by <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration, consider
- adding your list to your <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>
- file:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Save the modified configuration file and open <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a> in your browser,
+ confirm that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has reloaded
+ its configuration and that there are no other forward lines, unless
+ you know that you need them. If everything looks good, refer to <a
+ href=
+ "https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#IsMyConnectionPrivate"
+ target="_top">Tor Faq 4.2</a> to learn how to verify that you are
+ really using <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Afterward, please take the time to at least skim through the rest
+ of <span class="APPLICATION">Tor's</span> documentation. Make sure
+ you understand what <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> does, why
+ it is no replacement for application level security, and why you
+ probably don't want to use it for unencrypted logins.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SITEBREAK">4.11. Might some things break because header
+ information or content is being altered?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Definitely. It is common for sites to use browser type, browser
+ version, HTTP header content, and various other techniques in order
+ to dynamically decide what to display and how to display it. What
+ you see, and what I see, might be very different. There are many,
+ many ways that this can be handled, so having hard and fast rules,
+ is tricky.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The <span class="QUOTE">"User-Agent"</span> is sometimes used in
+ this way to identify the browser, and adjust content accordingly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Also, different browsers use different encodings of non-English
+ characters, certain web servers convert pages on-the-fly according
+ to the User Agent header. Giving a <span class="QUOTE">"User
+ Agent"</span> with the wrong operating system or browser
+ manufacturer causes some sites in these languages to be garbled;
+ Surfers to Eastern European sites should change it to something
+ closer. And then some page access counters work by looking at the
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Referer"</span> header; they may fail or break
+ if unavailable. The weather maps of Intellicast have been blocked
+ by their server when no <span class="QUOTE">"Referer"</span> or
+ cookie is provided, is another example. (But you can forge both
+ headers without giving information away). There are many other ways
+ things can go wrong when trying to fool a web server. The results
+ of which could inadvertently cause pages to load incorrectly,
+ partially, or even not at all. And there may be no obvious clues as
+ to just what went wrong, or why. Nowhere will there be a message
+ that says <span class="QUOTE">"<span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Turn off <tt class="LITERAL">fast-redirects</tt> or
+ else!</i></span> "</span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Similar thoughts apply to modifying JavaScript, and, to a lesser
+ degree, HTML elements.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you have problems with a site, you will have to adjust your
+ configuration accordingly. Cookies are probably the most likely
+ adjustment that may be required, but by no means the only one.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CACHING">4.12. Can Privoxy act as a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"caching"</span> proxy to speed up web browsing?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ No, it does not have this ability at all. You want something like
+ <a href="http://www.squid-cache.org/" target="_top">Squid</a> or <a
+ href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/" target=
+ "_top">Polipo</a> for this. And, yes, before you ask, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can co-exist with other kinds of
+ proxies like <span class="APPLICATION">Squid</span>. See the <a
+ href="../user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING" target=
+ "_top">forwarding chapter</a> in the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/index.html" target="_top">user manual</a> for
+ details.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="FIREWALL">4.13. What about as a firewall? Can Privoxy
+ protect me?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Not in the way you mean, or in the way some firewall vendors claim
+ they can. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can help protect
+ your privacy, but can't protect your system from intrusion
+ attempts. It is, of course, perfectly possible to use <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WASTED">4.14. I have large empty spaces / a checkerboard
+ pattern now where ads used to be. Why?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ It is technically possible to eliminate banners and ads in a way
+ that frees their allocated page space. This could easily be done by
+ blocking with <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> filters,
+ and eliminating the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">entire</i></span> image references from the HTML page
+ source.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But, this would consume considerably more CPU resources (IOW, slow
+ things down), would likely destroy the layout of some web pages
+ which rely on the banners utilizing a certain amount of page space,
+ and might fail in other cases, where the screen space is reserved
+ (e.g. by HTML tables for instance). Also, making ads and banners
+ disappear without any trace complicates troubleshooting, and would
+ sooner or later be problematic.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The better alternative is to instead let them stay, and block the
+ resulting requests for the banners themselves as is now the case.
+ This leaves either empty space, or the familiar checkerboard
+ pattern.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ So the developers won't support this in the default configuration,
+ but you can of course define appropriate filters yourself to
+ achieve this.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SSL">4.15. How can Privoxy filter Secure (HTTPS) URLs?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Since secure HTTP connections are encrypted SSL sessions between
+ your browser and the secure site, and are meant to be reliably
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">secure</i></span>, there
+ is little that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can do but
+ hand the raw gibberish data though from one end to the other
+ unprocessed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The only exception to this is blocking by host patterns, as the
+ client needs to tell <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> the
+ name of the remote server, so that <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can establish the connection. If that
+ name matches a host-only pattern, the connection will be blocked.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As far as ad blocking is concerned, this is less of a restriction
+ than it may seem, since ad sources are often identifiable by the
+ host name, and often the banners to be placed in an encrypted page
+ come unencrypted nonetheless for efficiency reasons, which exposes
+ them to the full power of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s ad blocking.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Content cookies"</span> (those that are
+ embedded in the actual HTML or JS page content, see <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#FILTER-CONTENT-COOKIES" target=
+ "_top">filter{content-cookies}</a></tt>), in an SSL transaction
+ will be impossible to block under these conditions. Fortunately,
+ this does not seem to be a very common scenario since most cookies
+ come by traditional means.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SECURE">4.16. Privoxy runs as a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"server"</span>. How secure is it? Do I need to take any
+ special precautions?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ On Unix-like systems, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can
+ run as a non-privileged user, which is how we recommend it be run.
+ Also, by default <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> listens
+ to requests from <span class="QUOTE">"localhost"</span> only.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The server aspect of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is
+ not itself directly exposed to the Internet in this configuration.
+ If you want to have <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> serve
+ as a LAN proxy, this will have to be opened up to allow for LAN
+ requests. In this case, we'd recommend you specify only the LAN
+ gateway address, e.g. 192.168.1.1, in the main <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration file and check all <a
+ href="../user-manual/config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL" target=
+ "_top">access control and security options</a>. All LAN hosts can
+ then use this as their proxy address in the browser proxy
+ configuration, but <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
+ not listen on any external interfaces. ACLs can be defined in
+ addition, and using a firewall is always good too. Better safe than
+ sorry.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="TURNOFF">4.17. Can I temporarily disable Privoxy?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> doesn't have a transparent
+ proxy mode, but you can toggle off blocking and content filtering.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The easiest way to do that is to point your browser to the remote
+ toggle URL: <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ See the <a href="../user-manual/appendix.html#BOOKMARKLETS" target=
+ "_top">Bookmarklets section</a> of the <i class="CITETITLE">User
+ Manual</i> for an easy way to access this feature. Note that this
+ is a feature that may need to be enabled in the main <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">config</tt> file.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="REALLYOFF">4.18. When <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"disabled"</span> is Privoxy totally out of the
+ picture?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ No, this just means all optional filtering and actions are
+ disabled. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is still acting
+ as a proxy, but just doing less of the things that <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> would normally be expected to do. It
+ is still a <span class="QUOTE">"middle-man"</span> in the
+ interaction between your browser and web sites. See below to bypass
+ the proxy.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="TURNOFF2">4.19. How can I tell Privoxy to totally ignore
+ certain sites?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Bypassing a proxy, or proxying based on arbitrary criteria, is
+ purely a browser configuration issue, not a <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> issue. Modern browsers typically do
+ have settings for not proxying certain sites. Check your browser's
+ help files.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CRUNCH">4.20. My logs show Privoxy <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"crunches"</span> ads, but also its own internal CGI pages.
+ What is a <span class="QUOTE">"crunch"</span>?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ A <span class="QUOTE">"crunch"</span> simply means <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> intercepted <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">something</i></span>, nothing more. Often this is
+ indeed ads or banners, but <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ uses the same mechanism for trapping requests for its own internal
+ pages. For instance, a request for <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration page at: <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org</a>, is intercepted (i.e. it does
+ not go out to the 'net), and the familiar CGI configuration is
+ returned to the browser, and the log consequently will show a <span
+ class="QUOTE">"crunch"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Since version 3.0.7, Privoxy will also log the crunch reason. If
+ you are using an older version you might want to upgrade.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DOWNLOADS">4.21. Can Privoxy affect files that I download
+ from a webserver? FTP server?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ From the webserver's perspective, there is no difference between
+ viewing a document (i.e. a page), and downloading a file. The same
+ is true of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. If there is a
+ match for a <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK" target=
+ "_top">block</a></tt> pattern, it will still be blocked, and of
+ course this is obvious.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Filtering is potentially more of a concern since the results are
+ not always so obvious, and the effects of filtering are there
+ whether the file is simply viewed, or downloaded. And potentially
+ whether the content is some obnoxious advertisement, or Mr. Jimmy's
+ latest/greatest source code jewel. Of course, one of these
+ presumably is <span class="QUOTE">"bad"</span> content that we
+ don't want, and the other is <span class="QUOTE">"good"</span>
+ content that we do want. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ is blind to the differences, and can only distinguish <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"good from bad"</span> by the configuration parameters
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">we</i></span> give it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> knows the differences in
+ files according to the <span class="QUOTE">"Content Type"</span> as
+ reported by the webserver. If this is reported accurately (e.g.
+ <span class="QUOTE">"application/zip"</span> for a zip archive),
+ then <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> knows to ignore these
+ where appropriate. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ potentially can filter HTML as well as plain text documents,
+ subject to configuration parameters of course. Also, documents that
+ are of an unknown type (generally assumed to be <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"text/plain"</span>) can be filtered, as will those that
+ might be incorrectly reported by the webserver. If such a file is a
+ downloaded file that is intended to be saved to disk, then any
+ content that might have been altered by filtering, will be saved
+ too, for these (probably rare) cases.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that versions later than 3.0.2 do NOT filter document types
+ reported as <span class="QUOTE">"text/plain"</span>. Prior to this,
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> did filter this document
+ type.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In short, filtering is <span class="QUOTE">"ON"</span> if a) the
+ content type as reported by the webserver is appropriate <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and</i></span> b) the
+ configuration allows it (or at least does not disallow it). That's
+ it. There is no magic cookie anywhere to say this is <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"good"</span> and this is <span class="QUOTE">"bad"</span>.
+ It's the configuration that lets it all happen or not.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you download text files, you probably do not want these to be
+ filtered, particularly if the content is source code, or other
+ critical content. Source code sometimes might be mistaken for
+ Javascript (i.e. the kind that might open a pop-up window). It is
+ recommended to turn off filtering for download sites (particularly
+ if the content may be plain text files and you are using version
+ 3.0.2 or earlier) in your <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>
+ file. And also, for any site or page where making <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">any</i></span> changes at all to the
+ content is to be avoided.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does not do FTP at all,
+ only HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) protocols.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DOWNLOADS2">4.22. I just downloaded a Perl script, and
+ Privoxy altered it! Yikes, what is wrong!</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Please read above.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="HOSTSFILE">4.23. Should I continue to use a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"HOSTS"</span> file for ad-blocking?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ One time-tested technique to defeat common ads is to trick the
+ local DNS system by giving a phony IP address for the ad generator
+ in the local <tt class="FILENAME">HOSTS</tt> file, typically using
+ <tt class="LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt>, aka <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">localhost</tt>. This effectively blocks the ad.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There is no reason to use this technique in conjunction with <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does essentially the same thing, much
+ more elegantly and with much more flexibility. A large <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">HOSTS</tt> file, in fact, not only duplicates effort,
+ but may get in the way and seriously slow down your system. It is
+ recommended to remove such entries from your <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">HOSTS</tt> file. If you think your hosts list is
+ neglected by <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span>
+ configuration, consider adding your list to your <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt> file:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ +block }
www.ad.example1.com
ad.example2.com
ads.galore.example.com
etc.example.com
</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SEEALSO">4.24. Where can I find more information about
+ Privoxy and related issues?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Other references and sites of interest to <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> users:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/</a>, the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Home page.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/</a>, the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> FAQ.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/</a>, the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> developer manual.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/" target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/</a>, the
+ Project Page for <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on
+ <a href="http://sourceforge.net" target=
+ "_top">SourceForge</a>.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a>, the web-based user
+ interface. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> must be
+ running for this to work. Shortcut: <a href="http://p.p/"
+ target="_top">http://p.p/</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288</a>,
+ to submit <span class="QUOTE">"misses"</span> and other
+ configuration related suggestions to the developers.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.squid-cache.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://www.squid-cache.org/</a>, a popular caching
+ proxy, which is often used together with <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href=
+ "http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/"
+ target=
+ "_top">http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/</a>,
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Polipo</span> is a caching proxy
+ with advanced features like pipelining, multiplexing and
+ caching of partial instances. In many setups it can be used
+ as <span class="APPLICATION">Squid</span> replacement.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.torproject.org/</a>, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span> can help anonymize web browsing, web
+ publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other
+ applications.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="MICROSUCK">4.25. I've noticed that Privoxy changes <span
+ class="QUOTE">"Microsoft"</span> to <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"MicroSuck"</span>! Why are you manipulating my
+ browsing?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ We're not. The text substitutions that you are seeing are disabled
+ in the default configuration as shipped. You have either manually
+ activated the <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
+ "LITERAL">fun</tt>"</span> filter which is clearly labeled <span
+ class="QUOTE">"Text replacements for subversive browsing
+ fun!"</span> or you are using an older Privoxy version and have
+ implicitly activated it by choosing the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Advanced"</span> profile in the web-based editor. Please
+ upgrade.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="VALID">4.26. Does Privoxy produce <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"valid"</span> HTML (or XHTML)?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy generates HTML in both its own <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"templates"</span>, and possibly whenever there are text
+ substitutions via a <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ filter. While this should always conform to the HTML 4.01
+ specifications, it has not been validated against this or any other
+ standard.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SURPRISE-PRIVOXY">4.27. How did you manage to get Privoxy
+ on my computer without my consent?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ We didn't. We make Privoxy available for download, but we don't go
+ around installing it on other people's systems behind their back.
+ If you discover Privoxy running on your system and are sure you
+ didn't install it yourself, somebody else did. You may not even be
+ running the real Privoxy, but maybe something else that only
+ pretends to be Privoxy, or maybe something that is based on the
+ real Privoxy, but has been modified.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Lately there have been reports of problems with some kind of
+ "parental control" software based on Privoxy that came preinstalled
+ on certain <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/bugs/813/"
+ target="_top">ASUS Netbooks</a>. The problems described are
+ inconsistent with the behaviour of official Privoxy versions, which
+ suggests that the preinstalled software may contain vendor
+ modifications that we don't know about and thus can't debug.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy's <a href="copyright.html">license</a> allows vendor
+ modifications, but the vendor has to comply with the license, which
+ involves informing the user about the changes and to make the
+ changes available under the same license as Privoxy itself.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are having trouble with a modified Privoxy version, please
+ try to talk to whoever made the modifications before reporting the
+ problem to us. Please also try to convince whoever made the
+ modifications to talk to us. If you think somebody gave you a
+ modified Privoxy version without complying to the license, please
+ let us know.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="configuration.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="trouble.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Configuration
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Troubleshooting
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SEEALSO" id="SEEALSO">4.24. Where can I find
- more information about Privoxy and related issues?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Other references and sites of interest to <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> users:</p>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/</a>, the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Home page.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/</a>, the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> FAQ.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/</a>, the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> developer manual.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/" target=
- "_top">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/</a>, the Project
- Page for <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on <a href=
- "http://sourceforge.net" target="_top">SourceForge</a>.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a>, the web-based user
- interface. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> must be
- running for this to work. Shortcut: <a href="http://p.p/" target=
- "_top">http://p.p/</a></td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288"
- target=
- "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288</a>,
- to submit <span class="QUOTE">"misses"</span> and other
- configuration related suggestions to the developers.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="http://www.squid-cache.org/" target=
- "_top">http://www.squid-cache.org/</a>, a popular caching proxy,
- which is often used together with <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href=
- "http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/"
- target=
- "_top">http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/</a>,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Polipo</span> is a caching proxy with
- advanced features like pipelining, multiplexing and caching of
- partial instances. In many setups it can be used as <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Squid</span> replacement.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target=
- "_top">https://www.torproject.org/</a>, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Tor</span> can help anonymize web browsing, web
- publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other
- applications.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="MICROSUCK" id="MICROSUCK">4.25. I've noticed
- that Privoxy changes <span class="QUOTE">"Microsoft"</span> to
- <span class="QUOTE">"MicroSuck"</span>! Why are you manipulating my
- browsing?</a></h3>
-
- <p>We're not. The text substitutions that you are seeing are disabled
- in the default configuration as shipped. You have either manually
- activated the <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">fun</tt>"</span>
- filter which is clearly labeled <span class="QUOTE">"Text replacements
- for subversive browsing fun!"</span> or you are using an older Privoxy
- version and have implicitly activated it by choosing the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Advanced"</span> profile in the web-based editor. Please
- upgrade.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="VALID" id="VALID">4.26. Does Privoxy produce
- <span class="QUOTE">"valid"</span> HTML (or XHTML)?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Privoxy generates HTML in both its own <span class=
- "QUOTE">"templates"</span>, and possibly whenever there are text
- substitutions via a <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> filter.
- While this should always conform to the HTML 4.01 specifications, it
- has not been validated against this or any other standard.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SURPRISE-PRIVOXY" id=
- "SURPRISE-PRIVOXY">4.27. How did you manage to get Privoxy on my
- computer without my consent?</a></h3>
-
- <p>We didn't. We make Privoxy available for download, but we don't go
- around installing it on other people's systems behind their back. If
- you discover Privoxy running on your system and are sure you didn't
- install it yourself, somebody else did. You may not even be running the
- real Privoxy, but maybe something else that only pretends to be
- Privoxy, or maybe something that is based on the real Privoxy, but has
- been modified.</p>
-
- <p>Lately there have been reports of problems with some kind of
- "parental control" software based on Privoxy that came preinstalled on
- certain <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/bugs/813/" target=
- "_top">ASUS Netbooks</a>. The problems described are inconsistent with
- the behaviour of official Privoxy versions, which suggests that the
- preinstalled software may contain vendor modifications that we don't
- know about and thus can't debug.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy's <a href="copyright.html">license</a> allows vendor
- modifications, but the vendor has to comply with the license, which
- involves informing the user about the changes and to make the changes
- available under the same license as Privoxy itself.</p>
-
- <p>If you are having trouble with a modified Privoxy version, please
- try to talk to whoever made the modifications before reporting the
- problem to us. Please also try to convince whoever made the
- modifications to talk to us. If you think somebody gave you a modified
- Privoxy version without complying to the license, please let us
- know.</p>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href=
- "configuration.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="trouble.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Configuration</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Troubleshooting</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Troubleshooting</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
- "index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Miscellaneous" href="misc.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title=
- "Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests" href=
- "contact.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy Frequently Asked
- Questions</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="misc.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="contact.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="TROUBLE" id="TROUBLE">5.
- Troubleshooting</a></h1>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="REFUSED" id="REFUSED">5.1. I cannot connect
- to any websites. Or, I am getting <span class="QUOTE">"connection
- refused"</span> message with every web page. Why?</a></h3>
-
- <p>There are several possibilities:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not running.
- Solution: verify that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is
- installed correctly, has not crashed, and is indeed running. Turn
- on <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> logging, and look at
- the logs to see what they say.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Or your browser is configured for a different port than what
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is using. Solution: verify
- that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and your browser are
- set to the same port (<tt class="LITERAL">listen-address</tt>).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Or if using a forwarding rule, you have a configuration problem
- or a problem with a host in the forwarding chain. Solution:
- temporarily alter your configuration and take the forwarders out of
- the equation.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Or you have a firewall that is interfering and blocking you.
- Solution: try disabling or removing the firewall as a simple
- test.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="ERROR503" id="ERROR503">5.2. Why am I
- getting a 503 Error (WSAECONNREFUSED) on every page?</a></h3>
-
- <p>More than likely this is a problem with your TCP/IP networking.
- ZoneAlarm has been reported to cause this symptom -- even if not
- running! The solution is to either fight the ZA configuration, or
- uninstall ZoneAlarm, and then find something better behaved in its
- place. Other personal firewall type products may cause similar type
- problems if not configured correctly.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="FLUSHIT" id="FLUSHIT">5.3. I just added a
- new rule, but the steenkin ad is still getting through. How?</a></h3>
-
- <p>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
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will not be involved. Flush
- the browser's caches, and then try again.</p>
-
- <p>If this doesn't help, you probably have an error in the rule you
- applied. Try pasting the full URL of the offending ad into <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</a> and see if it really
- matches your new rule. Blocking ads is like blocking spam: a lot of
- tinkering is required to stay ahead of the game. And remember you need
- to block the URL of the ad in question, which may be entirely different
- from the site URL itself. Most ads are hosted on different servers than
- the main site itself. If you right-click on the ad, you should be able
- to get all the relevant information you need. Alternately, you can find
- the correct URL by looking at <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> logs (you may need to enable logging in
- the main config file if its disabled).</p>
-
- <p>Below is a slightly modified real-life log snippet that originates
- with one requested URL: <tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com</tt> (name
- of site was changed for this example, the number of requests is real).
- You can see in this the complexity of what goes into making up this one
- <span class="QUOTE">"page"</span>. There are eight different domains
- involved here, with thirty two separate URLs requested in all, making
- up all manner of images, Shockwave Flash, JavaScript, CSS stylesheets,
- scripts, and other related content. Some of this content is obviously
- <span class="QUOTE">"good"</span> or <span class="QUOTE">"bad"</span>,
- but not all. Many of the more questionable looking requests, are going
- to outside domains that seem to be identifying themselves with
- suspicious looking names, making our job a little easier. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has <span class="QUOTE">"crunched"</span>
- (meaning caught and BLOCKED) quite a few items in this example, but
- perhaps missed a few as well.</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Troubleshooting
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions" href=
+ "index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Miscellaneous" href="misc.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title=
+ "Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests" href=
+ "contact.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="misc.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="contact.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="TROUBLE">5. Troubleshooting</a>
+ </h1>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="REFUSED">5.1. I cannot connect to any websites. Or, I am
+ getting <span class="QUOTE">"connection refused"</span> message
+ with every web page. Why?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ There are several possibilities:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not running.
+ Solution: verify that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ is installed correctly, has not crashed, and is indeed running.
+ Turn on <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> logging, and
+ look at the logs to see what they say.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Or your browser is configured for a different port than what
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is using. Solution:
+ verify that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and your
+ browser are set to the same port (<tt class=
+ "LITERAL">listen-address</tt>).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Or if using a forwarding rule, you have a configuration problem
+ or a problem with a host in the forwarding chain. Solution:
+ temporarily alter your configuration and take the forwarders
+ out of the equation.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Or you have a firewall that is interfering and blocking you.
+ Solution: try disabling or removing the firewall as a simple
+ test.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ERROR503">5.2. Why am I getting a 503 Error
+ (WSAECONNREFUSED) on every page?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ More than likely this is a problem with your TCP/IP networking.
+ ZoneAlarm has been reported to cause this symptom -- even if not
+ running! The solution is to either fight the ZA configuration, or
+ uninstall ZoneAlarm, and then find something better behaved in its
+ place. Other personal firewall type products may cause similar type
+ problems if not configured correctly.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="FLUSHIT">5.3. I just added a new rule, but the steenkin ad
+ is still getting through. How?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ 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
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will not be involved.
+ Flush the browser's caches, and then try again.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If this doesn't help, you probably have an error in the rule you
+ applied. Try pasting the full URL of the offending ad into <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</a> and see if it
+ really matches your new rule. Blocking ads is like blocking spam: a
+ lot of tinkering is required to stay ahead of the game. And
+ remember you need to block the URL of the ad in question, which may
+ be entirely different from the site URL itself. Most ads are hosted
+ on different servers than the main site itself. If you right-click
+ on the ad, you should be able to get all the relevant information
+ you need. Alternately, you can find the correct URL by looking at
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> logs (you may need to
+ enable logging in the main config file if its disabled).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Below is a slightly modified real-life log snippet that originates
+ with one requested URL: <tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com</tt>
+ (name of site was changed for this example, the number of requests
+ is real). You can see in this the complexity of what goes into
+ making up this one <span class="QUOTE">"page"</span>. There are
+ eight different domains involved here, with thirty two separate
+ URLs requested in all, making up all manner of images, Shockwave
+ Flash, JavaScript, CSS stylesheets, scripts, and other related
+ content. Some of this content is obviously <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"good"</span> or <span class="QUOTE">"bad"</span>, but not
+ all. Many of the more questionable looking requests, are going to
+ outside domains that seem to be identifying themselves with
+ suspicious looking names, making our job a little easier. <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"crunched"</span> (meaning caught and BLOCKED) quite a few
+ items in this example, but perhaps missed a few as well.
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
Request: www.example.com/
Request: www.example.com/favicon.ico
Request: img.example.com/main.css
Request: www.adtrak.net/adlog.php?bannerid=1309&clientid=439&zoneid=58&source=Ua&block=86400 crunch! (Blocked)
Request: 66.70.21.80/scripts/click.php?hid=a71b9f6504b0c5681fa5&si=Ua
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Despite 12 out of 32 requests being blocked, the page looked, and
- seemed to behave perfectly <span class="QUOTE">"normal"</span> (minus
- some ads, of course).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="BADSITE" id="BADSITE">5.4. One of my
- favorite sites does not work with Privoxy. What can I do?</a></h3>
-
- <p>First verify that it is indeed a <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> problem, by toggling off <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> through <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/toggle" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle</a> (the toggle feature may
- need to be enabled in the main <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt>), and
- then shift-reloading the problem page (i.e. holding down the shift key
- while clicking reload. Alternatively, flush your browser's disk and
- memory caches).</p>
-
- <p>If the problem went away, we know we have a configuration related
- problem. Now go to <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info"
- target="_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</a> and paste the
- full URL of the page in question into the prompt. See which actions are
- being applied to the URL, and which matches in which actions files are
- responsible for that. It might be helpful also to look at your logs for
- this site too, to see what else might be happening (note: logging may
- need to be enabled in the main config file). Many sites are complex and
- require a number of related pages to help present their content. Look
- at what else might be used by the page in question, and what of that
- might be <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">required</i></span>. Now, armed with this information, go to
- <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a> and select the
- appropriate actions files for editing.</p>
-
- <p>You can now either look for a section which disables the actions
- that you suspect to cause the problem and add a pattern for your site
- there, or make up a completely new section for your site. In any case,
- the recommended way is to disable only the prime suspect, reload the
- problem page, and only if the problem persists, disable more and more
- actions until you have identified the culprit. You may or may not want
- to turn the other actions on again. Remember to flush your browser's
- caches in between any such changes!</p>
-
- <p>Alternately, if you are comfortable with a text editor, you can
- accomplish the same thing by editing the appropriate actions file.
- Probably the easiest way to deal with such problems when editing by
- hand is to add your site to a <tt class="LITERAL">{ fragile }</tt>
- section in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>, which is an alias
- that turns off most <span class="QUOTE">"dangerous"</span> actions, but
- is also likely to turn off more actions then needed, and thus lower
- your privacy and protection more than necessary,</p>
-
- <p>Troubleshooting actions is discussed in more detail in the <a href=
- "../user-manual/appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT" target="_top">User Manual
- appendix, Troubleshooting: the Anatomy of an Action</a>. There is also
- an <a href="../user-manual/actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES" target=
- "_top">actions tutorial</a> with general configuration information and
- examples.</p>
-
- <p>As a last resort, you can always see if your browser has a setting
- that will bypass the proxy setting for selective sites. Modern browsers
- can do this.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="DUN" id="DUN">5.5. After installing Privoxy,
- I have to log in every time I start IE. What gives?</a></h3>
-
- <p>This is a quirk that affects the installation of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, in conjunction with Internet Explorer and
- Internet Connection Sharing on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The
- symptoms may appear to be corrupted or invalid DUN settings, or
- passwords.</p>
-
- <p>When setting up an NT based Windows system with <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> you may find that things do not seem to be
- doing what you expect. When you set your system up you will probably
- have set up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) with Dial up Networking
- (DUN) when logged in with administrator privileges. You will probably
- have made this DUN connection available to other accounts that you may
- have set-up on your system. E.g. Mum or Dad sets up the system and
- makes accounts suitably configured for the kids.</p>
-
- <p>When setting up <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in this
- environment you will have to alter the proxy set-up of Internet
- Explorer (IE) for the specific DUN connection on which you wish to use
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. When you do this the ICS DUN
- set-up becomes user specific. In this instance you will see no
- difference if you change the DUN connection under the account used to
- set-up the connection. However when you do this from another user you
- will notice that the DUN connection changes to make available to "Me
- only". You will also find that you have to store the password under
- each different user!</p>
-
- <p>The reason for this is that each user's set-up for IE is user
- specific. Each set-up DUN connection and each LAN connection in IE
- store the settings for each user individually. As such this enforces
- individual configurations rather than common ones. Hence the first time
- you use a DUN connection after re-booting your system it may not
- perform as you expect, and prompt you for the password. Just set and
- save the password again and all should be OK.</p>
-
- <p>[Thanks to Ray Griffith for this submission.]</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="FTP" id="FTP">5.6. I cannot connect to any
- FTP sites. Privoxy is blocking me.</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> cannot act as a proxy for
- FTP traffic, so do not configure your browser to use <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as an FTP proxy. The same is true for
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">any protocol other than HTTP
- or HTTPS (SSL)</i></span>.</p>
-
- <p>Most browsers understand FTP as well as HTTP. If you connect to a
- site, with a URL like <tt class="LITERAL">ftp://ftp.example.com</tt>,
- your browser is making an FTP connection, and not a HTTP connection. So
- while your browser may speak FTP, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does not, and cannot proxy such
- traffic.</p>
-
- <p>To complicate matters, some systems may have a generic <span class=
- "QUOTE">"proxy"</span> setting, which will enable various protocols,
- including <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span>
- HTTP and FTP proxying! So it is possible to accidentally enable FTP
- proxying in these cases. And of course, if this happens, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will indeed cause problems since it does
- not know FTP. Newer version will give a sane error message if a FTP
- connection is attempted. Just disable the FTP setting and all will be
- well again.</p>
-
- <p>Will <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ever proxy FTP
- traffic? Unlikely. There just is not much reason, and the work to make
- this happen is more than it may seem.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="MACOSXIE" id="MACOSXIE">5.7. In Mac OS X, I
- can't configure Microsoft Internet Explorer to use Privoxy as the HTTP
- proxy.</a></h3>
-
- <p>Microsoft Internet Explorer (in versions like 5.1) respects
- system-wide network settings. In order to change the HTTP proxy, open
- System Preferences, and click on the Network icon. In the settings pane
- that comes up, click on the Proxies tab. Ensure the "Web Proxy (HTTP)"
- checkbox is checked and enter <tt class="LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt> in the
- entry field. Enter <tt class="LITERAL">8118</tt> in the Port field. The
- next time you start IE, it should reflect these values.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="MACOSXUNINSTALL" id="MACOSXUNINSTALL">5.8.
- In Mac OS X, I dragged the Privoxy folder to the trash in order to
- uninstall it. Now the finder tells me I don't have sufficient
- privileges to empty the trash.</a></h3>
-
- <p>Note: This ONLY applies to privoxy 3.0.6 and earlier.</p>
-
- <p>Just dragging the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> folder to
- the trash is not enough to delete it. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> supplies an <span class=
- "APPLICATION">uninstall.command</span> file that takes care of these
- details. Open the trash, drag the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">uninstall.command</span> file out of the trash and
- double-click on it. You will be prompted for confirmation and the
- administration password.</p>
-
- <p>The trash may still appear full after this command; emptying the
- trash from the desktop should make it appear empty again.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="MACOSXIMAGES" id="MACOSXIMAGES">5.9. In Mac
- OS X Panther (10.3), images often fail to load and/or I experience
- random delays in page loading. I'm using <tt class=
- "LITERAL">localhost</tt> as my browser's proxy setting.</a></h3>
-
- <p>We believe this is due to an IPv6-related bug in Mac OS X, but don't
- fully understand the issue yet. In any case, changing the proxy setting
- to <tt class="LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt> instead of <tt class=
- "LITERAL">localhost</tt> works around the problem.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="MACOSXACCOUNTDELETION" id=
- "MACOSXACCOUNTDELETION">5.10. I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.9
- (Mavericks) and now <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has
- stopped working.</a></h3>
-
- <p>The upgrade process to Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9) from an earlier
- version of OS X deletes all user accounts that are either not part of
- OS X itself or are not interactive user accounts (ones you log in
- with). Since, for the sake of security, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs as a non-privileged user that is
- created by its installer (_privoxy), it can no longer start up once
- that account gets deleted. The solution is to perform a complete
- uninstall using the supplied <span class=
- "APPLICATION">uninstall.command</span> script (either back up your
- configuration files or select to not have the uninstaller remove them
- when it prompts you) and then reinstall <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> using the installer package and merge in
- your configuration.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NOHOSTNAME" id="NOHOSTNAME">5.11. My logs
- show many <span class="QUOTE">"Unable to get my own hostname"</span>
- lines. Why?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> tries to get the hostname
- of the system its running on from the IP address of the system
- interface it is bound to (from the <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt>
- file <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">listen-address</i></span> setting). If the system cannot
- supply this information, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> logs
- this condition.</p>
-
- <p>Typically, this would be considered a minor system configuration
- error. It is not a fatal error to <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> however, but may result in a much slower
- response from <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on some
- platforms due to DNS timeouts.</p>
-
- <p>This can be caused by a problem with the local <tt class=
- "FILENAME">hosts</tt> file. If this file has been changed from the
- original, try reverting it to see if that helps. Make sure whatever
- name(s) are used for the local system, that they resolve both ways.</p>
-
- <p>You should also be able to work around the problem with the <a href=
- "../user-manual/config.html#HOSTNAME" target="_top">hostname
- option</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="INUSE" id="INUSE">5.12. When I try to launch
- Privoxy, I get an error message <span class="QUOTE">"port 8118 is
- already in use"</span> (or similar wording). Why?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Port 8118 is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> default TCP
- <span class="QUOTE">"listening"</span> port. Typically this message
- would mean that there is already one instance of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> running, and your system is actually
- trying to start a second <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on
- the same port, which will not work. (You can have multiple instances
- but they must be assigned different ports.) How and why this might
- happen varies from platform to platform, but you need to check your
- installation and start-up procedures.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="DEMORONIZER" id="DEMORONIZER">5.13. Pages
- with UTF-8 fonts are garbled.</a></h3>
-
- <p>This may be the result of an overly aggressive filter. The filters
- that are enabled in the default configuration aren't expected to cause
- problems like this. If you enabled the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"demoronizer"</span> filter, please try temporarily disabling
- it.</p>
-
- <p>If that doesn't help, temporarily disable all filters to see if
- another filter could be the culprit. If the problem disappears, enable
- the filters one by one, until the problem reappears and the offending
- filter is found.</p>
-
- <p>Once the problem-causing filter is known, it can be fixed or
- disabled.</p>
-
- <p>Upgrading <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, or going to the
- most recent <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file available
- from <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118" target=
- "_top">SourceForge</a> might be worth a try, too.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="DEMORONIZER2" id="DEMORONIZER2">5.14. Why
- are binary files (such as images) corrupted when Privoxy is
- used?</a></h3>
-
- <p>This may also be caused by an (<a href=
- "trouble.html#DEMORONIZER">overly aggressive filter</a> in conjunction
- with a web server that is misreporting the content type. By default
- binary files are exempted from <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> filtering (unless the web server by
- mistake says the file is something else).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="DEMORONIZER3" id="DEMORONIZER3">5.15. What
- is the <span class="QUOTE">"demoronizer"</span> and why is it
- there?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The original demoronizer was a Perl script that cleaned up HTML
- pages which were created with certain Microsoft products. MS has used
- proprietary extensions to standardized font encodings (ISO 8859-1),
- which has caused problems for pages that are viewed with non-Microsoft
- products (and are expecting to see a standard set of fonts). The
- demoronizer corrected these errors so the pages displayed correctly.
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> borrowed from this script,
- introducing a filter based on the original demoronizer, which in turn
- could correct these errors on the fly.</p>
-
- <p>But this is only needed in some situations, and will cause serious
- problems in some other situations.</p>
-
- <p>If you are using Microsoft products, you do not need it. If you need
- to view pages with UTF-8 characters (such as Cyrillic or Chinese), then
- it will cause corruption of the fonts, and thus <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">should not be on</i></span>.</p>
-
- <p>On the other hand, if you use non-Microsoft products, and you
- occasionally notice weird characters on pages, you might want to try
- it.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WINDOWOPEN" id="WINDOWOPEN">5.16. Why do I
- keep seeing <span class="QUOTE">"PrivoxyWindowOpen()"</span> in raw
- source code?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is attempting to disable
- malicious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript" target=
- "_top">Javascript</a> in this case, with the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">unsolicited-popups</tt> filter. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> cannot tell very well <span class=
- "QUOTE">"good"</span> code snippets from <span class=
- "QUOTE">"bad"</span> code snippets.</p>
-
- <p>If you see this in HTML source, and the page displays without
- problems, then this is good, and likely some pop-up window was
- disabled. If you see this where it is causing a problem, such as a
- downloaded program source code file, then you should set an exception
- for this site or page such that the integrity of the page stays in tact
- by disabling all filtering.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="DNSERRORS" id="DNSERRORS">5.17. I am getting
- too many DNS errors like <span class="QUOTE">"404 No Such
- Domain"</span>. Why can't Privoxy do this better?</a></h3>
-
- <p>There are potentially several factors here. First of all, the DNS
- resolution is done by the underlying operating system -- not
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> merely initiates the process and hands it
- off, and then later reports whatever the outcome was and tries to give
- a coherent message if there seems to be a problem. In some cases, this
- might otherwise be mitigated by the browser itself which might try some
- work-arounds and alternate approaches (e.g adding <span class=
- "QUOTE">"www."</span> to the URL).</p>
-
- <p>In other cases, if <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is being
- chained with another proxy, this could complicate the issue, and cause
- undue delays and timeouts. In the case of a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"socks4a"</span> proxy, the socks server handles all the DNS.
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> would just be the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"messenger"</span> which is reporting whatever problem occurred
- downstream, and not the root cause of the error.</p>
-
- <p>In any case, versions newer than 3.0.3 include various improvements
- to help <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> better handle these
- cases.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="ALLCPU" id="ALLCPU">5.18. At one site
- Privoxy just hangs, and starts taking all CPU. Why is this?</a></h3>
-
- <p>This is probably a manifestation of the <span class="QUOTE">"100%
- cpu"</span> problem that occurs on pages containing many (thousands
- upon thousands) of blank lines. The blank lines are in the raw HTML
- source of the page, and the browser just ignores them. But the pattern
- matching in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> page filtering
- mechanism is trying to match against absurdly long strings and this
- becomes very CPU-intensive, taking a long, long time to complete.</p>
-
- <p>Until a better solution comes along, disable filtering on these
- pages, particularly the <tt class="LITERAL">js-annoyances</tt> and
- <tt class="LITERAL">unsolicited-popups</tt> filters. If you run into
- this problem with a recent <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- version, please send a problem report.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SLOWCRAWL" id="SLOWCRAWL">5.19. I just
- installed Privoxy, and all my browsing has slowed to a crawl. What
- gives?</a></h3>
-
- <p>This should not happen, and for the overwhelming number of users
- world-wide, it does not happen. I would suspect some inadvertent
- interaction of software components such as anti-virus software, spyware
- protectors, personal firewalls or similar components. Try disabling (or
- uninstalling) these one at a time and see if that helps. Either way, if
- you are using a recent <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- version, please report the problem.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="PREVENTCOMP" id="PREVENTCOMP">5.20. Why do
- my filters work on some sites but not on others?</a></h3>
-
- <p>It's probably due to compression. It is a common practice for web
- servers to send their content <span class="QUOTE">"compressed"</span>
- in order to speed things up, and then let the browser <span class=
- "QUOTE">"uncompress"</span> them. When compiled with zlib support
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can decompress content before
- filtering, otherwise you may want to enable <a href=
- "../user-manual/actions-file.html#PREVENT-COMPRESSION" target=
- "_top">prevent-compression</a>.</p>
-
- <p>As of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.9, zlib support
- is enabled in the default builds.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SSL-WARNINGS" id="SSL-WARNINGS">5.21. On
- some HTTPS sites my browser warns me about unauthenticated content, the
- URL bar doesn't get highlighted and the lock symbol appears to be
- broken. What's going on?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Probably the browser is requesting ads through HTTPS and
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is blocking the requests.
- Privoxy's error messages are delivered unencrypted and while it's
- obvious for the browser that the HTTPS request is already blocked by
- the proxy, some warn about unauthenticated content anyway.</p>
-
- <p>To work around the problem you can redirect those requests to an
- invalid local address instead of blocking them. While the redirects
- aren't encrypted either, many browsers don't care. They simply follow
- the redirect, fail to reach a server and display an error message
- instead of the ad.</p>
-
- <p>To do that, enable logging to figure out which requests get blocked
- by <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and add the hosts (no path
- patterns) to a section like this:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Despite 12 out of 32 requests being blocked, the page looked, and
+ seemed to behave perfectly <span class="QUOTE">"normal"</span>
+ (minus some ads, of course).
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="BADSITE">5.4. One of my favorite sites does not work with
+ Privoxy. What can I do?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ First verify that it is indeed a <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> problem, by toggling off <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> through <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/toggle" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle</a> (the toggle feature may
+ need to be enabled in the main <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt>),
+ and then shift-reloading the problem page (i.e. holding down the
+ shift key while clicking reload. Alternatively, flush your
+ browser's disk and memory caches).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If the problem went away, we know we have a configuration related
+ problem. Now go to <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</a> and paste the
+ full URL of the page in question into the prompt. See which actions
+ are being applied to the URL, and which matches in which actions
+ files are responsible for that. It might be helpful also to look at
+ your logs for this site too, to see what else might be happening
+ (note: logging may need to be enabled in the main config file).
+ Many sites are complex and require a number of related pages to
+ help present their content. Look at what else might be used by the
+ page in question, and what of that might be <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">required</i></span>. Now, armed with
+ this information, go to <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a> and select the
+ appropriate actions files for editing.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You can now either look for a section which disables the actions
+ that you suspect to cause the problem and add a pattern for your
+ site there, or make up a completely new section for your site. In
+ any case, the recommended way is to disable only the prime suspect,
+ reload the problem page, and only if the problem persists, disable
+ more and more actions until you have identified the culprit. You
+ may or may not want to turn the other actions on again. Remember to
+ flush your browser's caches in between any such changes!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Alternately, if you are comfortable with a text editor, you can
+ accomplish the same thing by editing the appropriate actions file.
+ Probably the easiest way to deal with such problems when editing by
+ hand is to add your site to a <tt class="LITERAL">{ fragile }</tt>
+ section in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>, which is an alias
+ that turns off most <span class="QUOTE">"dangerous"</span> actions,
+ but is also likely to turn off more actions then needed, and thus
+ lower your privacy and protection more than necessary,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Troubleshooting actions is discussed in more detail in the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT" target="_top">User
+ Manual appendix, Troubleshooting: the Anatomy of an Action</a>.
+ There is also an <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES" target=
+ "_top">actions tutorial</a> with general configuration information
+ and examples.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As a last resort, you can always see if your browser has a setting
+ that will bypass the proxy setting for selective sites. Modern
+ browsers can do this.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DUN">5.5. After installing Privoxy, I have to log in every
+ time I start IE. What gives?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ This is a quirk that affects the installation of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, in conjunction with Internet Explorer
+ and Internet Connection Sharing on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The
+ symptoms may appear to be corrupted or invalid DUN settings, or
+ passwords.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When setting up an NT based Windows system with <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> you may find that things do not seem
+ to be doing what you expect. When you set your system up you will
+ probably have set up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) with Dial up
+ Networking (DUN) when logged in with administrator privileges. You
+ will probably have made this DUN connection available to other
+ accounts that you may have set-up on your system. E.g. Mum or Dad
+ sets up the system and makes accounts suitably configured for the
+ kids.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When setting up <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in this
+ environment you will have to alter the proxy set-up of Internet
+ Explorer (IE) for the specific DUN connection on which you wish to
+ use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. When you do this the
+ ICS DUN set-up becomes user specific. In this instance you will see
+ no difference if you change the DUN connection under the account
+ used to set-up the connection. However when you do this from
+ another user you will notice that the DUN connection changes to
+ make available to "Me only". You will also find that you have to
+ store the password under each different user!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The reason for this is that each user's set-up for IE is user
+ specific. Each set-up DUN connection and each LAN connection in IE
+ store the settings for each user individually. As such this
+ enforces individual configurations rather than common ones. Hence
+ the first time you use a DUN connection after re-booting your
+ system it may not perform as you expect, and prompt you for the
+ password. Just set and save the password again and all should be
+ OK.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ [Thanks to Ray Griffith for this submission.]
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="FTP">5.6. I cannot connect to any FTP sites. Privoxy is
+ blocking me.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> cannot act as a proxy for
+ FTP traffic, so do not configure your browser to use <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as an FTP proxy. The same is true for
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">any protocol other than
+ HTTP or HTTPS (SSL)</i></span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Most browsers understand FTP as well as HTTP. If you connect to a
+ site, with a URL like <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">ftp://ftp.example.com</tt>, your browser is making an FTP
+ connection, and not a HTTP connection. So while your browser may
+ speak FTP, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does not, and
+ cannot proxy such traffic.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To complicate matters, some systems may have a generic <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"proxy"</span> setting, which will enable various
+ protocols, including <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">both</i></span> HTTP and FTP proxying! So it is possible
+ to accidentally enable FTP proxying in these cases. And of course,
+ if this happens, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
+ indeed cause problems since it does not know FTP. Newer version
+ will give a sane error message if a FTP connection is attempted.
+ Just disable the FTP setting and all will be well again.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Will <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ever proxy FTP
+ traffic? Unlikely. There just is not much reason, and the work to
+ make this happen is more than it may seem.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="MACOSXIE">5.7. In Mac OS X, I can't configure Microsoft
+ Internet Explorer to use Privoxy as the HTTP proxy.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Microsoft Internet Explorer (in versions like 5.1) respects
+ system-wide network settings. In order to change the HTTP proxy,
+ open System Preferences, and click on the Network icon. In the
+ settings pane that comes up, click on the Proxies tab. Ensure the
+ "Web Proxy (HTTP)" checkbox is checked and enter <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt> in the entry field. Enter <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">8118</tt> in the Port field. The next time you start IE,
+ it should reflect these values.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="MACOSXUNINSTALL">5.8. In Mac OS X, I dragged the Privoxy
+ folder to the trash in order to uninstall it. Now the finder tells
+ me I don't have sufficient privileges to empty the trash.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Note: This ONLY applies to privoxy 3.0.6 and earlier.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Just dragging the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> folder
+ to the trash is not enough to delete it. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> supplies an <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">uninstall.command</span> file that takes care of
+ these details. Open the trash, drag the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">uninstall.command</span> file out of the trash and
+ double-click on it. You will be prompted for confirmation and the
+ administration password.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The trash may still appear full after this command; emptying the
+ trash from the desktop should make it appear empty again.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="MACOSXIMAGES">5.9. In Mac OS X Panther (10.3), images
+ often fail to load and/or I experience random delays in page
+ loading. I'm using <tt class="LITERAL">localhost</tt> as my
+ browser's proxy setting.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ We believe this is due to an IPv6-related bug in Mac OS X, but
+ don't fully understand the issue yet. In any case, changing the
+ proxy setting to <tt class="LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt> instead of <tt
+ class="LITERAL">localhost</tt> works around the problem.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="MACOSXACCOUNTDELETION">5.10. I just upgraded to Mac OS X
+ 10.9 (Mavericks) and now <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ has stopped working.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ The upgrade process to Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9) from an earlier
+ version of OS X deletes all user accounts that are either not part
+ of OS X itself or are not interactive user accounts (ones you log
+ in with). Since, for the sake of security, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs as a non-privileged user that is
+ created by its installer (_privoxy), it can no longer start up once
+ that account gets deleted. The solution is to perform a complete
+ uninstall using the supplied <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">uninstall.command</span> script (either back up your
+ configuration files or select to not have the uninstaller remove
+ them when it prompts you) and then reinstall <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> using the installer package and merge
+ in your configuration.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="NOHOSTNAME">5.11. My logs show many <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Unable to get my own hostname"</span> lines. Why?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> tries to get the hostname
+ of the system its running on from the IP address of the system
+ interface it is bound to (from the <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt>
+ file <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">listen-address</i></span> setting). If the system cannot
+ supply this information, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ logs this condition.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Typically, this would be considered a minor system configuration
+ error. It is not a fatal error to <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> however, but may result in a much
+ slower response from <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on
+ some platforms due to DNS timeouts.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This can be caused by a problem with the local <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">hosts</tt> file. If this file has been changed from the
+ original, try reverting it to see if that helps. Make sure whatever
+ name(s) are used for the local system, that they resolve both ways.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You should also be able to work around the problem with the <a
+ href="../user-manual/config.html#HOSTNAME" target="_top">hostname
+ option</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="INUSE">5.12. When I try to launch Privoxy, I get an error
+ message <span class="QUOTE">"port 8118 is already in use"</span>
+ (or similar wording). Why?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Port 8118 is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> default TCP
+ <span class="QUOTE">"listening"</span> port. Typically this message
+ would mean that there is already one instance of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> running, and your system is actually
+ trying to start a second <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ on the same port, which will not work. (You can have multiple
+ instances but they must be assigned different ports.) How and why
+ this might happen varies from platform to platform, but you need to
+ check your installation and start-up procedures.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DEMORONIZER">5.13. Pages with UTF-8 fonts are garbled.</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ This may be the result of an overly aggressive filter. The filters
+ that are enabled in the default configuration aren't expected to
+ cause problems like this. If you enabled the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"demoronizer"</span> filter, please try temporarily
+ disabling it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If that doesn't help, temporarily disable all filters to see if
+ another filter could be the culprit. If the problem disappears,
+ enable the filters one by one, until the problem reappears and the
+ offending filter is found.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Once the problem-causing filter is known, it can be fixed or
+ disabled.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Upgrading <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, or going to the
+ most recent <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file available
+ from <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118"
+ target="_top">SourceForge</a> might be worth a try, too.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DEMORONIZER2">5.14. Why are binary files (such as images)
+ corrupted when Privoxy is used?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ This may also be caused by an (<a href=
+ "trouble.html#DEMORONIZER">overly aggressive filter</a> in
+ conjunction with a web server that is misreporting the content
+ type. By default binary files are exempted from <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> filtering (unless the web server by
+ mistake says the file is something else).
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DEMORONIZER3">5.15. What is the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"demoronizer"</span> and why is it there?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ The original demoronizer was a Perl script that cleaned up HTML
+ pages which were created with certain Microsoft products. MS has
+ used proprietary extensions to standardized font encodings (ISO
+ 8859-1), which has caused problems for pages that are viewed with
+ non-Microsoft products (and are expecting to see a standard set of
+ fonts). The demoronizer corrected these errors so the pages
+ displayed correctly. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ borrowed from this script, introducing a filter based on the
+ original demoronizer, which in turn could correct these errors on
+ the fly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But this is only needed in some situations, and will cause serious
+ problems in some other situations.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are using Microsoft products, you do not need it. If you
+ need to view pages with UTF-8 characters (such as Cyrillic or
+ Chinese), then it will cause corruption of the fonts, and thus
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">should not be
+ on</i></span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ On the other hand, if you use non-Microsoft products, and you
+ occasionally notice weird characters on pages, you might want to
+ try it.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WINDOWOPEN">5.16. Why do I keep seeing <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"PrivoxyWindowOpen()"</span> in raw source code?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is attempting to disable
+ malicious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript" target=
+ "_top">Javascript</a> in this case, with the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">unsolicited-popups</tt> filter. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> cannot tell very well <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"good"</span> code snippets from <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"bad"</span> code snippets.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you see this in HTML source, and the page displays without
+ problems, then this is good, and likely some pop-up window was
+ disabled. If you see this where it is causing a problem, such as a
+ downloaded program source code file, then you should set an
+ exception for this site or page such that the integrity of the page
+ stays in tact by disabling all filtering.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DNSERRORS">5.17. I am getting too many DNS errors like
+ <span class="QUOTE">"404 No Such Domain"</span>. Why can't Privoxy
+ do this better?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ There are potentially several factors here. First of all, the DNS
+ resolution is done by the underlying operating system -- not <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> merely initiates the process and hands
+ it off, and then later reports whatever the outcome was and tries
+ to give a coherent message if there seems to be a problem. In some
+ cases, this might otherwise be mitigated by the browser itself
+ which might try some work-arounds and alternate approaches (e.g
+ adding <span class="QUOTE">"www."</span> to the URL).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In other cases, if <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is
+ being chained with another proxy, this could complicate the issue,
+ and cause undue delays and timeouts. In the case of a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"socks4a"</span> proxy, the socks server handles all the
+ DNS. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> would just be the
+ <span class="QUOTE">"messenger"</span> which is reporting whatever
+ problem occurred downstream, and not the root cause of the error.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In any case, versions newer than 3.0.3 include various improvements
+ to help <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> better handle
+ these cases.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ALLCPU">5.18. At one site Privoxy just hangs, and starts
+ taking all CPU. Why is this?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ This is probably a manifestation of the <span class="QUOTE">"100%
+ cpu"</span> problem that occurs on pages containing many (thousands
+ upon thousands) of blank lines. The blank lines are in the raw HTML
+ source of the page, and the browser just ignores them. But the
+ pattern matching in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> page
+ filtering mechanism is trying to match against absurdly long
+ strings and this becomes very CPU-intensive, taking a long, long
+ time to complete.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Until a better solution comes along, disable filtering on these
+ pages, particularly the <tt class="LITERAL">js-annoyances</tt> and
+ <tt class="LITERAL">unsolicited-popups</tt> filters. If you run
+ into this problem with a recent <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version, please send a problem report.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SLOWCRAWL">5.19. I just installed Privoxy, and all my
+ browsing has slowed to a crawl. What gives?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ This should not happen, and for the overwhelming number of users
+ world-wide, it does not happen. I would suspect some inadvertent
+ interaction of software components such as anti-virus software,
+ spyware protectors, personal firewalls or similar components. Try
+ disabling (or uninstalling) these one at a time and see if that
+ helps. Either way, if you are using a recent <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version, please report the problem.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="PREVENTCOMP">5.20. Why do my filters work on some sites
+ but not on others?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ It's probably due to compression. It is a common practice for web
+ servers to send their content <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"compressed"</span> in order to speed things up, and then
+ let the browser <span class="QUOTE">"uncompress"</span> them. When
+ compiled with zlib support <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ can decompress content before filtering, otherwise you may want to
+ enable <a href=
+ "../user-manual/actions-file.html#PREVENT-COMPRESSION" target=
+ "_top">prevent-compression</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.9, zlib support
+ is enabled in the default builds.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SSL-WARNINGS">5.21. On some HTTPS sites my browser warns
+ me about unauthenticated content, the URL bar doesn't get
+ highlighted and the lock symbol appears to be broken. What's going
+ on?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Probably the browser is requesting ads through HTTPS and <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is blocking the requests.
+ Privoxy's error messages are delivered unencrypted and while it's
+ obvious for the browser that the HTTPS request is already blocked
+ by the proxy, some warn about unauthenticated content anyway.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To work around the problem you can redirect those requests to an
+ invalid local address instead of blocking them. While the redirects
+ aren't encrypted either, many browsers don't care. They simply
+ follow the redirect, fail to reach a server and display an error
+ message instead of the ad.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To do that, enable logging to figure out which requests get blocked
+ by <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and add the hosts (no
+ path patterns) to a section like this:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{+redirect{http://127.0.0.1:0/} -block -limit-connect}
.ivwbox.de:443/
</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Additionally you have to configure your browser to contact <span
+ class="QUOTE">"127.0.0.1:0"</span> directly (instead of through
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To add a proxy exception in <span class="APPLICATION">Mozilla
+ Firefox</span> open the <span class="QUOTE">"Preferences"</span>,
+ click the <span class="QUOTE">"Settings"</span> button located on
+ the <span class="QUOTE">"Network"</span> tab in the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Advanced"</span> section, and add <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"127.0.0.1:0"</span> in the <span class="QUOTE">"No Proxy
+ for:"</span> field.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SE-LINUX">5.22. I get selinux error messages. How can I
+ fix this?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Please report the problem to the creator of your selinux policies.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The problem is that some selinux policy writers aren't familiar
+ with the application they are trying to <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"secure"</span> and thus create policies that make no
+ sense.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> case the problem
+ usually is that the policy only allows outgoing connections for
+ certain destination ports (e.g. 80 and 443). While this may cover
+ the standard ports, websites occasionally use other ports as well.
+ This isn't a security problem and therefore <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> default configuration doesn't block
+ these requests.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you really want to block these ports (and don't be able to load
+ websites that don't use standard ports), you should configure
+ Privoxy to block these ports as well, so it doesn't trigger the
+ selinux warnings.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="GENTOO-RICERS">5.23. I compiled <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with Gentoo's portage and it appears
+ to be very slow. Why?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Probably you unintentionally compiled <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> without threading support in which
+ case requests have to be serialized and only one can be served at
+ the same time.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Check your <span class="QUOTE">"USE"</span> flags and make sure
+ they include <span class="QUOTE">"threads"</span>. If they don't,
+ add the flag and rebuild <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you compiled <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with
+ threading support (on POSIX-based systems), the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Conditional #defines"</span> section on <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a> will list <span
+ class="QUOTE">"FEATURE_PTHREAD"</span> as <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"enabled"</span>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="TAINTED-SOCKETS">5.24. What are tainted sockets and how do
+ I prevent them?</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> marks sockets as tainted
+ when it can't use them to serve additional requests. This does not
+ necessarily mean that something went wrong and information about
+ tainted sockets is only logged if connection debugging is enabled
+ (debug 2).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For example server sockets that were used for CONNECT requests
+ (which are used to tunnel https:// requests) are considered tainted
+ once the client closed its connection to <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Technically <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> could keep the connection to the
+ server open, but the server would not accept requests that do not
+ belong to the previous TLS/SSL session (and the client may even
+ have terminated the session).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Server sockets are also marked tainted when a client requests a
+ resource, but closes the connection before <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has completely received (and
+ forwarded) the resource to the client. In this case the server
+ would (probably) accept additional requests, but <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> could not get the response without
+ completely reading the leftovers from the previous response.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ These are just two examples, there are currently a bit more than 25
+ scenarios in which a socket is considered tainted.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ While sockets can also be marked tainted as a result of a technical
+ problem that may be worth fixing, the problem will be explicitly
+ logged as error.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="PCRE-STACK-LIMIT">5.25. After adding my custom filters,
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> crashes when visitting
+ certain websites</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ This can happen if your custom filters require more memory than
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is allowed to use. Usually
+ the problem is that the operating system enforces a stack size
+ limit that isn't sufficient.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Unless the problem occurs with the filters available in the default
+ configuration, this is not considered a Privoxy bug.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To prevent the crashes you can rewrite your filter to use less
+ ressources, increase the relevant memory limit or recompile pcre to
+ use less stack space. For details please see the <a href=
+ "http://pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrestack.html" target=
+ "_top">pcrestack man page</a> and the documentation of your
+ operating system.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="misc.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="contact.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Miscellaneous
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
</td>
</tr>
</table>
-
- <p>Additionally you have to configure your browser to contact
- <span class="QUOTE">"127.0.0.1:0"</span> directly (instead of through
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>).</p>
-
- <p>To add a proxy exception in <span class="APPLICATION">Mozilla
- Firefox</span> open the <span class="QUOTE">"Preferences"</span>, click
- the <span class="QUOTE">"Settings"</span> button located on the
- <span class="QUOTE">"Network"</span> tab in the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Advanced"</span> section, and add <span class=
- "QUOTE">"127.0.0.1:0"</span> in the <span class="QUOTE">"No Proxy
- for:"</span> field.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="SE-LINUX" id="SE-LINUX">5.22. I get selinux
- error messages. How can I fix this?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Please report the problem to the creator of your selinux
- policies.</p>
-
- <p>The problem is that some selinux policy writers aren't familiar with
- the application they are trying to <span class="QUOTE">"secure"</span>
- and thus create policies that make no sense.</p>
-
- <p>In <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> case the problem
- usually is that the policy only allows outgoing connections for certain
- destination ports (e.g. 80 and 443). While this may cover the standard
- ports, websites occasionally use other ports as well. This isn't a
- security problem and therefore <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> default configuration doesn't block
- these requests.</p>
-
- <p>If you really want to block these ports (and don't be able to load
- websites that don't use standard ports), you should configure Privoxy
- to block these ports as well, so it doesn't trigger the selinux
- warnings.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="GENTOO-RICERS" id="GENTOO-RICERS">5.23. I
- compiled <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with Gentoo's portage
- and it appears to be very slow. Why?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Probably you unintentionally compiled <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> without threading support in which case
- requests have to be serialized and only one can be served at the same
- time.</p>
-
- <p>Check your <span class="QUOTE">"USE"</span> flags and make sure they
- include <span class="QUOTE">"threads"</span>. If they don't, add the
- flag and rebuild <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
-
- <p>If you compiled <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with
- threading support (on POSIX-based systems), the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Conditional #defines"</span> section on <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a> will list <span class=
- "QUOTE">"FEATURE_PTHREAD"</span> as <span class=
- "QUOTE">"enabled"</span>.</p>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="TAINTED-SOCKETS" id="TAINTED-SOCKETS">5.24.
- What are tainted sockets and how do I prevent them?</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> marks sockets as tainted
- when it can't use them to serve additional requests. This does not
- necessarily mean that something went wrong and information about
- tainted sockets is only logged if connection debugging is enabled
- (debug 2).</p>
-
- <p>For example server sockets that were used for CONNECT requests
- (which are used to tunnel https:// requests) are considered tainted
- once the client closed its connection to <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Technically <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> could keep the connection to the server
- open, but the server would not accept requests that do not belong to
- the previous TLS/SSL session (and the client may even have terminated
- the session).</p>
-
- <p>Server sockets are also marked tainted when a client requests a
- resource, but closes the connection before <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has completely received (and forwarded)
- the resource to the client. In this case the server would (probably)
- accept additional requests, but <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> could not get the response without
- completely reading the leftovers from the previous response.</p>
-
- <p>These are just two examples, there are currently a bit more than 25
- scenarios in which a socket is considered tainted.</p>
-
- <p>While sockets can also be marked tainted as a result of a technical
- problem that may be worth fixing, the problem will be explicitly logged
- as error.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="PCRE-STACK-LIMIT" id=
- "PCRE-STACK-LIMIT">5.25. After adding my custom filters, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> crashes when visitting certain
- websites</a></h3>
-
- <p>This can happen if your custom filters require more memory than
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is allowed to use. Usually the
- problem is that the operating system enforces a stack size limit that
- isn't sufficient.</p>
-
- <p>Unless the problem occurs with the filters available in the default
- configuration, this is not considered a Privoxy bug.</p>
-
- <p>To prevent the crashes you can rewrite your filter to use less
- ressources, increase the relevant memory limit or recompile pcre to use
- less stack space. For details please see the <a href=
- "http://pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrestack.html" target=
- "_top">pcrestack man page</a> and the documentation of your operating
- system.</p>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="misc.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="contact.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Miscellaneous</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Contacting the developers,
- Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Privoxy - Home Page</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <meta name="description" content=
- "Privoxy helps users to protect their privacy.">
-</head>
-
-<body class="ARTICLE" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="ARTICLE">
- <div class="TITLEPAGE">
- <h1 class="TITLE"><a name="AEN2" id="AEN2">Privoxy - Home Page</a></h1>
-
- <div>
- <div class="ABSTRACT">
- <a name="AEN4" id="AEN4"></a>
-
- <p>Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
- capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and
- HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other
- obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and
- can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has
- application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
- networks.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public
- Interest (SPI).</p>
-
- <p>Helping hands and donations are welcome:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE"
- target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE</a></p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>The most recent release is <a href="announce.txt" target=
- "_top">3.0.25 (beta)</a>.</p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Privoxy - Home Page
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <meta name="description" content=
+ "Privoxy helps users to protect their privacy.">
+ </head>
+ <body class="ARTICLE" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF"
+ vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="ARTICLE">
+ <div class="TITLEPAGE">
+ <h1 class="TITLE">
+ <a name="AEN2">Privoxy - Home Page</a>
+ </h1>
+ <div>
+ <div class="ABSTRACT">
+ <a name="AEN4"></a>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
+ capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and
+ HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other
+ obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration
+ and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It
+ has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
+ networks.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public
+ Interest (SPI).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Helping hands and donations are welcome:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ The most recent release is <a href="announce.txt" target=
+ "_top">3.0.25 (beta)</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
+ <hr>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h3 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="DOWNLOAD">Download</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ You can <a href="/sf-download-mirror/" target="_top">download
+ Privoxy here</a>, from <a href=
+ "http://www.silvester.org.uk/privoxy/" target="_top">this
+ mirror</a>, or from <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/" target=
+ "_top">SourceForge</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <hr>
+ <h3 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="DOCS">Documentation</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="user-manual/quickstart.html" target="_top">Quickstart
+ after installation</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="user-manual/index.html" target="_top">User manual</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="faq/index.html" target="_top">Frequently Asked
+ Questions</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="developer-manual/index.html" target="_top">Developer
+ Manual</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="man-page/privoxy-man-page.html" target="_top">Classic
+ Man Page</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <hr>
+ <h3 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="MOREINFO">More information</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="user-manual/contact.html" target="_top">Support &
+ Service</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="user-manual/copyright.html" target="_top">Copyright,
+ License, History & Authors</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES" target=
+ "_top">List of (new) Features</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/team/index.html" target=
+ "_top">Pictures of the Privoxy Team</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <hr>
+ <h2 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="AEN59"></a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p style="text-align: center">
+ <sub>The Privoxy website is also available as <a href=
+ "http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/" target="_top">Tor onion
+ service</a>.</sub>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p style="text-align: center">
+ <sub>Copyright © 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers</sub>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p style="text-align: center">
+ <sub>Hosting sponsored by<br>
+ <a href="http://www.chameleonjohn.com/"><img align="middle" src=
+ "images/sponsors/chameleonjohn.png" alt="ChameleonJohn Coupons">
+ </a> .</sub>
+ </p>
</div>
- <hr>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h3 class="SECT1"><a name="DOWNLOAD" id="DOWNLOAD">Download</a></h3>
-
- <p>You can <a href="/sf-download-mirror/" target="_top">download
- Privoxy here</a>, from <a href="http://www.silvester.org.uk/privoxy/"
- target="_top">this mirror</a>, or from <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/" target=
- "_top">SourceForge</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <hr>
-
- <h3 class="SECT1"><a name="DOCS" id="DOCS">Documentation</a></h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><a href="user-manual/quickstart.html" target="_top">Quickstart
- after installation</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="user-manual/index.html" target="_top">User
- manual</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="faq/index.html" target="_top">Frequently Asked
- Questions</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="developer-manual/index.html" target="_top">Developer
- Manual</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="man-page/privoxy-man-page.html" target="_top">Classic
- Man Page</a></p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <hr>
-
- <h3 class="SECT1"><a name="MOREINFO" id="MOREINFO">More
- information</a></h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><a href="user-manual/contact.html" target="_top">Support &
- Service</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="user-manual/copyright.html" target="_top">Copyright,
- License, History & Authors</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES" target=
- "_top">List of (new) Features</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/team/index.html" target=
- "_top">Pictures of the Privoxy Team</a></p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <hr>
-
- <h2 class="SECT1"><a name="AEN59" id="AEN59"></a></h2>
-
- <p style="text-align: center"><sub>The Privoxy website is also
- available as <a href="http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/" target="_top">Tor
- onion service</a>.</sub></p>
-
- <p style="text-align: center"><sub>Copyright © 2001-2016 by
- Privoxy Developers</sub></p>
-
- <p style="text-align: center"><sub>Hosting sponsored by<br>
- <a href="http://www.chameleonjohn.com/"><img align="middle" src=
- "images/sponsors/chameleonjohn.png" alt=
- "ChameleonJohn Coupons"></a>.</sub></p>
</div>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Man page of PRIVOXY</title>
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body>
- <h1>PRIVOXY</h1>Section: (1)<br>
- Updated: 26 May 2016<br>
- <a href="#index">Index</a>
- <hr>
- <a name="lbAB" id="lbAB"> </a>
-
- <h2>NAME</h2>privoxy - Privacy Enhancing Proxy <a name="lbAC" id=
- "lbAC"> </a>
-
- <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
-
- <p><b>privoxy</b> [<b>--chroot</b> ] [<b>--config-test</b> ] [<b>--help</b>
- ] [<b>--no-daemon</b> ] [<b>--pidfile</b> <i>pidfile</i> ]
- [<b>--pre-chroot-nslookup</b> <i>hostname</i> ] [<b>--user</b>
- <i>user[.group]</i> ] [<b>--version</b> ] [<i>configfile</i> ]</p>
-
- <p><a name="lbAD" id="lbAD"> </a></p>
-
- <h2>OPTIONS</h2>
-
- <p><b>Privoxy</b> may be invoked with the following command line
- options:</p>
-
- <dl compact>
- <dt><b>--chroot</b></dt>
-
- <dd>Before changing to the user ID given in the --user option, chroot to
- that user's home directory, i.e. make the kernel pretend to the
- <b>Privoxy</b> process that the directory tree starts there. If set up
- carefully, this can limit the impact of possible vulnerabilities in
- <b>Privoxy</b> to the files contained in that hierarchy.</dd>
-
- <dt><b>--config-test</b></dt>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Privoxy Man page
+ </title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../p_web.css">
+ </head>
+ <body>
+ <h2>
+ NAME
+ </h2>
+<pre>
+<!-- Manpage converted by man2html 3.0.1 -->
- <dd>
- Exit after loading the configuration files before binding to the listen
- address. The exit code signals whether or not the configuration files
- have been successfully loaded.
-
- <p>If the exit code is 1, at least one of the configuration files is
- invalid, if it is 0, all the configuration files have been successfully
- loaded (but may still contain errors that can currently only be
- detected at run time).</p>
-
- <p>This option doesn't affect the log setting, combination with
- "--no-daemon" is recommended if a configured log file shouldn't be
- used.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><b>--help</b></dt>
-
- <dd>Print brief usage info and exit.</dd>
-
- <dt><b>--no-daemon</b></dt>
-
- <dd>Don't become a daemon, i.e. don't fork and become process group
- leader, don't detach from controlling tty, and do all logging there.</dd>
-
- <dt><b>--pidfile</b> <i>pidfile</i></dt>
-
- <dd>On startup, write the process ID to <i>pidfile</i>. Delete the
- <i>pidfile</i> on exit. Failure to create or delete the <i>pidfile</i> is
- non-fatal. If no <b>--pidfile</b> option is given, no PID file will be
- used.</dd>
-
- <dt><b>--pre-chroot-nslookup</b> <i>hostname</i></dt>
+</pre>
+ <h2>
+ SYNOPSIS
+ </h2>
+<pre>
+ <b>privoxy</b> [<b>--chroot</b> ] [<b>--config-test</b> ] [<b>--help</b> ] [<b>--no-daemon</b> ]
+ [<b>--pidfile</b> <i>pidfile</i> ] [<b>--pre-chroot-nslookup</b> <i>hostname</i> ] [<b>--user</b>
+ <i>user[.group]</i> ] [<b>--version</b> ] [<i>configfile</i> ]
- <dd>Initialize the resolver library using <i>hostname</i> before
- chroot'ing. On some systems this reduces the number of files that must be
- copied into the chroot tree.</dd>
- <dt><b>--user</b> <i>user[.group]</i></dt>
- <dd>After (optionally) writing the PID file, assume the user ID of
- <i>user</i> and the GID of <i>group</i>, or, if the optional <i>group</i>
- was not given, the default group of <i>user</i>. Exit if the privileges
- are not sufficient to do so.</dd>
+</pre>
+ <h2>
+ OPTIONS
+ </h2>
+<pre>
+ <b>Privoxy</b> may be invoked with the following command line options:
- <dt><b>--version</b></dt>
+ <b>--chroot</b>
+ Before changing to the user ID given in the --user option,
+ chroot to that user's home directory, i.e. make the kernel
+ pretend to the <b>Privoxy</b> process that the directory tree starts
+ there. If set up carefully, this can limit the impact of
+ possible vulnerabilities in <b>Privoxy</b> to the files contained in
+ that hierarchy.
- <dd>Print version info and exit.</dd>
- </dl>
+ <b>--config-test</b>
+ Exit after loading the configuration files before binding to the
+ listen address. The exit code signals whether or not the
+ configuration files have been successfully loaded.
- <p>If the <i>configfile</i> is not specified on the command line,
- <b>Privoxy</b> will look for a file named <i>config</i> in the current
- directory. If no <i>configfile</i> is found, <b>Privoxy</b> will fail to
- start. <a name="lbAE" id="lbAE"> </a></p>
+ If the exit code is 1, at least one of the configuration files
+ is invalid, if it is 0, all the configuration files have been
+ successfully loaded (but may still contain errors that can
+ currently only be detected at run time).
- <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
+ This option doesn't affect the log setting, combination with
+ "--no-daemon" is recommended if a configured log file shouldn't
+ be used.
- <p>Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities
- for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers,
- controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.
- Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit
- individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone
- systems and multi-user networks.</p>
+ <b>--help</b> Print brief usage info and exit.
- <p>Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.</p>
+ <b>--no-daemon</b>
+ Don't become a daemon, i.e. don't fork and become process
+ group leader, don't detach from controlling tty, and do all
+ logging there.
- <p>Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest
- (SPI).</p>
+ <b>--pidfile</b> <i>pidfile</i>
+ On startup, write the process ID to <i>pidfile</i>. Delete the <i>pidfile</i>
+ on exit. Failure to create or delete the <i>pidfile</i> is non-fatal.
+ If no <b>--pidfile</b> option is given, no PID file will be used.
- <p>Helping hands and donations are welcome:</p>
+ <b>--pre-chroot-nslookup</b> <i>hostname</i>
+ Initialize the resolver library using <i>hostname</i> before
+ chroot'ing. On some systems this reduces the number of files
+ that must be copied into the chroot tree.
- <dl compact>
- <dt>•</dt>
+ <b>--user</b> <i>user[.group]</i>
+ After (optionally) writing the PID file, assume the user ID of
+ <i>user</i> and the GID of <i>group</i>, or, if the optional <i>group</i> was not
+ given, the default group of <i>user</i>. Exit if the privileges are not
- <dd><a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE</a></dd>
+ individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone
+ systems and multi-user networks.
- <dt>•</dt>
+ Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
- <dd><a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE</a></dd>
- </dl><a name="lbAF" id="lbAF"> </a>
+ Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest
+ (SPI).
- <h2>INSTALLATION AND USAGE</h2>
+ Helping hands and donations are welcome:
- <p>Browsers can either be individually configured to use <b>Privoxy</b> as
- a HTTP proxy (recommended), or <b>Privoxy</b> can be combined with a packet
- filter to build an intercepting proxy (see <i>config</i>). The default
- setting is for localhost, on port 8118 (configurable in the main config
- file). To set the HTTP proxy in Firefox, go through: <b>Tools</b>;
- <b>Options</b>; <b>General</b>; <b>Connection Settings</b>; <b>Manual Proxy
- Configuration</b>.</p>
+ • https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
- <p>For Internet Explorer, go through: <b>Tools</b>; <b>Internet
- Properties</b>; <b>Connections</b>; <b>LAN Settings</b>.</p>
-
- <p>The Secure (SSL) Proxy should also be set to the same values, otherwise
- https: URLs will not be proxied. Note: <b>Privoxy</b> can only proxy HTTP
- and HTTPS traffic. Do not try it with FTP or other protocols. HTTPS
- presents some limitations, and not all features will work with HTTPS
- connections.</p>
-
- <p>For other browsers, check the documentation. <a name="lbAG" id=
- "lbAG"> </a></p>
+ • https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
- <h2>CONFIGURATION</h2>
-
- <p><b>Privoxy</b> can be configured with the various configuration files.
- The default configuration files are: <i>config</i>, <i>default.filter</i>,
- <i>default.action</i> and <i>default.action</i>. <i>user.action</i> should
- be used for locally defined exceptions to the default rules in
- <i>match-all.action</i> and <i>default.action</i>, and <i>user.filter</i>
- for locally defined filters. These are well commented. On Unix and
- Unix-like systems, these are located in <i>/etc/privoxy/</i> by
- default.</p>
- <p><b>Privoxy</b> uses the concept of <b>actions</b> in order to manipulate
- the data stream between the browser and remote sites. There are various
- actions available with specific functions for such things as blocking web
- sites, managing cookies, etc. These actions can be invoked individually or
- combined, and used against individual URLs, or groups of URLs that can be
- defined using wildcards and regular expressions. The result is that the
- user has greatly enhanced control and freedom.</p>
-
- <p>The actions list (ad blocks, etc) can also be configured with your web
- browser at <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> (assuming the
- configuration allows it). <b>Privoxy's</b> configuration parameters can
- also be viewed at the same page. In addition, <b>Privoxy</b> can be toggled
- on/off. This is an internal page, and does not require Internet access.</p>
-
- <p>See the <i>User Manual</i> for a detailed explanation of installation,
- general usage, all configuration options, new features and notes on
- upgrading. <a name="lbAH" id="lbAH"> </a></p>
-
- <h2>FILES</h2>
- <pre>
- <i>/usr/sbin/privoxy</i>
- <i>/etc/privoxy/config</i>
- <i>/etc/privoxy/match-all.action</i>
- <i>/etc/privoxy/default.action</i>
- <i>/etc/privoxy/user.action</i>
- <i>/etc/privoxy/default.filter</i>
- <i>/etc/privoxy/user.filter</i>
- <i>/etc/privoxy/trust</i>
- <i>/etc/privoxy/templates/*</i>
- <i>/var/log/privoxy/logfile</i>
</pre>
+ <h2>
+ INSTALLATION AND USAGE
+ </h2>
+<pre>
+ Browsers can either be individually configured to use <b>Privoxy</b> as a HTTP
+ proxy (recommended), or <b>Privoxy</b> can be combined with a packet filter to
+ build an intercepting proxy (see <i>config</i>). The default setting is for
+ localhost, on port 8118 (configurable in the main config file). To
+ set the HTTP proxy in Firefox, go through: <b>Tools</b>; <b>Options</b>; <b>General</b>;
+ <b>Connection</b> <b>Settings</b>; <b>Manual</b> <b>Proxy</b> <b>Configuration</b>.
- <p>Various other files should be included, but may vary depending on
- platform and build configuration. Additional documentation should be
- included in the local documentation directory. <a name="lbAI" id=
- "lbAI"> </a></p>
-
- <h2>SIGNALS</h2>
-
- <p><b>Privoxy</b> terminates on the <b>SIGINT</b> and <b>SIGTERM</b>
- signals. Log rotation scripts may cause a re-opening of the logfile by
- sending a <b>SIGHUP</b> to <b>Privoxy</b>. Note that unlike other daemons,
- <b>Privoxy</b> does not need to be made aware of config file changes by
- <b>SIGHUP</b> -- it will detect them automatically. Signals other than the
- ones listed above aren't explicitly handled and result in the default
- action defined by the operating system. <a name="lbAJ" id=
- "lbAJ"> </a></p>
-
- <h2>NOTES</h2>
-
- <p>This is a beta version of <b>Privoxy</b>. Not all features are well
- tested.</p>
-
- <p>Please see the <i>User Manual</i> on how to contact the developers, for
- feature requests, reporting problems, and other questions. <a name="lbAK"
- id="lbAK"> </a></p>
-
- <h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
-
- <p>Other references and sites of interest to <b>Privoxy</b> users:</p>
-
- <p><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/">https://www.privoxy.org/,</a> the
- <b>Privoxy</b> Home page.</p>
-
- <p><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/,</a>
- the <b>Privoxy</b> FAQ.</p>
-
- <p><a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/">https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/,</a>
- the <b>Privoxy</b> developer manual.</p>
+ For Internet Explorer, go through: <b>Tools</b>; <b>Internet</b> <b>Properties</b>;
+ <b>Connections</b>; <b>LAN</b> <b>Settings</b>.
- <p><a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/,</a>
- the Project Page for <b>Privoxy</b> on SourceForge.</p>
+ The Secure (SSL) Proxy should also be set to the same values, otherwise
+ https: URLs will not be proxied. Note: <b>Privoxy</b> can only proxy HTTP and
+ HTTPS traffic. Do not try it with FTP or other protocols. HTTPS
+ presents some limitations, and not all features will work with HTTPS
+ connections.
- <p><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/">http://config.privoxy.org/,</a> the
- web-based user interface. <b>Privoxy</b> must be running for this to work.
- Shortcut: <a href="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</a></p>
+ For other browsers, check the documentation.
- <p><a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118</a>&atid=460288,
- to submit ``misses'' and other configuration related suggestions to the
- developers. <a name="lbAL" id="lbAL"> </a></p>
- <h2>DEVELOPMENT TEAM</h2>
- <pre>
- Fabian Keil, lead developer
- David Schmidt
- Hal Burgiss
- Lee Rian
- Roland Rosenfeld
- Ian Silvester
-</pre><a name="lbAM" id="lbAM"> </a>
-
- <h2>COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE</h2><a name="lbAN" id="lbAN"> </a>
-
- <h3>COPYRIGHT</h3>
-
- <p>Copyright (C) 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers <<a href=
- "mailto:privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org">privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org</a>></p>
+</pre>
+ <h2>
+ CONFIGURATION
+ </h2>
+<pre>
+ <b>Privoxy</b> can be configured with the various configuration files. The
+ default configuration files are: <i>config</i>, <i>default.filter</i>, <i>default.action</i>
+ and <i>default.action</i>. <i>user.action</i> should be used for locally defined
+ exceptions to the default rules in <i>match-all.action</i> and <i>default.action</i>,
+ and <i>user.filter</i> for locally defined filters. These are well commented.
+ On Unix and Unix-like systems, these are located in <i>/etc/privoxy/</i> by
+ default.
+
+ <b>Privoxy</b> uses the concept of <b>actions</b> in order to manipulate the data
+ stream between the browser and remote sites. There are various actions
+ available with specific functions for such things as blocking web
+ sites, managing cookies, etc. These actions can be invoked individually
+ or combined, and used against individual URLs, or groups of URLs that
+ can be defined using wildcards and regular expressions. The result is
+ that the user has greatly enhanced control and freedom.
+
+ The actions list (ad blocks, etc) can also be configured with your web
+ browser at http://config.privoxy.org/ (assuming the configuration
+ <i>/etc/privoxy/user.filter</i>
+ <i>/etc/privoxy/trust</i>
+ <i>/etc/privoxy/templates/*</i>
+ <i>/var/log/privoxy/logfile</i>
+
+ Various other files should be included, but may vary depending on
+ platform and build configuration. Additional documentation should be
+ included in the local documentation directory.
- <p>Some source code is based on code Copyright (C) 1997 by Anonymous Coders
- and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i>GNU General Public
- License</i>. <a name="lbAO" id="lbAO"> </a></p>
- <h3>LICENSE</h3>
+</pre>
+ <h2>
+ SIGNALS
+ </h2>
+<pre>
+ <b>Privoxy</b> terminates on the <b>SIGINT</b> and <b>SIGTERM</b> signals. Log rotation
+ scripts may cause a re-opening of the logfile by sending a <b>SIGHUP</b> to
+ <b>Privoxy</b>. Note that unlike other daemons, <b>Privoxy</b> does not need to be
+ made aware of config file changes by <b>SIGHUP</b> -- it will detect them
+ automatically. Signals other than the ones listed above aren't
+ explicitly handled and result in the default action defined by the
+ operating system.
- <p><b>Privoxy</b> is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the <i>GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as
- published by the Free Software Foundation.</p>
- <p><b>Privoxy</b> is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <i>license</i> for
- details.</p>
- <hr>
- <a name="index" id="index"> </a>
+</pre>
+ <h2>
+ NOTES
+ </h2>
+<pre>
+ This is a beta version of <b>Privoxy</b>. Not all features are well tested.
- <h2>Index</h2>
+ Please see the <i>User</i> <i>Manual</i> on how to contact the developers, for
+ feature requests, reporting problems, and other questions.
- <dl>
- <dt><a href="#lbAB">NAME</a></dt>
- <dt><a href="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</a></dt>
+</pre>
+ <h2>
+ SEE ALSO
+ </h2>
+<pre>
+ Other references and sites of interest to <b>Privoxy</b> users:
- <dt><a href="#lbAD">OPTIONS</a></dt>
+ https://www.privoxy.org/, the <b>Privoxy</b> Home page.
- <dt><a href="#lbAE">DESCRIPTION</a></dt>
+ https://www.privoxy.org/faq/, the <b>Privoxy</b> FAQ.
- <dt><a href="#lbAF">INSTALLATION AND USAGE</a></dt>
+ https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/, the <b>Privoxy</b> developer
+ manual.
- <dt><a href="#lbAG">CONFIGURATION</a></dt>
+ https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/, the Project Page for <b>Privoxy</b>
+ on SourceForge.
- <dt><a href="#lbAH">FILES</a></dt>
+ http://config.privoxy.org/, the web-based user interface. <b>Privoxy</b> must
+ be running for this to work. Shortcut: http://p.p/
- <dt><a href="#lbAI">SIGNALS</a></dt>
+ https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288, to submit
+ ``misses'' and other configuration related suggestions to the
+ developers.
- <dt><a href="#lbAJ">NOTES</a></dt>
- <dt><a href="#lbAK">SEE ALSO</a></dt>
+</pre>
+ <h2>
+ DEVELOPMENT TEAM
+ </h2>
+<pre>
+ Fabian Keil, lead developer
+ David Schmidt
+ Hal Burgiss
+ Lee Rian
+ Roland Rosenfeld
+ Ian Silvester
- <dt><a href="#lbAL">DEVELOPMENT TEAM</a></dt>
+ <b>Privoxy</b> is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <i>license</i> for details.
- <dt><a href="#lbAM">COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE</a></dt>
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt><a href="#lbAN">COPYRIGHT</a></dt>
- <dt><a href="#lbAO">LICENSE</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- <hr>
- This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.<br>
- Time: 16:00:31 GMT, May 26, 2016
-</body>
+Privoxy 3.0.25 beta 26 July 2016 <b>PRIVOXY(1)</b>
+</pre>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Privoxy - The Privacy Enhancing Proxy</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <meta name="description" content=
- "Privoxy helps users to protect their privacy.">
-</head>
-
-<body class="ARTICLE" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="ARTICLE">
- <div class="TITLEPAGE">
- <h1 class="TITLE"><a name="AEN2" id="AEN2">Privoxy - The Privacy
- Enhancing Proxy</a></h1>
-
- <h2 class="SUBTITLE">Project Index Page v3.0.25</h2>
-
- <div>
- <div class="ABSTRACT">
- <a name="AEN5" id="AEN5"></a>
-
- <p>Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
- capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and
- HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other
- obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and
- can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has
- application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
- networks.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public
- Interest (SPI).</p>
-
- <p>Helping hands and donations are welcome:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE"
- target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE</a></p>
- </li>
- </ul>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Privoxy - The Privacy Enhancing Proxy
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <meta name="description" content=
+ "Privoxy helps users to protect their privacy.">
+ </head>
+ <body class="ARTICLE" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF"
+ vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="ARTICLE">
+ <div class="TITLEPAGE">
+ <h1 class="TITLE">
+ <a name="AEN2">Privoxy - The Privacy Enhancing Proxy</a>
+ </h1>
+ <h2 class="SUBTITLE">
+ Project Index Page v3.0.25
+ </h2>
+ <div>
+ <div class="ABSTRACT">
+ <a name="AEN5"></a>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
+ capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and
+ HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other
+ obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration
+ and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It
+ has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
+ networks.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public
+ Interest (SPI).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Helping hands and donations are welcome:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
</div>
+ <hr>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h3 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="DOWNLOAD">Download</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ You can <a href="/sf-download-mirror/" target="_top">download
+ Privoxy here</a>, from <a href=
+ "http://www.silvester.org.uk/privoxy/" target="_top">this
+ mirror</a>, or from <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/" target=
+ "_top">SourceForge</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <hr>
+ <h3 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="DOCS">Documentation</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="user-manual/quickstart.html" target="_top">Quickstart
+ after installation</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="user-manual/index.html" target="_top">User manual</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="faq/index.html" target="_top">Frequently Asked
+ Questions</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="developer-manual/index.html" target="_top">Developer
+ Manual</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="man-page/privoxy-man-page.html" target="_top">Classic
+ Man Page</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <hr>
+ <h3 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="MOREINFO">More information</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="user-manual/contact.html" target="_top">Support &
+ Service</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="user-manual/copyright.html" target="_top">Copyright,
+ License, History & Authors</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES" target=
+ "_top">List of (new) Features</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/team/index.html" target=
+ "_top">Pictures of the Privoxy Team</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <hr>
+ <h2 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="AEN58"></a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <sub>Copyright © 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers</sub>
+ </p>
</div>
- <hr>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h3 class="SECT1"><a name="DOWNLOAD" id="DOWNLOAD">Download</a></h3>
-
- <p>You can <a href="/sf-download-mirror/" target="_top">download
- Privoxy here</a>, from <a href="http://www.silvester.org.uk/privoxy/"
- target="_top">this mirror</a>, or from <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/" target=
- "_top">SourceForge</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <hr>
-
- <h3 class="SECT1"><a name="DOCS" id="DOCS">Documentation</a></h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><a href="user-manual/quickstart.html" target="_top">Quickstart
- after installation</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="user-manual/index.html" target="_top">User
- manual</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="faq/index.html" target="_top">Frequently Asked
- Questions</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="developer-manual/index.html" target="_top">Developer
- Manual</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="man-page/privoxy-man-page.html" target="_top">Classic
- Man Page</a></p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <hr>
-
- <h3 class="SECT1"><a name="MOREINFO" id="MOREINFO">More
- information</a></h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><a href="user-manual/contact.html" target="_top">Support &
- Service</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="user-manual/copyright.html" target="_top">Copyright,
- License, History & Authors</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES" target=
- "_top">List of (new) Features</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/team/index.html" target=
- "_top">Pictures of the Privoxy Team</a></p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <hr>
-
- <h2 class="SECT1"><a name="AEN58" id="AEN58"></a></h2>
-
- <p><sub>Copyright © 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers</sub></p>
</div>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-
<html>
-<head>
- <meta name="generator" content=
- "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 7 December 2008), see www.w3.org">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
-
- <title>Privoxy - Team Photos</title>
- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <style type="text/css">
+ <head>
+ <meta name="generator" content=
+ "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 7 December 2008), see www.w3.org">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
+ <title>
+ Privoxy - Team Photos
+ </title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+<style type="text/css">
h1.c1 {margin-left: 0%}
- </style>
-</head>
-
-<body>
- <h1 class="c1">Privoxy - Team Photos</h1>
- <hr>
-
- <p>In our day jobs, we're all models ;-)</p>
-
- <table align="center">
- <tr>
- <td><a href="01stefanw.jpg"><img src="01stefanw_t.jpg" width="80"
- height="80" border="0" title="Stefan Waldherr"></a></td>
-
- <td><a href="02jon.jpg"><img src="02jon_t.jpg" width="80" height="80"
- border="0" title="Jon Foster"></a></td>
- <td><a href="03andreas.jpg"><img src="03andreas_t.jpg" width="80"
- height="80" border="0" title="Andreas Oesterhelt"></a></td>
-
- <td><a href="04rodney.jpg"><img src="04rodney_t.jpg" width="80" height=
- "80" border="0" title="Rodney Stromlund"></a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><a href="05david.jpg"><img src="05david_t.jpg" width="80" height=
- "80" border="0" title="David Schmidt"></a></td>
-
- <td><a href="06member.jpg"><img src="06member_t.jpg" width="80" height=
- "80" border="0" title="N/A"></a></td>
-
- <td><a href="07member.jpg"><img src="07member_t.jpg" width="80" height=
- "80" border="0" title="N/A"></a></td>
-
- <td><a href="08member.jpg"><img src="08member_t.jpg" width="80" height=
- "80" border="0" title="N/A"></a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-</body>
+</style>
+ </head>
+ <body>
+ <h1 class="c1">
+ Privoxy - Team Photos
+ </h1>
+ <hr>
+ <p>
+ In our day jobs, we're all models ;-)
+ </p>
+ <table align="center">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="01stefanw.jpg"><img src="01stefanw_t.jpg" width="80"
+ height="80" border="0" title="Stefan Waldherr"></a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="02jon.jpg"><img src="02jon_t.jpg" width="80" height="80"
+ border="0" title="Jon Foster"></a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="03andreas.jpg"><img src="03andreas_t.jpg" width="80"
+ height="80" border="0" title="Andreas Oesterhelt"></a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="04rodney.jpg"><img src="04rodney_t.jpg" width="80" height=
+ "80" border="0" title="Rodney Stromlund"></a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="05david.jpg"><img src="05david_t.jpg" width="80" height=
+ "80" border="0" title="David Schmidt"></a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="06member.jpg"><img src="06member_t.jpg" width="80" height=
+ "80" border="0" title="N/A"></a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="07member.jpg"><img src="07member_t.jpg" width="80" height=
+ "80" border="0" title="N/A"></a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="08member.jpg"><img src="08member_t.jpg" width="80" height=
+ "80" border="0" title="N/A"></a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Actions Files</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="The Main Configuration File" href=
- "config.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Filter Files" href="filter-file.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="config.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "filter-file.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="ACTIONS-FILE" id="ACTIONS-FILE">8. Actions
- Files</a></h1>
-
- <p>The actions files are used to define what <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">actions</i></span> <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> takes for which URLs, and thus determines
- how ad images, cookies and various other aspects of HTTP content and
- transactions are handled, and on which sites (or even parts thereof).
- There are a number of such actions, with a wide range of functionality.
- Each action does something a little different. These actions give us a
- veritable arsenal of tools with which to exert our control, preferences
- and independence. Actions can be combined so that their effects are
- aggregated when applied against a given set of URLs.</p>
-
- <p>There are three action files included with <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with differing purposes:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">match-all.action</tt> - is used to define
- which <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> relating to
- banner-blocking, images, pop-ups, content modification, cookie
- handling etc should be applied by default. It should be the first
- actions file loaded</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> - defines many exceptions
- (both positive and negative) from the default set of actions that's
- configured in <tt class="FILENAME">match-all.action</tt>. It is a set
- of rules that should work reasonably well as-is for most users. This
- file is only supposed to be edited by the developers. It should be
- the second actions file loaded.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> - is intended to be for
- local site preferences and exceptions. As an example, if your ISP or
- your bank has specific requirements, and need special handling, this
- kind of thing should go here. This file will not be upgraded.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> <span class="GUIBUTTON">Set to
- Cautious</span> <span class="GUIBUTTON">Set to Medium</span>
- <span class="GUIBUTTON">Set to Advanced</span></p>
-
- <p>These have increasing levels of aggressiveness <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and have no influence on your browsing
- unless you select them explicitly in the editor</i></span>. A default
- installation should be pre-set to <tt class="LITERAL">Cautious</tt>.
- New users should try this for a while before adjusting the settings
- to more aggressive levels. The more aggressive the settings, then the
- more likelihood there is of problems such as sites not working as
- they should.</p>
-
- <p>The <span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> button allows you to turn
- each action on/off individually for fine-tuning. The <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Cautious</span> button changes the actions list to
- low/safe settings which will activate ad blocking and a minimal set
- of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s features, and
- subsequently there will be less of a chance for accidental problems.
- The <span class="GUIBUTTON">Medium</span> button sets the list to a
- medium level of other features and a low level set of privacy
- features. The <span class="GUIBUTTON">Advanced</span> button sets the
- list to a high level of ad blocking and medium level of privacy. See
- the chart below. The latter three buttons over-ride any changes via
- with the <span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> button. More fine-tuning
- can be done in the lower sections of this internal page.</p>
-
- <p>While the actions file editor allows to enable these settings in
- all actions files, they are only supposed to be enabled in the first
- one to make sure you don't unintentionally overrule earlier
- rules.</p>
-
- <p>The default profiles, and their associated actions, as pre-defined
- in <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> are:</p>
-
- <div class="TABLE">
- <a name="AEN2750" id="AEN2750"></a>
-
- <p><b>Table 1. Default Configurations</b></p>
-
- <table border="1" frame="border" rules="all" class="CALSTABLE">
- <col width="1*" title="C1">
- <col width="1*" title="C2">
- <col width="1*" title="C3">
- <col width="1*" title="C4">
-
- <thead>
- <tr>
- <th>Feature</th>
-
- <th>Cautious</th>
-
- <th>Medium</th>
-
- <th>Advanced</th>
- </tr>
- </thead>
-
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>Ad-blocking Aggressiveness</td>
-
- <td>medium</td>
-
- <td>high</td>
-
- <td>high</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>Ad-filtering by size</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>Ad-filtering by link</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>Pop-up killing</td>
-
- <td>blocks only</td>
-
- <td>blocks only</td>
-
- <td>blocks only</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>Privacy Features</td>
-
- <td>low</td>
-
- <td>medium</td>
-
- <td>medium/high</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>Cookie handling</td>
-
- <td>none</td>
-
- <td>session-only</td>
-
- <td>kill</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>Referer forging</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>GIF de-animation</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>Fast redirects</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>HTML taming</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>JavaScript taming</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>Web-bug killing</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>Image tag reordering</td>
-
- <td>no</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
-
- <td>yes</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </div>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>The list of actions files to be used are defined in the main
- configuration file, and are processed in the order they are defined (e.g.
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> is typically processed before
- <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>). The content of these can all be
- viewed and edited from <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status"
- target="_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a>. The over-riding
- principle when applying actions, is that the last action that matches a
- given URL wins. The broadest, most general rules go first (defined in
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>), followed by any exceptions
- (typically also in <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>), which are
- then followed lastly by any local preferences (typically in <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">user</i></span><tt class=
- "FILENAME">.action</tt>). Generally, <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.action</tt> has the last word.</p>
-
- <p>An actions file typically has multiple sections. If you want to use
- <span class="QUOTE">"aliases"</span> in an actions file, you have to
- place the (optional) <a href="actions-file.html#ALIASES">alias
- section</a> at the top of that file. Then comes the default set of rules
- which will apply universally to all sites and pages (be <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">very careful</i></span> with using such a
- universal set in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> or any other
- actions file after <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>, because it
- will override the result from consulting any previous file). And then
- below that, exceptions to the defined universal policies. You can regard
- <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> as an appendix to <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt>, with the advantage that it is a separate
- file, which makes preserving your personal settings across <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> upgrades easier.</p>
-
- <p>Actions can be used to block anything you want, including ads,
- banners, or just some obnoxious URL whose content you would rather not
- see. Cookies can be accepted or rejected, or accepted only during the
- current browser session (i.e. not written to disk), content can be
- modified, some JavaScripts tamed, user-tracking fooled, and much more.
- See below for a <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS">complete list of
- actions</a>.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="RIGHT-MIX" id="RIGHT-MIX">8.1. Finding the
- Right Mix</a></h2>
-
- <p>Note that some <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS">actions</a>, like
- cookie suppression or script disabling, may render some sites unusable
- that rely on these techniques to work properly. Finding the right mix
- of actions is not always easy and certainly a matter of personal taste.
- And, things can always change, requiring refinements in the
- configuration. In general, it can be said that the more <span class=
- "QUOTE">"aggressive"</span> your default settings (in the top section
- of the actions file) are, the more exceptions for <span class=
- "QUOTE">"trusted"</span> sites you will have to make later. If, for
- example, you want to crunch all cookies per default, you'll have to
- make exceptions from that rule for sites that you regularly use and
- that require cookies for actually useful purposes, like maybe your
- bank, favorite shop, or newspaper.</p>
-
- <p>We have tried to provide you with reasonable rules to start from in
- the distribution actions files. But there is no general rule of thumb
- on these things. There just are too many variables, and sites are
- constantly changing. Sooner or later you will want to change the rules
- (and read this chapter again :).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="HOW-TO-EDIT" id="HOW-TO-EDIT">8.2. How to
- Edit</a></h2>
-
- <p>The easiest way to edit the actions files is with a browser by using
- our browser-based editor, which can be reached from <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a>. Note: the config file
- option <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a> must be
- enabled for this to work. The editor allows both fine-grained control
- over every single feature on a per-URL basis, and easy choosing from
- wholesale sets of defaults like <span class="QUOTE">"Cautious"</span>,
- <span class="QUOTE">"Medium"</span> or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Advanced"</span>. Warning: the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Advanced"</span> setting is more aggressive, and will be more
- likely to cause problems for some sites. Experienced users only!</p>
-
- <p>If you prefer plain text editing to GUIs, you can of course also
- directly edit the the actions files with your favorite text editor.
- Look at <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> which is richly
- commented with many good examples.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="ACTIONS-APPLY" id="ACTIONS-APPLY">8.3. How
- Actions are Applied to Requests</a></h2>
-
- <p>Actions files are divided into sections. There are special sections,
- like the <span class="QUOTE">"<a href=
- "actions-file.html#ALIASES">alias</a>"</span> sections which will be
- discussed later. For now let's concentrate on regular sections: They
- have a heading line (often split up to multiple lines for readability)
- which consist of a list of actions, separated by whitespace and
- enclosed in curly braces. Below that, there is a list of URL and tag
- patterns, each on a separate line.</p>
-
- <p>To determine which actions apply to a request, the URL of the
- request is compared to all URL patterns in each <span class=
- "QUOTE">"action file"</span>. Every time it matches, the list of
- applicable actions for the request is incrementally updated, using the
- heading of the section in which the pattern is located. The same is
- done again for tags and tag patterns later on.</p>
-
- <p>If multiple applying sections set the same action differently, the
- last match wins. If not, the effects are aggregated. E.g. a URL might
- match a regular section with a heading line of <tt class="LITERAL">{
- +<a href="actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a>
- }</tt>, then later another one with just <tt class="LITERAL">{
- +<a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a> }</tt>, resulting in
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span> actions to
- apply. And there may well be cases where you will want to combine
- actions together. Such a section then might look like:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Actions Files
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="The Main Configuration File" href=
+ "config.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Filter Files" href="filter-file.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- { +<tt class="LITERAL">handle-as-image</tt> +<tt class=
-"LITERAL">block{Banner ads.}</tt> }
- # Block these as if they were images. Send no block page.
- banners.example.com
- media.example.com/.*banners
- .example.com/images/ads/
-</pre>
- </td>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>You can trace this process for URL patterns and any given URL by
- visiting <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Examples and more detail on this is provided in the Appendix,
- <a href="appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">Troubleshooting: Anatomy of an
- Action</a> section.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AF-PATTERNS" id="AF-PATTERNS">8.4.
- Patterns</a></h2>
-
- <p>As mentioned, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> uses
- <span class="QUOTE">"patterns"</span> to determine what <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">actions</i></span> might apply to which
- sites and pages your browser attempts to access. These <span class=
- "QUOTE">"patterns"</span> use wild card type <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">pattern</i></span> matching to achieve a
- high degree of flexibility. This allows one expression to be expanded
- and potentially match against many similar patterns.</p>
-
- <p>Generally, an URL pattern has the form <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><host><port>/<path></tt>, where the
- <tt class="LITERAL"><host></tt>, the <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><port></tt> and the <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><path></tt> are optional. (This is why the special
- <tt class="LITERAL">/</tt> pattern matches all URLs). Note that the
- protocol portion of the URL pattern (e.g. <tt class=
- "LITERAL">http://</tt>) should <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">not</i></span> be included in the pattern. This is assumed
- already!</p>
-
- <p>The pattern matching syntax is different for the host and path parts
- of the URL. The host part uses a simple globbing type matching
- technique, while the path part uses more flexible <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
- "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a> (POSIX
- 1003.2).</p>
-
- <p>The port part of a pattern is a decimal port number preceded by a
- colon (<tt class="LITERAL">:</tt>). If the host part contains a
- numerical IPv6 address, it has to be put into angle brackets
- (<tt class="LITERAL"><</tt>, <tt class="LITERAL">></tt>).</p>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com/</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>is a host-only pattern and will match any request to
- <tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com</tt>, regardless of which
- document on that server is requested. So ALL pages in this domain
- would be covered by the scope of this action. Note that a simple
- <tt class="LITERAL">example.com</tt> is different and would NOT
- match.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>means exactly the same. For host-only patterns, the trailing
- <tt class="LITERAL">/</tt> may be omitted.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com/index.html</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches all the documents on <tt class=
- "LITERAL">www.example.com</tt> whose name starts with <tt class=
- "LITERAL">/index.html</tt>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com/index.html$</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches only the single document <tt class=
- "LITERAL">/index.html</tt> on <tt class=
- "LITERAL">www.example.com</tt>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">/index.html$</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches the document <tt class="LITERAL">/index.html</tt>,
- regardless of the domain, i.e. on <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">any</i></span> web server
- anywhere.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">/</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Matches any URL because there's no requirement for either the
- domain or the path to match anything.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">:8000/</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Matches any URL pointing to TCP port 8000.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">10.0.0.1/</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Matches any URL with the host address <tt class=
- "LITERAL">10.0.0.1</tt>. (Note that the real URL uses plain
- brackets, not angle brackets.)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL"><2001:db8::1>/</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Matches any URL with the host address <tt class=
- "LITERAL">2001:db8::1</tt>. (Note that the real URL uses plain
- brackets, not angle brackets.)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">index.html</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches nothing, since it would be interpreted as a domain
- name and there is no top-level domain called <tt class=
- "LITERAL">.html</tt>. So its a mistake.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="HOST-PATTERN" id="HOST-PATTERN">8.4.1. The
- Host Pattern</a></h3>
-
- <p>The matching of the host part offers some flexible options: if the
- host pattern starts or ends with a dot, it becomes unanchored at that
- end. The host pattern is often referred to as domain pattern as it is
- usually used to match domain names and not IP addresses. For
- example:</p>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">.example.com</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches any domain with first-level domain <tt class=
- "LITERAL">com</tt> and second-level domain <tt class=
- "LITERAL">example</tt>. For example <tt class=
- "LITERAL">www.example.com</tt>, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">example.com</tt> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">foo.bar.baz.example.com</tt>. Note that it wouldn't
- match if the second-level domain was <tt class=
- "LITERAL">another-example</tt>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">www.</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches any domain that <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">STARTS</i></span> with <tt class="LITERAL">www.</tt>
- (It also matches the domain <tt class="LITERAL">www</tt> but
- most of the time that doesn't matter.)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">.example.</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches any domain that <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">CONTAINS</i></span> <tt class=
- "LITERAL">.example.</tt>. And, by the way, also included would
- be any files or documents that exist within that domain since
- no path limitations are specified. (Correctly speaking: It
- matches any FQDN that contains <tt class="LITERAL">example</tt>
- as a domain.) This might be <tt class=
- "LITERAL">www.example.com</tt>, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">news.example.de</tt>, or <tt class=
- "LITERAL">www.example.net/cgi/testing.pl</tt> for instance. All
- these cases are matched.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
-
- <p>Additionally, there are wild-cards that you can use in the domain
- names themselves. These work similarly to shell globbing type
- wild-cards: <span class="QUOTE">"*"</span> represents zero or more
- arbitrary characters (this is equivalent to the <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
- "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expression"</span></a> based
- syntax of <span class="QUOTE">".*"</span>), <span class=
- "QUOTE">"?"</span> represents any single character (this is
- equivalent to the regular expression syntax of a simple <span class=
- "QUOTE">"."</span>), and you can define <span class=
- "QUOTE">"character classes"</span> in square brackets which is
- similar to the same regular expression technique. All of this can be
- freely mixed:</p>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">ad*.example.com</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches <span class="QUOTE">"adserver.example.com"</span>,
- <span class="QUOTE">"ads.example.com"</span>, etc but not
- <span class="QUOTE">"sfads.example.com"</span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">*ad*.example.com</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches all of the above, and then some.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">.?pix.com</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches <tt class="LITERAL">www.ipix.com</tt>, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">pictures.epix.com</tt>, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">a.b.c.d.e.upix.com</tt> etc.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">www[1-9a-ez].example.c*</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>matches <tt class="LITERAL">www1.example.com</tt>,
- <tt class="LITERAL">www4.example.cc</tt>, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">wwwd.example.cy</tt>, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">wwwz.example.com</tt> etc., but <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not</i></span> <tt class=
- "LITERAL">wwww.example.com</tt>.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
-
- <p>While flexible, this is not the sophistication of full regular
- expression based syntax.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="PATH-PATTERN" id="PATH-PATTERN">8.4.2. The
- Path Pattern</a></h3>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> uses <span class=
- "QUOTE">"modern"</span> POSIX 1003.2 <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
- "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a> for
- matching the path portion (after the slash), and is thus more
- flexible.</p>
-
- <p>There is an <a href="appendix.html#REGEX">Appendix</a> with a
- brief quick-start into regular expressions, you also might want to
- have a look at your operating system's documentation on regular
- expressions (try <tt class="LITERAL">man re_format</tt>).</p>
-
- <p>Note that the path pattern is automatically left-anchored at the
- <span class="QUOTE">"/"</span>, i.e. it matches as if it would start
- with a <span class="QUOTE">"^"</span> (regular expression speak for
- the beginning of a line).</p>
-
- <p>Please also note that matching in the path is <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">CASE INSENSITIVE</i></span> by
- default, but you can switch to case sensitive at any point in the
- pattern by using the <span class="QUOTE">"(?-i)"</span> switch:
- <tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com/(?-i)PaTtErN.*</tt> will match
- only documents whose path starts with <tt class=
- "LITERAL">PaTtErN</tt> in <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">exactly</i></span> this capitalization.</p>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">.example.com/.*</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Is equivalent to just <span class=
- "QUOTE">".example.com"</span>, since any documents within that
- domain are matched with or without the <span class=
- "QUOTE">".*"</span> regular expression. This is redundant</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">.example.com/.*/index.html$</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Will match any page in the domain of <span class=
- "QUOTE">"example.com"</span> that is named <span class=
- "QUOTE">"index.html"</span>, and that is part of some path. For
- example, it matches <span class=
- "QUOTE">"www.example.com/testing/index.html"</span> but NOT
- <span class="QUOTE">"www.example.com/index.html"</span> because
- the regular expression called for at least two <span class=
- "QUOTE">"/'s"</span>, thus the path requirement. It also would
- match <span class=
- "QUOTE">"www.example.com/testing/index_html"</span>, because of
- the special meta-character <span class="QUOTE">"."</span>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class="LITERAL">.example.com/(.*/)?index\.html$</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This regular expression is conditional so it will match any
- page named <span class="QUOTE">"index.html"</span> regardless
- of path which in this case can have one or more <span class=
- "QUOTE">"/'s"</span>. And this one must contain exactly
- <span class="QUOTE">".html"</span> (but does not have to end
- with that!).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class=
- "LITERAL">.example.com/(.*/)(ads|banners?|junk)</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This regular expression will match any path of <span class=
- "QUOTE">"example.com"</span> that contains any of the words
- <span class="QUOTE">"ads"</span>, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"banner"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"banners"</span>
- (because of the <span class="QUOTE">"?"</span>) or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"junk"</span>. The path does not have to end in these
- words, just contain them.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><tt class=
- "LITERAL">.example.com/(.*/)(ads|banners?|junk)/.*\.(jpe?g|gif|png)$</tt></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This is very much the same as above, except now it must end
- in either <span class="QUOTE">".jpg"</span>, <span class=
- "QUOTE">".jpeg"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">".gif"</span> or
- <span class="QUOTE">".png"</span>. So this one is limited to
- common image formats.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
-
- <p>There are many, many good examples to be found in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt>, and more tutorials below in <a href=
- "appendix.html#REGEX">Appendix on regular expressions</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="TAG-PATTERN" id="TAG-PATTERN">8.4.3. The
- Request Tag Pattern</a></h3>
-
- <p>Request tag patterns are used to change the applying actions based
- on the request's tags. Tags can be created based on HTTP headers with
- either the <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER">client-header-tagger</a> or
- the <a href=
- "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-TAGGER">server-header-tagger</a>
- action.</p>
-
- <p>Request tag patterns have to start with <span class=
- "QUOTE">"TAG:"</span>, so <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- can tell them apart from other patterns. Everything after the colon
- including white space, is interpreted as a regular expression with
- path pattern syntax, except that tag patterns aren't left-anchored
- automatically (<span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> doesn't
- silently add a <span class="QUOTE">"^"</span>, you have to do it
- yourself if you need it).</p>
-
- <p>To match all requests that are tagged with <span class=
- "QUOTE">"foo"</span> your pattern line should be <span class=
- "QUOTE">"TAG:^foo$"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"TAG:foo"</span>
- would work as well, but it would also match requests whose tags
- contain <span class="QUOTE">"foo"</span> somewhere. <span class=
- "QUOTE">"TAG: foo"</span> wouldn't work as it requires white
- space.</p>
-
- <p>Sections can contain URL and request tag patterns at the same
- time, but request tag patterns are checked after the URL patterns and
- thus always overrule them, even if they are located before the URL
- patterns.</p>
-
- <p>Once a new request tag is added, Privoxy checks right away if it's
- matched by one of the request tag patterns and updates the action
- settings accordingly. As a result request tags can be used to
- activate other tagger actions, as long as these other taggers look
- for headers that haven't already be parsed.</p>
-
- <p>For example you could tag client requests which use the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">POST</tt> method, then use this tag to activate another
- tagger that adds a tag if cookies are sent, and then use a block
- action based on the cookie tag. This allows the outcome of one
- action, to be input into a subsequent action. However if you'd
- reverse the position of the described taggers, and activated the
- method tagger based on the cookie tagger, no method tags would be
- created. The method tagger would look for the request line, but at
- the time the cookie tag is created, the request line has already been
- parsed.</p>
-
- <p>While this is a limitation you should be aware of, this kind of
- indirection is seldom needed anyway and even the example doesn't make
- too much sense.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="NEGATIVE-TAG-PATTERNS" id=
- "NEGATIVE-TAG-PATTERNS">8.4.4. The Negative Request Tag
- Patterns</a></h3>
-
- <p>To match requests that do not have a certain request tag, specify
- a negative tag pattern by prefixing the tag pattern line with either
- <span class="QUOTE">"NO-REQUEST-TAG:"</span> or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"NO-RESPONSE-TAG:"</span> instead of <span class=
- "QUOTE">"TAG:"</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Negative request tag patterns created with <span class=
- "QUOTE">"NO-REQUEST-TAG:"</span> are checked after all client headers
- are scanned, the ones created with <span class=
- "QUOTE">"NO-RESPONSE-TAG:"</span> are checked after all server
- headers are scanned. In both cases all the created tags are
- considered.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="CLIENT-TAG-PATTERN" id=
- "CLIENT-TAG-PATTERN">8.4.5. The Client Tag Pattern</a></h3>
-
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>This is an experimental feature. The syntax is likely to
- change in future versions.</p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <p>Client tag patterns are not set based on HTTP headers but based on
- the client's IP address. Users can enable them themselves, but the
- Privoxy admin controls which tags are available and what their effect
- is.</p>
-
- <p>After a client-specific tag has been defined with the <a href=
- "config.html#CLIENT-SPECIFIC-TAG">client-specific-tag</a>, directive,
- action sections can be activated based on the tag by using a
- CLIENT-TAG pattern. The CLIENT-TAG pattern is evaluated at the same
- priority as URL patterns, as a result the last matching pattern wins.
- Tags that are created based on client or server headers are evaluated
- later on and can overrule CLIENT-TAG and URL patterns!</p>
-
- <p>The tag is set for all requests that come from clients that
- requested it to be set. Note that "clients" are differentiated by IP
- address, if the IP address changes the tag has to be requested
- again.</p>
-
- <p>Clients can request tags to be set by using the CGI interface
- <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Example:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-# If the admin defined the client-specific-tag circumvent-blocks,
-# and the request comes from a client that previously requested
-# the tag to be set, overrule all previous +block actions that
-# are enabled based on URL to CLIENT-TAG patterns.
-{-block}
-CLIENT-TAG:^circumvent-blocks$
-
-# This section is not overruled because it's located after
-# the previous one.
-{+block{Nobody is supposed to request this.}}
-example.org/blocked-example-page
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="ACTIONS" id="ACTIONS">8.5. Actions</a></h2>
-
- <p>All actions are disabled by default, until they are explicitly
- enabled somewhere in an actions file. Actions are turned on if preceded
- with a <span class="QUOTE">"+"</span>, and turned off if preceded with
- a <span class="QUOTE">"-"</span>. So a <tt class="LITERAL">+action</tt>
- means <span class="QUOTE">"do that action"</span>, e.g. <tt class=
- "LITERAL">+block</tt> means <span class="QUOTE">"please block URLs that
- match the following patterns"</span>, and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">-block</tt> means <span class="QUOTE">"don't block URLs that
- match the following patterns, even if <tt class="LITERAL">+block</tt>
- previously applied."</span></p>
-
- <p>Again, actions are invoked by placing them on a line, enclosed in
- curly braces and separated by whitespace, like in <tt class=
- "LITERAL">{+some-action -some-other-action{some-parameter}}</tt>,
- followed by a list of URL patterns, one per line, to which they apply.
- Together, the actions line and the following pattern lines make up a
- section of the actions file.</p>
-
- <p>Actions fall into three categories:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Boolean, i.e the action can only be <span class=
- "QUOTE">"enabled"</span> or <span class="QUOTE">"disabled"</span>.
- Syntax:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- +<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt> # enable action <tt class=
-"REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>
- -<tt class=
-"REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt> # disable action <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Example: <tt class="LITERAL">+handle-as-image</tt></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Parameterized, where some value is required in order to enable
- this type of action. Syntax:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- +<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>{<tt class=
-"REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt>} # enable action and set parameter to <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt>,
- # overwriting parameter from previous match if necessary
- -<tt class=
-"REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt> # disable action. The parameter can be omitted
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Note that if the URL matches multiple positive forms of a
- parameterized action, the last match wins, i.e. the params from
- earlier matches are simply ignored.</p>
-
- <p>Example: <tt class="LITERAL">+hide-user-agent{Mozilla/5.0 (X11;
- U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070602
- Firefox/2.0.0.4}</tt></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Multi-value. These look exactly like parameterized actions, but
- they behave differently: If the action applies multiple times to
- the same URL, but with different parameters, <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> the parameters from
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> matches
- are remembered. This is used for actions that can be executed for
- the same request repeatedly, like adding multiple headers, or
- filtering through multiple filters. Syntax:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- +<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>{<tt class=
-"REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt>} # enable action and add <tt class=
-"REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt> to the list of parameters
- -<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>{<tt class=
-"REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt>} # remove the parameter <tt class=
-"REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt> from the list of parameters
- # If it was the last one left, disable the action.
- <tt class=
-"REPLACEABLE"><i>-name</i></tt> # disable this action completely and remove all parameters from the list
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Examples: <tt class="LITERAL">+add-header{X-Fun-Header: Some
- text}</tt> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">+filter{html-annoyances}</tt></p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>If nothing is specified in any actions file, no <span class=
- "QUOTE">"actions"</span> are taken. So in this case <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> would just be a normal, non-blocking,
- non-filtering proxy. You must specifically enable the privacy and
- blocking features you need (although the provided default actions files
- will give a good starting point).</p>
-
- <p>Later defined action sections always over-ride earlier ones of the
- same type. So exceptions to any rules you make, should come in the
- latter part of the file (or in a file that is processed later when
- using multiple actions files such as <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.action</tt>). For multi-valued actions, the actions are
- applied in the order they are specified. Actions files are processed in
- the order they are defined in <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> (the
- default installation has three actions files). It also quite possible
- for any given URL to match more than one <span class=
- "QUOTE">"pattern"</span> (because of wildcards and regular
- expressions), and thus to trigger more than one set of actions! Last
- match wins.</p>
-
- <p>The list of valid <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> actions
- are:</p>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ADD-HEADER" id="ADD-HEADER">8.5.1.
- add-header</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Confuse log analysis, custom applications</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Sends a user defined HTTP header to the web server.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multi-value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Any string value is possible. Validity of the defined HTTP
- headers is not checked. It is recommended that you use the
- <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">X-</tt>"</span> prefix
- for custom headers.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This action may be specified multiple times, in order to
- define multiple headers. This is rarely needed for the typical
- user. If you don't know what <span class="QUOTE">"HTTP
- headers"</span> are, you definitely don't need to worry about
- this one.</p>
-
- <p>Headers added by this action are not modified by other
- actions.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-# Add a DNT ("Do not track") header to all requests,
-# event to those that already have one.
-#
-# This is just an example, not a recommendation.
-#
-# There is no reason to believe that user-tracking websites care
-# about the DNT header and depending on the User-Agent, adding the
-# header may make user-tracking easier.
-{+add-header{DNT: 1}}
-/
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="BLOCK" id="BLOCK">8.5.2. block</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Block ads or other unwanted content</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Requests for URLs to which this action applies are blocked,
- i.e. the requests are trapped by <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and the requested URL is never
- retrieved, but is answered locally with a substitute page or
- image, as determined by the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>,
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>,
- and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT">handle-as-empty-document</a></tt>
- actions.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A block reason that should be given to the user.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> sends a special
- <span class="QUOTE">"BLOCKED"</span> page for requests to
- blocked pages. This page contains the block reason given as
- parameter, a link to find out why the block action applies, and
- a click-through to the blocked content (the latter only if the
- force feature is available and enabled).</p>
-
- <p>A very important exception occurs if <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span> <tt class=
- "LITERAL">block</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>,
- apply to the same request: it will then be replaced by an
- image. If <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>
- (see below) also applies, the type of image will be determined
- by its parameter, if not, the standard checkerboard pattern is
- sent.</p>
-
- <p>It is important to understand this process, in order to
- understand how <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> deals
- with ads and other unwanted content. Blocking is a core
- feature, and one upon which various other features depend.</p>
-
- <p>The <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt> action can perform a
- very similar task, by <span class="QUOTE">"blocking"</span>
- banner images and other content through rewriting the relevant
- URLs in the document's HTML source, so they don't get requested
- in the first place. Note that this is a totally different
- technique, and it's easy to confuse the two.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-{+block{No nasty stuff for you.}}
-# Block and replace with "blocked" page
- .nasty-stuff.example.com
-
-{+block{Doubleclick banners.} +handle-as-image}
-# Block and replace with image
- .ad.doubleclick.net
- .ads.r.us/banners/
-
-{+block{Layered ads.} +handle-as-empty-document}
-# Block and then ignore
- adserver.example.net/.*\.js$
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CHANGE-X-FORWARDED-FOR" id=
- "CHANGE-X-FORWARDED-FOR">8.5.3. change-x-forwarded-for</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Improve privacy by not forwarding the source of the request
- in the HTTP headers.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"X-Forwarded-For:"</span>
- HTTP header from the client request, or adds a new one.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"block"</span> to delete the
- header.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"add"</span> to create the header
- (or append the client's IP address to an already existing
- one).</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>It is safe and recommended to use <tt class=
- "LITERAL">block</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>Forwarding the source address of the request may make sense
- in some multi-user setups but is also a privacy risk.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+change-x-forwarded-for{block}
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER" id=
- "CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER">8.5.4. client-header-filter</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Rewrite or remove single client headers.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>All client headers to which this action applies are filtered
- on-the-fly through the specified regular expression based
- substitutions.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multi-value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The name of a client-header filter, as defined in one of the
- <a href="filter-file.html">filter files</a>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Client-header filters are applied to each header on its own,
- not to all at once. This makes it easier to diagnose problems,
- but on the downside you can't write filters that only change
- header x if header y's value is z. You can do that by using
- tags though.</p>
-
- <p>Client-header filters are executed after the other header
- actions have finished and use their output as input.</p>
-
- <p>If the request URI gets changed, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will detect that and use the new
- one. This can be used to rewrite the request destination behind
- the client's back, for example to specify a Tor exit relay for
- certain requests.</p>
-
- <p>Please refer to the <a href="filter-file.html">filter file
- chapter</a> to learn which client-header filters are available
- by default, and how to create your own.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-# Hide Tor exit notation in Host and Referer Headers
-{+client-header-filter{hide-tor-exit-notation}}
-/
-
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER" id=
- "CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER">8.5.5. client-header-tagger</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Block requests based on their headers.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Client headers to which this action applies are filtered
- on-the-fly through the specified regular expression based
- substitutions, the result is used as tag.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multi-value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The name of a client-header tagger, as defined in one of the
- <a href="filter-file.html">filter files</a>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Client-header taggers are applied to each header on its own,
- and as the header isn't modified, each tagger <span class=
- "QUOTE">"sees"</span> the original.</p>
-
- <p>Client-header taggers are the first actions that are
- executed and their tags can be used to control every other
- action.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-# Tag every request with the User-Agent header
-{+client-header-tagger{user-agent}}
-/
-
-# Tagging itself doesn't change the action
-# settings, sections with TAG patterns do:
-#
-# If it's a download agent, use a different forwarding proxy,
-# show the real User-Agent and make sure resume works.
-{+forward-override{forward-socks5 10.0.0.2:2222 .} \
- -hide-if-modified-since \
- -overwrite-last-modified \
- -hide-user-agent \
- -filter \
- -deanimate-gifs \
-}
-TAG:^User-Agent: NetBSD-ftp/
-TAG:^User-Agent: Novell ZYPP Installer
-TAG:^User-Agent: RPM APT-HTTP/
-TAG:^User-Agent: fetch libfetch/
-TAG:^User-Agent: Ubuntu APT-HTTP/
-TAG:^User-Agent: MPlayer/
-
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-# Tag all requests with the Range header set
-{+client-header-tagger{range-requests}}
-/
-
-# Disable filtering for the tagged requests.
-#
-# With filtering enabled Privoxy would remove the Range headers
-# to be able to filter the whole response. The downside is that
-# it prevents clients from resuming downloads or skipping over
-# parts of multimedia files.
-{-filter -deanimate-gifs}
-TAG:^RANGE-REQUEST$
-
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE" id=
- "CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE">8.5.6. content-type-overwrite</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Stop useless download menus from popping up, or change the
- browser's rendering mode</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Replaces the <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span> HTTP
- server header.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Any string.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span> HTTP server
- header is used by the browser to decide what to do with the
- document. The value of this header can cause the browser to
- open a download menu instead of displaying the document by
- itself, even if the document's format is supported by the
- browser.</p>
-
- <p>The declared content type can also affect which rendering
- mode the browser chooses. If XHTML is delivered as <span class=
- "QUOTE">"text/html"</span>, many browsers treat it as yet
- another broken HTML document. If it is send as <span class=
- "QUOTE">"application/xml"</span>, browsers with XHTML support
- will only display it, if the syntax is correct.</p>
-
- <p>If you see a web site that proudly uses XHTML buttons, but
- sets <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Type: text/html"</span>, you
- can use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to overwrite
- it with <span class="QUOTE">"application/xml"</span> and
- validate the web master's claim inside your XHTML-supporting
- browser. If the syntax is incorrect, the browser will complain
- loudly.</p>
-
- <p>You can also go the opposite direction: if your browser
- prints error messages instead of rendering a document falsely
- declared as XHTML, you can overwrite the content type with
- <span class="QUOTE">"text/html"</span> and have it rendered as
- broken HTML document.</p>
-
- <p>By default <tt class="LITERAL">content-type-overwrite</tt>
- only replaces <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span>
- headers that look like some kind of text. If you want to
- overwrite it unconditionally, you have to combine it with
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FORCE-TEXT-MODE">force-text-mode</a></tt>.
- This limitation exists for a reason, think twice before
- circumventing it.</p>
-
- <p>Most of the time it's easier to replace this action with a
- custom <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-FILTER">server-header
- filter</a></tt>. It allows you to activate it for every
- document of a certain site and it will still only replace the
- content types you aimed at.</p>
-
- <p>Of course you can apply <tt class=
- "LITERAL">content-type-overwrite</tt> to a whole site and then
- make URL based exceptions, but it's a lot more work to get the
- same precision.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (sections):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-# Check if www.example.net/ really uses valid XHTML
-{ +content-type-overwrite{application/xml} }
-www.example.net/
-
-# but leave the content type unmodified if the URL looks like a style sheet
-{-content-type-overwrite}
-www.example.net/.*\.css$
-www.example.net/.*style
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CRUNCH-CLIENT-HEADER" id=
- "CRUNCH-CLIENT-HEADER">8.5.7. crunch-client-header</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Remove a client header <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has no dedicated action for.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes every header sent by the client that contains the
- string the user supplied as parameter.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Any string.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This action allows you to block client headers for which no
- dedicated <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> action
- exists. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will remove
- every client header that contains the string you supplied as
- parameter.</p>
-
- <p>Regular expressions are <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">not supported</i></span> and you can't use this
- action to block different headers in the same request, unless
- they contain the same string.</p>
-
- <p><tt class="LITERAL">crunch-client-header</tt> is only meant
- for quick tests. If you have to block several different
- headers, or only want to modify parts of them, you should use a
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER">client-header
- filter</a></tt>.</p>
-
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>Don't block any header without understanding the
- consequences.</p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-# Block the non-existent "Privacy-Violation:" client header
-{ +crunch-client-header{Privacy-Violation:} }
-/
-
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH" id=
- "CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH">8.5.8. crunch-if-none-match</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Prevent yet another way to track the user's steps between
- sessions.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"If-None-Match:"</span> HTTP
- client header.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Boolean.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>N/A</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Removing the <span class="QUOTE">"If-None-Match:"</span>
- HTTP client header is useful for filter testing, where you want
- to force a real reload instead of getting status code
- <span class="QUOTE">"304"</span> which would cause the browser
- to use a cached copy of the page.</p>
-
- <p>It is also useful to make sure the header isn't used as a
- cookie replacement (unlikely but possible).</p>
-
- <p>Blocking the <span class="QUOTE">"If-None-Match:"</span>
- header shouldn't cause any caching problems, as long as the
- <span class="QUOTE">"If-Modified-Since:"</span> header isn't
- blocked or missing as well.</p>
-
- <p>It is recommended to use this action together with
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE">hide-if-modified-since</a></tt>
- and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED">overwrite-last-modified</a></tt>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-# Let the browser revalidate cached documents but don't
-# allow the server to use the revalidation headers for user tracking.
-{+hide-if-modified-since{-60} \
- +overwrite-last-modified{randomize} \
- +crunch-if-none-match}
-/
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES" id=
- "CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">8.5.9. crunch-incoming-cookies</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Prevent the web server from setting HTTP cookies on your
- system</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes any <span class="QUOTE">"Set-Cookie:"</span> HTTP
- headers from server replies.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Boolean.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>N/A</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This action is only concerned with <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">incoming</i></span> HTTP
- cookies. For <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">outgoing</i></span> HTTP cookies, use <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a></tt>.
- Use <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span>
- to disable HTTP cookies completely.</p>
-
- <p>It makes <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">no sense
- at all</i></span> to use this action in conjunction with the
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">session-cookies-only</a></tt>
- action, since it would prevent the session cookies from being
- set. See also <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER-CONTENT-COOKIES">filter-content-cookies</a></tt>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+crunch-incoming-cookies
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CRUNCH-SERVER-HEADER" id=
- "CRUNCH-SERVER-HEADER">8.5.10. crunch-server-header</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Remove a server header <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has no dedicated action for.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes every header sent by the server that contains the
- string the user supplied as parameter.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Any string.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This action allows you to block server headers for which no
- dedicated <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> action
- exists. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will remove
- every server header that contains the string you supplied as
- parameter.</p>
-
- <p>Regular expressions are <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">not supported</i></span> and you can't use this
- action to block different headers in the same request, unless
- they contain the same string.</p>
-
- <p><tt class="LITERAL">crunch-server-header</tt> is only meant
- for quick tests. If you have to block several different
- headers, or only want to modify parts of them, you should use a
- custom <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-FILTER">server-header
- filter</a></tt>.</p>
-
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>Don't block any header without understanding the
- consequences.</p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-# Crunch server headers that try to prevent caching
-{ +crunch-server-header{no-cache} }
-/
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES" id=
- "CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">8.5.11. crunch-outgoing-cookies</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Prevent the web server from reading any HTTP cookies from
- your system</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes any <span class="QUOTE">"Cookie:"</span> HTTP
- headers from client requests.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Boolean.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>N/A</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This action is only concerned with <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">outgoing</i></span> HTTP
- cookies. For <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">incoming</i></span> HTTP cookies, use <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a></tt>.
- Use <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span>
- to disable HTTP cookies completely.</p>
-
- <p>It makes <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">no sense
- at all</i></span> to use this action in conjunction with the
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">session-cookies-only</a></tt>
- action, since it would prevent the session cookies from being
- read.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+crunch-outgoing-cookies
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="DEANIMATE-GIFS" id=
- "DEANIMATE-GIFS">8.5.12. deanimate-gifs</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Stop those annoying, distracting animated GIF images.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>De-animate GIF animations, i.e. reduce them to their first
- or last image.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"last"</span> or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"first"</span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This will also shrink the images considerably (in bytes, not
- pixels!). If the option <span class="QUOTE">"first"</span> is
- given, the first frame of the animation is used as the
- replacement. If <span class="QUOTE">"last"</span> is given, the
- last frame of the animation is used instead, which probably
- makes more sense for most banner animations, but also has the
- risk of not showing the entire last frame (if it is only a
- delta to an earlier frame).</p>
-
- <p>You can safely use this action with patterns that will also
- match non-GIF objects, because no attempt will be made at
- anything that doesn't look like a GIF.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+deanimate-gifs{last}
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="DOWNGRADE-HTTP-VERSION" id=
- "DOWNGRADE-HTTP-VERSION">8.5.13. downgrade-http-version</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Work around (very rare) problems with HTTP/1.1</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Downgrades HTTP/1.1 client requests and server replies to
- HTTP/1.0.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Boolean.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>N/A</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This is a left-over from the time when <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> didn't support important HTTP/1.1
- features well. It is left here for the unlikely case that you
- experience HTTP/1.1-related problems with some server out
- there.</p>
-
- <p>Note that enabling this action is only a workaround. It
- should not be enabled for sites that work without it. While it
- shouldn't break any pages, it has an (usually negative)
- performance impact.</p>
-
- <p>If you come across a site where enabling this action helps,
- please report it, so the cause of the problem can be analyzed.
- If the problem turns out to be caused by a bug in <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> it should be fixed so the
- following release works without the work around.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-{+downgrade-http-version}
-problem-host.example.com
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="EXTERNAL-FILTER" id=
- "EXTERNAL-FILTER">8.5.14. external-filter</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Modify content using a programming language of your
- choice.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>All instances of text-based type, most notably HTML and
- JavaScript, to which this action applies, can be filtered
- on-the-fly through the specified external filter. By default
- plain text documents are exempted from filtering, because web
- servers often use the <tt class="LITERAL">text/plain</tt> MIME
- type for all files whose type they don't know.)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multi-value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The name of an external content filter, as defined in the
- <a href="filter-file.html">filter file</a>. External filters
- can be defined in one or more files as defined by the
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "config.html#FILTERFILE">filterfile</a></tt> option in the
- <a href="config.html">config file</a>.</p>
-
- <p>When used in its negative form, and without parameters,
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span>
- filtering with external filters is completely disabled.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>External filters are scripts or programs that can modify the
- content in case common <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filters</a></tt> aren't powerful
- enough. With the exception that this action doesn't use
- pcrs-based filters, the notes in the <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt>
- section apply.</p>
-
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>Currently external filters are executed with
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s privileges.
- Only use external filters you understand and trust.</p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <p>This feature is experimental, the <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "filter-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER-SYNTAX">syntax</a></tt> may
- change in the future.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+external-filter{fancy-filter}
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="FAST-REDIRECTS" id=
- "FAST-REDIRECTS">8.5.15. fast-redirects</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Fool some click-tracking scripts and speed up indirect
- links.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Detects redirection URLs and redirects the browser without
- contacting the redirection server first.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"simple-check"</span> to just search
- for the string <span class="QUOTE">"http://"</span> to
- detect redirection URLs.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"check-decoded-url"</span> to decode
- URLs (if necessary) before searching for redirection
- URLs.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Many sites, like yahoo.com, don't just link to other sites.
- Instead, they will link to some script on their own servers,
- giving the destination as a parameter, which will then redirect
- you to the final target. URLs resulting from this scheme
- typically look like: <span class=
- "QUOTE">"http://www.example.org/click-tracker.cgi?target=http%3a//www.example.net/"</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Sometimes, there are even multiple consecutive redirects
- encoded in the URL. These redirections via scripts make your
- web browsing more traceable, since the server from which you
- follow such a link can see where you go to. Apart from that,
- valuable bandwidth and time is wasted, while your browser asks
- the server for one redirect after the other. Plus, it feeds the
- advertisers.</p>
-
- <p>This feature is currently not very smart and is scheduled
- for improvement. If it is enabled by default, you will have to
- create some exceptions to this action. It can lead to failures
- in several ways:</p>
-
- <p>Not every URLs with other URLs as parameters is evil. Some
- sites offer a real service that requires this information to
- work. For example a validation service needs to know, which
- document to validate. <tt class="LITERAL">fast-redirects</tt>
- assumes that every URL parameter that looks like another URL is
- a redirection target, and will always redirect to the last one.
- Most of the time the assumption is correct, but if it isn't,
- the user gets redirected anyway.</p>
-
- <p>Another failure occurs if the URL contains other parameters
- after the URL parameter. The URL: <span class=
- "QUOTE">"http://www.example.org/?redirect=http%3a//www.example.net/&foo=bar"</span>.
- contains the redirection URL <span class=
- "QUOTE">"http://www.example.net/"</span>, followed by another
- parameter. <tt class="LITERAL">fast-redirects</tt> doesn't know
- that and will cause a redirect to <span class=
- "QUOTE">"http://www.example.net/&foo=bar"</span>. Depending
- on the target server configuration, the parameter will be
- silently ignored or lead to a <span class="QUOTE">"page not
- found"</span> error. You can prevent this problem by first
- using the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#REDIRECT">redirect</a></tt> action to remove
- the last part of the URL, but it requires a little effort.</p>
-
- <p>To detect a redirection URL, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">fast-redirects</tt> only looks for the string
- <span class="QUOTE">"http://"</span>, either in plain text
- (invalid but often used) or encoded as <span class=
- "QUOTE">"http%3a//"</span>. Some sites use their own URL
- encoding scheme, encrypt the address of the target server or
- replace it with a database id. In theses cases <tt class=
- "LITERAL">fast-redirects</tt> is fooled and the request reaches
- the redirection server where it probably gets logged.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- { +fast-redirects{simple-check} }
- one.example.com
-
- { +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} }
- another.example.com/testing
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="FILTER" id="FILTER">8.5.16.
- filter</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Get rid of HTML and JavaScript annoyances, banner
- advertisements (by size), do fun text replacements, add
- personalized effects, etc.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>All instances of text-based type, most notably HTML and
- JavaScript, to which this action applies, can be filtered
- on-the-fly through the specified regular expression based
- substitutions. (Note: as of version 3.0.3 plain text documents
- are exempted from filtering, because web servers often use the
- <tt class="LITERAL">text/plain</tt> MIME type for all files
- whose type they don't know.)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multi-value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The name of a content filter, as defined in the <a href=
- "filter-file.html">filter file</a>. Filters can be defined in
- one or more files as defined by the <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href="config.html#FILTERFILE">filterfile</a></tt>
- option in the <a href="config.html">config file</a>. <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.filter</tt> is the collection of filters
- supplied by the developers. Locally defined filters should go
- in their own file, such as <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.filter</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>When used in its negative form, and without parameters,
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span>
- filtering is completely disabled.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>For your convenience, there are a number of pre-defined
- filters available in the distribution filter file that you can
- use. See the examples below for a list.</p>
-
- <p>Filtering requires buffering the page content, which may
- appear to slow down page rendering since nothing is displayed
- until all content has passed the filters. (The total time until
- the page is completely rendered doesn't change much, but it may
- be perceived as slower since the page is not incrementally
- displayed.) This effect will be more noticeable on slower
- connections.</p>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"Rolling your own"</span> filters
- requires a knowledge of <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
- "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a> and
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html" target=
- "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"HTML"</span></a>. This is very
- powerful feature, and potentially very intrusive. Filters
- should be used with caution, and where an equivalent
- <span class="QUOTE">"action"</span> is not available.</p>
-
- <p>The amount of data that can be filtered is limited to the
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "config.html#BUFFER-LIMIT">buffer-limit</a></tt> option in the
- main <a href="config.html">config file</a>. The default is 4096
- KB (4 Megs). Once this limit is exceeded, the buffered data,
- and all pending data, is passed through unfiltered.</p>
-
- <p>Inappropriate MIME types, such as zipped files, are not
- filtered at all. (Again, only text-based types except plain
- text). Encrypted SSL data (from HTTPS servers) cannot be
- filtered either, since this would violate the integrity of the
- secure transaction. In some situations it might be necessary to
- protect certain text, like source code, from filtering by
- defining appropriate <tt class="LITERAL">-filter</tt>
- exceptions.</p>
-
- <p>Compressed content can't be filtered either, but if
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is compiled with zlib
- support and a supported compression algorithm is used (gzip or
- deflate), <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can first
- decompress the content and then filter it.</p>
-
- <p>If you use a <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- version without zlib support, but want filtering to work on as
- much documents as possible, even those that would normally be
- sent compressed, you must use the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#PREVENT-COMPRESSION">prevent-compression</a></tt>
- action in conjunction with <tt class="LITERAL">filter</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>Content filtering can achieve some of the same effects as
- the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action, i.e. it can be
- used to block ads and banners. But the mechanism works quite
- differently. One effective use, is to block ad banners based on
- their size (see below), since many of these seem to be somewhat
- standardized.</p>
-
- <p><a href="contact.html">Feedback</a> with suggestions for new
- or improved filters is particularly welcome!</p>
-
- <p>The below list has only the names and a one-line description
- of each predefined filter. There are <a href=
- "filter-file.html#PREDEFINED-FILTERS">more verbose
- explanations</a> of what these filters do in the <a href=
- "filter-file.html">filter file chapter</a>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (with filters from the distribution <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.filter</tt> file). See <a href=
- "filter-file.html#PREDEFINED-FILTERS">the Predefined Filters
- section</a> for more explanation on each:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><a name="FILTER-JS-ANNOYANCES" id=
- "FILTER-JS-ANNOYANCES"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="config.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="filter-file.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="ACTIONS-FILE">8. Actions Files</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ The actions files are used to define what <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">actions</i></span> <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> takes for which URLs, and thus
+ determines how ad images, cookies and various other aspects of HTTP
+ content and transactions are handled, and on which sites (or even
+ parts thereof). There are a number of such actions, with a wide range
+ of functionality. Each action does something a little different.
+ These actions give us a veritable arsenal of tools with which to
+ exert our control, preferences and independence. Actions can be
+ combined so that their effects are aggregated when applied against a
+ given set of URLs.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are three action files included with <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with differing purposes:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">match-all.action</tt> - is used to define
+ which <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> relating to
+ banner-blocking, images, pop-ups, content modification, cookie
+ handling etc should be applied by default. It should be the first
+ actions file loaded
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> - defines many
+ exceptions (both positive and negative) from the default set of
+ actions that's configured in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">match-all.action</tt>. It is a set of rules that
+ should work reasonably well as-is for most users. This file is
+ only supposed to be edited by the developers. It should be the
+ second actions file loaded.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> - is intended to be for
+ local site preferences and exceptions. As an example, if your ISP
+ or your bank has specific requirements, and need special
+ handling, this kind of thing should go here. This file will not
+ be upgraded.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> <span class="GUIBUTTON">Set
+ to Cautious</span> <span class="GUIBUTTON">Set to Medium</span>
+ <span class="GUIBUTTON">Set to Advanced</span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ These have increasing levels of aggressiveness <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and have no influence on your
+ browsing unless you select them explicitly in the
+ editor</i></span>. A default installation should be pre-set to
+ <tt class="LITERAL">Cautious</tt>. New users should try this for
+ a while before adjusting the settings to more aggressive levels.
+ The more aggressive the settings, then the more likelihood there
+ is of problems such as sites not working as they should.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The <span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> button allows you to turn
+ each action on/off individually for fine-tuning. The <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Cautious</span> button changes the actions list to
+ low/safe settings which will activate ad blocking and a minimal
+ set of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s features, and
+ subsequently there will be less of a chance for accidental
+ problems. The <span class="GUIBUTTON">Medium</span> button sets
+ the list to a medium level of other features and a low level set
+ of privacy features. The <span class="GUIBUTTON">Advanced</span>
+ button sets the list to a high level of ad blocking and medium
+ level of privacy. See the chart below. The latter three buttons
+ over-ride any changes via with the <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> button. More fine-tuning can be done in
+ the lower sections of this internal page.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ While the actions file editor allows to enable these settings in
+ all actions files, they are only supposed to be enabled in the
+ first one to make sure you don't unintentionally overrule earlier
+ rules.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The default profiles, and their associated actions, as
+ pre-defined in <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> are:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <div class="TABLE">
+ <a name="AEN2750"></a>
+ <p>
+ <b>Table 1. Default Configurations</b>
+ </p>
+ <table border="1" frame="border" rules="all" class="CALSTABLE">
+ <col width="1*" title="C1">
+ <col width="1*" title="C2">
+ <col width="1*" title="C3">
+ <col width="1*" title="C4">
+ <thead>
+ <tr>
+ <th>
+ Feature
+ </th>
+ <th>
+ Cautious
+ </th>
+ <th>
+ Medium
+ </th>
+ <th>
+ Advanced
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{js-annoyances} # Get rid of particularly annoying JavaScript abuse.
-</pre>
+ Ad-blocking Aggressiveness
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ medium
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ high
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ high
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-JS-EVENTS" id="FILTER-JS-EVENTS"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{js-events} # Kill JavaScript event bindings and timers (Radically destructive! Only for extra nasty sites).
-</pre>
+ Ad-filtering by size
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-HTML-ANNOYANCES" id=
- "FILTER-HTML-ANNOYANCES"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{html-annoyances} # Get rid of particularly annoying HTML abuse.
-</pre>
+ Ad-filtering by link
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-CONTENT-COOKIES" id=
- "FILTER-CONTENT-COOKIES"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{content-cookies} # Kill cookies that come in the HTML or JS content.
-</pre>
+ Pop-up killing
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ blocks only
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ blocks only
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ blocks only
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-REFRESH-TAGS" id=
- "FILTER-REFRESH-TAGS"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{refresh-tags} # Kill automatic refresh tags if refresh time is larger than 9 seconds.
-</pre>
+ Privacy Features
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ low
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ medium
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ medium/high
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-UNSOLICITED-POPUPS" id=
- "FILTER-UNSOLICITED-POPUPS"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{unsolicited-popups} # Disable only unsolicited pop-up windows.
-</pre>
+ Cookie handling
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ none
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ session-only
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ kill
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-ALL-POPUPS" id="FILTER-ALL-POPUPS"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{all-popups} # Kill all popups in JavaScript and HTML.
-</pre>
+ Referer forging
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-IMG-REORDER" id=
- "FILTER-IMG-REORDER"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{img-reorder} # Reorder attributes in <img> tags to make the banners-by-* filters more effective.
-</pre>
+ GIF de-animation
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-BANNERS-BY-SIZE" id=
- "FILTER-BANNERS-BY-SIZE"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{banners-by-size} # Kill banners by size.
-</pre>
+ Fast redirects
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-BANNERS-BY-LINK" id=
- "FILTER-BANNERS-BY-LINK"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{banners-by-link} # Kill banners by their links to known clicktrackers.
-</pre>
+ HTML taming
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-WEBBUGS" id="FILTER-WEBBUGS"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{webbugs} # Squish WebBugs (1x1 invisible GIFs used for user tracking).
-</pre>
+ JavaScript taming
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-TINY-TEXTFORMS" id=
- "FILTER-TINY-TEXTFORMS"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{tiny-textforms} # Extend those tiny textareas up to 40x80 and kill the hard wrap.
-</pre>
+ Web-bug killing
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-JUMPING-WINDOWS" id=
- "FILTER-JUMPING-WINDOWS"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
<td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{jumping-windows} # Prevent windows from resizing and moving themselves.
+ Image tag reordering
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ no
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ yes
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ The list of actions files to be used are defined in the main
+ configuration file, and are processed in the order they are defined
+ (e.g. <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> is typically processed
+ before <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>). The content of these
+ can all be viewed and edited from <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a>. The over-riding
+ principle when applying actions, is that the last action that matches
+ a given URL wins. The broadest, most general rules go first (defined
+ in <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>), followed by any
+ exceptions (typically also in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt>), which are then followed lastly by
+ any local preferences (typically in <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">user</i></span><tt class="FILENAME">.action</tt>).
+ Generally, <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> has the last word.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ An actions file typically has multiple sections. If you want to use
+ <span class="QUOTE">"aliases"</span> in an actions file, you have to
+ place the (optional) <a href="actions-file.html#ALIASES">alias
+ section</a> at the top of that file. Then comes the default set of
+ rules which will apply universally to all sites and pages (be <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">very careful</i></span> with
+ using such a universal set in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>
+ or any other actions file after <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt>, because it will override the result
+ from consulting any previous file). And then below that, exceptions
+ to the defined universal policies. You can regard <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt> as an appendix to <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt>, with the advantage that it is a
+ separate file, which makes preserving your personal settings across
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> upgrades easier.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Actions can be used to block anything you want, including ads,
+ banners, or just some obnoxious URL whose content you would rather
+ not see. Cookies can be accepted or rejected, or accepted only during
+ the current browser session (i.e. not written to disk), content can
+ be modified, some JavaScripts tamed, user-tracking fooled, and much
+ more. See below for a <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS">complete
+ list of actions</a>.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="RIGHT-MIX">8.1. Finding the Right Mix</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Note that some <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS">actions</a>,
+ like cookie suppression or script disabling, may render some sites
+ unusable that rely on these techniques to work properly. Finding
+ the right mix of actions is not always easy and certainly a matter
+ of personal taste. And, things can always change, requiring
+ refinements in the configuration. In general, it can be said that
+ the more <span class="QUOTE">"aggressive"</span> your default
+ settings (in the top section of the actions file) are, the more
+ exceptions for <span class="QUOTE">"trusted"</span> sites you will
+ have to make later. If, for example, you want to crunch all cookies
+ per default, you'll have to make exceptions from that rule for
+ sites that you regularly use and that require cookies for actually
+ useful purposes, like maybe your bank, favorite shop, or newspaper.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ We have tried to provide you with reasonable rules to start from in
+ the distribution actions files. But there is no general rule of
+ thumb on these things. There just are too many variables, and sites
+ are constantly changing. Sooner or later you will want to change
+ the rules (and read this chapter again :).
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="HOW-TO-EDIT">8.2. How to Edit</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The easiest way to edit the actions files is with a browser by
+ using our browser-based editor, which can be reached from <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a>. Note: the config
+ file option <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a> must be
+ enabled for this to work. The editor allows both fine-grained
+ control over every single feature on a per-URL basis, and easy
+ choosing from wholesale sets of defaults like <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Cautious"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"Medium"</span> or
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Advanced"</span>. Warning: the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Advanced"</span> setting is more aggressive, and will be
+ more likely to cause problems for some sites. Experienced users
+ only!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you prefer plain text editing to GUIs, you can of course also
+ directly edit the the actions files with your favorite text editor.
+ Look at <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> which is richly
+ commented with many good examples.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ACTIONS-APPLY">8.3. How Actions are Applied to
+ Requests</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Actions files are divided into sections. There are special
+ sections, like the <span class="QUOTE">"<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#ALIASES">alias</a>"</span> sections which will
+ be discussed later. For now let's concentrate on regular sections:
+ They have a heading line (often split up to multiple lines for
+ readability) which consist of a list of actions, separated by
+ whitespace and enclosed in curly braces. Below that, there is a
+ list of URL and tag patterns, each on a separate line.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To determine which actions apply to a request, the URL of the
+ request is compared to all URL patterns in each <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"action file"</span>. Every time it matches, the list of
+ applicable actions for the request is incrementally updated, using
+ the heading of the section in which the pattern is located. The
+ same is done again for tags and tag patterns later on.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If multiple applying sections set the same action differently, the
+ last match wins. If not, the effects are aggregated. E.g. a URL
+ might match a regular section with a heading line of <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">{ +<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a> }</tt>,
+ then later another one with just <tt class="LITERAL">{ +<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a> }</tt>, resulting in <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span> actions to
+ apply. And there may well be cases where you will want to combine
+ actions together. Such a section then might look like:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ { +<tt class="LITERAL">handle-as-image</tt> +<tt class=
+"LITERAL">block{Banner ads.}</tt> }
+ # Block these as if they were images. Send no block page.
+ banners.example.com
+ media.example.com/.*banners
+ .example.com/images/ads/
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ You can trace this process for URL patterns and any given URL by
+ visiting <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Examples and more detail on this is provided in the Appendix, <a
+ href="appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">Troubleshooting: Anatomy of an
+ Action</a> section.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="AF-PATTERNS">8.4. Patterns</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ As mentioned, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> uses <span
+ class="QUOTE">"patterns"</span> to determine what <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">actions</i></span> might apply to
+ which sites and pages your browser attempts to access. These <span
+ class="QUOTE">"patterns"</span> use wild card type <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">pattern</i></span> matching to
+ achieve a high degree of flexibility. This allows one expression to
+ be expanded and potentially match against many similar patterns.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Generally, an URL pattern has the form <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><host><port>/<path></tt>, where the <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><host></tt>, the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><port></tt> and the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><path></tt> are optional. (This is why the special
+ <tt class="LITERAL">/</tt> pattern matches all URLs). Note that the
+ protocol portion of the URL pattern (e.g. <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">http://</tt>) should <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">not</i></span> be included in the pattern. This is
+ assumed already!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The pattern matching syntax is different for the host and path
+ parts of the URL. The host part uses a simple globbing type
+ matching technique, while the path part uses more flexible <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
+ "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a> (POSIX
+ 1003.2).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The port part of a pattern is a decimal port number preceded by a
+ colon (<tt class="LITERAL">:</tt>). If the host part contains a
+ numerical IPv6 address, it has to be put into angle brackets (<tt
+ class="LITERAL"><</tt>, <tt class="LITERAL">></tt>).
+ </p>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com/</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ is a host-only pattern and will match any request to <tt
+ class="LITERAL">www.example.com</tt>, regardless of which
+ document on that server is requested. So ALL pages in this
+ domain would be covered by the scope of this action. Note
+ that a simple <tt class="LITERAL">example.com</tt> is
+ different and would NOT match.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ means exactly the same. For host-only patterns, the trailing
+ <tt class="LITERAL">/</tt> may be omitted.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com/index.html</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches all the documents on <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">www.example.com</tt> whose name starts with <tt
+ class="LITERAL">/index.html</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com/index.html$</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches only the single document <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/index.html</tt> on <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">www.example.com</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">/index.html$</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches the document <tt class="LITERAL">/index.html</tt>,
+ regardless of the domain, i.e. on <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">any</i></span> web server anywhere.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">/</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Matches any URL because there's no requirement for either the
+ domain or the path to match anything.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">:8000/</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Matches any URL pointing to TCP port 8000.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">10.0.0.1/</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Matches any URL with the host address <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">10.0.0.1</tt>. (Note that the real URL uses plain
+ brackets, not angle brackets.)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><2001:db8::1>/</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Matches any URL with the host address <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">2001:db8::1</tt>. (Note that the real URL uses
+ plain brackets, not angle brackets.)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">index.html</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches nothing, since it would be interpreted as a domain
+ name and there is no top-level domain called <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.html</tt>. So its a mistake.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HOST-PATTERN">8.4.1. The Host Pattern</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ The matching of the host part offers some flexible options: if
+ the host pattern starts or ends with a dot, it becomes unanchored
+ at that end. The host pattern is often referred to as domain
+ pattern as it is usually used to match domain names and not IP
+ addresses. For example:
+ </p>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">.example.com</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches any domain with first-level domain <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">com</tt> and second-level domain <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">example</tt>. For example <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">www.example.com</tt>, <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">example.com</tt> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">foo.bar.baz.example.com</tt>. Note that it
+ wouldn't match if the second-level domain was <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">another-example</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">www.</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches any domain that <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">STARTS</i></span> with <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">www.</tt> (It also matches the domain <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">www</tt> but most of the time that doesn't
+ matter.)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">.example.</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches any domain that <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">CONTAINS</i></span> <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.example.</tt>. And, by the way, also included
+ would be any files or documents that exist within that
+ domain since no path limitations are specified. (Correctly
+ speaking: It matches any FQDN that contains <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">example</tt> as a domain.) This might be <tt
+ class="LITERAL">www.example.com</tt>, <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">news.example.de</tt>, or <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">www.example.net/cgi/testing.pl</tt> for instance.
+ All these cases are matched.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ Additionally, there are wild-cards that you can use in the domain
+ names themselves. These work similarly to shell globbing type
+ wild-cards: <span class="QUOTE">"*"</span> represents zero or
+ more arbitrary characters (this is equivalent to the <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
+ "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expression"</span></a> based
+ syntax of <span class="QUOTE">".*"</span>), <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"?"</span> represents any single character (this is
+ equivalent to the regular expression syntax of a simple <span
+ class="QUOTE">"."</span>), and you can define <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"character classes"</span> in square brackets which is
+ similar to the same regular expression technique. All of this can
+ be freely mixed:
+ </p>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">ad*.example.com</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches <span class="QUOTE">"adserver.example.com"</span>,
+ <span class="QUOTE">"ads.example.com"</span>, etc but not
+ <span class="QUOTE">"sfads.example.com"</span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">*ad*.example.com</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches all of the above, and then some.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">.?pix.com</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches <tt class="LITERAL">www.ipix.com</tt>, <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">pictures.epix.com</tt>, <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">a.b.c.d.e.upix.com</tt> etc.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">www[1-9a-ez].example.c*</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ matches <tt class="LITERAL">www1.example.com</tt>, <tt
+ class="LITERAL">www4.example.cc</tt>, <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">wwwd.example.cy</tt>, <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">wwwz.example.com</tt> etc., but <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not</i></span> <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">wwww.example.com</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ While flexible, this is not the sophistication of full regular
+ expression based syntax.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="PATH-PATTERN">8.4.2. The Path Pattern</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> uses <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"modern"</span> POSIX 1003.2 <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
+ "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a> for
+ matching the path portion (after the slash), and is thus more
+ flexible.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There is an <a href="appendix.html#REGEX">Appendix</a> with a
+ brief quick-start into regular expressions, you also might want
+ to have a look at your operating system's documentation on
+ regular expressions (try <tt class="LITERAL">man re_format</tt>).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that the path pattern is automatically left-anchored at the
+ <span class="QUOTE">"/"</span>, i.e. it matches as if it would
+ start with a <span class="QUOTE">"^"</span> (regular expression
+ speak for the beginning of a line).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please also note that matching in the path is <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">CASE INSENSITIVE</i></span> by
+ default, but you can switch to case sensitive at any point in the
+ pattern by using the <span class="QUOTE">"(?-i)"</span> switch:
+ <tt class="LITERAL">www.example.com/(?-i)PaTtErN.*</tt> will
+ match only documents whose path starts with <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">PaTtErN</tt> in <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">exactly</i></span> this capitalization.
+ </p>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">.example.com/.*</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Is equivalent to just <span class=
+ "QUOTE">".example.com"</span>, since any documents within
+ that domain are matched with or without the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">".*"</span> regular expression. This is redundant
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">.example.com/.*/index.html$</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Will match any page in the domain of <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"example.com"</span> that is named <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"index.html"</span>, and that is part of some path.
+ For example, it matches <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"www.example.com/testing/index.html"</span> but NOT
+ <span class="QUOTE">"www.example.com/index.html"</span>
+ because the regular expression called for at least two
+ <span class="QUOTE">"/'s"</span>, thus the path
+ requirement. It also would match <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"www.example.com/testing/index_html"</span>,
+ because of the special meta-character <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"."</span>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">.example.com/(.*/)?index\.html$</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This regular expression is conditional so it will match any
+ page named <span class="QUOTE">"index.html"</span>
+ regardless of path which in this case can have one or more
+ <span class="QUOTE">"/'s"</span>. And this one must contain
+ exactly <span class="QUOTE">".html"</span> (but does not
+ have to end with that!).
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.example.com/(.*/)(ads|banners?|junk)</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This regular expression will match any path of <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"example.com"</span> that contains any of the words
+ <span class="QUOTE">"ads"</span>, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"banner"</span>, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"banners"</span> (because of the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"?"</span>) or <span class="QUOTE">"junk"</span>.
+ The path does not have to end in these words, just contain
+ them.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.example.com/(.*/)(ads|banners?|junk)/.*\.(jpe?g|gif|png)$</tt>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This is very much the same as above, except now it must end
+ in either <span class="QUOTE">".jpg"</span>, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">".jpeg"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">".gif"</span>
+ or <span class="QUOTE">".png"</span>. So this one is
+ limited to common image formats.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ There are many, many good examples to be found in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt>, and more tutorials below in <a
+ href="appendix.html#REGEX">Appendix on regular expressions</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="TAG-PATTERN">8.4.3. The Request Tag Pattern</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Request tag patterns are used to change the applying actions
+ based on the request's tags. Tags can be created based on HTTP
+ headers with either the <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER">client-header-tagger</a>
+ or the <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-TAGGER">server-header-tagger</a>
+ action.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Request tag patterns have to start with <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"TAG:"</span>, so <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can tell them apart from other
+ patterns. Everything after the colon including white space, is
+ interpreted as a regular expression with path pattern syntax,
+ except that tag patterns aren't left-anchored automatically
+ (<span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> doesn't silently add a
+ <span class="QUOTE">"^"</span>, you have to do it yourself if you
+ need it).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To match all requests that are tagged with <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"foo"</span> your pattern line should be <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"TAG:^foo$"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"TAG:foo"</span>
+ would work as well, but it would also match requests whose tags
+ contain <span class="QUOTE">"foo"</span> somewhere. <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"TAG: foo"</span> wouldn't work as it requires white
+ space.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Sections can contain URL and request tag patterns at the same
+ time, but request tag patterns are checked after the URL patterns
+ and thus always overrule them, even if they are located before
+ the URL patterns.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Once a new request tag is added, Privoxy checks right away if
+ it's matched by one of the request tag patterns and updates the
+ action settings accordingly. As a result request tags can be used
+ to activate other tagger actions, as long as these other taggers
+ look for headers that haven't already be parsed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For example you could tag client requests which use the <tt
+ class="LITERAL">POST</tt> method, then use this tag to activate
+ another tagger that adds a tag if cookies are sent, and then use
+ a block action based on the cookie tag. This allows the outcome
+ of one action, to be input into a subsequent action. However if
+ you'd reverse the position of the described taggers, and
+ activated the method tagger based on the cookie tagger, no method
+ tags would be created. The method tagger would look for the
+ request line, but at the time the cookie tag is created, the
+ request line has already been parsed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ While this is a limitation you should be aware of, this kind of
+ indirection is seldom needed anyway and even the example doesn't
+ make too much sense.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="NEGATIVE-TAG-PATTERNS">8.4.4. The Negative Request Tag
+ Patterns</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ To match requests that do not have a certain request tag, specify
+ a negative tag pattern by prefixing the tag pattern line with
+ either <span class="QUOTE">"NO-REQUEST-TAG:"</span> or <span
+ class="QUOTE">"NO-RESPONSE-TAG:"</span> instead of <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"TAG:"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Negative request tag patterns created with <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"NO-REQUEST-TAG:"</span> are checked after all client
+ headers are scanned, the ones created with <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"NO-RESPONSE-TAG:"</span> are checked after all server
+ headers are scanned. In both cases all the created tags are
+ considered.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CLIENT-TAG-PATTERN">8.4.5. The Client Tag Pattern</a>
+ </h3>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ This is an experimental feature. The syntax is likely to
+ change in future versions.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ Client tag patterns are not set based on HTTP headers but based
+ on the client's IP address. Users can enable them themselves, but
+ the Privoxy admin controls which tags are available and what
+ their effect is.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ After a client-specific tag has been defined with the <a href=
+ "config.html#CLIENT-SPECIFIC-TAG">client-specific-tag</a>,
+ directive, action sections can be activated based on the tag by
+ using a CLIENT-TAG pattern. The CLIENT-TAG pattern is evaluated
+ at the same priority as URL patterns, as a result the last
+ matching pattern wins. Tags that are created based on client or
+ server headers are evaluated later on and can overrule CLIENT-TAG
+ and URL patterns!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The tag is set for all requests that come from clients that
+ requested it to be set. Note that "clients" are differentiated by
+ IP address, if the IP address changes the tag has to be requested
+ again.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Clients can request tags to be set by using the CGI interface <a
+ href="http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Example:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+# If the admin defined the client-specific-tag circumvent-blocks,
+# and the request comes from a client that previously requested
+# the tag to be set, overrule all previous +block actions that
+# are enabled based on URL to CLIENT-TAG patterns.
+{-block}
+CLIENT-TAG:^circumvent-blocks$
+
+# This section is not overruled because it's located after
+# the previous one.
+{+block{Nobody is supposed to request this.}}
+example.org/blocked-example-page
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ACTIONS">8.5. Actions</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ All actions are disabled by default, until they are explicitly
+ enabled somewhere in an actions file. Actions are turned on if
+ preceded with a <span class="QUOTE">"+"</span>, and turned off if
+ preceded with a <span class="QUOTE">"-"</span>. So a <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">+action</tt> means <span class="QUOTE">"do that
+ action"</span>, e.g. <tt class="LITERAL">+block</tt> means <span
+ class="QUOTE">"please block URLs that match the following
+ patterns"</span>, and <tt class="LITERAL">-block</tt> means <span
+ class="QUOTE">"don't block URLs that match the following patterns,
+ even if <tt class="LITERAL">+block</tt> previously
+ applied."</span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Again, actions are invoked by placing them on a line, enclosed in
+ curly braces and separated by whitespace, like in <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">{+some-action -some-other-action{some-parameter}}</tt>,
+ followed by a list of URL patterns, one per line, to which they
+ apply. Together, the actions line and the following pattern lines
+ make up a section of the actions file.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Actions fall into three categories:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Boolean, i.e the action can only be <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"enabled"</span> or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"disabled"</span>. Syntax:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ +<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt> # enable action <tt class=
+"REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>
+ -<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt> # disable action <tt
+class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Example: <tt class="LITERAL">+handle-as-image</tt>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized, where some value is required in order to enable
+ this type of action. Syntax:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ +<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>{<tt class=
+"REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt>} # enable action and set parameter to <tt
+class="REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt>,
+ # overwriting parameter from previous match if necessary
+ -<tt class=
+"REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt> # disable action. The parameter can be omitted
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Note that if the URL matches multiple positive forms of a
+ parameterized action, the last match wins, i.e. the params from
+ earlier matches are simply ignored.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Example: <tt class="LITERAL">+hide-user-agent{Mozilla/5.0 (X11;
+ U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070602
+ Firefox/2.0.0.4}</tt>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Multi-value. These look exactly like parameterized actions, but
+ they behave differently: If the action applies multiple times
+ to the same URL, but with different parameters, <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> the parameters
+ from <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span>
+ matches are remembered. This is used for actions that can be
+ executed for the same request repeatedly, like adding multiple
+ headers, or filtering through multiple filters. Syntax:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ +<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>{<tt class=
+"REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt>} # enable action and add <tt class=
+"REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt> to the list of parameters
+ -<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>{<tt class=
+"REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt>} # remove the parameter <tt class=
+"REPLACEABLE"><i>param</i></tt> from the list of parameters
+ # If it was the last one left, disable the action.
+ <tt class=
+"REPLACEABLE"><i>-name</i></tt> # disable this action completely and remove all parameters from the list
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Examples: <tt class="LITERAL">+add-header{X-Fun-Header: Some
+ text}</tt> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">+filter{html-annoyances}</tt>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ If nothing is specified in any actions file, no <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"actions"</span> are taken. So in this case <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> would just be a normal, non-blocking,
+ non-filtering proxy. You must specifically enable the privacy and
+ blocking features you need (although the provided default actions
+ files will give a good starting point).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Later defined action sections always over-ride earlier ones of the
+ same type. So exceptions to any rules you make, should come in the
+ latter part of the file (or in a file that is processed later when
+ using multiple actions files such as <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt>). For multi-valued actions, the actions
+ are applied in the order they are specified. Actions files are
+ processed in the order they are defined in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">config</tt> (the default installation has three actions
+ files). It also quite possible for any given URL to match more than
+ one <span class="QUOTE">"pattern"</span> (because of wildcards and
+ regular expressions), and thus to trigger more than one set of
+ actions! Last match wins.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The list of valid <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> actions
+ are:
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ADD-HEADER">8.5.1. add-header</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Confuse log analysis, custom applications
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Sends a user defined HTTP header to the web server.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multi-value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Any string value is possible. Validity of the defined HTTP
+ headers is not checked. It is recommended that you use the
+ <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">X-</tt>"</span>
+ prefix for custom headers.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This action may be specified multiple times, in order to
+ define multiple headers. This is rarely needed for the
+ typical user. If you don't know what <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"HTTP headers"</span> are, you definitely don't
+ need to worry about this one.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Headers added by this action are not modified by other
+ actions.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+# Add a DNT ("Do not track") header to all requests,
+# event to those that already have one.
+#
+# This is just an example, not a recommendation.
+#
+# There is no reason to believe that user-tracking websites care
+# about the DNT header and depending on the User-Agent, adding the
+# header may make user-tracking easier.
+{+add-header{DNT: 1}}
+/
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="BLOCK">8.5.2. block</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Block ads or other unwanted content
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Requests for URLs to which this action applies are blocked,
+ i.e. the requests are trapped by <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and the requested URL is never
+ retrieved, but is answered locally with a substitute page
+ or image, as determined by the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>,
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>,
+ and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT">handle-as-empty-document</a></tt>
+ actions.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A block reason that should be given to the user.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> sends a special
+ <span class="QUOTE">"BLOCKED"</span> page for requests to
+ blocked pages. This page contains the block reason given as
+ parameter, a link to find out why the block action applies,
+ and a click-through to the blocked content (the latter only
+ if the force feature is available and enabled).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A very important exception occurs if <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span> <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">block</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>,
+ apply to the same request: it will then be replaced by an
+ image. If <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>
+ (see below) also applies, the type of image will be
+ determined by its parameter, if not, the standard
+ checkerboard pattern is sent.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is important to understand this process, in order to
+ understand how <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ deals with ads and other unwanted content. Blocking is a
+ core feature, and one upon which various other features
+ depend.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt> action can
+ perform a very similar task, by <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"blocking"</span> banner images and other content
+ through rewriting the relevant URLs in the document's HTML
+ source, so they don't get requested in the first place.
+ Note that this is a totally different technique, and it's
+ easy to confuse the two.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+{+block{No nasty stuff for you.}}
+# Block and replace with "blocked" page
+ .nasty-stuff.example.com
+
+{+block{Doubleclick banners.} +handle-as-image}
+# Block and replace with image
+ .ad.doubleclick.net
+ .ads.r.us/banners/
+
+{+block{Layered ads.} +handle-as-empty-document}
+# Block and then ignore
+ adserver.example.net/.*\.js$
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CHANGE-X-FORWARDED-FOR">8.5.3.
+ change-x-forwarded-for</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Improve privacy by not forwarding the source of the request
+ in the HTTP headers.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"X-Forwarded-For:"</span>
+ HTTP header from the client request, or adds a new one.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span> to delete the
+ header.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"add"</span> to create the header
+ (or append the client's IP address to an already
+ existing one).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ It is safe and recommended to use <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">block</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Forwarding the source address of the request may make sense
+ in some multi-user setups but is also a privacy risk.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++change-x-forwarded-for{block}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-FRAMESET-BORDERS" id=
- "FILTER-FRAMESET-BORDERS"></a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER">8.5.4. client-header-filter</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Rewrite or remove single client headers.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ All client headers to which this action applies are
+ filtered on-the-fly through the specified regular
+ expression based substitutions.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multi-value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The name of a client-header filter, as defined in one of
+ the <a href="filter-file.html">filter files</a>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Client-header filters are applied to each header on its
+ own, not to all at once. This makes it easier to diagnose
+ problems, but on the downside you can't write filters that
+ only change header x if header y's value is z. You can do
+ that by using tags though.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Client-header filters are executed after the other header
+ actions have finished and use their output as input.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If the request URI gets changed, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will detect that and use the
+ new one. This can be used to rewrite the request
+ destination behind the client's back, for example to
+ specify a Tor exit relay for certain requests.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please refer to the <a href="filter-file.html">filter file
+ chapter</a> to learn which client-header filters are
+ available by default, and how to create your own.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+# Hide Tor exit notation in Host and Referer Headers
+{+client-header-filter{hide-tor-exit-notation}}
+/
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{frameset-borders} # Give frames a border and make them resizable.
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER">8.5.5. client-header-tagger</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Block requests based on their headers.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Client headers to which this action applies are filtered
+ on-the-fly through the specified regular expression based
+ substitutions, the result is used as tag.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multi-value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The name of a client-header tagger, as defined in one of
+ the <a href="filter-file.html">filter files</a>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Client-header taggers are applied to each header on its
+ own, and as the header isn't modified, each tagger <span
+ class="QUOTE">"sees"</span> the original.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Client-header taggers are the first actions that are
+ executed and their tags can be used to control every other
+ action.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+# Tag every request with the User-Agent header
+{+client-header-tagger{user-agent}}
+/
- <p><a name="FILTER-IFRAMES" id="FILTER-IFRAMES"></a></p>
+# Tagging itself doesn't change the action
+# settings, sections with TAG patterns do:
+#
+# If it's a download agent, use a different forwarding proxy,
+# show the real User-Agent and make sure resume works.
+{+forward-override{forward-socks5 10.0.0.2:2222 .} \
+ -hide-if-modified-since \
+ -overwrite-last-modified \
+ -hide-user-agent \
+ -filter \
+ -deanimate-gifs \
+}
+TAG:^User-Agent: NetBSD-ftp/
+TAG:^User-Agent: Novell ZYPP Installer
+TAG:^User-Agent: RPM APT-HTTP/
+TAG:^User-Agent: fetch libfetch/
+TAG:^User-Agent: Ubuntu APT-HTTP/
+TAG:^User-Agent: MPlayer/
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{iframes} # Removes all detected iframes. Should only be enabled for individual sites.
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-DEMORONIZER" id=
- "FILTER-DEMORONIZER"></a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{demoronizer} # Fix MS's non-standard use of standard charsets.
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+# Tag all requests with the Range header set
+{+client-header-tagger{range-requests}}
+/
- <p><a name="FILTER-SHOCKWAVE-FLASH" id=
- "FILTER-SHOCKWAVE-FLASH"></a></p>
+# Disable filtering for the tagged requests.
+#
+# With filtering enabled Privoxy would remove the Range headers
+# to be able to filter the whole response. The downside is that
+# it prevents clients from resuming downloads or skipping over
+# parts of multimedia files.
+{-filter -deanimate-gifs}
+TAG:^RANGE-REQUEST$
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{shockwave-flash} # Kill embedded Shockwave Flash objects.
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-QUICKTIME-KIOSKMODE" id=
- "FILTER-QUICKTIME-KIOSKMODE"></a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE">8.5.6.
+ content-type-overwrite</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Stop useless download menus from popping up, or change the
+ browser's rendering mode
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Replaces the <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span>
+ HTTP server header.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Any string.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span> HTTP server
+ header is used by the browser to decide what to do with the
+ document. The value of this header can cause the browser to
+ open a download menu instead of displaying the document by
+ itself, even if the document's format is supported by the
+ browser.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The declared content type can also affect which rendering
+ mode the browser chooses. If XHTML is delivered as <span
+ class="QUOTE">"text/html"</span>, many browsers treat it as
+ yet another broken HTML document. If it is send as <span
+ class="QUOTE">"application/xml"</span>, browsers with XHTML
+ support will only display it, if the syntax is correct.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you see a web site that proudly uses XHTML buttons, but
+ sets <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Type: text/html"</span>,
+ you can use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
+ overwrite it with <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"application/xml"</span> and validate the web
+ master's claim inside your XHTML-supporting browser. If the
+ syntax is incorrect, the browser will complain loudly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You can also go the opposite direction: if your browser
+ prints error messages instead of rendering a document
+ falsely declared as XHTML, you can overwrite the content
+ type with <span class="QUOTE">"text/html"</span> and have
+ it rendered as broken HTML document.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ By default <tt class="LITERAL">content-type-overwrite</tt>
+ only replaces <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span>
+ headers that look like some kind of text. If you want to
+ overwrite it unconditionally, you have to combine it with
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FORCE-TEXT-MODE">force-text-mode</a></tt>.
+ This limitation exists for a reason, think twice before
+ circumventing it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Most of the time it's easier to replace this action with a
+ custom <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-FILTER">server-header
+ filter</a></tt>. It allows you to activate it for every
+ document of a certain site and it will still only replace
+ the content types you aimed at.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Of course you can apply <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">content-type-overwrite</tt> to a whole site and
+ then make URL based exceptions, but it's a lot more work to
+ get the same precision.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (sections):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+# Check if www.example.net/ really uses valid XHTML
+{ +content-type-overwrite{application/xml} }
+www.example.net/
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{quicktime-kioskmode} # Make Quicktime movies saveable.
+# but leave the content type unmodified if the URL looks like a style sheet
+{-content-type-overwrite}
+www.example.net/.*\.css$
+www.example.net/.*style
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-FUN" id="FILTER-FUN"></a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CRUNCH-CLIENT-HEADER">8.5.7. crunch-client-header</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Remove a client header <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has no dedicated action for.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes every header sent by the client that contains the
+ string the user supplied as parameter.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Any string.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This action allows you to block client headers for which no
+ dedicated <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> action
+ exists. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
+ remove every client header that contains the string you
+ supplied as parameter.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Regular expressions are <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">not supported</i></span> and you can't use this
+ action to block different headers in the same request,
+ unless they contain the same string.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">crunch-client-header</tt> is only meant
+ for quick tests. If you have to block several different
+ headers, or only want to modify parts of them, you should
+ use a <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER">client-header
+ filter</a></tt>.
+ </p>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ Don't block any header without understanding the
+ consequences.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+# Block the non-existent "Privacy-Violation:" client header
+{ +crunch-client-header{Privacy-Violation:} }
+/
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{fun} # Text replacements for subversive browsing fun!
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-CRUDE-PARENTAL" id=
- "FILTER-CRUDE-PARENTAL"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{crude-parental} # Crude parental filtering. Note that this filter doesn't work reliably.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH">8.5.8. crunch-if-none-match</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Prevent yet another way to track the user's steps between
+ sessions.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"If-None-Match:"</span>
+ HTTP client header.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Boolean.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ N/A
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Removing the <span class="QUOTE">"If-None-Match:"</span>
+ HTTP client header is useful for filter testing, where you
+ want to force a real reload instead of getting status code
+ <span class="QUOTE">"304"</span> which would cause the
+ browser to use a cached copy of the page.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is also useful to make sure the header isn't used as a
+ cookie replacement (unlikely but possible).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Blocking the <span class="QUOTE">"If-None-Match:"</span>
+ header shouldn't cause any caching problems, as long as the
+ <span class="QUOTE">"If-Modified-Since:"</span> header
+ isn't blocked or missing as well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is recommended to use this action together with <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE">hide-if-modified-since</a></tt>
+ and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED">overwrite-last-modified</a></tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+# Let the browser revalidate cached documents but don't
+# allow the server to use the revalidation headers for user tracking.
+{+hide-if-modified-since{-60} \
+ +overwrite-last-modified{randomize} \
+ +crunch-if-none-match}
+/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-IE-EXPLOITS" id=
- "FILTER-IE-EXPLOITS"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{ie-exploits} # Disable some known Internet Explorer bug exploits.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">8.5.9.
+ crunch-incoming-cookies</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Prevent the web server from setting HTTP cookies on your
+ system
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes any <span class="QUOTE">"Set-Cookie:"</span> HTTP
+ headers from server replies.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Boolean.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ N/A
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This action is only concerned with <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">incoming</i></span> HTTP
+ cookies. For <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">outgoing</i></span> HTTP cookies, use <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a></tt>.
+ Use <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">both</i></span> to disable HTTP cookies
+ completely.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It makes <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">no
+ sense at all</i></span> to use this action in conjunction
+ with the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">session-cookies-only</a></tt>
+ action, since it would prevent the session cookies from
+ being set. See also <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER-CONTENT-COOKIES">filter-content-cookies</a></tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++crunch-incoming-cookies
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-SITE-SPECIFICS" id=
- "FILTER-SITE-SPECIFICS"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{site-specifics} # Cure for site-specific problems. Don't apply generally!
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CRUNCH-SERVER-HEADER">8.5.10. crunch-server-header</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Remove a server header <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has no dedicated action for.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes every header sent by the server that contains the
+ string the user supplied as parameter.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Any string.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This action allows you to block server headers for which no
+ dedicated <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> action
+ exists. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
+ remove every server header that contains the string you
+ supplied as parameter.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Regular expressions are <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">not supported</i></span> and you can't use this
+ action to block different headers in the same request,
+ unless they contain the same string.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">crunch-server-header</tt> is only meant
+ for quick tests. If you have to block several different
+ headers, or only want to modify parts of them, you should
+ use a custom <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-FILTER">server-header
+ filter</a></tt>.
+ </p>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ Don't block any header without understanding the
+ consequences.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+# Crunch server headers that try to prevent caching
+{ +crunch-server-header{no-cache} }
+/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-NO-PING" id="FILTER-NO-PING"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{no-ping} # Removes non-standard ping attributes in <a> and <area> tags.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">8.5.11.
+ crunch-outgoing-cookies</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Prevent the web server from reading any HTTP cookies from
+ your system
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes any <span class="QUOTE">"Cookie:"</span> HTTP
+ headers from client requests.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Boolean.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ N/A
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This action is only concerned with <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">outgoing</i></span> HTTP
+ cookies. For <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">incoming</i></span> HTTP cookies, use <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a></tt>.
+ Use <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">both</i></span> to disable HTTP cookies
+ completely.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It makes <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">no
+ sense at all</i></span> to use this action in conjunction
+ with the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">session-cookies-only</a></tt>
+ action, since it would prevent the session cookies from
+ being read.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++crunch-outgoing-cookies
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-GOOGLE" id="FILTER-GOOGLE"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{google} # CSS-based block for Google text ads. Also removes a width limitation and the toolbar advertisement.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="DEANIMATE-GIFS">8.5.12. deanimate-gifs</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Stop those annoying, distracting animated GIF images.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ De-animate GIF animations, i.e. reduce them to their first
+ or last image.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"last"</span> or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"first"</span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This will also shrink the images considerably (in bytes,
+ not pixels!). If the option <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"first"</span> is given, the first frame of the
+ animation is used as the replacement. If <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"last"</span> is given, the last frame of the
+ animation is used instead, which probably makes more sense
+ for most banner animations, but also has the risk of not
+ showing the entire last frame (if it is only a delta to an
+ earlier frame).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You can safely use this action with patterns that will also
+ match non-GIF objects, because no attempt will be made at
+ anything that doesn't look like a GIF.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++deanimate-gifs{last}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-YAHOO" id="FILTER-YAHOO"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{yahoo} # CSS-based block for Yahoo text ads. Also removes a width limitation.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="DOWNGRADE-HTTP-VERSION">8.5.13.
+ downgrade-http-version</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Work around (very rare) problems with HTTP/1.1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Downgrades HTTP/1.1 client requests and server replies to
+ HTTP/1.0.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Boolean.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ N/A
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This is a left-over from the time when <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> didn't support important
+ HTTP/1.1 features well. It is left here for the unlikely
+ case that you experience HTTP/1.1-related problems with
+ some server out there.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that enabling this action is only a workaround. It
+ should not be enabled for sites that work without it. While
+ it shouldn't break any pages, it has an (usually negative)
+ performance impact.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you come across a site where enabling this action helps,
+ please report it, so the cause of the problem can be
+ analyzed. If the problem turns out to be caused by a bug in
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> it should be fixed
+ so the following release works without the work around.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+{+downgrade-http-version}
+problem-host.example.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-MSN" id="FILTER-MSN"></a></p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{msn} # CSS-based block for MSN text ads. Also removes tracking URLs and a width limitation.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="EXTERNAL-FILTER">8.5.14. external-filter</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Modify content using a programming language of your choice.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ All instances of text-based type, most notably HTML and
+ JavaScript, to which this action applies, can be filtered
+ on-the-fly through the specified external filter. By
+ default plain text documents are exempted from filtering,
+ because web servers often use the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">text/plain</tt> MIME type for all files whose
+ type they don't know.)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multi-value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The name of an external content filter, as defined in the
+ <a href="filter-file.html">filter file</a>. External
+ filters can be defined in one or more files as defined by
+ the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "config.html#FILTERFILE">filterfile</a></tt> option in the
+ <a href="config.html">config file</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When used in its negative form, and without parameters,
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span>
+ filtering with external filters is completely disabled.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ External filters are scripts or programs that can modify
+ the content in case common <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filters</a></tt> aren't powerful
+ enough. With the exception that this action doesn't use
+ pcrs-based filters, the notes in the <tt class="LITERAL"><a
+ href="actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt> section
+ apply.
+ </p>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ Currently external filters are executed with <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s privileges.
+ Only use external filters you understand and trust.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ This feature is experimental, the <tt class="LITERAL"><a
+ href=
+ "filter-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER-SYNTAX">syntax</a></tt>
+ may change in the future.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++external-filter{fancy-filter}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><a name="FILTER-BLOGSPOT" id="FILTER-BLOGSPOT"></a></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="FAST-REDIRECTS">8.5.15. fast-redirects</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Fool some click-tracking scripts and speed up indirect
+ links.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Detects redirection URLs and redirects the browser without
+ contacting the redirection server first.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"simple-check"</span> to just
+ search for the string <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"http://"</span> to detect redirection URLs.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"check-decoded-url"</span> to
+ decode URLs (if necessary) before searching for
+ redirection URLs.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Many sites, like yahoo.com, don't just link to other sites.
+ Instead, they will link to some script on their own
+ servers, giving the destination as a parameter, which will
+ then redirect you to the final target. URLs resulting from
+ this scheme typically look like: <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"http://www.example.org/click-tracker.cgi?target=http%3a//www.example.net/"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Sometimes, there are even multiple consecutive redirects
+ encoded in the URL. These redirections via scripts make
+ your web browsing more traceable, since the server from
+ which you follow such a link can see where you go to. Apart
+ from that, valuable bandwidth and time is wasted, while
+ your browser asks the server for one redirect after the
+ other. Plus, it feeds the advertisers.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This feature is currently not very smart and is scheduled
+ for improvement. If it is enabled by default, you will have
+ to create some exceptions to this action. It can lead to
+ failures in several ways:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Not every URLs with other URLs as parameters is evil. Some
+ sites offer a real service that requires this information
+ to work. For example a validation service needs to know,
+ which document to validate. <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">fast-redirects</tt> assumes that every URL
+ parameter that looks like another URL is a redirection
+ target, and will always redirect to the last one. Most of
+ the time the assumption is correct, but if it isn't, the
+ user gets redirected anyway.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Another failure occurs if the URL contains other parameters
+ after the URL parameter. The URL: <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"http://www.example.org/?redirect=http%3a//www.example.net/&foo=bar"</span>.
+ contains the redirection URL <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"http://www.example.net/"</span>, followed by
+ another parameter. <tt class="LITERAL">fast-redirects</tt>
+ doesn't know that and will cause a redirect to <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"http://www.example.net/&foo=bar"</span>.
+ Depending on the target server configuration, the parameter
+ will be silently ignored or lead to a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"page not found"</span> error. You can prevent this
+ problem by first using the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#REDIRECT">redirect</a></tt> action to
+ remove the last part of the URL, but it requires a little
+ effort.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To detect a redirection URL, <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">fast-redirects</tt> only looks for the string
+ <span class="QUOTE">"http://"</span>, either in plain text
+ (invalid but often used) or encoded as <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"http%3a//"</span>. Some sites use their own URL
+ encoding scheme, encrypt the address of the target server
+ or replace it with a database id. In theses cases <tt
+ class="LITERAL">fast-redirects</tt> is fooled and the
+ request reaches the redirection server where it probably
+ gets logged.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ { +fast-redirects{simple-check} }
+ one.example.com
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+filter{blogspot} # Cleans up some Blogspot blogs. Read the fine print before using this.
+ { +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} }
+ another.example.com/testing
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="FORCE-TEXT-MODE" id=
- "FORCE-TEXT-MODE">8.5.17. force-text-mode</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Force <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to treat a
- document as if it was in some kind of <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">text</i></span> format.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Declares a document as text, even if the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span> isn't detected as such.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Boolean.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>N/A</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="FILTER">8.5.16. filter</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Get rid of HTML and JavaScript annoyances, banner
+ advertisements (by size), do fun text replacements, add
+ personalized effects, etc.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ All instances of text-based type, most notably HTML and
+ JavaScript, to which this action applies, can be filtered
+ on-the-fly through the specified regular expression based
+ substitutions. (Note: as of version 3.0.3 plain text
+ documents are exempted from filtering, because web servers
+ often use the <tt class="LITERAL">text/plain</tt> MIME type
+ for all files whose type they don't know.)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multi-value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The name of a content filter, as defined in the <a href=
+ "filter-file.html">filter file</a>. Filters can be defined
+ in one or more files as defined by the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "config.html#FILTERFILE">filterfile</a></tt> option in the
+ <a href="config.html">config file</a>. <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.filter</tt> is the collection of filters
+ supplied by the developers. Locally defined filters should
+ go in their own file, such as <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.filter</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When used in its negative form, and without parameters,
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span>
+ filtering is completely disabled.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ For your convenience, there are a number of pre-defined
+ filters available in the distribution filter file that you
+ can use. See the examples below for a list.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Filtering requires buffering the page content, which may
+ appear to slow down page rendering since nothing is
+ displayed until all content has passed the filters. (The
+ total time until the page is completely rendered doesn't
+ change much, but it may be perceived as slower since the
+ page is not incrementally displayed.) This effect will be
+ more noticeable on slower connections.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Rolling your own"</span> filters
+ requires a knowledge of <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
+ "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a>
+ and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html" target=
+ "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"HTML"</span></a>. This is very
+ powerful feature, and potentially very intrusive. Filters
+ should be used with caution, and where an equivalent <span
+ class="QUOTE">"action"</span> is not available.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The amount of data that can be filtered is limited to the
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "config.html#BUFFER-LIMIT">buffer-limit</a></tt> option in
+ the main <a href="config.html">config file</a>. The default
+ is 4096 KB (4 Megs). Once this limit is exceeded, the
+ buffered data, and all pending data, is passed through
+ unfiltered.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Inappropriate MIME types, such as zipped files, are not
+ filtered at all. (Again, only text-based types except plain
+ text). Encrypted SSL data (from HTTPS servers) cannot be
+ filtered either, since this would violate the integrity of
+ the secure transaction. In some situations it might be
+ necessary to protect certain text, like source code, from
+ filtering by defining appropriate <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">-filter</tt> exceptions.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Compressed content can't be filtered either, but if <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is compiled with zlib
+ support and a supported compression algorithm is used (gzip
+ or deflate), <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can
+ first decompress the content and then filter it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you use a <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ version without zlib support, but want filtering to work on
+ as much documents as possible, even those that would
+ normally be sent compressed, you must use the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#PREVENT-COMPRESSION">prevent-compression</a></tt>
+ action in conjunction with <tt class="LITERAL">filter</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Content filtering can achieve some of the same effects as
+ the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action, i.e. it
+ can be used to block ads and banners. But the mechanism
+ works quite differently. One effective use, is to block ad
+ banners based on their size (see below), since many of
+ these seem to be somewhat standardized.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <a href="contact.html">Feedback</a> with suggestions for
+ new or improved filters is particularly welcome!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The below list has only the names and a one-line
+ description of each predefined filter. There are <a href=
+ "filter-file.html#PREDEFINED-FILTERS">more verbose
+ explanations</a> of what these filters do in the <a href=
+ "filter-file.html">filter file chapter</a>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (with filters from the distribution <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.filter</tt> file). See <a href=
+ "filter-file.html#PREDEFINED-FILTERS">the Predefined Filters
+ section</a> for more explanation on each:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-JS-ANNOYANCES"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{js-annoyances} # Get rid of particularly annoying JavaScript abuse.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dd>
- <p>As explained <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">above</a></tt>, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> tries to only filter files that
- are in some kind of text format. The same restrictions apply to
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE">content-type-overwrite</a></tt>.
- <tt class="LITERAL">force-text-mode</tt> declares a document as
- text, without looking at the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span> first.</p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-JS-EVENTS"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{js-events} # Kill JavaScript event bindings and timers (Radically destructive! Only for extra nasty sites).
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-HTML-ANNOYANCES"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{html-annoyances} # Get rid of particularly annoying HTML abuse.
+</pre>
+ </td>
</tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-CONTENT-COOKIES"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>Think twice before activating this action. Filtering
- binary data with regular expressions can cause file
- damage.</p>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{content-cookies} # Kill cookies that come in the HTML or JS content.
+</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- </div>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+force-text-mode
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-REFRESH-TAGS"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{refresh-tags} # Kill automatic refresh tags if refresh time is larger than 9 seconds.
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="FORWARD-OVERRIDE" id=
- "FORWARD-OVERRIDE">8.5.18. forward-override</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dd>
- <p>Change the forwarding settings based on User-Agent or
- request origin</p>
- </dd>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-UNSOLICITED-POPUPS"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{unsolicited-popups} # Disable only unsolicited pop-up windows.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-ALL-POPUPS"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{all-popups} # Kill all popups in JavaScript and HTML.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dd>
- <p>Overrules the forward directives in the configuration
- file.</p>
- </dd>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-IMG-REORDER"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{img-reorder} # Reorder attributes in <img> tags to make the banners-by-* filters more effective.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dt>Type:</dt>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-BANNERS-BY-SIZE"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{banners-by-size} # Kill banners by size.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-BANNERS-BY-LINK"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{banners-by-link} # Kill banners by their links to known clicktrackers.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-WEBBUGS"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{webbugs} # Squish WebBugs (1x1 invisible GIFs used for user tracking).
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dd>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"forward ."</span> to use a direct
- connection without any additional proxies.</p>
- </li>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-TINY-TEXTFORMS"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{tiny-textforms} # Extend those tiny textareas up to 40x80 and kill the hard wrap.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"forward 127.0.0.1:8123"</span> to
- use the HTTP proxy listening at 127.0.0.1 port 8123.</p>
- </li>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-JUMPING-WINDOWS"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{jumping-windows} # Prevent windows from resizing and moving themselves.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"forward-socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050
- ."</span> to use the socks4a proxy listening at 127.0.0.1
- port 9050. Replace <span class=
- "QUOTE">"forward-socks4a"</span> with <span class=
- "QUOTE">"forward-socks4"</span> to use a socks4 connection
- (with local DNS resolution) instead, use <span class=
- "QUOTE">"forward-socks5"</span> for socks5 connections
- (with remote DNS resolution).</p>
- </li>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-FRAMESET-BORDERS"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{frameset-borders} # Give frames a border and make them resizable.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"forward-socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050
- proxy.example.org:8000"</span> to use the socks4a proxy
- listening at 127.0.0.1 port 9050 to reach the HTTP proxy
- listening at proxy.example.org port 8000. Replace
- <span class="QUOTE">"forward-socks4a"</span> with
- <span class="QUOTE">"forward-socks4"</span> to use a socks4
- connection (with local DNS resolution) instead, use
- <span class="QUOTE">"forward-socks5"</span> for socks5
- connections (with remote DNS resolution).</p>
- </li>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-IFRAMES"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{iframes} # Removes all detected iframes. Should only be enabled for individual sites.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"forward-webserver
- 127.0.0.1:80"</span> to use the HTTP server listening at
- 127.0.0.1 port 80 without adjusting the request
- headers.</p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-DEMORONIZER"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{demoronizer} # Fix MS's non-standard use of standard charsets.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>This makes it more convenient to use Privoxy to make
- existing websites available as onion services as well.</p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-SHOCKWAVE-FLASH"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{shockwave-flash} # Kill embedded Shockwave Flash objects.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>Many websites serve content with hardcoded URLs and
- can't be easily adjusted to change the domain based on the
- one used by the client.</p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-QUICKTIME-KIOSKMODE"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{quicktime-kioskmode} # Make Quicktime movies saveable.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>Putting Privoxy between Tor and the webserver (or an
- stunnel that forwards to the webserver) allows to rewrite
- headers and content to make client and server happy at the
- same time.</p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-FUN"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{fun} # Text replacements for subversive browsing fun!
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>Using Privoxy for webservers that are only reachable
- through onion addresses and whose location is supposed to
- be secret is not recommended and should not be necessary
- anyway.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </dd>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-CRUDE-PARENTAL"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{crude-parental} # Crude parental filtering. Note that this filter doesn't work reliably.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-IE-EXPLOITS"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{ie-exploits} # Disable some known Internet Explorer bug exploits.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dd>
- <p>This action takes parameters similar to the <a href=
- "config.html#FORWARDING">forward</a> directives in the
- configuration file, but without the URL pattern. It can be used
- as replacement, but normally it's only used in cases where
- matching based on the request URL isn't sufficient.</p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-SITE-SPECIFICS"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{site-specifics} # Cure for site-specific problems. Don't apply generally!
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-NO-PING"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{no-ping} # Removes non-standard ping attributes in <a> and <area> tags.
+</pre>
+ </td>
</tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-GOOGLE"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>Please read the description for the <a href=
- "config.html#FORWARDING">forward</a> directives before
- using this action. Forwarding to the wrong people will
- reduce your privacy and increase the chances of
- man-in-the-middle attacks.</p>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{google} # CSS-based block for Google text ads. Also removes a width limitation and the toolbar advertisement.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>If the ports are missing or invalid, default values
- will be used. This might change in the future and you
- shouldn't rely on it. Otherwise incorrect syntax causes
- Privoxy to exit. Due to design limitations, invalid
- parameter syntax isn't detected until the action is
- used the first time.</p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-YAHOO"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{yahoo} # CSS-based block for Yahoo text ads. Also removes a width limitation.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>Use the <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
- "_top">show-url-info CGI page</a> to verify that your
- forward settings do what you thought the do.</p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-MSN"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{msn} # CSS-based block for MSN text ads. Also removes tracking URLs and a width limitation.
+</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- </div>
- </dd>
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
+ <p>
+ <a name="FILTER-BLOGSPOT"></a>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++filter{blogspot} # Cleans up some Blogspot blogs. Read the fine print before using this.
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="FORCE-TEXT-MODE">8.5.17. force-text-mode</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Force <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to treat a
+ document as if it was in some kind of <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">text</i></span> format.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Declares a document as text, even if the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span> isn't detected as such.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Boolean.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ N/A
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ As explained <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">above</a></tt>, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> tries to only filter files
+ that are in some kind of text format. The same restrictions
+ apply to <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE">content-type-overwrite</a></tt>.
+ <tt class="LITERAL">force-text-mode</tt> declares a
+ document as text, without looking at the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span> first.
+ </p>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ Think twice before activating this action.
+ Filtering binary data with regular expressions can
+ cause file damage.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++force-text-mode
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="FORWARD-OVERRIDE">8.5.18. forward-override</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Change the forwarding settings based on User-Agent or
+ request origin
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Overrules the forward directives in the configuration file.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"forward ."</span> to use a direct
+ connection without any additional proxies.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"forward 127.0.0.1:8123"</span> to
+ use the HTTP proxy listening at 127.0.0.1 port 8123.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"forward-socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050
+ ."</span> to use the socks4a proxy listening at
+ 127.0.0.1 port 9050. Replace <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"forward-socks4a"</span> with <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"forward-socks4"</span> to use a socks4
+ connection (with local DNS resolution) instead, use
+ <span class="QUOTE">"forward-socks5"</span> for socks5
+ connections (with remote DNS resolution).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"forward-socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050
+ proxy.example.org:8000"</span> to use the socks4a proxy
+ listening at 127.0.0.1 port 9050 to reach the HTTP
+ proxy listening at proxy.example.org port 8000. Replace
+ <span class="QUOTE">"forward-socks4a"</span> with <span
+ class="QUOTE">"forward-socks4"</span> to use a socks4
+ connection (with local DNS resolution) instead, use
+ <span class="QUOTE">"forward-socks5"</span> for socks5
+ connections (with remote DNS resolution).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"forward-webserver
+ 127.0.0.1:80"</span> to use the HTTP server listening
+ at 127.0.0.1 port 80 without adjusting the request
+ headers.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This makes it more convenient to use Privoxy to make
+ existing websites available as onion services as well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Many websites serve content with hardcoded URLs and
+ can't be easily adjusted to change the domain based on
+ the one used by the client.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Putting Privoxy between Tor and the webserver (or an
+ stunnel that forwards to the webserver) allows to
+ rewrite headers and content to make client and server
+ happy at the same time.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Using Privoxy for webservers that are only reachable
+ through onion addresses and whose location is supposed
+ to be secret is not recommended and should not be
+ necessary anyway.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This action takes parameters similar to the <a href=
+ "config.html#FORWARDING">forward</a> directives in the
+ configuration file, but without the URL pattern. It can be
+ used as replacement, but normally it's only used in cases
+ where matching based on the request URL isn't sufficient.
+ </p>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ Please read the description for the <a href=
+ "config.html#FORWARDING">forward</a> directives
+ before using this action. Forwarding to the wrong
+ people will reduce your privacy and increase the
+ chances of man-in-the-middle attacks.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If the ports are missing or invalid, default values
+ will be used. This might change in the future and
+ you shouldn't rely on it. Otherwise incorrect
+ syntax causes Privoxy to exit. Due to design
+ limitations, invalid parameter syntax isn't
+ detected until the action is used the first time.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Use the <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
+ "_top">show-url-info CGI page</a> to verify that
+ your forward settings do what you thought the do.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Use an ssh tunnel for requests previously tagged as
# <span class="QUOTE">"User-Agent: fetch libfetch/2.0"</span> and make sure
# resuming downloads continues to work.
TAG:^User-Agent: fetch libfetch/2\.0$
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT" id=
- "HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT">8.5.19. handle-as-empty-document</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Mark URLs that should be replaced by empty documents
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">if they get
- blocked</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This action alone doesn't do anything noticeable. It just
- marks URLs. If the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">also applies</i></span>, the
- presence or absence of this mark decides whether an HTML
- <span class="QUOTE">"BLOCKED"</span> page, or an empty document
- will be sent to the client as a substitute for the blocked
- content. The <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">empty</i></span> document isn't literally empty, but
- actually contains a single space.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Boolean.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>N/A</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Some browsers complain about syntax errors if JavaScript
- documents are blocked with <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> default HTML page; this option
- can be used to silence them. And of course this action can also
- be used to eliminate the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> BLOCKED message in frames.</p>
-
- <p>The content type for the empty document can be specified
- with <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE">content-type-overwrite{}</a></tt>,
- but usually this isn't necessary.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT">8.5.19.
+ handle-as-empty-document</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Mark URLs that should be replaced by empty documents <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">if they get
+ blocked</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This action alone doesn't do anything noticeable. It just
+ marks URLs. If the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">also
+ applies</i></span>, the presence or absence of this mark
+ decides whether an HTML <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"BLOCKED"</span> page, or an empty document will be
+ sent to the client as a substitute for the blocked content.
+ The <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">empty</i></span> document isn't literally empty,
+ but actually contains a single space.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Boolean.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ N/A
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Some browsers complain about syntax errors if JavaScript
+ documents are blocked with <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> default HTML page; this
+ option can be used to silence them. And of course this
+ action can also be used to eliminate the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> BLOCKED message in frames.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The content type for the empty document can be specified
+ with <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE">content-type-overwrite{}</a></tt>,
+ but usually this isn't necessary.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Block all documents on example.org that end with ".js",
# but send an empty document instead of the usual HTML message.
{+block{Blocked JavaScript} +handle-as-empty-document}
example.org/.*\.js$
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="HANDLE-AS-IMAGE" id=
- "HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">8.5.20. handle-as-image</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Mark URLs as belonging to images (so they'll be replaced by
- images <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">if they do
- get blocked</i></span>, rather than HTML pages)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This action alone doesn't do anything noticeable. It just
- marks URLs as images. If the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">also applies</i></span>, the
- presence or absence of this mark decides whether an HTML
- <span class="QUOTE">"blocked"</span> page, or a replacement
- image (as determined by the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>
- action) will be sent to the client as a substitute for the
- blocked content.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Boolean.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>N/A</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The below generic example section is actually part of
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>. It marks all URLs
- with well-known image file name extensions as images and should
- be left intact.</p>
-
- <p>Users will probably only want to use the handle-as-image
- action in conjunction with <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt>, to block sources of
- banners, whose URLs don't reflect the file type, like in the
- second example section.</p>
-
- <p>Note that you cannot treat HTML pages as images in most
- cases. For instance, (in-line) ad frames require an HTML page
- to be sent, or they won't display properly. Forcing <tt class=
- "LITERAL">handle-as-image</tt> in this situation will not
- replace the ad frame with an image, but lead to error
- messages.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (sections):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">8.5.20. handle-as-image</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Mark URLs as belonging to images (so they'll be replaced by
+ images <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">if they
+ do get blocked</i></span>, rather than HTML pages)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This action alone doesn't do anything noticeable. It just
+ marks URLs as images. If the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">also
+ applies</i></span>, the presence or absence of this mark
+ decides whether an HTML <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"blocked"</span> page, or a replacement image (as
+ determined by the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>
+ action) will be sent to the client as a substitute for the
+ blocked content.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Boolean.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ N/A
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The below generic example section is actually part of <tt
+ class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>. It marks all URLs
+ with well-known image file name extensions as images and
+ should be left intact.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Users will probably only want to use the handle-as-image
+ action in conjunction with <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt>, to block sources
+ of banners, whose URLs don't reflect the file type, like in
+ the second example section.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that you cannot treat HTML pages as images in most
+ cases. For instance, (in-line) ad frames require an HTML
+ page to be sent, or they won't display properly. Forcing
+ <tt class="LITERAL">handle-as-image</tt> in this situation
+ will not replace the ad frame with an image, but lead to
+ error messages.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (sections):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Generic image extensions:
#
{+handle-as-image}
{+block{Nasty banners.} +handle-as-image}
nasty-banner-server.example.com/junk.cgi\?output=trash
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="HIDE-ACCEPT-LANGUAGE" id=
- "HIDE-ACCEPT-LANGUAGE">8.5.21. hide-accept-language</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Pretend to use different language settings.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes or replaces the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Accept-Language:"</span> HTTP header in client
- requests.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Keyword: <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span>, or any user
- defined value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Faking the browser's language settings can be useful to make
- a foreign User-Agent set with <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-USER-AGENT">hide-user-agent</a></tt>
- more believable.</p>
-
- <p>However some sites with content in different languages check
- the <span class="QUOTE">"Accept-Language:"</span> to decide
- which one to take by default. Sometimes it isn't possible to
- later switch to another language without changing the
- <span class="QUOTE">"Accept-Language:"</span> header first.</p>
-
- <p>Therefore it's a good idea to either only change the
- <span class="QUOTE">"Accept-Language:"</span> header to
- languages you understand, or to languages that aren't wide
- spread.</p>
-
- <p>Before setting the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Accept-Language:"</span> header to a rare language,
- you should consider that it helps to make your requests unique
- and thus easier to trace. If you don't plan to change this
- header frequently, you should stick to a common language.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HIDE-ACCEPT-LANGUAGE">8.5.21. hide-accept-language</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Pretend to use different language settings.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes or replaces the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Accept-Language:"</span> HTTP header in client
+ requests.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Keyword: <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span>, or any user
+ defined value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Faking the browser's language settings can be useful to
+ make a foreign User-Agent set with <tt class="LITERAL"><a
+ href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-USER-AGENT">hide-user-agent</a></tt>
+ more believable.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ However some sites with content in different languages
+ check the <span class="QUOTE">"Accept-Language:"</span> to
+ decide which one to take by default. Sometimes it isn't
+ possible to later switch to another language without
+ changing the <span class="QUOTE">"Accept-Language:"</span>
+ header first.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Therefore it's a good idea to either only change the <span
+ class="QUOTE">"Accept-Language:"</span> header to languages
+ you understand, or to languages that aren't wide spread.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Before setting the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Accept-Language:"</span> header to a rare
+ language, you should consider that it helps to make your
+ requests unique and thus easier to trace. If you don't plan
+ to change this header frequently, you should stick to a
+ common language.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Pretend to use Canadian language settings.
{+hide-accept-language{en-ca} \
+hide-user-agent{Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-CA; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060628 Firefox/1.5.0.4} \
}
/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="HIDE-CONTENT-DISPOSITION" id=
- "HIDE-CONTENT-DISPOSITION">8.5.22. hide-content-disposition</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Prevent download menus for content you prefer to view inside
- the browser.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes or replaces the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Content-Disposition:"</span> HTTP header set by some
- servers.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Keyword: <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span>, or any user
- defined value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Some servers set the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Content-Disposition:"</span> HTTP header for documents
- they assume you want to save locally before viewing them. The
- <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Disposition:"</span> header
- contains the file name the browser is supposed to use by
- default.</p>
-
- <p>In most browsers that understand this header, it makes it
- impossible to <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">just
- view</i></span> the document, without downloading it first,
- even if it's just a simple text file or an image.</p>
-
- <p>Removing the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Content-Disposition:"</span> header helps to prevent
- this annoyance, but some browsers additionally check the
- <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span> header, before they
- decide if they can display a document without saving it first.
- In these cases, you have to change this header as well, before
- the browser stops displaying download menus.</p>
-
- <p>It is also possible to change the server's file name
- suggestion to another one, but in most cases it isn't worth the
- time to set it up.</p>
-
- <p>This action will probably be removed in the future, use
- server-header filters instead.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HIDE-CONTENT-DISPOSITION">8.5.22.
+ hide-content-disposition</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Prevent download menus for content you prefer to view
+ inside the browser.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes or replaces the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Content-Disposition:"</span> HTTP header set by
+ some servers.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Keyword: <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span>, or any user
+ defined value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Some servers set the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Content-Disposition:"</span> HTTP header for
+ documents they assume you want to save locally before
+ viewing them. The <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Content-Disposition:"</span> header contains the
+ file name the browser is supposed to use by default.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In most browsers that understand this header, it makes it
+ impossible to <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">just view</i></span> the document, without
+ downloading it first, even if it's just a simple text file
+ or an image.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Removing the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Content-Disposition:"</span> header helps to
+ prevent this annoyance, but some browsers additionally
+ check the <span class="QUOTE">"Content-Type:"</span>
+ header, before they decide if they can display a document
+ without saving it first. In these cases, you have to change
+ this header as well, before the browser stops displaying
+ download menus.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is also possible to change the server's file name
+ suggestion to another one, but in most cases it isn't worth
+ the time to set it up.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This action will probably be removed in the future, use
+ server-header filters instead.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Disarm the download link in Sourceforge's patch tracker
{ -filter \
+content-type-overwrite{text/plain}\
+hide-content-disposition{block} }
.sourceforge.net/tracker/download\.php
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE" id=
- "HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE">8.5.23. hide-if-modified-since</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Prevent yet another way to track the user's steps between
- sessions.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"If-Modified-Since:"</span>
- HTTP client header or modifies its value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Keyword: <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span>, or a user
- defined value that specifies a range of hours.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Removing this header is useful for filter testing, where you
- want to force a real reload instead of getting status code
- <span class="QUOTE">"304"</span>, which would cause the browser
- to use a cached copy of the page.</p>
-
- <p>Instead of removing the header, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">hide-if-modified-since</tt> can also add or subtract
- a random amount of time to/from the header's value. You specify
- a range of minutes where the random factor should be chosen
- from and <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does the
- rest. A negative value means subtracting, a positive value
- adding.</p>
-
- <p>Randomizing the value of the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"If-Modified-Since:"</span> makes it less likely that
- the server can use the time as a cookie replacement, but you
- will run into caching problems if the random range is too
- high.</p>
-
- <p>It is a good idea to only use a small negative value and let
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED">overwrite-last-modified</a></tt>
- handle the greater changes.</p>
-
- <p>It is also recommended to use this action together with
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH">crunch-if-none-match</a></tt>,
- otherwise it's more or less pointless.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE">8.5.23.
+ hide-if-modified-since</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Prevent yet another way to track the user's steps between
+ sessions.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"If-Modified-Since:"</span>
+ HTTP client header or modifies its value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Keyword: <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span>, or a user
+ defined value that specifies a range of hours.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Removing this header is useful for filter testing, where
+ you want to force a real reload instead of getting status
+ code <span class="QUOTE">"304"</span>, which would cause
+ the browser to use a cached copy of the page.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Instead of removing the header, <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">hide-if-modified-since</tt> can also add or
+ subtract a random amount of time to/from the header's
+ value. You specify a range of minutes where the random
+ factor should be chosen from and <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> does the rest. A negative
+ value means subtracting, a positive value adding.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Randomizing the value of the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"If-Modified-Since:"</span> makes it less likely
+ that the server can use the time as a cookie replacement,
+ but you will run into caching problems if the random range
+ is too high.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is a good idea to only use a small negative value and
+ let <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED">overwrite-last-modified</a></tt>
+ handle the greater changes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is also recommended to use this action together with <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH">crunch-if-none-match</a></tt>,
+ otherwise it's more or less pointless.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Let the browser revalidate but make tracking based on the time less likely.
{+hide-if-modified-since{-60} \
+overwrite-last-modified{randomize} \
+crunch-if-none-match}
/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="HIDE-FROM-HEADER" id=
- "HIDE-FROM-HEADER">8.5.24. hide-from-header</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Keep your (old and ill) browser from telling web servers
- your email address</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes any existing <span class="QUOTE">"From:"</span> HTTP
- header, or replaces it with the specified string.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Keyword: <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span>, or any user
- defined value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The keyword <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span> will
- completely remove the header (not to be confused with the
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action).</p>
-
- <p>Alternately, you can specify any value you prefer to be sent
- to the web server. If you do, it is a matter of fairness not to
- use any address that is actually used by a real person.</p>
-
- <p>This action is rarely needed, as modern web browsers don't
- send <span class="QUOTE">"From:"</span> headers anymore.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HIDE-FROM-HEADER">8.5.24. hide-from-header</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Keep your (old and ill) browser from telling web servers
+ your email address
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes any existing <span class="QUOTE">"From:"</span>
+ HTTP header, or replaces it with the specified string.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Keyword: <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span>, or any user
+ defined value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The keyword <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span> will
+ completely remove the header (not to be confused with the
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Alternately, you can specify any value you prefer to be
+ sent to the web server. If you do, it is a matter of
+ fairness not to use any address that is actually used by a
+ real person.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This action is rarely needed, as modern web browsers don't
+ send <span class="QUOTE">"From:"</span> headers anymore.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+hide-from-header{block}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>or
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ or
+
<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+hide-from-header{spam-me-senseless@sittingduck.example.com}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="HIDE-REFERRER" id="HIDE-REFERRER">8.5.25.
- hide-referrer</a></h4><a name="HIDE-REFERER" id="HIDE-REFERER"></a>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Conceal which link you followed to get to a particular
- site</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"Referer:"</span> (sic) HTTP
- header from the client request, or replaces it with a forged
- one.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"conditional-block"</span> to delete
- the header completely if the host has changed.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"conditional-forge"</span> to forge
- the header if the host has changed.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"block"</span> to delete the header
- unconditionally.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"forge"</span> to pretend to be
- coming from the homepage of the server we are talking
- to.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Any other string to set a user defined referrer.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="LITERAL">conditional-block</tt> is the only
- parameter, that isn't easily detected in the server's log file.
- If it blocks the referrer, the request will look like the
- visitor used a bookmark or typed in the address directly.</p>
-
- <p>Leaving the referrer unmodified for requests on the same
- host allows the server owner to see the visitor's <span class=
- "QUOTE">"click path"</span>, but in most cases she could also
- get that information by comparing other parts of the log file:
- for example the User-Agent if it isn't a very common one, or
- the user's IP address if it doesn't change between different
- requests.</p>
-
- <p>Always blocking the referrer, or using a custom one, can
- lead to failures on servers that check the referrer before they
- answer any requests, in an attempt to prevent their content
- from being embedded or linked to elsewhere.</p>
-
- <p>Both <tt class="LITERAL">conditional-block</tt> and
- <tt class="LITERAL">forge</tt> will work with referrer checks,
- as long as content and valid referring page are on the same
- host. Most of the time that's the case.</p>
-
- <p><tt class="LITERAL">hide-referer</tt> is an alternate
- spelling of <tt class="LITERAL">hide-referrer</tt> and the two
- can be can be freely substituted with each other. (<span class=
- "QUOTE">"referrer"</span> is the correct English spelling,
- however the HTTP specification has a bug - it requires it to be
- spelled as <span class="QUOTE">"referer"</span>.)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HIDE-REFERRER">8.5.25. hide-referrer</a>
+ </h4>
+ <a name="HIDE-REFERER"></a>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Conceal which link you followed to get to a particular site
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"Referer:"</span> (sic)
+ HTTP header from the client request, or replaces it with a
+ forged one.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"conditional-block"</span> to
+ delete the header completely if the host has changed.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"conditional-forge"</span> to forge
+ the header if the host has changed.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span> to delete the header
+ unconditionally.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"forge"</span> to pretend to be
+ coming from the homepage of the server we are talking
+ to.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Any other string to set a user defined referrer.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">conditional-block</tt> is the only
+ parameter, that isn't easily detected in the server's log
+ file. If it blocks the referrer, the request will look like
+ the visitor used a bookmark or typed in the address
+ directly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Leaving the referrer unmodified for requests on the same
+ host allows the server owner to see the visitor's <span
+ class="QUOTE">"click path"</span>, but in most cases she
+ could also get that information by comparing other parts of
+ the log file: for example the User-Agent if it isn't a very
+ common one, or the user's IP address if it doesn't change
+ between different requests.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Always blocking the referrer, or using a custom one, can
+ lead to failures on servers that check the referrer before
+ they answer any requests, in an attempt to prevent their
+ content from being embedded or linked to elsewhere.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Both <tt class="LITERAL">conditional-block</tt> and <tt
+ class="LITERAL">forge</tt> will work with referrer checks,
+ as long as content and valid referring page are on the same
+ host. Most of the time that's the case.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">hide-referer</tt> is an alternate
+ spelling of <tt class="LITERAL">hide-referrer</tt> and the
+ two can be can be freely substituted with each other.
+ (<span class="QUOTE">"referrer"</span> is the correct
+ English spelling, however the HTTP specification has a bug
+ - it requires it to be spelled as <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"referer"</span>.)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+hide-referrer{forge}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>or
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-+hide-referrer{http://www.yahoo.com/}
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="HIDE-USER-AGENT" id=
- "HIDE-USER-AGENT">8.5.26. hide-user-agent</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Try to conceal your type of browser and client operating
- system</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Replaces the value of the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"User-Agent:"</span> HTTP header in client requests
- with the specified value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Any user-defined string.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
+ </td>
</tr>
-
+ </table>
+ or
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>This can lead to problems on web sites that depend
- on looking at this header in order to customize their
- content for different browsers (which, by the way, is
- <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">NOT</i></span> the right thing to do: good
- web sites work browser-independently).</p>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
++hide-referrer{http://www.yahoo.com/}
+</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- </div>
-
- <p>Using this action in multi-user setups or wherever different
- types of browsers will access the same <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not recommended</i></span>. In
- single-user, single-browser setups, you might use it to delete
- your OS version information from the headers, because it is an
- invitation to exploit known bugs for your OS. It is also
- occasionally useful to forge this in order to access sites that
- won't let you in otherwise (though there may be a good reason
- in some cases).</p>
-
- <p>More information on known user-agent strings can be found at
- <a href="http://www.user-agents.org/" target=
- "_top">http://www.user-agents.org/</a> and <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent" target=
- "_top">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent</a>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HIDE-USER-AGENT">8.5.26. hide-user-agent</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Try to conceal your type of browser and client operating
+ system
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Replaces the value of the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"User-Agent:"</span> HTTP header in client requests
+ with the specified value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Any user-defined string.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ This can lead to problems on web sites that depend
+ on looking at this header in order to customize
+ their content for different browsers (which, by the
+ way, is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">NOT</i></span> the right thing to do:
+ good web sites work browser-independently).
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ Using this action in multi-user setups or wherever
+ different types of browsers will access the same <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not recommended</i></span>.
+ In single-user, single-browser setups, you might use it to
+ delete your OS version information from the headers,
+ because it is an invitation to exploit known bugs for your
+ OS. It is also occasionally useful to forge this in order
+ to access sites that won't let you in otherwise (though
+ there may be a good reason in some cases).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ More information on known user-agent strings can be found
+ at <a href="http://www.user-agents.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://www.user-agents.org/</a> and <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent" target=
+ "_top">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent</a>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+hide-user-agent{Netscape 6.1 (X11; I; Linux 2.4.18 i686)}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="LIMIT-CONNECT" id="LIMIT-CONNECT">8.5.27.
- limit-connect</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Prevent abuse of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as
- a TCP proxy relay or disable SSL for untrusted sites</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Specifies to which ports HTTP CONNECT requests are
- allowable.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A comma-separated list of ports or port ranges (the latter
- using dashes, with the minimum defaulting to 0 and the maximum
- to 65K).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>By default, i.e. if no <tt class=
- "LITERAL">limit-connect</tt> action applies, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> allows HTTP CONNECT requests to
- all ports. Use <tt class="LITERAL">limit-connect</tt> if
- fine-grained control is desired for some or all
- destinations.</p>
-
- <p>The CONNECT methods exists in HTTP to allow access to secure
- websites (<span class="QUOTE">"https://"</span> URLs) through
- proxies. It works very simply: the proxy connects to the server
- on the specified port, and then short-circuits its connections
- to the client and to the remote server. This means
- CONNECT-enabled proxies can be used as TCP relays very
- easily.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> relays HTTPS
- traffic without seeing the decoded content. Websites can
- leverage this limitation to circumvent <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s filters. By specifying an
- invalid port range you can disable HTTPS entirely.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usages:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="LIMIT-CONNECT">8.5.27. limit-connect</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Prevent abuse of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ as a TCP proxy relay or disable SSL for untrusted sites
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Specifies to which ports HTTP CONNECT requests are
+ allowable.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A comma-separated list of ports or port ranges (the latter
+ using dashes, with the minimum defaulting to 0 and the
+ maximum to 65K).
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ By default, i.e. if no <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">limit-connect</tt> action applies, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> allows HTTP CONNECT requests
+ to all ports. Use <tt class="LITERAL">limit-connect</tt> if
+ fine-grained control is desired for some or all
+ destinations.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The CONNECT methods exists in HTTP to allow access to
+ secure websites (<span class="QUOTE">"https://"</span>
+ URLs) through proxies. It works very simply: the proxy
+ connects to the server on the specified port, and then
+ short-circuits its connections to the client and to the
+ remote server. This means CONNECT-enabled proxies can be
+ used as TCP relays very easily.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> relays HTTPS
+ traffic without seeing the decoded content. Websites can
+ leverage this limitation to circumvent <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s filters. By specifying an
+ invalid port range you can disable HTTPS entirely.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usages:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+limit-connect{443} # Port 443 is OK.
+limit-connect{80,443} # Ports 80 and 443 are OK.
+limit-connect{-3, 7, 20-100, 500-} # Ports less than 3, 7, 20 to 100 and above 500 are OK.
+limit-connect{-} # All ports are OK
+limit-connect{,} # No HTTPS/SSL traffic is allowed
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="LIMIT-COOKIE-LIFETIME" id=
- "LIMIT-COOKIE-LIFETIME">8.5.28. limit-cookie-lifetime</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Limit the lifetime of HTTP cookies to a couple of minutes or
- hours.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Overwrites the expires field in Set-Cookie server headers if
- it's above the specified limit.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The lifetime limit in minutes, or 0.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This action reduces the lifetime of HTTP cookies coming from
- the server to the specified number of minutes, starting from
- the time the cookie passes Privoxy.</p>
-
- <p>Cookies with a lifetime below the limit are not modified.
- The lifetime of session cookies is set to the specified
- limit.</p>
-
- <p>The effect of this action depends on the server.</p>
-
- <p>In case of servers which refresh their cookies with each
- response (or at least frequently), the lifetime limit set by
- this action is updated as well. Thus, a session associated with
- the cookie continues to work with this action enabled, as long
- as a new request is made before the last limit set is
- reached.</p>
-
- <p>However, some servers send their cookies once, with a
- lifetime of several years (the year 2037 is a popular choice),
- and do not refresh them until a certain event in the future,
- for example the user logging out. In this case this action may
- limit the absolute lifetime of the session, even if requests
- are made frequently.</p>
-
- <p>If the parameter is <span class="QUOTE">"0"</span>, this
- action behaves like <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">session-cookies-only</a></tt>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usages:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="LIMIT-COOKIE-LIFETIME">8.5.28. limit-cookie-lifetime</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Limit the lifetime of HTTP cookies to a couple of minutes
+ or hours.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Overwrites the expires field in Set-Cookie server headers
+ if it's above the specified limit.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The lifetime limit in minutes, or 0.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This action reduces the lifetime of HTTP cookies coming
+ from the server to the specified number of minutes,
+ starting from the time the cookie passes Privoxy.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Cookies with a lifetime below the limit are not modified.
+ The lifetime of session cookies is set to the specified
+ limit.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The effect of this action depends on the server.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In case of servers which refresh their cookies with each
+ response (or at least frequently), the lifetime limit set
+ by this action is updated as well. Thus, a session
+ associated with the cookie continues to work with this
+ action enabled, as long as a new request is made before the
+ last limit set is reached.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ However, some servers send their cookies once, with a
+ lifetime of several years (the year 2037 is a popular
+ choice), and do not refresh them until a certain event in
+ the future, for example the user logging out. In this case
+ this action may limit the absolute lifetime of the session,
+ even if requests are made frequently.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If the parameter is <span class="QUOTE">"0"</span>, this
+ action behaves like <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">session-cookies-only</a></tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usages:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+limit-cookie-lifetime{60}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="PREVENT-COMPRESSION" id=
- "PREVENT-COMPRESSION">8.5.29. prevent-compression</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Ensure that servers send the content uncompressed, so it can
- be passed through <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt>s.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Removes the Accept-Encoding header which can be used to ask
- for compressed transfer.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Boolean.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>N/A</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>More and more websites send their content compressed by
- default, which is generally a good idea and saves bandwidth.
- But the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS">deanimate-gifs</a></tt>
- actions need access to the uncompressed data.</p>
-
- <p>When compiled with zlib support (available since
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.7), content that
- should be filtered is decompressed on-the-fly and you don't
- have to worry about this action. If you are using an older
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version, or one that
- hasn't been compiled with zlib support, this action can be used
- to convince the server to send the content uncompressed.</p>
-
- <p>Most text-based instances compress very well, the size is
- seldom decreased by less than 50%, for markup-heavy instances
- like news feeds saving more than 90% of the original size isn't
- unusual.</p>
-
- <p>Not using compression will therefore slow down the transfer,
- and you should only enable this action if you really need it.
- As of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.7 it's
- disabled in all predefined action settings.</p>
-
- <p>Note that some (rare) ill-configured sites don't handle
- requests for uncompressed documents correctly. Broken PHP
- applications tend to send an empty document body, some IIS
- versions only send the beginning of the content. If you enable
- <tt class="LITERAL">prevent-compression</tt> per default, you
- might want to add exceptions for those sites. See the example
- for how to do that.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (sections):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="PREVENT-COMPRESSION">8.5.29. prevent-compression</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Ensure that servers send the content uncompressed, so it
+ can be passed through <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt>s.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Removes the Accept-Encoding header which can be used to ask
+ for compressed transfer.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Boolean.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ N/A
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ More and more websites send their content compressed by
+ default, which is generally a good idea and saves
+ bandwidth. But the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS">deanimate-gifs</a></tt>
+ actions need access to the uncompressed data.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When compiled with zlib support (available since <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.7), content that
+ should be filtered is decompressed on-the-fly and you don't
+ have to worry about this action. If you are using an older
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version, or one
+ that hasn't been compiled with zlib support, this action
+ can be used to convince the server to send the content
+ uncompressed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Most text-based instances compress very well, the size is
+ seldom decreased by less than 50%, for markup-heavy
+ instances like news feeds saving more than 90% of the
+ original size isn't unusual.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Not using compression will therefore slow down the
+ transfer, and you should only enable this action if you
+ really need it. As of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.7 it's disabled in all
+ predefined action settings.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that some (rare) ill-configured sites don't handle
+ requests for uncompressed documents correctly. Broken PHP
+ applications tend to send an empty document body, some IIS
+ versions only send the beginning of the content. If you
+ enable <tt class="LITERAL">prevent-compression</tt> per
+ default, you might want to add exceptions for those sites.
+ See the example for how to do that.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (sections):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Selectively turn off compression, and enable a filter
#
{ +filter{tiny-textforms} +prevent-compression }
{ -prevent-compression }
.compusa.com/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED" id=
- "OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED">8.5.30. overwrite-last-modified</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Prevent yet another way to track the user's steps between
- sessions.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span> HTTP
- server header or modifies its value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>One of the keywords: <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span>,
- <span class="QUOTE">"reset-to-request-time"</span> and
- <span class="QUOTE">"randomize"</span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Removing the <span class="QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span>
- header is useful for filter testing, where you want to force a
- real reload instead of getting status code <span class=
- "QUOTE">"304"</span>, which would cause the browser to reuse
- the old version of the page.</p>
-
- <p>The <span class="QUOTE">"randomize"</span> option overwrites
- the value of the <span class="QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span>
- header with a randomly chosen time between the original value
- and the current time. In theory the server could send each
- document with a different <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span> header to track visits without
- using cookies. <span class="QUOTE">"Randomize"</span> makes it
- impossible and the browser can still revalidate cached
- documents.</p>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"reset-to-request-time"</span>
- overwrites the value of the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span> header with the current time.
- You could use this option together with <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE">hide-if-modified-since</a></tt>
- to further customize your random range.</p>
-
- <p>The preferred parameter here is <span class=
- "QUOTE">"randomize"</span>. It is safe to use, as long as the
- time settings are more or less correct. If the server sets the
- <span class="QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span> header to the time
- of the request, the random range becomes zero and the value
- stays the same. Therefore you should later randomize it a
- second time with <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE">hided-if-modified-since</a></tt>,
- just to be sure.</p>
-
- <p>It is also recommended to use this action together with
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH">crunch-if-none-match</a></tt>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED">8.5.30.
+ overwrite-last-modified</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Prevent yet another way to track the user's steps between
+ sessions.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span>
+ HTTP server header or modifies its value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ One of the keywords: <span class="QUOTE">"block"</span>,
+ <span class="QUOTE">"reset-to-request-time"</span> and
+ <span class="QUOTE">"randomize"</span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Removing the <span class="QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span>
+ header is useful for filter testing, where you want to
+ force a real reload instead of getting status code <span
+ class="QUOTE">"304"</span>, which would cause the browser
+ to reuse the old version of the page.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The <span class="QUOTE">"randomize"</span> option
+ overwrites the value of the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span> header with a randomly
+ chosen time between the original value and the current
+ time. In theory the server could send each document with a
+ different <span class="QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span>
+ header to track visits without using cookies. <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Randomize"</span> makes it impossible and the
+ browser can still revalidate cached documents.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"reset-to-request-time"</span>
+ overwrites the value of the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span> header with the current
+ time. You could use this option together with <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE">hide-if-modified-since</a></tt>
+ to further customize your random range.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The preferred parameter here is <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"randomize"</span>. It is safe to use, as long as
+ the time settings are more or less correct. If the server
+ sets the <span class="QUOTE">"Last-Modified:"</span> header
+ to the time of the request, the random range becomes zero
+ and the value stays the same. Therefore you should later
+ randomize it a second time with <tt class="LITERAL"><a
+ href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE">hided-if-modified-since</a></tt>,
+ just to be sure.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is also recommended to use this action together with <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH">crunch-if-none-match</a></tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Let the browser revalidate without being tracked across sessions
{ +hide-if-modified-since{-60} \
+overwrite-last-modified{randomize} \
+crunch-if-none-match}
/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="REDIRECT" id="REDIRECT">8.5.31.
- redirect</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Redirect requests to other sites.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Convinces the browser that the requested document has been
- moved to another location and the browser should get it from
- there.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>An absolute URL or a single pcrs command.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Requests to which this action applies are answered with a
- HTTP redirect to URLs of your choosing. The new URL is either
- provided as parameter, or derived by applying a single pcrs
- command to the original URL.</p>
-
- <p>The syntax for pcrs commands is documented in the <a href=
- "filter-file.html">filter file</a> section.</p>
-
- <p>Requests can't be blocked and redirected at the same time,
- applying this action together with <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> is a configuration
- error. Currently the request is blocked and an error message
- logged, the behavior may change in the future and result in
- Privoxy rejecting the action file.</p>
-
- <p>This action can be combined with <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS">fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}</a></tt>
- to redirect to a decoded version of a rewritten URL.</p>
-
- <p>Use this action carefully, make sure not to create
- redirection loops and be aware that using your own redirects
- might make it possible to fingerprint your requests.</p>
-
- <p>In case of problems with your redirects, or simply to watch
- them working, enable <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug
- 128</a>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usages:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="REDIRECT">8.5.31. redirect</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Redirect requests to other sites.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Convinces the browser that the requested document has been
+ moved to another location and the browser should get it
+ from there.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ An absolute URL or a single pcrs command.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Requests to which this action applies are answered with a
+ HTTP redirect to URLs of your choosing. The new URL is
+ either provided as parameter, or derived by applying a
+ single pcrs command to the original URL.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The syntax for pcrs commands is documented in the <a href=
+ "filter-file.html">filter file</a> section.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Requests can't be blocked and redirected at the same time,
+ applying this action together with <tt class="LITERAL"><a
+ href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> is a
+ configuration error. Currently the request is blocked and
+ an error message logged, the behavior may change in the
+ future and result in Privoxy rejecting the action file.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This action can be combined with <tt class="LITERAL"><a
+ href=
+ "actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS">fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}</a></tt>
+ to redirect to a decoded version of a rewritten URL.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Use this action carefully, make sure not to create
+ redirection loops and be aware that using your own
+ redirects might make it possible to fingerprint your
+ requests.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In case of problems with your redirects, or simply to watch
+ them working, enable <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug
+ 128</a>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usages:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Replace example.com's style sheet with another one
{ +redirect{http://localhost/css-replacements/example.com.css} }
example.com/stylesheet\.css
# Redirect remote requests for this manual
# to the local version delivered by Privoxy
-{+redirect{s@^http://www@http://config@}}
-www.privoxy.org/user-manual/
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="SERVER-HEADER-FILTER" id=
- "SERVER-HEADER-FILTER">8.5.32. server-header-filter</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Rewrite or remove single server headers.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>All server headers to which this action applies are filtered
- on-the-fly through the specified regular expression based
- substitutions.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multi-value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The name of a server-header filter, as defined in one of the
- <a href="filter-file.html">filter files</a>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Server-header filters are applied to each header on its own,
- not to all at once. This makes it easier to diagnose problems,
- but on the downside you can't write filters that only change
- header x if header y's value is z. You can do that by using
- tags though.</p>
-
- <p>Server-header filters are executed after the other header
- actions have finished and use their output as input.</p>
-
- <p>Please refer to the <a href="filter-file.html">filter file
- chapter</a> to learn which server-header filters are available
- by default, and how to create your own.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+{+redirect{s@^http://www@http://config@}}
+www.privoxy.org/user-manual/
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="SERVER-HEADER-FILTER">8.5.32. server-header-filter</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Rewrite or remove single server headers.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ All server headers to which this action applies are
+ filtered on-the-fly through the specified regular
+ expression based substitutions.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multi-value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The name of a server-header filter, as defined in one of
+ the <a href="filter-file.html">filter files</a>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Server-header filters are applied to each header on its
+ own, not to all at once. This makes it easier to diagnose
+ problems, but on the downside you can't write filters that
+ only change header x if header y's value is z. You can do
+ that by using tags though.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Server-header filters are executed after the other header
+ actions have finished and use their output as input.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please refer to the <a href="filter-file.html">filter file
+ chapter</a> to learn which server-header filters are
+ available by default, and how to create your own.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{+server-header-filter{html-to-xml}}
example.org/xml-instance-that-is-delivered-as-html
example.org/instance-that-is-delivered-as-xml-but-is-not
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="SERVER-HEADER-TAGGER" id=
- "SERVER-HEADER-TAGGER">8.5.33. server-header-tagger</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Enable or disable filters based on the Content-Type
- header.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Server headers to which this action applies are filtered
- on-the-fly through the specified regular expression based
- substitutions, the result is used as tag.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multi-value.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The name of a server-header tagger, as defined in one of the
- <a href="filter-file.html">filter files</a>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Server-header taggers are applied to each header on its own,
- and as the header isn't modified, each tagger <span class=
- "QUOTE">"sees"</span> the original.</p>
-
- <p>Server-header taggers are executed before all other header
- actions that modify server headers. Their tags can be used to
- control all of the other server-header actions, the content
- filters and the crunch actions (<a href=
- "actions-file.html#REDIRECT">redirect</a> and <a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a>).</p>
-
- <p>Obviously crunching based on tags created by server-header
- taggers doesn't prevent the request from showing up in the
- server's log file.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage (section):</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="SERVER-HEADER-TAGGER">8.5.33. server-header-tagger</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Enable or disable filters based on the Content-Type header.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Server headers to which this action applies are filtered
+ on-the-fly through the specified regular expression based
+ substitutions, the result is used as tag.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multi-value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The name of a server-header tagger, as defined in one of
+ the <a href="filter-file.html">filter files</a>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Server-header taggers are applied to each header on its
+ own, and as the header isn't modified, each tagger <span
+ class="QUOTE">"sees"</span> the original.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Server-header taggers are executed before all other header
+ actions that modify server headers. Their tags can be used
+ to control all of the other server-header actions, the
+ content filters and the crunch actions (<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#REDIRECT">redirect</a> and <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a>).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Obviously crunching based on tags created by server-header
+ taggers doesn't prevent the request from showing up in the
+ server's log file.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage (section):
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Tag every request with the content type declared by the server
{+server-header-tagger{content-type}}
/
TAG:^image/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY" id=
- "SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">8.5.34. session-cookies-only</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Allow only temporary <span class="QUOTE">"session"</span>
- cookies (for the current browser session <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">only</i></span>).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"expires"</span> field from
- <span class="QUOTE">"Set-Cookie:"</span> server headers. Most
- browsers will not store such cookies permanently and forget
- them in between sessions.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Boolean.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>N/A</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This is less strict than <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a></tt>
- / <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a></tt>
- and allows you to browse websites that insist or rely on
- setting cookies, without compromising your privacy too
- badly.</p>
-
- <p>Most browsers will not permanently store cookies that have
- been processed by <tt class="LITERAL">session-cookies-only</tt>
- and will forget about them between sessions. This makes
- profiling cookies useless, but won't break sites which require
- cookies so that you can log in for transactions. This is
- generally turned on for all sites, and is the recommended
- setting.</p>
-
- <p>It makes <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">no sense
- at all</i></span> to use <tt class=
- "LITERAL">session-cookies-only</tt> together with <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a></tt>
- or <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a></tt>.
- If you do, cookies will be plainly killed.</p>
-
- <p>Note that it is up to the browser how it handles such
- cookies without an <span class="QUOTE">"expires"</span> field.
- If you use an exotic browser, you might want to try it out to
- be sure.</p>
-
- <p>This setting also has no effect on cookies that may have
- been stored previously by the browser before starting
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. These would have to
- be removed manually.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> also uses the
- <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER-CONTENT-COOKIES">content-cookies
- filter</a> to block some types of cookies. Content cookies are
- not effected by <tt class=
- "LITERAL">session-cookies-only</tt>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">8.5.34. session-cookies-only</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Allow only temporary <span class="QUOTE">"session"</span>
+ cookies (for the current browser session <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">only</i></span>).
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Deletes the <span class="QUOTE">"expires"</span> field from
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Set-Cookie:"</span> server headers.
+ Most browsers will not store such cookies permanently and
+ forget them in between sessions.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Boolean.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ N/A
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This is less strict than <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a></tt>
+ / <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a></tt>
+ and allows you to browse websites that insist or rely on
+ setting cookies, without compromising your privacy too
+ badly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Most browsers will not permanently store cookies that have
+ been processed by <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">session-cookies-only</tt> and will forget about
+ them between sessions. This makes profiling cookies
+ useless, but won't break sites which require cookies so
+ that you can log in for transactions. This is generally
+ turned on for all sites, and is the recommended setting.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It makes <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">no
+ sense at all</i></span> to use <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">session-cookies-only</tt> together with <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a></tt>
+ or <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a></tt>.
+ If you do, cookies will be plainly killed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that it is up to the browser how it handles such
+ cookies without an <span class="QUOTE">"expires"</span>
+ field. If you use an exotic browser, you might want to try
+ it out to be sure.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This setting also has no effect on cookies that may have
+ been stored previously by the browser before starting <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. These would have to be
+ removed manually.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> also uses the <a
+ href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER-CONTENT-COOKIES">content-cookies
+ filter</a> to block some types of cookies. Content cookies
+ are not effected by <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">session-cookies-only</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+session-cookies-only
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER" id=
- "SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">8.5.35. set-image-blocker</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Typical use:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Choose the replacement for blocked images</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This action alone doesn't do anything noticeable. If
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span>
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and</i></span> <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">also</i></span>
- apply, i.e. if the request is to be blocked as an image,
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">then</i></span> the
- parameter of this action decides what will be sent as a
- replacement.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Parameterized.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Parameter:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"pattern"</span> to send a built-in
- checkerboard pattern image. The image is visually decent,
- scales very well, and makes it obvious where banners were
- busted.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"blank"</span> to send a built-in
- transparent image. This makes banners disappear completely,
- but makes it hard to detect where <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has blocked images on a given
- page and complicates troubleshooting if <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has blocked innocent images,
- like navigation icons.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>target-url</i></tt>"</span> to send a
- redirect to <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target-url</i></tt>.
- You can redirect to any image anywhere, even in your local
- filesystem via <span class="QUOTE">"file:///"</span> URL.
- (But note that not all browsers support redirecting to a
- local file system).</p>
-
- <p>A good application of redirects is to use special
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>-built-in URLs,
- which send the built-in images, as <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>target-url</i></tt>. This has the same
- visual effect as specifying <span class=
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">8.5.35. set-image-blocker</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Typical use:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Choose the replacement for blocked images
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This action alone doesn't do anything noticeable. If <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span> <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and</i></span> <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">also</i></span>
+ apply, i.e. if the request is to be blocked as an image,
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">then</i></span>
+ the parameter of this action decides what will be sent as a
+ replacement.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Parameterized.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Parameter:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"pattern"</span> to send a built-in
+ checkerboard pattern image. The image is visually
+ decent, scales very well, and makes it obvious where
+ banners were busted.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"blank"</span> to send a built-in
+ transparent image. This makes banners disappear
+ completely, but makes it hard to detect where <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has blocked images
+ on a given page and complicates troubleshooting if
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has blocked
+ innocent images, like navigation icons.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>target-url</i></tt>"</span> to send a
+ redirect to <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>target-url</i></tt>. You can redirect
+ to any image anywhere, even in your local filesystem
+ via <span class="QUOTE">"file:///"</span> URL. (But
+ note that not all browsers support redirecting to a
+ local file system).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A good application of redirects is to use special <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>-built-in URLs, which
+ send the built-in images, as <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>target-url</i></tt>. This has the same
+ visual effect as specifying <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"blank"</span> or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"pattern"</span> in the first place, but
+ enables your browser to cache the replacement image,
+ instead of requesting it over and over again.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The URLs for the built-in images are <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"http://config.privoxy.org/send-banner?type=<tt
+ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>type</i></tt>"</span>, where <tt
+ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>type</i></tt> is either <span class=
"QUOTE">"blank"</span> or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"pattern"</span> in the first place, but enables
- your browser to cache the replacement image, instead of
- requesting it over and over again.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The URLs for the built-in images are <span class=
- "QUOTE">"http://config.privoxy.org/send-banner?type=<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>type</i></tt>"</span>, where <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>type</i></tt> is either <span class=
- "QUOTE">"blank"</span> or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"pattern"</span>.</p>
-
- <p>There is a third (advanced) type, called <span class=
- "QUOTE">"auto"</span>. It is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">NOT</i></span> to be used in <tt class=
- "LITERAL">set-image-blocker</tt>, but meant for use from
- <a href="filter-file.html">filters</a>. Auto will select the
- type of image that would have applied to the referring page,
- had it been an image.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example usage:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Built-in pattern:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ "QUOTE">"pattern"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There is a third (advanced) type, called <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"auto"</span>. It is <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">NOT</i></span> to be used in <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">set-image-blocker</tt>, but meant for use from <a
+ href="filter-file.html">filters</a>. Auto will select the
+ type of image that would have applied to the referring
+ page, had it been an image.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example usage:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Built-in pattern:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+set-image-blocker{pattern}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Redirect to the BSD daemon:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Redirect to the BSD daemon:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+set-image-blocker{http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/dae_up3.gif}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Redirect to the built-in pattern for better caching:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Redirect to the built-in pattern for better caching:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+set-image-blocker{http://config.privoxy.org/send-banner?type=pattern}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="SUMMARY">8.5.36. Summary</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Note that many of these actions have the potential to cause a
+ page to misbehave, possibly even not to display at all. There are
+ many ways a site designer may choose to design his site, and what
+ HTTP header content, and other criteria, he may depend on. There
+ is no way to have hard and fast rules for all sites. See the <a
+ href="appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">Appendix</a> for a brief example
+ on troubleshooting actions.
+ </p>
</div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="SUMMARY" id="SUMMARY">8.5.36.
- Summary</a></h3>
-
- <p>Note that many of these actions have the potential to cause a page
- to misbehave, possibly even not to display at all. There are many
- ways a site designer may choose to design his site, and what HTTP
- header content, and other criteria, he may depend on. There is no way
- to have hard and fast rules for all sites. See the <a href=
- "appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">Appendix</a> for a brief example on
- troubleshooting actions.</p>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="ALIASES" id="ALIASES">8.6. Aliases</a></h2>
-
- <p>Custom <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span>, known to <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as <span class="QUOTE">"aliases"</span>,
- can be defined by combining other actions. These can in turn be invoked
- just like the built-in actions. Currently, an alias name can contain
- any character except space, tab, <span class="QUOTE">"="</span>,
- <span class="QUOTE">"{"</span> and <span class="QUOTE">"}"</span>, but
- we <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">strongly
- recommend</i></span> that you only use <span class="QUOTE">"a"</span>
- to <span class="QUOTE">"z"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"0"</span> to
- <span class="QUOTE">"9"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"+"</span>, and
- <span class="QUOTE">"-"</span>. Alias names are not case sensitive, and
- are not required to start with a <span class="QUOTE">"+"</span> or
- <span class="QUOTE">"-"</span> sign, since they are merely textually
- expanded.</p>
-
- <p>Aliases can be used throughout the actions file, but they
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">must be defined in a special
- section at the top of the file!</i></span> And there can only be one
- such section per actions file. Each actions file may have its own alias
- section, and the aliases defined in it are only visible within that
- file.</p>
-
- <p>There are two main reasons to use aliases: One is to save typing for
- frequently used combinations of actions, the other one is a gain in
- flexibility: If you decide once how you want to handle shops by
- defining an alias called <span class="QUOTE">"shop"</span>, you can
- later change your policy on shops in <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">one</i></span> place, and your changes will take effect
- everywhere in the actions file where the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"shop"</span> alias is used. Calling aliases by their purpose
- also makes your actions files more readable.</p>
-
- <p>Currently, there is one big drawback to using aliases, though:
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s built-in web-based action
- file editor honors aliases when reading the actions files, but it
- expands them before writing. So the effects of your aliases are of
- course preserved, but the aliases themselves are lost when you edit
- sections that use aliases with it.</p>
-
- <p>Now let's define some aliases...</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ALIASES">8.6. Aliases</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Custom <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span>, known to <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"aliases"</span>, can be defined by combining other
+ actions. These can in turn be invoked just like the built-in
+ actions. Currently, an alias name can contain any character except
+ space, tab, <span class="QUOTE">"="</span>, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"{"</span> and <span class="QUOTE">"}"</span>, but we <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">strongly recommend</i></span>
+ that you only use <span class="QUOTE">"a"</span> to <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"z"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"0"</span> to <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"9"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"+"</span>, and <span
+ class="QUOTE">"-"</span>. Alias names are not case sensitive, and
+ are not required to start with a <span class="QUOTE">"+"</span> or
+ <span class="QUOTE">"-"</span> sign, since they are merely
+ textually expanded.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Aliases can be used throughout the actions file, but they <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">must be defined in a special
+ section at the top of the file!</i></span> And there can only be
+ one such section per actions file. Each actions file may have its
+ own alias section, and the aliases defined in it are only visible
+ within that file.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are two main reasons to use aliases: One is to save typing
+ for frequently used combinations of actions, the other one is a
+ gain in flexibility: If you decide once how you want to handle
+ shops by defining an alias called <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"shop"</span>, you can later change your policy on shops in
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">one</i></span> place,
+ and your changes will take effect everywhere in the actions file
+ where the <span class="QUOTE">"shop"</span> alias is used. Calling
+ aliases by their purpose also makes your actions files more
+ readable.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Currently, there is one big drawback to using aliases, though:
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s built-in web-based
+ action file editor honors aliases when reading the actions files,
+ but it expands them before writing. So the effects of your aliases
+ are of course preserved, but the aliases themselves are lost when
+ you edit sections that use aliases with it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Now let's define some aliases...
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Useful custom aliases we can use later.
#
# Note the (required!) section header line and that this section
# (Note that some already use other aliases!)
#
+crunch-all-cookies = +<a href=
-"actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a> +<a href="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a>
+"actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a> +<a
+href="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a>
-crunch-all-cookies = -<a href=
-"actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a> -<a href="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a>
+"actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a> -<a
+href="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a>
+block-as-image = +block{Blocked image.} +handle-as-image
allow-all-cookies = -crunch-all-cookies -<a href=
"actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">session-cookies-only</a> -<a href=
c0 = +crunch-all-cookies
c1 = -crunch-all-cookies
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>...and put them to use. These sections would appear in the lower
- part of an actions file and define exceptions to the default actions
- (as specified further up for the <span class="QUOTE">"/"</span>
- pattern):</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ ...and put them to use. These sections would appear in the lower
+ part of an actions file and define exceptions to the default
+ actions (as specified further up for the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"/"</span> pattern):
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# These sites are either very complex or very keen on
# user data and require minimal interference to work:
#
.dabs.com
.overclockers.co.uk
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Aliases like <span class="QUOTE">"shop"</span> and <span class=
- "QUOTE">"fragile"</span> are typically used for <span class=
- "QUOTE">"problem"</span> sites that require more than one action to be
- disabled in order to function properly.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="ACT-EXAMPLES" id="ACT-EXAMPLES">8.7. Actions
- Files Tutorial</a></h2>
-
- <p>The above chapters have shown <a href="actions-file.html">which
- actions files there are and how they are organized</a>, how actions are
- <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS">specified</a> and <a href=
- "actions-file.html#ACTIONS-APPLY">applied to URLs</a>, how <a href=
- "actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">patterns</a> work, and how to define
- and use <a href="actions-file.html#ALIASES">aliases</a>. Now, let's
- look at an example <tt class="FILENAME">match-all.action</tt>,
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> and <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.action</tt> file and see how all these pieces come
- together:</p>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="MATCH-ALL" id="MATCH-ALL">8.7.1.
- match-all.action</a></h3>
-
- <p>Remember <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all actions
- are disabled when matching starts</i></span>, so we have to
- explicitly enable the ones we want.</p>
-
- <p>While the <tt class="FILENAME">match-all.action</tt> file only
- contains a single section, it is probably the most important one. It
- has only one pattern, <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
- "LITERAL">/</tt>"</span>, but this pattern <a href=
- "actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">matches all URLs</a>. Therefore, the
- set of actions used in this <span class="QUOTE">"default"</span>
- section <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">will be applied to
- all requests as a start</i></span>. It can be partly or wholly
- overridden by other actions files like <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt> and <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.action</tt>, but it will still be largely responsible
- for your overall browsing experience.</p>
-
- <p>Again, at the start of matching, all actions are disabled, so
- there is no need to disable any actions here. (Remember: a
- <span class="QUOTE">"+"</span> preceding the action name enables the
- action, a <span class="QUOTE">"-"</span> disables!). Also note how
- this long line has been made more readable by splitting it into
- multiple lines with line continuation.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Aliases like <span class="QUOTE">"shop"</span> and <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"fragile"</span> are typically used for <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"problem"</span> sites that require more than one action to
+ be disabled in order to function properly.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ACT-EXAMPLES">8.7. Actions Files Tutorial</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The above chapters have shown <a href="actions-file.html">which
+ actions files there are and how they are organized</a>, how actions
+ are <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS">specified</a> and <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#ACTIONS-APPLY">applied to URLs</a>, how <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">patterns</a> work, and how to
+ define and use <a href="actions-file.html#ALIASES">aliases</a>.
+ Now, let's look at an example <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">match-all.action</tt>, <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt> and <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt> file and see how all these pieces come
+ together:
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="MATCH-ALL">8.7.1. match-all.action</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Remember <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all actions
+ are disabled when matching starts</i></span>, so we have to
+ explicitly enable the ones we want.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ While the <tt class="FILENAME">match-all.action</tt> file only
+ contains a single section, it is probably the most important one.
+ It has only one pattern, <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/</tt>"</span>, but this pattern <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">matches all URLs</a>. Therefore,
+ the set of actions used in this <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"default"</span> section <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">will be applied to all requests as a start</i></span>.
+ It can be partly or wholly overridden by other actions files like
+ <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> and <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt>, but it will still be largely
+ responsible for your overall browsing experience.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Again, at the start of matching, all actions are disabled, so
+ there is no need to disable any actions here. (Remember: a <span
+ class="QUOTE">"+"</span> preceding the action name enables the
+ action, a <span class="QUOTE">"-"</span> disables!). Also note
+ how this long line has been made more readable by splitting it
+ into multiple lines with line continuation.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ \
+<a href=
"actions-file.html#CHANGE-X-FORWARDED-FOR">change-x-forwarded-for{block}</a> \
"actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker{pattern}</a> \
}
/ # Match all URLs
-
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>The default behavior is now set.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="DEFAULT-ACTION" id="DEFAULT-ACTION">8.7.2.
- default.action</a></h3>
-
- <p>If you aren't a developer, there's no need for you to edit the
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file. It is maintained by
- the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> developers and if you
- disagree with some of the sections, you should overrule them in your
- <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>Understanding the <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file
- can help you with your <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>,
- though.</p>
-
- <p>The first section in this file is a special section for internal
- use that prevents older <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- versions from reading the file:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ The default behavior is now set.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="DEFAULT-ACTION">8.7.2. default.action</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ If you aren't a developer, there's no need for you to edit the
+ <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file. It is maintained
+ by the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> developers and if
+ you disagree with some of the sections, you should overrule them
+ in your <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Understanding the <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file
+ can help you with your <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>,
+ though.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The first section in this file is a special section for internal
+ use that prevents older <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ versions from reading the file:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
##########################################################################
# Settings -- Don't change! For internal Privoxy use ONLY.
##########################################################################
{{settings}}
for-privoxy-version=3.0.11
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>After that comes the (optional) alias section. We'll use the
- example section from the above <a href=
- "actions-file.html#ALIASES">chapter on aliases</a>, that also
- explains why and how aliases are used:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ After that comes the (optional) alias section. We'll use the
+ example section from the above <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#ALIASES">chapter on aliases</a>, that also
+ explains why and how aliases are used:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
##########################################################################
# Aliases
##########################################################################
# (Note that some already use other aliases!)
#
+crunch-all-cookies = +<a href=
-"actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a> +<a href="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a>
+"actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a> +<a
+href="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a>
-crunch-all-cookies = -<a href=
-"actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a> -<a href="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a>
+"actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a> -<a
+href="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a>
+block-as-image = +block{Blocked image.} +handle-as-image
mercy-for-cookies = -crunch-all-cookies -<a href=
"actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">session-cookies-only</a> -<a href=
shop = -crunch-all-cookies -<a href=
"actions-file.html#FILTER-ALL-POPUPS">filter{all-popups}</a>
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>The first of our specialized sections is concerned with
- <span class="QUOTE">"fragile"</span> sites, i.e. sites that require
- minimum interference, because they are either very complex or very
- keen on tracking you (and have mechanisms in place that make them
- unusable for people who avoid being tracked). We will simply use our
- pre-defined <tt class="LITERAL">fragile</tt> alias instead of stating
- the list of actions explicitly:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ The first of our specialized sections is concerned with <span
+ class="QUOTE">"fragile"</span> sites, i.e. sites that require
+ minimum interference, because they are either very complex or
+ very keen on tracking you (and have mechanisms in place that make
+ them unusable for people who avoid being tracked). We will simply
+ use our pre-defined <tt class="LITERAL">fragile</tt> alias
+ instead of stating the list of actions explicitly:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
##########################################################################
# Exceptions for sites that'll break under the default action set:
##########################################################################
.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
mail.google.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Shopping sites are not as fragile, but they typically require
- cookies to log in, and pop-up windows for shopping carts or item
- details. Again, we'll use a pre-defined alias:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Shopping sites are not as fragile, but they typically require
+ cookies to log in, and pop-up windows for shopping carts or item
+ details. Again, we'll use a pre-defined alias:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Shopping sites:
#
{ shop }
.jungle.com
.scan.co.uk
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>The <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS">fast-redirects</a></tt> action,
- which may have been enabled in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">match-all.action</tt>, breaks some sites. So disable it
- for popular sites where we know it misbehaves:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ The <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS">fast-redirects</a></tt>
+ action, which may have been enabled in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">match-all.action</tt>, breaks some sites. So disable
+ it for popular sites where we know it misbehaves:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ -<a href="actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS">fast-redirects</a> }
login.yahoo.com
edit.*.yahoo.com
.altavista.com/trans.*urltext=http
.nytimes.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>It is important that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- knows which URLs belong to images, so that <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">if</i></span> they are to be blocked,
- a substitute image can be sent, rather than an HTML page. Contacting
- the remote site to find out is not an option, since it would destroy
- the loading time advantage of banner blocking, and it would feed the
- advertisers information about you. We can mark any URL as an image
- with the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt> action,
- and marking all URLs that end in a known image file extension is a
- good start:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ It is important that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ knows which URLs belong to images, so that <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">if</i></span> they are to be
+ blocked, a substitute image can be sent, rather than an HTML
+ page. Contacting the remote site to find out is not an option,
+ since it would destroy the loading time advantage of banner
+ blocking, and it would feed the advertisers information about
+ you. We can mark any URL as an image with the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>
+ action, and marking all URLs that end in a known image file
+ extension is a good start:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
##########################################################################
# Images:
##########################################################################
{ +<a href="actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a> }
/.*\.(gif|jpe?g|png|bmp|ico)$
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>And then there are known banner sources. They often use scripts to
- generate the banners, so it won't be visible from the URL that the
- request is for an image. Hence we block them <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and</i></span> mark them as images in
- one go, with the help of our <tt class="LITERAL">+block-as-image</tt>
- alias defined above. (We could of course just as well use <tt class=
- "LITERAL">+<a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a> +<a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt> here.)
- Remember that the type of the replacement image is chosen by the
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>
- action. Since all URLs have matched the default section with its
- <tt class="LITERAL">+<a href=
- "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a>{pattern}</tt>
- action before, it still applies and needn't be repeated:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ And then there are known banner sources. They often use scripts
+ to generate the banners, so it won't be visible from the URL that
+ the request is for an image. Hence we block them <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and</i></span> mark them as images
+ in one go, with the help of our <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">+block-as-image</tt> alias defined above. (We could of
+ course just as well use <tt class="LITERAL">+<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a> +<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>
+ here.) Remember that the type of the replacement image is chosen
+ by the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>
+ action. Since all URLs have matched the default section with its
+ <tt class="LITERAL">+<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a>{pattern}</tt>
+ action before, it still applies and needn't be repeated:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Known ad generators:
#
{ +block-as-image }
bs*.gsanet.com
.qkimg.net
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>One of the most important jobs of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to block banners. Many of these can
- be <span class="QUOTE">"blocked"</span> by the <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a>{banners-by-size}</tt> action,
- which we enabled above, and which deletes the references to banner
- images from the pages while they are loaded, so the browser doesn't
- request them anymore, and hence they don't need to be blocked here.
- But this naturally doesn't catch all banners, and some people choose
- not to use filters, so we need a comprehensive list of patterns for
- banner URLs here, and apply the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action to them.</p>
-
- <p>First comes many generic patterns, which do most of the work, by
- matching typical domain and path name components of banners. Then
- comes a list of individual patterns for specific sites, which is
- omitted here to keep the example short:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ One of the most important jobs of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to block banners. Many of these
+ can be <span class="QUOTE">"blocked"</span> by the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a>{banners-by-size}</tt>
+ action, which we enabled above, and which deletes the references
+ to banner images from the pages while they are loaded, so the
+ browser doesn't request them anymore, and hence they don't need
+ to be blocked here. But this naturally doesn't catch all banners,
+ and some people choose not to use filters, so we need a
+ comprehensive list of patterns for banner URLs here, and apply
+ the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action to them.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ First comes many generic patterns, which do most of the work, by
+ matching typical domain and path name components of banners. Then
+ comes a list of individual patterns for specific sites, which is
+ omitted here to keep the example short:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
##########################################################################
# Block these fine banners:
##########################################################################
#
.hitbox.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>It's quite remarkable how many advertisers actually call their
- banner servers ads.<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>company</i></tt>.com,
- or call the directory in which the banners are stored simply
- <span class="QUOTE">"banners"</span>. So the above generic patterns
- are surprisingly effective.</p>
-
- <p>But being very generic, they necessarily also catch URLs that we
- don't want to block. The pattern <tt class="LITERAL">.*ads.</tt> e.g.
- catches <span class="QUOTE">"nasty-<span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">ads</i></span>.nasty-corp.com"</span> as intended, but
- also <span class="QUOTE">"downlo<span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">ads</i></span>.sourcefroge.net"</span> or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">ads</i></span>l.some-provider.net."</span> So here come
- some well-known exceptions to the <tt class="LITERAL">+<a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> section above.</p>
-
- <p>Note that these are exceptions to exceptions from the default!
- Consider the URL <span class=
- "QUOTE">"downloads.sourcefroge.net"</span>: Initially, all actions
- are deactivated, so it wouldn't get blocked. Then comes the defaults
- section, which matches the URL, but just deactivates the <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action
- once again. Then it matches <tt class="LITERAL">.*ads.</tt>, an
- exception to the general non-blocking policy, and suddenly <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">+block</a></tt> applies.
- And now, it'll match <tt class="LITERAL">.*loads.</tt>, where
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">-block</a></tt>
- applies, so (unless it matches <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">again</i></span> further down) it ends up with no
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt>
- action applying.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ It's quite remarkable how many advertisers actually call their
+ banner servers ads.<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>company</i></tt>.com, or call the directory in
+ which the banners are stored simply <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"banners"</span>. So the above generic patterns are
+ surprisingly effective.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But being very generic, they necessarily also catch URLs that we
+ don't want to block. The pattern <tt class="LITERAL">.*ads.</tt>
+ e.g. catches <span class="QUOTE">"nasty-<span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">ads</i></span>.nasty-corp.com"</span> as
+ intended, but also <span class="QUOTE">"downlo<span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">ads</i></span>.sourcefroge.net"</span> or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"<span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">ads</i></span>l.some-provider.net."</span> So here
+ come some well-known exceptions to the <tt class="LITERAL">+<a
+ href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> section above.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that these are exceptions to exceptions from the default!
+ Consider the URL <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"downloads.sourcefroge.net"</span>: Initially, all
+ actions are deactivated, so it wouldn't get blocked. Then comes
+ the defaults section, which matches the URL, but just deactivates
+ the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action once again. Then
+ it matches <tt class="LITERAL">.*ads.</tt>, an exception to the
+ general non-blocking policy, and suddenly <tt class="LITERAL"><a
+ href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">+block</a></tt> applies. And now,
+ it'll match <tt class="LITERAL">.*loads.</tt>, where <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">-block</a></tt>
+ applies, so (unless it matches <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">again</i></span> further down) it ends up with no <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt>
+ action applying.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
##########################################################################
# Save some innocent victims of the above generic block patterns:
##########################################################################
www.globalintersec.com/adv # (adv = advanced)
www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/adv
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Filtering source code can have nasty side effects, so make an
- exception for our friends at sourceforge.net, and all paths with
- <span class="QUOTE">"cvs"</span> in them. Note that <tt class=
- "LITERAL">-<a href="actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt>
- disables <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span>
- filters in one fell swoop!</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Filtering source code can have nasty side effects, so make an
+ exception for our friends at sourceforge.net, and all paths with
+ <span class="QUOTE">"cvs"</span> in them. Note that <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">-<a href="actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt>
+ disables <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">all</i></span> filters in one fell swoop!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Don't filter code!
#
{ -<a href="actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a> }
wiki.
.sourceforge.net
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>The actual <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> is of course
- much more comprehensive, but we hope this example made clear how it
- works.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="USER-ACTION" id="USER-ACTION">8.7.3.
- user.action</a></h3>
-
- <p>So far we are painting with a broad brush by setting general
- policies, which would be a reasonable starting point for many people.
- Now, you might want to be more specific and have customized rules
- that are more suitable to your personal habits and preferences. These
- would be for narrowly defined situations like your ISP or your bank,
- and should be placed in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>, which
- is parsed after all other actions files and hence has the last word,
- over-riding any previously defined actions. <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.action</tt> is also a <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">safe</i></span> place for your
- personal settings, since <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> is
- actively maintained by the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- developers and you'll probably want to install updated versions from
- time to time.</p>
-
- <p>So let's look at a few examples of things that one might typically
- do in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ The actual <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> is of course
+ much more comprehensive, but we hope this example made clear how
+ it works.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="USER-ACTION">8.7.3. user.action</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ So far we are painting with a broad brush by setting general
+ policies, which would be a reasonable starting point for many
+ people. Now, you might want to be more specific and have
+ customized rules that are more suitable to your personal habits
+ and preferences. These would be for narrowly defined situations
+ like your ISP or your bank, and should be placed in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt>, which is parsed after all other
+ actions files and hence has the last word, over-riding any
+ previously defined actions. <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>
+ is also a <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">safe</i></span> place for your personal settings,
+ since <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> is actively
+ maintained by the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ developers and you'll probably want to install updated versions
+ from time to time.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ So let's look at a few examples of things that one might
+ typically do in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# My user.action file. <fred@example.com>
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>As <a href="actions-file.html#ALIASES">aliases</a> are local to
- the actions file that they are defined in, you can't use the ones
- from <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>, unless you repeat them
- here:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ As <a href="actions-file.html#ALIASES">aliases</a> are local to
+ the actions file that they are defined in, you can't use the ones
+ from <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>, unless you repeat
+ them here:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Aliases are local to the file they are defined in.
# (Re-)define aliases for this file:
#
# Alias for specific file types that are text, but might have conflicting
# MIME types. We want the browser to force these to be text documents.
handle-as-text = -<a href="actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a> +-<a href=
-"actions-file.html#CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE">content-type-overwrite{text/plain}</a> +-<a href="actions-file.html#FORCE-TEXT-MODE">force-text-mode</a> -<a href="actions-file.html#HIDE-CONTENT-DISPOSITION">hide-content-disposition</a>
+"actions-file.html#CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE">content-type-overwrite{text/plain}</a> +-<a
+ href="actions-file.html#FORCE-TEXT-MODE">force-text-mode</a> -<a href=
+"actions-file.html#HIDE-CONTENT-DISPOSITION">hide-content-disposition</a>
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Say you have accounts on some sites that you visit regularly, and
- you don't want to have to log in manually each time. So you'd like to
- allow persistent cookies for these sites. The <tt class=
- "LITERAL">allow-all-cookies</tt> alias defined above does exactly
- that, i.e. it disables crunching of cookies in any direction, and the
- processing of cookies to make them only temporary.</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <br>
+
+ <p>
+ Say you have accounts on some sites that you visit regularly, and
+ you don't want to have to log in manually each time. So you'd
+ like to allow persistent cookies for these sites. The <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">allow-all-cookies</tt> alias defined above does exactly
+ that, i.e. it disables crunching of cookies in any direction, and
+ the processing of cookies to make them only temporary.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ allow-all-cookies }
sourceforge.net
.yahoo.com
.msdn.microsoft.com
.redhat.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Your bank is allergic to some filter, but you don't know which, so
- you disable them all:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Your bank is allergic to some filter, but you don't know which,
+ so you disable them all:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ -<a href="actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a> }
.your-home-banking-site.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Some file types you may not want to filter for various
- reasons:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Some file types you may not want to filter for various reasons:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Technical documentation is likely to contain strings that might
# erroneously get altered by the JavaScript-oriented filters:
#
#
stupid-server.example.com/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Example of a simple <a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a>
- action. Say you've seen an ad on your favourite page on example.com
- that you want to get rid of. You have right-clicked the image,
- selected <span class="QUOTE">"copy image location"</span> and pasted
- the URL below while removing the leading http://, into a <tt class=
- "LITERAL">{ +block{} }</tt> section. Note that <tt class="LITERAL">{
- +handle-as-image }</tt> need not be specified, since all URLs ending
- in <tt class="LITERAL">.gif</tt> will be tagged as images by the
- general rules as set in default.action anyway:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Example of a simple <a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a>
+ action. Say you've seen an ad on your favourite page on
+ example.com that you want to get rid of. You have right-clicked
+ the image, selected <span class="QUOTE">"copy image
+ location"</span> and pasted the URL below while removing the
+ leading http://, into a <tt class="LITERAL">{ +block{} }</tt>
+ section. Note that <tt class="LITERAL">{ +handle-as-image }</tt>
+ need not be specified, since all URLs ending in <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.gif</tt> will be tagged as images by the general rules
+ as set in default.action anyway:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ +<a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a>{Nasty ads.} }
www.example.com/nasty-ads/sponsor\.gif
another.example.net/more/junk/here/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>The URLs of dynamically generated banners, especially from large
- banner farms, often don't use the well-known image file name
- extensions, which makes it impossible for <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to guess the file type just by looking
- at the URL. You can use the <tt class="LITERAL">+block-as-image</tt>
- alias defined above for these cases. Note that objects which match
- this rule but then turn out NOT to be an image are typically rendered
- as a <span class="QUOTE">"broken image"</span> icon by the browser.
- Use cautiously.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ The URLs of dynamically generated banners, especially from large
+ banner farms, often don't use the well-known image file name
+ extensions, which makes it impossible for <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to guess the file type just by
+ looking at the URL. You can use the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">+block-as-image</tt> alias defined above for these
+ cases. Note that objects which match this rule but then turn out
+ NOT to be an image are typically rendered as a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"broken image"</span> icon by the browser. Use
+ cautiously.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ +block-as-image }
.doubleclick.net
.fastclick.net
/Realmedia/ads/
ar.atwola.com/
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Now you noticed that the default configuration breaks Forbes
- Magazine, but you were too lazy to find out which action is the
- culprit, and you were again too lazy to give <a href=
- "contact.html">feedback</a>, so you just used the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">fragile</tt> alias on the site, and -- <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">whoa!</i></span> -- it worked. The
- <tt class="LITERAL">fragile</tt> aliases disables those actions that
- are most likely to break a site. Also, good for testing purposes to
- see if it is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> that is causing
- the problem or not. We later find other regular sites that misbehave,
- and add those to our personalized list of troublemakers:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Now you noticed that the default configuration breaks Forbes
+ Magazine, but you were too lazy to find out which action is the
+ culprit, and you were again too lazy to give <a href=
+ "contact.html">feedback</a>, so you just used the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">fragile</tt> alias on the site, and -- <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">whoa!</i></span> -- it worked. The
+ <tt class="LITERAL">fragile</tt> aliases disables those actions
+ that are most likely to break a site. Also, good for testing
+ purposes to see if it is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ that is causing the problem or not. We later find other regular
+ sites that misbehave, and add those to our personalized list of
+ troublemakers:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ fragile }
.forbes.com
webmail.example.com
.mybank.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>You like the <span class="QUOTE">"fun"</span> text replacements in
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt>, but it is disabled in the
- distributed actions file. So you'd like to turn it on in your
- private, update-safe config, once and for all:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ You like the <span class="QUOTE">"fun"</span> text replacements
+ in <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt>, but it is disabled
+ in the distributed actions file. So you'd like to turn it on in
+ your private, update-safe config, once and for all:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ +<a href="actions-file.html#FILTER-FUN">filter{fun}</a> }
/ # For ALL sites!
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Note that the above is not really a good idea: There are
- exceptions to the filters in <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>
- for things that really shouldn't be filtered, like code on
- CVS->Web interfaces. Since <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>
- has the last word, these exceptions won't be valid for the
- <span class="QUOTE">"fun"</span> filtering specified here.</p>
-
- <p>You might also worry about how your favourite free websites are
- funded, and find that they rely on displaying banner advertisements
- to survive. So you might want to specifically allow banners for those
- sites that you feel provide value to you:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Note that the above is not really a good idea: There are
+ exceptions to the filters in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt> for things that really shouldn't
+ be filtered, like code on CVS->Web interfaces. Since <tt
+ class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> has the last word, these
+ exceptions won't be valid for the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"fun"</span> filtering specified here.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You might also worry about how your favourite free websites are
+ funded, and find that they rely on displaying banner
+ advertisements to survive. So you might want to specifically
+ allow banners for those sites that you feel provide value to you:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ allow-ads }
.sourceforge.net
.slashdot.org
.osdn.net
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Note that <tt class="LITERAL">allow-ads</tt> has been aliased to
- <tt class="LITERAL">-<a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt>, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">-<a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER-BANNERS-BY-SIZE">filter{banners-by-size}</a></tt>,
- and <tt class="LITERAL">-<a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER-BANNERS-BY-LINK">filter{banners-by-link}</a></tt>
- above.</p>
-
- <p>Invoke another alias here to force an over-ride of the MIME type
- <tt class="LITERAL">application/x-sh</tt> which typically would open
- a download type dialog. In my case, I want to look at the shell
- script, and then I can save it should I choose to.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Note that <tt class="LITERAL">allow-ads</tt> has been aliased to
+ <tt class="LITERAL">-<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt>, <tt class="LITERAL">-<a
+ href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER-BANNERS-BY-SIZE">filter{banners-by-size}</a></tt>,
+ and <tt class="LITERAL">-<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER-BANNERS-BY-LINK">filter{banners-by-link}</a></tt>
+ above.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Invoke another alias here to force an over-ride of the MIME type
+ <tt class="LITERAL">application/x-sh</tt> which typically would
+ open a download type dialog. In my case, I want to look at the
+ shell script, and then I can save it should I choose to.
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ handle-as-text }
/.*\.sh$
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> is generally the best place
- to define exceptions and additions to the default policies of
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>. Some actions are safe to
- have their default policies set here though. So let's set a default
- policy to have a <span class="QUOTE">"blank"</span> image as opposed
- to the checkerboard pattern for <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">ALL</i></span> sites. <span class="QUOTE">"/"</span> of
- course matches all URL paths and patterns:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> is generally the best place
+ to define exceptions and additions to the default policies of <tt
+ class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>. Some actions are safe to
+ have their default policies set here though. So let's set a
+ default policy to have a <span class="QUOTE">"blank"</span> image
+ as opposed to the checkerboard pattern for <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">ALL</i></span> sites. <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"/"</span> of course matches all URL paths and patterns:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ +<a href=
"actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker{blank}</a> }
/ # ALL sites
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
</div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="config.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="filter-file.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">The Main Configuration
- File</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Filter Files</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="config.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="filter-file.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ The Main Configuration File
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Filter Files
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Appendix</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="See Also" href="seealso.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="seealso.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"> </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="APPENDIX" id="APPENDIX">14. Appendix</a></h1>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="REGEX" id="REGEX">14.1. Regular
- Expressions</a></h2>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> uses Perl-style
- <span class="QUOTE">"regular expressions"</span> in its <a href=
- "actions-file.html">actions files</a> and <a href=
- "filter-file.html">filter file</a>, through the <a href=
- "http://www.pcre.org/" target="_top">PCRE</a> and <span class=
- "APPLICATION">PCRS</span> libraries.</p>
-
- <p>If you are reading this, you probably don't understand what
- <span class="QUOTE">"regular expressions"</span> are, or what they can
- do. So this will be a very brief introduction only. A full explanation
- would require a <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/" target=
- "_top">book</a> ;-)</p>
-
- <p>Regular expressions provide a language to describe patterns that can
- be run against strings of characters (letter, numbers, etc), to see if
- they match the string or not. The patterns are themselves (sometimes
- complex) strings of literal characters, combined with wild-cards, and
- other special characters, called meta-characters. The <span class=
- "QUOTE">"meta-characters"</span> have special meanings and are used to
- build complex patterns to be matched against. Perl Compatible Regular
- Expressions are an especially convenient <span class=
- "QUOTE">"dialect"</span> of the regular expression language.</p>
-
- <p>To make a simple analogy, we do something similar when we use
- wild-card characters when listing files with the <b class=
- "COMMAND">dir</b> command in DOS. <tt class="LITERAL">*.*</tt> matches
- all filenames. The <span class="QUOTE">"special"</span> character here
- is the asterisk which matches any and all characters. We can be more
- specific and use <tt class="LITERAL">?</tt> to match just individual
- characters. So <span class="QUOTE">"dir file?.text"</span> would match
- <span class="QUOTE">"file1.txt"</span>, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"file2.txt"</span>, etc. We are pattern matching, using a
- similar technique to <span class="QUOTE">"regular
- expressions"</span>!</p>
-
- <p>Regular expressions do essentially the same thing, but are much,
- much more powerful. There are many more <span class="QUOTE">"special
- characters"</span> and ways of building complex patterns however. Let's
- look at a few of the common ones, and then some examples:</p>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">.</i></span> -
- Matches any single character, e.g. <span class=
- "QUOTE">"a"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"A"</span>, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"4"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">":"</span>, or
- <span class="QUOTE">"@"</span>.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">?</i></span> - The
- preceding character or expression is matched ZERO or ONE times.
- Either/or.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">+</i></span> - The
- preceding character or expression is matched ONE or MORE
- times.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">*</i></span> - The
- preceding character or expression is matched ZERO or MORE
- times.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">\</i></span> - The
- <span class="QUOTE">"escape"</span> character denotes that the
- following character should be taken literally. This is used where
- one of the special characters (e.g. <span class=
- "QUOTE">"."</span>) needs to be taken literally and not as a
- special meta-character. Example: <span class=
- "QUOTE">"example\.com"</span>, makes sure the period is
- recognized only as a period (and not expanded to its
- meta-character meaning of any single character).</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">[ ]</i></span> -
- Characters enclosed in brackets will be matched if any of the
- enclosed characters are encountered. For instance, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"[0-9]"</span> matches any numeric digit (zero through
- nine). As an example, we can combine this with <span class=
- "QUOTE">"+"</span> to match any digit one of more times:
- <span class="QUOTE">"[0-9]+"</span>.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">( )</i></span> -
- parentheses are used to group a sub-expression, or multiple
- sub-expressions.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">|</i></span> - The
- <span class="QUOTE">"bar"</span> character works like an
- <span class="QUOTE">"or"</span> conditional statement. A match is
- successful if the sub-expression on either side of <span class=
- "QUOTE">"|"</span> matches. As an example: <span class=
- "QUOTE">"/(this|that) example/"</span> uses grouping and the bar
- character and would match either <span class="QUOTE">"this
- example"</span> or <span class="QUOTE">"that example"</span>, and
- nothing else.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Appendix
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="See Also" href="seealso.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="seealso.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
</table>
-
- <p>These are just some of the ones you are likely to use when matching
- URLs with <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, and is a long way
- from a definitive list. This is enough to get us started with a few
- simple examples which may be more illuminating:</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS"><tt class=
- "LITERAL">/.*/banners/.*</tt></i></span> - A simple example that uses
- the common combination of <span class="QUOTE">"."</span> and
- <span class="QUOTE">"*"</span> to denote any character, zero or more
- times. In other words, any string at all. So we start with a literal
- forward slash, then our regular expression pattern (<span class=
- "QUOTE">".*"</span>) another literal forward slash, the string
- <span class="QUOTE">"banners"</span>, another forward slash, and lastly
- another <span class="QUOTE">".*"</span>. We are building a directory
- path here. This will match any file with the path that has a directory
- named <span class="QUOTE">"banners"</span> in it. The <span class=
- "QUOTE">".*"</span> matches any characters, and this could conceivably
- be more forward slashes, so it might expand into a much longer looking
- path. For example, this could match: <span class=
- "QUOTE">"/eye/hate/spammers/banners/annoy_me_please.gif"</span>, or
- just <span class="QUOTE">"/banners/annoying.html"</span>, or almost an
- infinite number of other possible combinations, just so it has
- <span class="QUOTE">"banners"</span> in the path somewhere.</p>
-
- <p>And now something a little more complex:</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS"><tt class=
- "LITERAL">/.*/adv((er)?ts?|ertis(ing|ements?))?/</tt></i></span> - We
- have several literal forward slashes again (<span class=
- "QUOTE">"/"</span>), so we are building another expression that is a
- file path statement. We have another <span class="QUOTE">".*"</span>,
- so we are matching against any conceivable sub-path, just so it matches
- our expression. The only true literal that <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">must match</i></span> our pattern is
- <span class="APPLICATION">adv</span>, together with the forward
- slashes. What comes after the <span class="QUOTE">"adv"</span> string
- is the interesting part.</p>
-
- <p>Remember the <span class="QUOTE">"?"</span> means the preceding
- expression (either a literal character or anything grouped with
- <span class="QUOTE">"(...)"</span> in this case) can exist or not,
- since this means either zero or one match. So <span class=
- "QUOTE">"((er)?ts?|ertis(ing|ements?))"</span> is optional, as are the
- individual sub-expressions: <span class="QUOTE">"(er)"</span>,
- <span class="QUOTE">"(ing|ements?)"</span>, and the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"s"</span>. The <span class="QUOTE">"|"</span> means
- <span class="QUOTE">"or"</span>. We have two of those. For instance,
- <span class="QUOTE">"(ing|ements?)"</span>, can expand to match either
- <span class="QUOTE">"ing"</span> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">OR</i></span> <span class="QUOTE">"ements?"</span>. What is
- being done here, is an attempt at matching as many variations of
- <span class="QUOTE">"advertisement"</span>, and similar, as possible.
- So this would expand to match just <span class="QUOTE">"adv"</span>, or
- <span class="QUOTE">"advert"</span>, or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"adverts"</span>, or <span class="QUOTE">"advertising"</span>,
- or <span class="QUOTE">"advertisement"</span>, or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"advertisements"</span>. You get the idea. But it would not
- match <span class="QUOTE">"advertizements"</span> (with a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"z"</span>). We could fix that by changing our regular
- expression to: <span class=
- "QUOTE">"/.*/adv((er)?ts?|erti(s|z)(ing|ements?))?/"</span>, which
- would then match either spelling.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS"><tt class=
- "LITERAL">/.*/advert[0-9]+\.(gif|jpe?g)</tt></i></span> - Again another
- path statement with forward slashes. Anything in the square brackets
- <span class="QUOTE">"[ ]"</span> can be matched. This is using
- <span class="QUOTE">"0-9"</span> as a shorthand expression to mean any
- digit one through nine. It is the same as saying <span class=
- "QUOTE">"0123456789"</span>. So any digit matches. The <span class=
- "QUOTE">"+"</span> means one or more of the preceding expression must
- be included. The preceding expression here is what is in the square
- brackets -- in this case, any digit one through nine. Then, at the end,
- we have a grouping: <span class="QUOTE">"(gif|jpe?g)"</span>. This
- includes a <span class="QUOTE">"|"</span>, so this needs to match the
- expression on either side of that bar character also. A simple
- <span class="QUOTE">"gif"</span> on one side, and the other side will
- in turn match either <span class="QUOTE">"jpeg"</span> or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"jpg"</span>, since the <span class="QUOTE">"?"</span> means
- the letter <span class="QUOTE">"e"</span> is optional and can be
- matched once or not at all. So we are building an expression here to
- match image GIF or JPEG type image file. It must include the literal
- string <span class="QUOTE">"advert"</span>, then one or more digits,
- and a <span class="QUOTE">"."</span> (which is now a literal, and not a
- special character, since it is escaped with <span class=
- "QUOTE">"\"</span>), and lastly either <span class=
- "QUOTE">"gif"</span>, or <span class="QUOTE">"jpeg"</span>, or
- <span class="QUOTE">"jpg"</span>. Some possible matches would include:
- <span class="QUOTE">"//advert1.jpg"</span>, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"/nasty/ads/advert1234.gif"</span>, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"/banners/from/hell/advert99.jpg"</span>. It would not match
- <span class="QUOTE">"advert1.gif"</span> (no leading slash), or
- <span class="QUOTE">"/adverts232.jpg"</span> (the expression does not
- include an <span class="QUOTE">"s"</span>), or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"/advert1.jsp"</span> (<span class="QUOTE">"jsp"</span> is not
- in the expression anywhere).</p>
-
- <p>We are barely scratching the surface of regular expressions here so
- that you can understand the default <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration files, and maybe use this
- knowledge to customize your own installation. There is much, much more
- that can be done with regular expressions. Now that you know enough to
- get started, you can learn more on your own :/</p>
-
- <p>More reading on Perl Compatible Regular expressions: <a href=
- "http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html" target=
- "_top">http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html</a></p>
-
- <p>For information on regular expression based substitutions and their
- applications in filters, please see the <a href=
- "filter-file.html">filter file tutorial</a> in this manual.</p>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="INTERNAL-PAGES" id="INTERNAL-PAGES">14.2.
- Privoxy's Internal Pages</a></h2>
-
- <p>Since <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> proxies each
- requested web page, it is easy for <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to trap certain special URLs. In this way,
- we can talk directly to <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, and
- see how it is configured, see how our rules are being applied, change
- these rules and other configuration options, and even turn <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> filtering off, all with a web
- browser.</p>
-
- <p>The URLs listed below are the special ones that allow direct access
- to <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Of course, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> must be running to access these. If not,
- you will get a friendly error message. Internet access is not necessary
- either.</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Privoxy main page:</p><a name="AEN5923" id="AEN5923"></a>
-
- <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
- <p><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a></p>
- </blockquote>
-
- <p>There is a shortcut: <a href="http://p.p/" target=
- "_top">http://p.p/</a> (But it doesn't provide a fall-back to a
- real page, in case the request is not sent through <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>)</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Show information about the current configuration, including
- viewing and editing of actions files:</p><a name="AEN5931" id=
- "AEN5931"></a>
-
- <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
- <p><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a></p>
- </blockquote>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Show the source code version numbers:</p><a name="AEN5936" id=
- "AEN5936"></a>
-
- <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
- <p><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-version" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-version</a></p>
- </blockquote>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Show the browser's request headers:</p><a name="AEN5941" id=
- "AEN5941"></a>
-
- <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
- <p><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-request" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-request</a></p>
- </blockquote>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Show which actions apply to a URL and why:</p><a name="AEN5946"
- id="AEN5946"></a>
-
- <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
- <p><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</a></p>
- </blockquote>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Toggle Privoxy on or off. This feature can be turned off/on in
- the main <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> file. When toggled
- <span class="QUOTE">"off"</span>, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span> continues to run, but only as a
- pass-through proxy, with no actions taking place:</p><a name=
- "AEN5954" id="AEN5954"></a>
-
- <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
- <p><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle</a></p>
- </blockquote>
-
- <p>Short cuts. Turn off, then on:</p><a name="AEN5958" id=
- "AEN5958"></a>
-
- <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
- <p><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=disable" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=disable</a></p>
- </blockquote><a name="AEN5961" id="AEN5961"></a>
-
- <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
- <p><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=enable" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=enable</a></p>
- </blockquote>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="CHAIN" id="CHAIN">14.3. Chain of
- Events</a></h2>
-
- <p>Let's take a quick look at how some of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> core features are triggered, and the
- ensuing sequence of events when a web page is requested by your
- browser:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>First, your web browser requests a web page. The browser knows
- to send the request to <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
- which will in turn, relay the request to the remote web server
- after passing the following tests:</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> traps any request for
- its own internal CGI pages (e.g <a href="http://p.p/" target=
- "_top">http://p.p/</a>) and sends the CGI page back to the
- browser.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Next, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> checks to see if
- the URL matches any <a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+block"</span></a> patterns. If so, the URL is then
- blocked, and the remote web server will not be contacted. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+handle-as-image"</span></a> and <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+handle-as-empty-document"</span></a> are then checked,
- and if there is no match, an HTML <span class=
- "QUOTE">"BLOCKED"</span> page is sent back to the browser.
- Otherwise, if it does match, an image is returned for the former,
- and an empty text document for the latter. The type of image would
- depend on the setting of <a href=
- "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+set-image-blocker"</span></a> (blank, checkerboard
- pattern, or an HTTP redirect to an image elsewhere).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Untrusted URLs are blocked. If URLs are being added to the
- <tt class="FILENAME">trust</tt> file, then that is done.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>If the URL pattern matches the <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+fast-redirects"</span></a> action, it is then processed.
- Unwanted parts of the requested URL are stripped.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Now the rest of the client browser's request headers are
- processed. If any of these match any of the relevant actions (e.g.
- <a href="actions-file.html#HIDE-USER-AGENT"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+hide-user-agent"</span></a>, etc.), headers are
- suppressed or forged as determined by these actions and their
- parameters.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Now the web server starts sending its response back (i.e.
- typically a web page).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>First, the server headers are read and processed to determine,
- among other things, the MIME type (document type) and encoding. The
- headers are then filtered as determined by the <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+crunch-incoming-cookies"</span></a>, <a href=
- "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+session-cookies-only"</span></a>, and <a href=
- "actions-file.html#DOWNGRADE-HTTP-VERSION"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+downgrade-http-version"</span></a> actions.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>If any <a href="actions-file.html#FILTER"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+filter"</span></a> action or <a href=
- "actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+deanimate-gifs"</span></a> action applies (and the
- document type fits the action), the rest of the page is read into
- memory (up to a configurable limit). Then the filter rules (from
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> and any other filter
- files) are processed against the buffered content. Filters are
- applied in the order they are specified in one of the filter files.
- Animated GIFs, if present, are reduced to either the first or last
- frame, depending on the action setting.The entire page, which is
- now filtered, is then sent by <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> back to your browser.</p>
-
- <p>If neither a <a href="actions-file.html#FILTER"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+filter"</span></a> action or <a href=
- "actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+deanimate-gifs"</span></a> matches, then <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> passes the raw data through to the
- client browser as it becomes available.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>As the browser receives the now (possibly filtered) page
- content, it reads and then requests any URLs that may be embedded
- within the page source, e.g. ad images, stylesheets, JavaScript,
- other HTML documents (e.g. frames), sounds, etc. For each of these
- objects, the browser issues a separate request (this is easily
- viewable in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> logs). And
- each such request is in turn processed just as above. Note that a
- complex web page will have many, many such embedded URLs. If these
- secondary requests are to a different server, then quite possibly a
- very differing set of actions is triggered.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>NOTE: This is somewhat of a simplistic overview of what happens with
- each URL request. For the sake of brevity and simplicity, we have
- focused on <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> core features
- only.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="ACTIONSANAT" id="ACTIONSANAT">14.4.
- Troubleshooting: Anatomy of an Action</a></h2>
-
- <p>The way <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> applies <a href=
- "actions-file.html#ACTIONS">actions</a> and <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filters</a> to any given URL can be complex,
- and not always so easy to understand what is happening. And sometimes
- we need to be able to <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">see</i></span> just what <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is doing. Especially, if something
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is doing is causing us a
- problem inadvertently. It can be a little daunting to look at the
- actions and filters files themselves, since they tend to be filled with
- <a href="appendix.html#REGEX">regular expressions</a> whose
- consequences are not always so obvious.</p>
-
- <p>One quick test to see if <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is
- causing a problem or not, is to disable it temporarily. This should be
- the first troubleshooting step (be sure to flush caches afterward!).
- Looking at the logs is a good idea too. (Note that both the toggle
- feature and logging are enabled via <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt>
- file settings, and may need to be turned <span class=
- "QUOTE">"on"</span>.)</p>
-
- <p>Another easy troubleshooting step to try is if you have done any
- customization of your installation, revert back to the installed
- defaults and see if that helps. There are times the developers get
- complaints about one thing or another, and the problem is more related
- to a customized configuration issue.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> also provides the <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</a> page that can show
- us very specifically how <span class="APPLICATION">actions</span> are
- being applied to any given URL. This is a big help for
- troubleshooting.</p>
-
- <p>First, enter one URL (or partial URL) at the prompt, and then
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will tell us how the current
- configuration will handle it. This will not help with filtering effects
- (i.e. the <a href="actions-file.html#FILTER"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+filter"</span></a> action) from one of the filter files since
- this is handled very differently and not so easy to trap! It also will
- not tell you about any other URLs that may be embedded within the URL
- you are testing. For instance, images such as ads are expressed as URLs
- within the raw page source of HTML pages. So you will only get info for
- the actual URL that is pasted into the prompt area -- not any sub-URLs.
- If you want to know about embedded URLs like ads, you will have to dig
- those out of the HTML source. Use your browser's <span class=
- "QUOTE">"View Page Source"</span> option for this. Or right click on
- the ad, and grab the URL.</p>
-
- <p>Let's try an example, <a href="http://google.com" target=
- "_top">google.com</a>, and look at it one section at a time in a sample
- configuration (your real configuration may vary):</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="APPENDIX">14. Appendix</a>
+ </h1>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="REGEX">14.1. Regular Expressions</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> uses Perl-style <span
+ class="QUOTE">"regular expressions"</span> in its <a href=
+ "actions-file.html">actions files</a> and <a href=
+ "filter-file.html">filter file</a>, through the <a href=
+ "http://www.pcre.org/" target="_top">PCRE</a> and <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">PCRS</span> libraries.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are reading this, you probably don't understand what <span
+ class="QUOTE">"regular expressions"</span> are, or what they can
+ do. So this will be a very brief introduction only. A full
+ explanation would require a <a href=
+ "http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/" target="_top">book</a> ;-)
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Regular expressions provide a language to describe patterns that
+ can be run against strings of characters (letter, numbers, etc), to
+ see if they match the string or not. The patterns are themselves
+ (sometimes complex) strings of literal characters, combined with
+ wild-cards, and other special characters, called meta-characters.
+ The <span class="QUOTE">"meta-characters"</span> have special
+ meanings and are used to build complex patterns to be matched
+ against. Perl Compatible Regular Expressions are an especially
+ convenient <span class="QUOTE">"dialect"</span> of the regular
+ expression language.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To make a simple analogy, we do something similar when we use
+ wild-card characters when listing files with the <b class=
+ "COMMAND">dir</b> command in DOS. <tt class="LITERAL">*.*</tt>
+ matches all filenames. The <span class="QUOTE">"special"</span>
+ character here is the asterisk which matches any and all
+ characters. We can be more specific and use <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">?</tt> to match just individual characters. So <span
+ class="QUOTE">"dir file?.text"</span> would match <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"file1.txt"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"file2.txt"</span>,
+ etc. We are pattern matching, using a similar technique to <span
+ class="QUOTE">"regular expressions"</span>!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Regular expressions do essentially the same thing, but are much,
+ much more powerful. There are many more <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"special characters"</span> and ways of building complex
+ patterns however. Let's look at a few of the common ones, and then
+ some examples:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">.</i></span> -
+ Matches any single character, e.g. <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"a"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">"A"</span>, <span
+ class="QUOTE">"4"</span>, <span class="QUOTE">":"</span>, or
+ <span class="QUOTE">"@"</span>.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">?</i></span> - The
+ preceding character or expression is matched ZERO or ONE
+ times. Either/or.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">+</i></span> - The
+ preceding character or expression is matched ONE or MORE
+ times.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">*</i></span> - The
+ preceding character or expression is matched ZERO or MORE
+ times.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">\</i></span> - The
+ <span class="QUOTE">"escape"</span> character denotes that
+ the following character should be taken literally. This is
+ used where one of the special characters (e.g. <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"."</span>) needs to be taken literally and not as a
+ special meta-character. Example: <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"example\.com"</span>, makes sure the period is
+ recognized only as a period (and not expanded to its
+ meta-character meaning of any single character).
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">[ ]</i></span> -
+ Characters enclosed in brackets will be matched if any of the
+ enclosed characters are encountered. For instance, <span
+ class="QUOTE">"[0-9]"</span> matches any numeric digit (zero
+ through nine). As an example, we can combine this with <span
+ class="QUOTE">"+"</span> to match any digit one of more
+ times: <span class="QUOTE">"[0-9]+"</span>.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">( )</i></span> -
+ parentheses are used to group a sub-expression, or multiple
+ sub-expressions.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">|</i></span> - The
+ <span class="QUOTE">"bar"</span> character works like an
+ <span class="QUOTE">"or"</span> conditional statement. A
+ match is successful if the sub-expression on either side of
+ <span class="QUOTE">"|"</span> matches. As an example: <span
+ class="QUOTE">"/(this|that) example/"</span> uses grouping
+ and the bar character and would match either <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"this example"</span> or <span class="QUOTE">"that
+ example"</span>, and nothing else.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ These are just some of the ones you are likely to use when matching
+ URLs with <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, and is a long
+ way from a definitive list. This is enough to get us started with a
+ few simple examples which may be more illuminating:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS"><tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/.*/banners/.*</tt></i></span> - A simple example that
+ uses the common combination of <span class="QUOTE">"."</span> and
+ <span class="QUOTE">"*"</span> to denote any character, zero or
+ more times. In other words, any string at all. So we start with a
+ literal forward slash, then our regular expression pattern (<span
+ class="QUOTE">".*"</span>) another literal forward slash, the
+ string <span class="QUOTE">"banners"</span>, another forward slash,
+ and lastly another <span class="QUOTE">".*"</span>. We are building
+ a directory path here. This will match any file with the path that
+ has a directory named <span class="QUOTE">"banners"</span> in it.
+ The <span class="QUOTE">".*"</span> matches any characters, and
+ this could conceivably be more forward slashes, so it might expand
+ into a much longer looking path. For example, this could match:
+ <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"/eye/hate/spammers/banners/annoy_me_please.gif"</span>, or
+ just <span class="QUOTE">"/banners/annoying.html"</span>, or almost
+ an infinite number of other possible combinations, just so it has
+ <span class="QUOTE">"banners"</span> in the path somewhere.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ And now something a little more complex:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS"><tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/.*/adv((er)?ts?|ertis(ing|ements?))?/</tt></i></span> -
+ We have several literal forward slashes again (<span class=
+ "QUOTE">"/"</span>), so we are building another expression that is
+ a file path statement. We have another <span class=
+ "QUOTE">".*"</span>, so we are matching against any conceivable
+ sub-path, just so it matches our expression. The only true literal
+ that <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">must
+ match</i></span> our pattern is <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">adv</span>, together with the forward slashes. What
+ comes after the <span class="QUOTE">"adv"</span> string is the
+ interesting part.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Remember the <span class="QUOTE">"?"</span> means the preceding
+ expression (either a literal character or anything grouped with
+ <span class="QUOTE">"(...)"</span> in this case) can exist or not,
+ since this means either zero or one match. So <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"((er)?ts?|ertis(ing|ements?))"</span> is optional, as are
+ the individual sub-expressions: <span class="QUOTE">"(er)"</span>,
+ <span class="QUOTE">"(ing|ements?)"</span>, and the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"s"</span>. The <span class="QUOTE">"|"</span> means <span
+ class="QUOTE">"or"</span>. We have two of those. For instance,
+ <span class="QUOTE">"(ing|ements?)"</span>, can expand to match
+ either <span class="QUOTE">"ing"</span> <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">OR</i></span> <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"ements?"</span>. What is being done here, is an attempt at
+ matching as many variations of <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"advertisement"</span>, and similar, as possible. So this
+ would expand to match just <span class="QUOTE">"adv"</span>, or
+ <span class="QUOTE">"advert"</span>, or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"adverts"</span>, or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"advertising"</span>, or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"advertisement"</span>, or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"advertisements"</span>. You get the idea. But it would not
+ match <span class="QUOTE">"advertizements"</span> (with a <span
+ class="QUOTE">"z"</span>). We could fix that by changing our
+ regular expression to: <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"/.*/adv((er)?ts?|erti(s|z)(ing|ements?))?/"</span>, which
+ would then match either spelling.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS"><tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/.*/advert[0-9]+\.(gif|jpe?g)</tt></i></span> - Again
+ another path statement with forward slashes. Anything in the square
+ brackets <span class="QUOTE">"[ ]"</span> can be matched. This is
+ using <span class="QUOTE">"0-9"</span> as a shorthand expression to
+ mean any digit one through nine. It is the same as saying <span
+ class="QUOTE">"0123456789"</span>. So any digit matches. The <span
+ class="QUOTE">"+"</span> means one or more of the preceding
+ expression must be included. The preceding expression here is what
+ is in the square brackets -- in this case, any digit one through
+ nine. Then, at the end, we have a grouping: <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"(gif|jpe?g)"</span>. This includes a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"|"</span>, so this needs to match the expression on either
+ side of that bar character also. A simple <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"gif"</span> on one side, and the other side will in turn
+ match either <span class="QUOTE">"jpeg"</span> or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"jpg"</span>, since the <span class="QUOTE">"?"</span>
+ means the letter <span class="QUOTE">"e"</span> is optional and can
+ be matched once or not at all. So we are building an expression
+ here to match image GIF or JPEG type image file. It must include
+ the literal string <span class="QUOTE">"advert"</span>, then one or
+ more digits, and a <span class="QUOTE">"."</span> (which is now a
+ literal, and not a special character, since it is escaped with
+ <span class="QUOTE">"\"</span>), and lastly either <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"gif"</span>, or <span class="QUOTE">"jpeg"</span>, or
+ <span class="QUOTE">"jpg"</span>. Some possible matches would
+ include: <span class="QUOTE">"//advert1.jpg"</span>, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"/nasty/ads/advert1234.gif"</span>, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"/banners/from/hell/advert99.jpg"</span>. It would not
+ match <span class="QUOTE">"advert1.gif"</span> (no leading slash),
+ or <span class="QUOTE">"/adverts232.jpg"</span> (the expression
+ does not include an <span class="QUOTE">"s"</span>), or <span
+ class="QUOTE">"/advert1.jsp"</span> (<span class=
+ "QUOTE">"jsp"</span> is not in the expression anywhere).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ We are barely scratching the surface of regular expressions here so
+ that you can understand the default <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration files, and maybe use
+ this knowledge to customize your own installation. There is much,
+ much more that can be done with regular expressions. Now that you
+ know enough to get started, you can learn more on your own :/
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ More reading on Perl Compatible Regular expressions: <a href=
+ "http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html" target=
+ "_top">http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html</a>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For information on regular expression based substitutions and their
+ applications in filters, please see the <a href=
+ "filter-file.html">filter file tutorial</a> in this manual.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="INTERNAL-PAGES">14.2. Privoxy's Internal Pages</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Since <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> proxies each
+ requested web page, it is easy for <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to trap certain special URLs. In this
+ way, we can talk directly to <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, and see how it is configured, see how
+ our rules are being applied, change these rules and other
+ configuration options, and even turn <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> filtering off, all with a web
+ browser.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The URLs listed below are the special ones that allow direct access
+ to <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Of course, <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> must be running to access these.
+ If not, you will get a friendly error message. Internet access is
+ not necessary either.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy main page:
+ </p>
+ <a name="AEN5923"></a>
+ <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a>
+ </p>
+ </blockquote>
+ <p>
+ There is a shortcut: <a href="http://p.p/" target=
+ "_top">http://p.p/</a> (But it doesn't provide a fall-back to a
+ real page, in case the request is not sent through <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>)
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Show information about the current configuration, including
+ viewing and editing of actions files:
+ </p>
+ <a name="AEN5931"></a>
+ <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a>
+ </p>
+ </blockquote>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Show the source code version numbers:
+ </p>
+ <a name="AEN5936"></a>
+ <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-version" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-version</a>
+ </p>
+ </blockquote>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Show the browser's request headers:
+ </p>
+ <a name="AEN5941"></a>
+ <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-request" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-request</a>
+ </p>
+ </blockquote>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Show which actions apply to a URL and why:
+ </p>
+ <a name="AEN5946"></a>
+ <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</a>
+ </p>
+ </blockquote>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Toggle Privoxy on or off. This feature can be turned off/on in
+ the main <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> file. When toggled
+ <span class="QUOTE">"off"</span>, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span> continues to run, but only as a
+ pass-through proxy, with no actions taking place:
+ </p>
+ <a name="AEN5954"></a>
+ <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle</a>
+ </p>
+ </blockquote>
+ <p>
+ Short cuts. Turn off, then on:
+ </p>
+ <a name="AEN5958"></a>
+ <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=disable"
+ target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=disable</a>
+ </p>
+ </blockquote>
+ <a name="AEN5961"></a>
+ <blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
+ <p>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=enable" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=enable</a>
+ </p>
+ </blockquote>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CHAIN">14.3. Chain of Events</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Let's take a quick look at how some of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> core features are triggered, and the
+ ensuing sequence of events when a web page is requested by your
+ browser:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ First, your web browser requests a web page. The browser knows
+ to send the request to <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, which will in turn, relay the
+ request to the remote web server after passing the following
+ tests:
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> traps any request for
+ its own internal CGI pages (e.g <a href="http://p.p/" target=
+ "_top">http://p.p/</a>) and sends the CGI page back to the
+ browser.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Next, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> checks to see if
+ the URL matches any <a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK"><span
+ class="QUOTE">"+block"</span></a> patterns. If so, the URL is
+ then blocked, and the remote web server will not be contacted.
+ <a href="actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+handle-as-image"</span></a> and <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+handle-as-empty-document"</span></a> are then
+ checked, and if there is no match, an HTML <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"BLOCKED"</span> page is sent back to the browser.
+ Otherwise, if it does match, an image is returned for the
+ former, and an empty text document for the latter. The type of
+ image would depend on the setting of <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+set-image-blocker"</span></a> (blank, checkerboard
+ pattern, or an HTTP redirect to an image elsewhere).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Untrusted URLs are blocked. If URLs are being added to the <tt
+ class="FILENAME">trust</tt> file, then that is done.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ If the URL pattern matches the <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+fast-redirects"</span></a> action, it is then
+ processed. Unwanted parts of the requested URL are stripped.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Now the rest of the client browser's request headers are
+ processed. If any of these match any of the relevant actions
+ (e.g. <a href="actions-file.html#HIDE-USER-AGENT"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+hide-user-agent"</span></a>, etc.), headers are
+ suppressed or forged as determined by these actions and their
+ parameters.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Now the web server starts sending its response back (i.e.
+ typically a web page).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ First, the server headers are read and processed to determine,
+ among other things, the MIME type (document type) and encoding.
+ The headers are then filtered as determined by the <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+crunch-incoming-cookies"</span></a>, <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+session-cookies-only"</span></a>, and <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#DOWNGRADE-HTTP-VERSION"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+downgrade-http-version"</span></a> actions.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ If any <a href="actions-file.html#FILTER"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+filter"</span></a> action or <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+deanimate-gifs"</span></a> action applies (and the
+ document type fits the action), the rest of the page is read
+ into memory (up to a configurable limit). Then the filter rules
+ (from <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> and any other
+ filter files) are processed against the buffered content.
+ Filters are applied in the order they are specified in one of
+ the filter files. Animated GIFs, if present, are reduced to
+ either the first or last frame, depending on the action
+ setting.The entire page, which is now filtered, is then sent by
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> back to your browser.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If neither a <a href="actions-file.html#FILTER"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+filter"</span></a> action or <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+deanimate-gifs"</span></a> matches, then <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> passes the raw data through to the
+ client browser as it becomes available.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ As the browser receives the now (possibly filtered) page
+ content, it reads and then requests any URLs that may be
+ embedded within the page source, e.g. ad images, stylesheets,
+ JavaScript, other HTML documents (e.g. frames), sounds, etc.
+ For each of these objects, the browser issues a separate
+ request (this is easily viewable in <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> logs). And each such request is
+ in turn processed just as above. Note that a complex web page
+ will have many, many such embedded URLs. If these secondary
+ requests are to a different server, then quite possibly a very
+ differing set of actions is triggered.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ NOTE: This is somewhat of a simplistic overview of what happens
+ with each URL request. For the sake of brevity and simplicity, we
+ have focused on <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> core
+ features only.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ACTIONSANAT">14.4. Troubleshooting: Anatomy of an
+ Action</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The way <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> applies <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#ACTIONS">actions</a> and <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filters</a> to any given URL can be
+ complex, and not always so easy to understand what is happening.
+ And sometimes we need to be able to <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">see</i></span> just what <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is doing. Especially, if something
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is doing is causing us a
+ problem inadvertently. It can be a little daunting to look at the
+ actions and filters files themselves, since they tend to be filled
+ with <a href="appendix.html#REGEX">regular expressions</a> whose
+ consequences are not always so obvious.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ One quick test to see if <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ is causing a problem or not, is to disable it temporarily. This
+ should be the first troubleshooting step (be sure to flush caches
+ afterward!). Looking at the logs is a good idea too. (Note that
+ both the toggle feature and logging are enabled via <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">config</tt> file settings, and may need to be turned
+ <span class="QUOTE">"on"</span>.)
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Another easy troubleshooting step to try is if you have done any
+ customization of your installation, revert back to the installed
+ defaults and see if that helps. There are times the developers get
+ complaints about one thing or another, and the problem is more
+ related to a customized configuration issue.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> also provides the <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</a> page that can
+ show us very specifically how <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">actions</span> are being applied to any given URL.
+ This is a big help for troubleshooting.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ First, enter one URL (or partial URL) at the prompt, and then <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will tell us how the current
+ configuration will handle it. This will not help with filtering
+ effects (i.e. the <a href="actions-file.html#FILTER"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+filter"</span></a> action) from one of the filter files
+ since this is handled very differently and not so easy to trap! It
+ also will not tell you about any other URLs that may be embedded
+ within the URL you are testing. For instance, images such as ads
+ are expressed as URLs within the raw page source of HTML pages. So
+ you will only get info for the actual URL that is pasted into the
+ prompt area -- not any sub-URLs. If you want to know about embedded
+ URLs like ads, you will have to dig those out of the HTML source.
+ Use your browser's <span class="QUOTE">"View Page Source"</span>
+ option for this. Or right click on the ad, and grab the URL.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Let's try an example, <a href="http://google.com" target=
+ "_top">google.com</a>, and look at it one section at a time in a
+ sample configuration (your real configuration may vary):
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
Matches for http://www.google.com:
In file: default.action <span class="GUIBUTTON">[ View ]</span> <span class=
"GUIBUTTON">[ Edit ]</span>
(no matches in this file)
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>This is telling us how we have defined our <a href=
- "actions-file.html#ACTIONS"><span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span></a>,
- and which ones match for our test case, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"google.com"</span>. Displayed is all the actions that are
- available to us. Remember, the <tt class="LITERAL">+</tt> sign denotes
- <span class="QUOTE">"on"</span>. <tt class="LITERAL">-</tt> denotes
- <span class="QUOTE">"off"</span>. So some are <span class=
- "QUOTE">"on"</span> here, but many are <span class=
- "QUOTE">"off"</span>. Each example we try may provide a slightly
- different end result, depending on our configuration directives.</p>
-
- <p>The first listing is for our <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt> file. The large, multi-line listing, is
- how the actions are set to match for all URLs, i.e. our default
- settings. If you look at your <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span>
- file, this would be the section just below the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"aliases"</span> section near the top. This will apply to all
- URLs as signified by the single forward slash at the end of the listing
- -- <span class="QUOTE">" / "</span>.</p>
-
- <p>But we have defined additional actions that would be exceptions to
- these general rules, and then we list specific URLs (or patterns) that
- these exceptions would apply to. Last match wins. Just below this then
- are two explicit matches for <span class="QUOTE">".google.com"</span>.
- The first is negating our previous cookie setting, which was for
- <a href="actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+session-cookies-only"</span></a> (i.e. not persistent). So we
- will allow persistent cookies for google, at least that is how it is in
- this example. The second turns <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">off</i></span> any <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+fast-redirects"</span></a> action, allowing this to take
- place unmolested. Note that there is a leading dot here -- <span class=
- "QUOTE">".google.com"</span>. This will match any hosts and
- sub-domains, in the google.com domain also, such as <span class=
- "QUOTE">"www.google.com"</span> or <span class=
- "QUOTE">"mail.google.com"</span>. But it would not match <span class=
- "QUOTE">"www.google.de"</span>! So, apparently, we have these two
- actions defined as exceptions to the general rules at the top somewhere
- in the lower part of our <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file,
- and <span class="QUOTE">"google.com"</span> is referenced somewhere in
- these latter sections.</p>
-
- <p>Then, for our <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> file, we again
- have no hits. So there is nothing google-specific that we might have
- added to our own, local configuration. If there was, those actions
- would over-rule any actions from previously processed files, such as
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>. <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.action</tt> typically has the last word. This is the
- best place to put hard and fast exceptions,</p>
-
- <p>And finally we pull it all together in the bottom section and
- summarize how <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is applying all
- its <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> to <span class=
- "QUOTE">"google.com"</span>:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ This is telling us how we have defined our <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#ACTIONS"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"actions"</span></a>, and which ones match for our test
+ case, <span class="QUOTE">"google.com"</span>. Displayed is all the
+ actions that are available to us. Remember, the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">+</tt> sign denotes <span class="QUOTE">"on"</span>. <tt
+ class="LITERAL">-</tt> denotes <span class="QUOTE">"off"</span>. So
+ some are <span class="QUOTE">"on"</span> here, but many are <span
+ class="QUOTE">"off"</span>. Each example we try may provide a
+ slightly different end result, depending on our configuration
+ directives.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The first listing is for our <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt> file. The large, multi-line listing,
+ is how the actions are set to match for all URLs, i.e. our default
+ settings. If you look at your <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span>
+ file, this would be the section just below the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"aliases"</span> section near the top. This will apply to
+ all URLs as signified by the single forward slash at the end of the
+ listing -- <span class="QUOTE">" / "</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But we have defined additional actions that would be exceptions to
+ these general rules, and then we list specific URLs (or patterns)
+ that these exceptions would apply to. Last match wins. Just below
+ this then are two explicit matches for <span class=
+ "QUOTE">".google.com"</span>. The first is negating our previous
+ cookie setting, which was for <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+session-cookies-only"</span></a> (i.e. not persistent).
+ So we will allow persistent cookies for google, at least that is
+ how it is in this example. The second turns <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">off</i></span> any <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+fast-redirects"</span></a> action, allowing this to take
+ place unmolested. Note that there is a leading dot here -- <span
+ class="QUOTE">".google.com"</span>. This will match any hosts and
+ sub-domains, in the google.com domain also, such as <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"www.google.com"</span> or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"mail.google.com"</span>. But it would not match <span
+ class="QUOTE">"www.google.de"</span>! So, apparently, we have these
+ two actions defined as exceptions to the general rules at the top
+ somewhere in the lower part of our <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt> file, and <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"google.com"</span> is referenced somewhere in these latter
+ sections.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Then, for our <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> file, we again
+ have no hits. So there is nothing google-specific that we might
+ have added to our own, local configuration. If there was, those
+ actions would over-rule any actions from previously processed
+ files, such as <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>. <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt> typically has the last word. This is
+ the best place to put hard and fast exceptions,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ And finally we pull it all together in the bottom section and
+ summarize how <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is applying
+ all its <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> to <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"google.com"</span>:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
Final results:
-add-header
-session-cookies-only
+set-image-blocker {pattern}
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Notice the only difference here to the previous listing, is to
- <span class="QUOTE">"fast-redirects"</span> and <span class=
- "QUOTE">"session-cookies-only"</span>, which are activated specifically
- for this site in our configuration, and thus show in the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Final Results"</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Now another example, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"ad.doubleclick.net"</span>:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Notice the only difference here to the previous listing, is to
+ <span class="QUOTE">"fast-redirects"</span> and <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"session-cookies-only"</span>, which are activated
+ specifically for this site in our configuration, and thus show in
+ the <span class="QUOTE">"Final Results"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Now another example, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"ad.doubleclick.net"</span>:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ +block{Domains starts with "ad"} }
ad*.
{ +block{Doubleclick banner server} +handle-as-image }
.[a-vx-z]*.doubleclick.net
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>We'll just show the interesting part here - the explicit matches. It
- is matched three different times. Two <span class=
- "QUOTE">"+block{}"</span> sections, and a <span class="QUOTE">"+block{}
- +handle-as-image"</span>, which is the expanded form of one of our
- aliases that had been defined as: <span class=
- "QUOTE">"+block-as-image"</span>. (<a href=
- "actions-file.html#ALIASES"><span class="QUOTE">"Aliases"</span></a>
- are defined in the first section of the actions file and typically used
- to combine more than one action.)</p>
-
- <p>Any one of these would have done the trick and blocked this as an
- unwanted image. This is unnecessarily redundant since the last case
- effectively would also cover the first. No point in taking chances with
- these guys though ;-) Note that if you want an ad or obnoxious URL to
- be invisible, it should be defined as <span class=
- "QUOTE">"ad.doubleclick.net"</span> is done here -- as both a <a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK"><span class="QUOTE">"+block{}"</span></a>
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and</i></span> an <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+handle-as-image"</span></a>. The custom alias <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">+block-as-image</tt>"</span> just
- simplifies the process and make it more readable.</p>
-
- <p>One last example. Let's try <span class=
- "QUOTE">"http://www.example.net/adsl/HOWTO/"</span>. This one is giving
- us problems. We are getting a blank page. Hmmm ...</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ We'll just show the interesting part here - the explicit matches.
+ It is matched three different times. Two <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+block{}"</span> sections, and a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+block{} +handle-as-image"</span>, which is the expanded
+ form of one of our aliases that had been defined as: <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+block-as-image"</span>. (<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#ALIASES"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Aliases"</span></a> are defined in the first section of
+ the actions file and typically used to combine more than one
+ action.)
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Any one of these would have done the trick and blocked this as an
+ unwanted image. This is unnecessarily redundant since the last case
+ effectively would also cover the first. No point in taking chances
+ with these guys though ;-) Note that if you want an ad or obnoxious
+ URL to be invisible, it should be defined as <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"ad.doubleclick.net"</span> is done here -- as both a <a
+ href="actions-file.html#BLOCK"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+block{}"</span></a> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">and</i></span> an <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+handle-as-image"</span></a>. The custom alias <span
+ class="QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">+block-as-image</tt>"</span>
+ just simplifies the process and make it more readable.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ One last example. Let's try <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"http://www.example.net/adsl/HOWTO/"</span>. This one is
+ giving us problems. We are getting a blank page. Hmmm ...
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
Matches for http://www.example.net/adsl/HOWTO/:
In file: default.action <span class="GUIBUTTON">[ View ]</span> <span class=
{ +block{Path contains "ads".} +handle-as-image }
/ads
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Ooops, the <span class="QUOTE">"/adsl/"</span> is matching
- <span class="QUOTE">"/ads"</span> in our configuration! But we did not
- want this at all! Now we see why we get the blank page. It is actually
- triggering two different actions here, and the effects are aggregated
- so that the URL is blocked, and <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is told to treat the block as if it were
- an image. But this is, of course, all wrong. We could now add a new
- action below this (or better in our own <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.action</tt> file) that explicitly <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">un</i></span> blocks ( <a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK"><span class="QUOTE">"{-block}"</span></a>)
- paths with <span class="QUOTE">"adsl"</span> in them (remember, last
- match in the configuration wins). There are various ways to handle such
- exceptions. Example:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Ooops, the <span class="QUOTE">"/adsl/"</span> is matching <span
+ class="QUOTE">"/ads"</span> in our configuration! But we did not
+ want this at all! Now we see why we get the blank page. It is
+ actually triggering two different actions here, and the effects are
+ aggregated so that the URL is blocked, and <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is told to treat the block as if it
+ were an image. But this is, of course, all wrong. We could now add
+ a new action below this (or better in our own <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt> file) that explicitly <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">un</i></span> blocks ( <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"{-block}"</span></a>) paths with <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"adsl"</span> in them (remember, last match in the
+ configuration wins). There are various ways to handle such
+ exceptions. Example:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ -block }
/adsl
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Now the page displays ;-) Remember to flush your browser's caches
- when making these kinds of changes to your configuration to insure that
- you get a freshly delivered page! Or, try using <tt class=
- "LITERAL">Shift+Reload</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>But now what about a situation where we get no explicit matches like
- we did with:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Now the page displays ;-) Remember to flush your browser's caches
+ when making these kinds of changes to your configuration to insure
+ that you get a freshly delivered page! Or, try using <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">Shift+Reload</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But now what about a situation where we get no explicit matches
+ like we did with:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ +block{Path starts with "ads".} +handle-as-image }
/ads
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>That actually was very helpful and pointed us quickly to where the
- problem was. If you don't get this kind of match, then it means one of
- the default rules in the first section of <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt> is causing the problem. This would
- require some guesswork, and maybe a little trial and error to isolate
- the offending rule. One likely cause would be one of the <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER"><span class="QUOTE">"+filter"</span></a>
- actions. These tend to be harder to troubleshoot. Try adding the URL
- for the site to one of aliases that turn off <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+filter"</span></a>:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ That actually was very helpful and pointed us quickly to where the
+ problem was. If you don't get this kind of match, then it means one
+ of the default rules in the first section of <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt> is causing the problem. This would
+ require some guesswork, and maybe a little trial and error to
+ isolate the offending rule. One likely cause would be one of the <a
+ href="actions-file.html#FILTER"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+filter"</span></a> actions. These tend to be harder to
+ troubleshoot. Try adding the URL for the site to one of aliases
+ that turn off <a href="actions-file.html#FILTER"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+filter"</span></a>:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ shop }
.quietpc.com
.worldpay.com # for quietpc.com
.scan.co.uk
.forbes.com
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">{ shop }</tt>"</span> is an
- <span class="QUOTE">"alias"</span> that expands to <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">{ -filter -session-cookies-only
- }</tt>"</span>. Or you could do your own exception to negate
- filtering:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">{ shop }</tt>"</span> is
+ an <span class="QUOTE">"alias"</span> that expands to <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">{ -filter -session-cookies-only
+ }</tt>"</span>. Or you could do your own exception to negate
+ filtering:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ -filter }
# Disable ALL filter actions for sites in this section
.forbes.com
developer.ibm.com
localhost
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>This would turn off all filtering for these sites. This is best put
- in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>, for local site exceptions.
- Note that when a simple domain pattern is used by itself (without the
- subsequent path portion), all sub-pages within that domain are included
- automatically in the scope of the action.</p>
-
- <p>Images that are inexplicably being blocked, may well be hitting the
- <a href="actions-file.html#FILTER-BANNERS-BY-SIZE"><span class=
- "QUOTE">"+filter{banners-by-size}"</span></a> rule, which assumes that
- images of certain sizes are ad banners (works well <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">most of the time</i></span> since these
- tend to be standardized).</p>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">{ fragile }</tt>"</span> is
- an alias that disables most actions that are the most likely to cause
- trouble. This can be used as a last resort for problem sites.</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ This would turn off all filtering for these sites. This is best put
+ in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>, for local site
+ exceptions. Note that when a simple domain pattern is used by
+ itself (without the subsequent path portion), all sub-pages within
+ that domain are included automatically in the scope of the action.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Images that are inexplicably being blocked, may well be hitting the
+ <a href="actions-file.html#FILTER-BANNERS-BY-SIZE"><span class=
+ "QUOTE">"+filter{banners-by-size}"</span></a> rule, which assumes
+ that images of certain sizes are ad banners (works well <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">most of the time</i></span>
+ since these tend to be standardized).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class="LITERAL">{ fragile }</tt>"</span>
+ is an alias that disables most actions that are the most likely to
+ cause trouble. This can be used as a last resort for problem sites.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
{ fragile }
# Handle with care: easy to break
mail.google.
mybank.example.com
</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Remember to flush
+ caches!</i></span> Note that the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">mail.google</tt> reference lacks the TLD portion (e.g.
+ <span class="QUOTE">".com"</span>). This will effectively match any
+ TLD with <tt class="LITERAL">google</tt> in it, such as <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">mail.google.de.</tt>, just as an example.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If this still does not work, you will have to go through the
+ remaining actions one by one to find which one(s) is causing the
+ problem.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="seealso.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ See Also
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+
</td>
</tr>
</table>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Remember to flush
- caches!</i></span> Note that the <tt class="LITERAL">mail.google</tt>
- reference lacks the TLD portion (e.g. <span class=
- "QUOTE">".com"</span>). This will effectively match any TLD with
- <tt class="LITERAL">google</tt> in it, such as <tt class=
- "LITERAL">mail.google.de.</tt>, just as an example.</p>
-
- <p>If this still does not work, you will have to go through the
- remaining actions one by one to find which one(s) is causing the
- problem.</p>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="seealso.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"> </td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">See Also</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"> </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>The Main Configuration File</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy Configuration" href=
- "configuration.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Actions Files" href="actions-file.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "configuration.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "actions-file.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="CONFIG" id="CONFIG">7. The Main Configuration
- File</a></h1>
-
- <p>By default, the main configuration file is named <tt class=
- "FILENAME">config</tt>, with the exception of Windows, where it is named
- <tt class="FILENAME">config.txt</tt>. Configuration lines consist of an
- initial keyword followed by a list of values, all separated by whitespace
- (any number of spaces or tabs). For example:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">confdir /etc/privoxy</i></span></tt></p>
-
- <p>Assigns the value <tt class="LITERAL">/etc/privoxy</tt> to the option
- <tt class="LITERAL">confdir</tt> and thus indicates that the
- configuration directory is named <span class=
- "QUOTE">"/etc/privoxy/"</span>.</p>
-
- <p>All options in the config file except for <tt class=
- "LITERAL">confdir</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">logdir</tt> are optional.
- Watch out in the below description for what happens if you leave them
- unset.</p>
-
- <p>The main config file controls all aspects of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s operation that are not location dependent
- (i.e. they apply universally, no matter where you may be surfing). Like
- the filter and action files, the config file is a plain text file and can
- be modified with a text editor like emacs, vim or notepad.exe.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="LOCAL-SET-UP" id="LOCAL-SET-UP">7.1. Local
- Set-up Documentation</a></h2>
-
- <p>If you intend to operate <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- for more users than just yourself, it might be a good idea to let them
- know how to reach you, what you block and why you do that, your
- policies, etc.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="USER-MANUAL" id="USER-MANUAL">7.1.1.
- user-manual</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Location of the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- User Manual.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A fully qualified URI</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>version</i></tt>/user-manual/</a> will be
- used, where <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>version</i></tt> is the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The User Manual URI is the single best source of information
- on <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, and is used for
- help links from some of the internal CGI pages. The manual
- itself is normally packaged with the binary distributions, so
- you probably want to set this to a locally installed copy.</p>
-
- <p>Examples:</p>
-
- <p>The best all purpose solution is simply to put the full
- local <tt class="LITERAL">PATH</tt> to where the <i class=
- "CITETITLE">User Manual</i> is located:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ The Main Configuration File
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy Configuration" href=
+ "configuration.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Actions Files" href="actions-file.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="configuration.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="actions-file.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="CONFIG">7. The Main Configuration File</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ By default, the main configuration file is named <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">config</tt>, with the exception of Windows, where it is
+ named <tt class="FILENAME">config.txt</tt>. Configuration lines
+ consist of an initial keyword followed by a list of values, all
+ separated by whitespace (any number of spaces or tabs). For example:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">confdir /etc/privoxy</i></span></tt>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Assigns the value <tt class="LITERAL">/etc/privoxy</tt> to the option
+ <tt class="LITERAL">confdir</tt> and thus indicates that the
+ configuration directory is named <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"/etc/privoxy/"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ All options in the config file except for <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">confdir</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">logdir</tt> are
+ optional. Watch out in the below description for what happens if you
+ leave them unset.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The main config file controls all aspects of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s operation that are not location
+ dependent (i.e. they apply universally, no matter where you may be
+ surfing). Like the filter and action files, the config file is a
+ plain text file and can be modified with a text editor like emacs,
+ vim or notepad.exe.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="LOCAL-SET-UP">7.1. Local Set-up Documentation</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ If you intend to operate <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ for more users than just yourself, it might be a good idea to let
+ them know how to reach you, what you block and why you do that,
+ your policies, etc.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="USER-MANUAL">7.1.1. user-manual</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Location of the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ User Manual.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A fully qualified URI
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>version</i></tt>/user-manual/</a> will be
+ used, where <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>version</i></tt> is
+ the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The User Manual URI is the single best source of
+ information on <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
+ and is used for help links from some of the internal CGI
+ pages. The manual itself is normally packaged with the
+ binary distributions, so you probably want to set this to a
+ locally installed copy.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Examples:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The best all purpose solution is simply to put the full
+ local <tt class="LITERAL">PATH</tt> to where the <i class=
+ "CITETITLE">User Manual</i> is located:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
user-manual /usr/share/doc/privoxy/user-manual
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>The User Manual is then available to anyone with access to
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, by following the
- built-in URL: <tt class=
- "LITERAL">http://config.privoxy.org/user-manual/</tt> (or the
- shortcut: <tt class=
- "LITERAL">http://p.p/user-manual/</tt>).</p>
-
- <p>If the documentation is not on the local system, it can be
- accessed from a remote server, as:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- user-manual http://example.com/privoxy/user-manual/
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
+ </td>
</tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ The User Manual is then available to anyone with access to
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, by following the
+ built-in URL: <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">http://config.privoxy.org/user-manual/</tt> (or
+ the shortcut: <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">http://p.p/user-manual/</tt>).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If the documentation is not on the local system, it can be
+ accessed from a remote server, as:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
<tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>If set, this option should be <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">the first option in the
- config file</i></span>, because it is used while the
- config file is being read on start-up.</p>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ user-manual http://example.com/privoxy/user-manual/
+</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- </div>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="TRUST-INFO-URL" id="TRUST-INFO-URL">7.1.2.
- trust-info-url</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A URL to be displayed in the error page that users will see
- if access to an untrusted page is denied.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
- <dd>
- <p>URL</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>No links are displayed on the "untrusted" error page.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The value of this option only matters if the experimental
- trust mechanism has been activated. (See <a href=
- "config.html#TRUSTFILE"><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">trustfile</i></span></a> below.)</p>
-
- <p>If you use the trust mechanism, it is a good idea to write
- up some on-line documentation about your trust policy and to
- specify the URL(s) here. Use multiple times for multiple
- URLs.</p>
-
- <p>The URL(s) should be added to the trustfile as well, so
- users don't end up locked out from the information on why they
- were locked out in the first place!</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ If set, this option should be <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">the first option in
+ the config file</i></span>, because it is used
+ while the config file is being read on start-up.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ADMIN-ADDRESS" id="ADMIN-ADDRESS">7.1.3.
- admin-address</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>An email address to reach the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> administrator.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Email address</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>No email address is displayed on error pages and the CGI
- user interface.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>If both <tt class="LITERAL">admin-address</tt> and
- <tt class="LITERAL">proxy-info-url</tt> are unset, the whole
- "Local Privoxy Support" box on all generated pages will not be
- shown.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="TRUST-INFO-URL">7.1.2. trust-info-url</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A URL to be displayed in the error page that users will see
+ if access to an untrusted page is denied.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ URL
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ No links are displayed on the "untrusted" error page.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The value of this option only matters if the experimental
+ trust mechanism has been activated. (See <a href=
+ "config.html#TRUSTFILE"><span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">trustfile</i></span></a> below.)
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you use the trust mechanism, it is a good idea to write
+ up some on-line documentation about your trust policy and
+ to specify the URL(s) here. Use multiple times for multiple
+ URLs.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The URL(s) should be added to the trustfile as well, so
+ users don't end up locked out from the information on why
+ they were locked out in the first place!
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="PROXY-INFO-URL" id="PROXY-INFO-URL">7.1.4.
- proxy-info-url</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A URL to documentation about the local <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> setup, configuration or
- policies.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>URL</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>No link to local documentation is displayed on error pages
- and the CGI user interface.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>If both <tt class="LITERAL">admin-address</tt> and
- <tt class="LITERAL">proxy-info-url</tt> are unset, the whole
- "Local Privoxy Support" box on all generated pages will not be
- shown.</p>
-
- <p>This URL shouldn't be blocked ;-)</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ADMIN-ADDRESS">7.1.3. admin-address</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ An email address to reach the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> administrator.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Email address
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ No email address is displayed on error pages and the CGI
+ user interface.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ If both <tt class="LITERAL">admin-address</tt> and <tt
+ class="LITERAL">proxy-info-url</tt> are unset, the whole
+ "Local Privoxy Support" box on all generated pages will not
+ be shown.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="CONF-LOG-LOC" id="CONF-LOG-LOC">7.2.
- Configuration and Log File Locations</a></h2>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can (and normally does) use
- a number of other files for additional configuration, help and logging.
- This section of the configuration file tells <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> where to find those other files.</p>
-
- <p>The user running <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, must have
- read permission for all configuration files, and write permission to
- any files that would be modified, such as log files and actions
- files.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CONFDIR" id="CONFDIR">7.2.1.
- confdir</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The directory where the other configuration files are
- located.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Path name</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>/etc/privoxy (Unix) <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">or</i></span> <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> installation dir (Windows)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Mandatory</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>No trailing <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
- "LITERAL">/</tt>"</span>, please.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="PROXY-INFO-URL">7.1.4. proxy-info-url</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A URL to documentation about the local <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> setup, configuration or
+ policies.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ URL
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ No link to local documentation is displayed on error pages
+ and the CGI user interface.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ If both <tt class="LITERAL">admin-address</tt> and <tt
+ class="LITERAL">proxy-info-url</tt> are unset, the whole
+ "Local Privoxy Support" box on all generated pages will not
+ be shown.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This URL shouldn't be blocked ;-)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="TEMPLDIR" id="TEMPLDIR">7.2.2.
- templdir</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>An alternative directory where the templates are loaded
- from.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Path name</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>unset</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The templates are assumed to be located in
- confdir/template.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> original
- templates are usually overwritten with each update. Use this
- option to relocate customized templates that should be kept. As
- template variables might change between updates, you shouldn't
- expect templates to work with <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> releases other than the one they
- were part of, though.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CONF-LOG-LOC">7.2. Configuration and Log File
+ Locations</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can (and normally does)
+ use a number of other files for additional configuration, help and
+ logging. This section of the configuration file tells <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> where to find those other files.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The user running <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, must
+ have read permission for all configuration files, and write
+ permission to any files that would be modified, such as log files
+ and actions files.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CONFDIR">7.2.1. confdir</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The directory where the other configuration files are
+ located.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Path name
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ /etc/privoxy (Unix) <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">or</i></span> <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> installation dir (Windows)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Mandatory</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ No trailing <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/</tt>"</span>, please.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="TEMPORARY-DIRECTORY" id=
- "TEMPORARY-DIRECTORY">7.2.3. temporary-directory</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A directory where Privoxy can create temporary files.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Path name</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>unset</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>No temporary files are created, external filters don't
- work.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>To execute <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER" target="_top">external
- filters</a></tt>, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has
- to create temporary files. This directive specifies the
- directory the temporary files should be written to.</p>
-
- <p>It should be a directory only <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (and trusted users) can
- access.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="TEMPLDIR">7.2.2. templdir</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ An alternative directory where the templates are loaded
+ from.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Path name
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ unset
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The templates are assumed to be located in
+ confdir/template.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> original
+ templates are usually overwritten with each update. Use
+ this option to relocate customized templates that should be
+ kept. As template variables might change between updates,
+ you shouldn't expect templates to work with <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> releases other than the one
+ they were part of, though.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="LOGDIR" id="LOGDIR">7.2.4. logdir</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The directory where all logging takes place (i.e. where the
- <tt class="FILENAME">logfile</tt> is located).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Path name</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>/var/log/privoxy (Unix) <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">or</i></span> <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> installation dir (Windows)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Mandatory</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>No trailing <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
- "LITERAL">/</tt>"</span>, please.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="TEMPORARY-DIRECTORY">7.2.3. temporary-directory</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A directory where Privoxy can create temporary files.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Path name
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ unset
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ No temporary files are created, external filters don't
+ work.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ To execute <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER" target="_top">external
+ filters</a></tt>, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ has to create temporary files. This directive specifies the
+ directory the temporary files should be written to.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It should be a directory only <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (and trusted users) can
+ access.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ACTIONSFILE" id="ACTIONSFILE">7.2.5.
- actionsfile</a></h4><a name="DEFAULT.ACTION" id=
- "DEFAULT.ACTION"></a><a name="STANDARD.ACTION" id=
- "STANDARD.ACTION"></a><a name="USER.ACTION" id="USER.ACTION"></a>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The <a href="actions-file.html">actions file(s)</a> to
- use</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Complete file name, relative to <tt class=
- "LITERAL">confdir</tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default values:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- match-all.action # Actions that are applied to all sites and maybe overruled later on.</p>
- </td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- default.action # Main actions file</p>
- </td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- user.action # User customizations</p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>No actions are taken at all. More or less neutral
- proxying.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multiple <tt class="LITERAL">actionsfile</tt> lines are
- permitted, and are in fact recommended!</p>
-
- <p>The default values are <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt>, which is the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"main"</span> actions file maintained by the
- developers, and <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>, where
- you can make your personal additions.</p>
-
- <p>Actions files contain all the per site and per URL
- configuration for ad blocking, cookie management, privacy
- considerations, etc.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="LOGDIR">7.2.4. logdir</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The directory where all logging takes place (i.e. where the
+ <tt class="FILENAME">logfile</tt> is located).
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Path name
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ /var/log/privoxy (Unix) <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">or</i></span> <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> installation dir (Windows)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">Mandatory</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ No trailing <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/</tt>"</span>, please.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="FILTERFILE" id="FILTERFILE">7.2.6.
- filterfile</a></h4><a name="DEFAULT.FILTER" id="DEFAULT.FILTER"></a>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The <a href="filter-file.html">filter file(s)</a> to use</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>File name, relative to <tt class="LITERAL">confdir</tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>default.filter (Unix) <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">or</i></span> default.filter.txt (Windows)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>No textual content filtering takes place, i.e. all
- <tt class="LITERAL">+<a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a>{<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>}</tt> actions in the actions
- files are turned neutral.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multiple <tt class="LITERAL">filterfile</tt> lines are
- permitted.</p>
-
- <p>The <a href="filter-file.html">filter files</a> contain
- content modification rules that use <a href=
- "appendix.html#REGEX">regular expressions</a>. These rules
- permit powerful changes on the content of Web pages, and
- optionally the headers as well, e.g., you could try to disable
- your favorite JavaScript annoyances, re-write the actual
- displayed text, or just have some fun playing buzzword bingo
- with web pages.</p>
-
- <p>The <tt class="LITERAL">+<a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a>{<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>}</tt> actions rely on the
- relevant filter (<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>) to
- be defined in a filter file!</p>
-
- <p>A pre-defined filter file called <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.filter</tt> that contains a number of useful
- filters for common problems is included in the distribution.
- See the section on the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt> action for a
- list.</p>
-
- <p>It is recommended to place any locally adapted filters into
- a separate file, such as <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.filter</tt>.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ACTIONSFILE">7.2.5. actionsfile</a>
+ </h4>
+ <a name="DEFAULT.ACTION"></a><a name="STANDARD.ACTION"></a><a name=
+ "USER.ACTION"></a>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The <a href="actions-file.html">actions file(s)</a> to use
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Complete file name, relative to <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">confdir</tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default values:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ match-all.action # Actions that are applied to all sites and maybe overruled later on.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ default.action # Main actions file
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ user.action # User customizations
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ No actions are taken at all. More or less neutral proxying.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multiple <tt class="LITERAL">actionsfile</tt> lines are
+ permitted, and are in fact recommended!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The default values are <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt>, which is the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"main"</span> actions file maintained by the
+ developers, and <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>,
+ where you can make your personal additions.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Actions files contain all the per site and per URL
+ configuration for ad blocking, cookie management, privacy
+ considerations, etc.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="LOGFILE" id="LOGFILE">7.2.7.
- logfile</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The log file to use</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>File name, relative to <tt class="LITERAL">logdir</tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset (commented
- out)</i></span>. When activated: logfile (Unix) <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">or</i></span> privoxy.log
- (Windows).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>No logfile is written.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The logfile is where all logging and error messages are
- written. The level of detail and number of messages are set
- with the <tt class="LITERAL">debug</tt> option (see below). The
- logfile can be useful for tracking down a problem with
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (e.g., it's not
- blocking an ad you think it should block) and it can help you
- to monitor what your browser is doing.</p>
-
- <p>Depending on the debug options below, the logfile may be a
- privacy risk if third parties can get access to it. As most
- users will never look at it, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> only logs fatal errors by
- default.</p>
-
- <p>For most troubleshooting purposes, you will have to change
- that, please refer to the debugging section for details.</p>
-
- <p>Any log files must be writable by whatever user <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is being run as (on Unix, default
- user id is <span class="QUOTE">"privoxy"</span>).</p>
-
- <p>To prevent the logfile from growing indefinitely, it is
- recommended to periodically rotate or shorten it. Many
- operating systems support log rotation out of the box, some
- require additional software to do it. For details, please refer
- to the documentation for your operating system.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="FILTERFILE">7.2.6. filterfile</a>
+ </h4>
+ <a name="DEFAULT.FILTER"></a>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The <a href="filter-file.html">filter file(s)</a> to use
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ File name, relative to <tt class="LITERAL">confdir</tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ default.filter (Unix) <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">or</i></span> default.filter.txt (Windows)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ No textual content filtering takes place, i.e. all <tt
+ class="LITERAL">+<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a>{<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>}</tt> actions in the actions
+ files are turned neutral.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multiple <tt class="LITERAL">filterfile</tt> lines are
+ permitted.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The <a href="filter-file.html">filter files</a> contain
+ content modification rules that use <a href=
+ "appendix.html#REGEX">regular expressions</a>. These rules
+ permit powerful changes on the content of Web pages, and
+ optionally the headers as well, e.g., you could try to
+ disable your favorite JavaScript annoyances, re-write the
+ actual displayed text, or just have some fun playing
+ buzzword bingo with web pages.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The <tt class="LITERAL">+<a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a>{<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>}</tt> actions rely on the
+ relevant filter (<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>)
+ to be defined in a filter file!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A pre-defined filter file called <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.filter</tt> that contains a number of
+ useful filters for common problems is included in the
+ distribution. See the section on the <tt class="LITERAL"><a
+ href="actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt> action for
+ a list.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is recommended to place any locally adapted filters into
+ a separate file, such as <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.filter</tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="TRUSTFILE" id="TRUSTFILE">7.2.8.
- trustfile</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The name of the trust file to use</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>File name, relative to <tt class="LITERAL">confdir</tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset (commented
- out)</i></span>. When activated: trust (Unix) <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">or</i></span> trust.txt
- (Windows)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The entire trust mechanism is disabled.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The trust mechanism is an experimental feature for building
- white-lists and should be used with care. It is <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">NOT</i></span> recommended for
- the casual user.</p>
-
- <p>If you specify a trust file, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will only allow access to sites
- that are specified in the trustfile. Sites can be listed in one
- of two ways:</p>
-
- <p>Prepending a <tt class="LITERAL">~</tt> character limits
- access to this site only (and any sub-paths within this site),
- e.g. <tt class="LITERAL">~www.example.com</tt> allows access to
- <tt class="LITERAL">~www.example.com/features/news.html</tt>,
- etc.</p>
-
- <p>Or, you can designate sites as <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">trusted referrers</i></span>, by
- prepending the name with a <tt class="LITERAL">+</tt>
- character. The effect is that access to untrusted sites will be
- granted -- but only if a link from this trusted referrer was
- used to get there. The link target will then be added to the
- <span class="QUOTE">"trustfile"</span> so that future, direct
- accesses will be granted. Sites added via this mechanism do not
- become trusted referrers themselves (i.e. they are added with a
- <tt class="LITERAL">~</tt> designation). There is a limit of
- 512 such entries, after which new entries will not be made.</p>
-
- <p>If you use the <tt class="LITERAL">+</tt> operator in the
- trust file, it may grow considerably over time.</p>
-
- <p>It is recommended that <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> be compiled with the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">--disable-force</tt>, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">--disable-toggle</tt> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">--disable-editor</tt> options, if this feature is to
- be used.</p>
-
- <p>Possible applications include limiting Internet access for
- children.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="LOGFILE">7.2.7. logfile</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The log file to use
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ File name, relative to <tt class="LITERAL">logdir</tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset (commented
+ out)</i></span>. When activated: logfile (Unix) <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">or</i></span>
+ privoxy.log (Windows).
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ No logfile is written.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The logfile is where all logging and error messages are
+ written. The level of detail and number of messages are set
+ with the <tt class="LITERAL">debug</tt> option (see below).
+ The logfile can be useful for tracking down a problem with
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (e.g., it's not
+ blocking an ad you think it should block) and it can help
+ you to monitor what your browser is doing.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Depending on the debug options below, the logfile may be a
+ privacy risk if third parties can get access to it. As most
+ users will never look at it, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> only logs fatal errors by
+ default.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For most troubleshooting purposes, you will have to change
+ that, please refer to the debugging section for details.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Any log files must be writable by whatever user <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is being run as (on
+ Unix, default user id is <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"privoxy"</span>).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To prevent the logfile from growing indefinitely, it is
+ recommended to periodically rotate or shorten it. Many
+ operating systems support log rotation out of the box, some
+ require additional software to do it. For details, please
+ refer to the documentation for your operating system.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="TRUSTFILE">7.2.8. trustfile</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The name of the trust file to use
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ File name, relative to <tt class="LITERAL">confdir</tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset (commented
+ out)</i></span>. When activated: trust (Unix) <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">or</i></span> trust.txt
+ (Windows)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The entire trust mechanism is disabled.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The trust mechanism is an experimental feature for building
+ white-lists and should be used with care. It is <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">NOT</i></span>
+ recommended for the casual user.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you specify a trust file, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will only allow access to
+ sites that are specified in the trustfile. Sites can be
+ listed in one of two ways:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Prepending a <tt class="LITERAL">~</tt> character limits
+ access to this site only (and any sub-paths within this
+ site), e.g. <tt class="LITERAL">~www.example.com</tt>
+ allows access to <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">~www.example.com/features/news.html</tt>, etc.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Or, you can designate sites as <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">trusted referrers</i></span>, by
+ prepending the name with a <tt class="LITERAL">+</tt>
+ character. The effect is that access to untrusted sites
+ will be granted -- but only if a link from this trusted
+ referrer was used to get there. The link target will then
+ be added to the <span class="QUOTE">"trustfile"</span> so
+ that future, direct accesses will be granted. Sites added
+ via this mechanism do not become trusted referrers
+ themselves (i.e. they are added with a <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">~</tt> designation). There is a limit of 512 such
+ entries, after which new entries will not be made.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you use the <tt class="LITERAL">+</tt> operator in the
+ trust file, it may grow considerably over time.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is recommended that <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> be compiled with the <tt
+ class="LITERAL">--disable-force</tt>, <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">--disable-toggle</tt> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">--disable-editor</tt> options, if this feature is
+ to be used.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Possible applications include limiting Internet access for
+ children.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="DEBUGGING" id="DEBUGGING">7.3.
- Debugging</a></h2>
-
- <p>These options are mainly useful when tracing a problem. Note that
- you might also want to invoke <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- with the <tt class="LITERAL">--no-daemon</tt> command line option when
- debugging.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="DEBUG" id="DEBUG">7.3.1. debug</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Key values that determine what information gets logged.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Integer values</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0 (i.e.: only fatal errors (that cause Privoxy to exit) are
- logged)</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Default value is used (see above).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The available debug levels are:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="DEBUGGING">7.3. Debugging</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ These options are mainly useful when tracing a problem. Note that
+ you might also want to invoke <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">--no-daemon</tt> command line option when debugging.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="DEBUG">7.3.1. debug</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Key values that determine what information gets logged.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Integer values
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0 (i.e.: only fatal errors (that cause Privoxy to exit) are
+ logged)
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Default value is used (see above).
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The available debug levels are:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
debug 1 # Log the destination for each request <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> let through. See also debug 1024.
debug 2 # show each connection status
debug 32768 # log all data read from the network
debug 65536 # Log the applying actions
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>To select multiple debug levels, you can either add them or
- use multiple <tt class="LITERAL">debug</tt> lines.</p>
-
- <p>A debug level of 1 is informative because it will show you
- each request as it happens. <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">1, 1024, 4096 and 8192 are recommended</i></span> so
- that you will notice when things go wrong. The other levels are
- probably only of interest if you are hunting down a specific
- problem. They can produce a hell of an output (especially
- 16).</p>
-
- <p>If you are used to the more verbose settings, simply enable
- the debug lines below again.</p>
-
- <p>If you want to use pure CLF (Common Log Format), you should
- set <span class="QUOTE">"debug 512"</span> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">ONLY</i></span> and not enable
- anything else.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has a hard-coded
- limit for the length of log messages. If it's reached, messages
- are logged truncated and marked with <span class="QUOTE">"...
- [too long, truncated]"</span>.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>Please don't file any support requests without trying to
- reproduce the problem with increased debug level first. Once
- you read the log messages, you may even be able to solve the
- problem on your own.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <p>
+ To select multiple debug levels, you can either add them or
+ use multiple <tt class="LITERAL">debug</tt> lines.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A debug level of 1 is informative because it will show you
+ each request as it happens. <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">1, 1024, 4096 and 8192 are
+ recommended</i></span> so that you will notice when things
+ go wrong. The other levels are probably only of interest if
+ you are hunting down a specific problem. They can produce a
+ hell of an output (especially 16).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are used to the more verbose settings, simply enable
+ the debug lines below again.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you want to use pure CLF (Common Log Format), you should
+ set <span class="QUOTE">"debug 512"</span> <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">ONLY</i></span> and not
+ enable anything else.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has a hard-coded
+ limit for the length of log messages. If it's reached,
+ messages are logged truncated and marked with <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"... [too long, truncated]"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please don't file any support requests without trying to
+ reproduce the problem with increased debug level first.
+ Once you read the log messages, you may even be able to
+ solve the problem on your own.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="SINGLE-THREADED" id=
- "SINGLE-THREADED">7.3.2. single-threaded</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether to run only one server thread.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">1 or
- 0</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multi-threaded (or, where unavailable: forked) operation,
- i.e. the ability to serve multiple requests simultaneously.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This option is only there for debugging purposes.
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">It will drastically
- reduce performance.</i></span></p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="SINGLE-THREADED">7.3.2. single-threaded</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether to run only one server thread.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">1 or
+ 0</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multi-threaded (or, where unavailable: forked) operation,
+ i.e. the ability to serve multiple requests simultaneously.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This option is only there for debugging purposes. <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">It will drastically
+ reduce performance.</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HOSTNAME">7.3.3. hostname</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The hostname shown on the CGI pages.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Text
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The hostname provided by the operating system is used.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ On some misconfigured systems resolving the hostname fails
+ or takes too much time and slows Privoxy down. Setting a
+ fixed hostname works around the problem.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In other circumstances it might be desirable to show a
+ hostname other than the one returned by the operating
+ system. For example if the system has several different
+ hostnames and you don't want to use the first one.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that Privoxy does not validate the specified hostname
+ value.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="HOSTNAME" id="HOSTNAME">7.3.3.
- hostname</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The hostname shown on the CGI pages.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Text</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The hostname provided by the operating system is used.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>On some misconfigured systems resolving the hostname fails
- or takes too much time and slows Privoxy down. Setting a fixed
- hostname works around the problem.</p>
-
- <p>In other circumstances it might be desirable to show a
- hostname other than the one returned by the operating system.
- For example if the system has several different hostnames and
- you don't want to use the first one.</p>
-
- <p>Note that Privoxy does not validate the specified hostname
- value.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="ACCESS-CONTROL" id="ACCESS-CONTROL">7.4.
- Access Control and Security</a></h2>
-
- <p>This section of the config file controls the security-relevant
- aspects of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s
- configuration.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="LISTEN-ADDRESS" id="LISTEN-ADDRESS">7.4.1.
- listen-address</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The address and TCP port on which <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will listen for client
- requests.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>[<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>IP-Address</i></tt>]:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>Port</i></tt></p>
-
- <p>[<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Hostname</i></tt>]:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>Port</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>127.0.0.1:8118</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Bind to 127.0.0.1 (IPv4 localhost), port 8118. This is
- suitable and recommended for home users who run <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on the same machine as their
- browser.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>You will need to configure your browser(s) to this proxy
- address and port.</p>
-
- <p>If you already have another service running on port 8118, or
- if you want to serve requests from other machines (e.g. on your
- local network) as well, you will need to override the
- default.</p>
-
- <p>You can use this statement multiple times to make
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> listen on more ports
- or more <abbr class="ABBREV">IP</abbr> addresses. Suitable if
- your operating system does not support sharing <abbr class=
- "ABBREV">IPv6</abbr> and <abbr class="ABBREV">IPv4</abbr>
- protocols on the same socket.</p>
-
- <p>If a hostname is used instead of an IP address, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will try to resolve it to an IP
- address and if there are multiple, use the first one
- returned.</p>
-
- <p>If the address for the hostname isn't already known on the
- system (for example because it's in /etc/hostname), this may
- result in DNS traffic.</p>
-
- <p>If the specified address isn't available on the system, or
- if the hostname can't be resolved, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will fail to start.</p>
-
- <p>IPv6 addresses containing colons have to be quoted by
- brackets. They can only be used if <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has been compiled with IPv6
- support. If you aren't sure if your version supports it, have a
- look at <tt class=
- "LITERAL">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>Some operating systems will prefer IPv6 to IPv4 addresses
- even if the system has no IPv6 connectivity which is usually
- not expected by the user. Some even rely on DNS to resolve
- localhost which mean the "localhost" address used may not
- actually be local.</p>
-
- <p>It is therefore recommended to explicitly configure the
- intended IP address instead of relying on the operating system,
- unless there's a strong reason not to.</p>
-
- <p>If you leave out the address, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will bind to all IPv4 interfaces
- (addresses) on your machine and may become reachable from the
- Internet and/or the local network. Be aware that some GNU/Linux
- distributions modify that behaviour without updating the
- documentation. Check for non-standard patches if your
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version behaves
- differently.</p>
-
- <p>If you configure <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
- be reachable from the network, consider using <a href=
- "config.html#ACLS">access control lists</a> (ACL's, see below),
- and/or a firewall.</p>
-
- <p>If you open <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
- untrusted users, you will also want to make sure that the
- following actions are disabled: <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a></tt>
- and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Example:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Suppose you are running <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on a machine which has the address
- 192.168.0.1 on your local private network (192.168.0.0) and has
- another outside connection with a different address. You want
- it to serve requests from inside only:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="ACCESS-CONTROL">7.4. Access Control and Security</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ This section of the config file controls the security-relevant
+ aspects of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s
+ configuration.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="LISTEN-ADDRESS">7.4.1. listen-address</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The address and TCP port on which <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will listen for client
+ requests.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ [<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>IP-Address</i></tt>]:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>Port</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ [<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Hostname</i></tt>]:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>Port</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 127.0.0.1:8118
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Bind to 127.0.0.1 (IPv4 localhost), port 8118. This is
+ suitable and recommended for home users who run <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on the same machine as
+ their browser.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ You will need to configure your browser(s) to this proxy
+ address and port.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you already have another service running on port 8118,
+ or if you want to serve requests from other machines (e.g.
+ on your local network) as well, you will need to override
+ the default.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You can use this statement multiple times to make <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> listen on more ports or
+ more <abbr class="ABBREV">IP</abbr> addresses. Suitable if
+ your operating system does not support sharing <abbr class=
+ "ABBREV">IPv6</abbr> and <abbr class="ABBREV">IPv4</abbr>
+ protocols on the same socket.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If a hostname is used instead of an IP address, <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will try to resolve it
+ to an IP address and if there are multiple, use the first
+ one returned.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If the address for the hostname isn't already known on the
+ system (for example because it's in /etc/hostname), this
+ may result in DNS traffic.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If the specified address isn't available on the system, or
+ if the hostname can't be resolved, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will fail to start.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ IPv6 addresses containing colons have to be quoted by
+ brackets. They can only be used if <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has been compiled with IPv6
+ support. If you aren't sure if your version supports it,
+ have a look at <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Some operating systems will prefer IPv6 to IPv4 addresses
+ even if the system has no IPv6 connectivity which is
+ usually not expected by the user. Some even rely on DNS to
+ resolve localhost which mean the "localhost" address used
+ may not actually be local.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is therefore recommended to explicitly configure the
+ intended IP address instead of relying on the operating
+ system, unless there's a strong reason not to.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you leave out the address, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will bind to all IPv4
+ interfaces (addresses) on your machine and may become
+ reachable from the Internet and/or the local network. Be
+ aware that some GNU/Linux distributions modify that
+ behaviour without updating the documentation. Check for
+ non-standard patches if your <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version behaves differently.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you configure <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ to be reachable from the network, consider using <a href=
+ "config.html#ACLS">access control lists</a> (ACL's, see
+ below), and/or a firewall.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you open <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
+ untrusted users, you will also want to make sure that the
+ following actions are disabled: <tt class="LITERAL"><a
+ href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a></tt>
+ and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Example:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Suppose you are running <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on a machine which has the
+ address 192.168.0.1 on your local private network
+ (192.168.0.0) and has another outside connection with a
+ different address. You want it to serve requests from
+ inside only:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
listen-address 192.168.0.1:8118
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Suppose you are running <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on an IPv6-capable machine and you
- want it to listen on the IPv6 address of the loopback
- device:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ <p>
+ Suppose you are running <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on an IPv6-capable machine and
+ you want it to listen on the IPv6 address of the loopback
+ device:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
listen-address [::1]:8118
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="TOGGLE" id="TOGGLE">7.4.2. toggle</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Initial state of "toggle" status</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>1 or 0</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>1</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Act as if toggled on</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>If set to 0, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
- start in <span class="QUOTE">"toggled off"</span> mode, i.e.
- mostly behave like a normal, content-neutral proxy with both ad
- blocking and content filtering disabled. See <tt class=
- "LITERAL">enable-remote-toggle</tt> below.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="TOGGLE">7.4.2. toggle</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Initial state of "toggle" status
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 1 or 0
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Act as if toggled on
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ If set to 0, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
+ start in <span class="QUOTE">"toggled off"</span> mode,
+ i.e. mostly behave like a normal, content-neutral proxy
+ with both ad blocking and content filtering disabled. See
+ <tt class="LITERAL">enable-remote-toggle</tt> below.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE" id=
- "ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">7.4.3. enable-remote-toggle</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether or not the <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/toggle" target="_top">web-based
- toggle feature</a> may be used</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0 or 1</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The web-based toggle feature is disabled.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>When toggled off, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- mostly acts like a normal, content-neutral proxy, i.e. doesn't
- block ads or filter content.</p>
-
- <p>Access to the toggle feature can <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not</i></span> be controlled
- separately by <span class="QUOTE">"ACLs"</span> or HTTP
- authentication, so that everybody who can access <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (see <span class=
- "QUOTE">"ACLs"</span> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">listen-address</tt> above) can toggle it for all
- users. So this option is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">not recommended</i></span> for multi-user
- environments with untrusted users.</p>
-
- <p>Note that malicious client side code (e.g Java) is also
- capable of using this option.</p>
-
- <p>As a lot of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> users
- don't read documentation, this feature is disabled by
- default.</p>
-
- <p>Note that you must have compiled <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with support for this feature,
- otherwise this option has no effect.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">7.4.3. enable-remote-toggle</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether or not the <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/toggle" target="_top">web-based
+ toggle feature</a> may be used
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0 or 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The web-based toggle feature is disabled.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ When toggled off, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ mostly acts like a normal, content-neutral proxy, i.e.
+ doesn't block ads or filter content.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Access to the toggle feature can <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">not</i></span> be controlled separately by
+ <span class="QUOTE">"ACLs"</span> or HTTP authentication,
+ so that everybody who can access <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (see <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"ACLs"</span> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">listen-address</tt> above) can toggle it for all
+ users. So this option is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">not recommended</i></span> for multi-user
+ environments with untrusted users.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that malicious client side code (e.g Java) is also
+ capable of using this option.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As a lot of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> users
+ don't read documentation, this feature is disabled by
+ default.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that you must have compiled <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with support for this feature,
+ otherwise this option has no effect.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE" id=
- "ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">7.4.4. enable-remote-http-toggle</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether or not Privoxy recognizes special HTTP headers to
- change its behaviour.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0 or 1</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Privoxy ignores special HTTP headers.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>When toggled on, the client can change <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> behaviour by setting special
- HTTP headers. Currently the only supported special header is
- <span class="QUOTE">"X-Filter: No"</span>, to disable filtering
- for the ongoing request, even if it is enabled in one of the
- action files.</p>
-
- <p>This feature is disabled by default. If you are using
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in a environment with
- trusted clients, you may enable this feature at your
- discretion. Note that malicious client side code (e.g Java) is
- also capable of using this feature.</p>
-
- <p>This option will be removed in future releases as it has
- been obsoleted by the more general header taggers.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">7.4.4.
+ enable-remote-http-toggle</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether or not Privoxy recognizes special HTTP headers to
+ change its behaviour.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0 or 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy ignores special HTTP headers.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ When toggled on, the client can change <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> behaviour by setting special
+ HTTP headers. Currently the only supported special header
+ is <span class="QUOTE">"X-Filter: No"</span>, to disable
+ filtering for the ongoing request, even if it is enabled in
+ one of the action files.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This feature is disabled by default. If you are using <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in a environment with
+ trusted clients, you may enable this feature at your
+ discretion. Note that malicious client side code (e.g Java)
+ is also capable of using this feature.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This option will be removed in future releases as it has
+ been obsoleted by the more general header taggers.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS" id=
- "ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">7.4.5. enable-edit-actions</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether or not the <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target="_top">web-based
- actions file editor</a> may be used</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0 or 1</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The web-based actions file editor is disabled.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Access to the editor can <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">not</i></span> be controlled separately by
- <span class="QUOTE">"ACLs"</span> or HTTP authentication, so
- that everybody who can access <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (see <span class=
- "QUOTE">"ACLs"</span> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">listen-address</tt> above) can modify its
- configuration for all users.</p>
-
- <p>This option is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">not recommended</i></span> for environments with
- untrusted users and as a lot of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> users don't read documentation,
- this feature is disabled by default.</p>
-
- <p>Note that malicious client side code (e.g Java) is also
- capable of using the actions editor and you shouldn't enable
- this options unless you understand the consequences and are
- sure your browser is configured correctly.</p>
-
- <p>Note that you must have compiled <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with support for this feature,
- otherwise this option has no effect.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">7.4.5. enable-edit-actions</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether or not the <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">web-based actions file editor</a> may be used
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0 or 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The web-based actions file editor is disabled.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Access to the editor can <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">not</i></span> be controlled separately by <span
+ class="QUOTE">"ACLs"</span> or HTTP authentication, so that
+ everybody who can access <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> (see <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"ACLs"</span> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">listen-address</tt> above) can modify its
+ configuration for all users.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This option is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">not recommended</i></span> for environments with
+ untrusted users and as a lot of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> users don't read
+ documentation, this feature is disabled by default.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that malicious client side code (e.g Java) is also
+ capable of using the actions editor and you shouldn't
+ enable this options unless you understand the consequences
+ and are sure your browser is configured correctly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that you must have compiled <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with support for this feature,
+ otherwise this option has no effect.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ENFORCE-BLOCKS" id="ENFORCE-BLOCKS">7.4.6.
- enforce-blocks</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether the user is allowed to ignore blocks and can
- <span class="QUOTE">"go there anyway"</span>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Blocks are not enforced.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is mainly used to
- block and filter requests as a service to the user, for example
- to block ads and other junk that clogs the pipes. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration isn't perfect and
- sometimes innocent pages are blocked. In this situation it
- makes sense to allow the user to enforce the request and have
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ignore the block.</p>
-
- <p>In the default configuration <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Blocked"</span> page contains a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"go there anyway"</span> link to adds a special string
- (the force prefix) to the request URL. If that link is used,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will detect the force
- prefix, remove it again and let the request pass.</p>
-
- <p>Of course <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can also
- be used to enforce a network policy. In that case the user
- obviously should not be able to bypass any blocks, and that's
- what the <span class="QUOTE">"enforce-blocks"</span> option is
- for. If it's enabled, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- hides the <span class="QUOTE">"go there anyway"</span> link. If
- the user adds the force prefix by hand, it will not be accepted
- and the circumvention attempt is logged.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>enforce-blocks 1</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ENFORCE-BLOCKS">7.4.6. enforce-blocks</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether the user is allowed to ignore blocks and can <span
+ class="QUOTE">"go there anyway"</span>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Blocks are not enforced.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is mainly used to
+ block and filter requests as a service to the user, for
+ example to block ads and other junk that clogs the pipes.
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration
+ isn't perfect and sometimes innocent pages are blocked. In
+ this situation it makes sense to allow the user to enforce
+ the request and have <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ignore the block.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In the default configuration <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Blocked"</span> page contains a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"go there anyway"</span> link to adds a special
+ string (the force prefix) to the request URL. If that link
+ is used, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
+ detect the force prefix, remove it again and let the
+ request pass.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Of course <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can also
+ be used to enforce a network policy. In that case the user
+ obviously should not be able to bypass any blocks, and
+ that's what the <span class="QUOTE">"enforce-blocks"</span>
+ option is for. If it's enabled, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> hides the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"go there anyway"</span> link. If the user adds the
+ force prefix by hand, it will not be accepted and the
+ circumvention attempt is logged.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ enforce-blocks 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ACLS" id="ACLS">7.4.7. ACLs: permit-access
- and deny-access</a></h4><a name="PERMIT-ACCESS" id=
- "PERMIT-ACCESS"></a><a name="DENY-ACCESS" id="DENY-ACCESS"></a>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Who can access what.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>src_addr</i></tt>[:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>][/<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>src_masklen</i></tt>] [<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_addr</i></tt>[:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>][/<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_masklen</i></tt>]]</p>
-
- <p>Where <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>src_addr</i></tt> and
- <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_addr</i></tt> are IPv4 addresses
- in dotted decimal notation or valid DNS names, <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt> is a port number, and <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>src_masklen</i></tt> and <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_masklen</i></tt> are subnet masks in CIDR
- notation, i.e. integer values from 2 to 30 representing the
- length (in bits) of the network address. The masks and the
- whole destination part are optional.</p>
-
- <p>If your system implements <a href=
- "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3493" target="_top">RFC
- 3493</a>, then <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>src_addr</i></tt> and
- <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_addr</i></tt> can be IPv6
- addresses delimeted by brackets, <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt> can be a number or a service
- name, and <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>src_masklen</i></tt> and
- <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_masklen</i></tt> can be a number
- from 0 to 128.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span></p>
-
- <p>If no <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt> is specified,
- any port will match. If no <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>src_masklen</i></tt> or <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>src_masklen</i></tt> is given, the complete IP
- address has to match (i.e. 32 bits for IPv4 and 128 bits for
- IPv6).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Don't restrict access further than implied by <tt class=
- "LITERAL">listen-address</tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Access controls are included at the request of ISPs and
- systems administrators, and <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">are not usually needed by individual
- users</i></span>. For a typical home user, it will normally
- suffice to ensure that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- only listens on the localhost (127.0.0.1) or internal (home)
- network address by means of the <a href=
- "config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS"><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">listen-address</i></span></a> option.</p>
-
- <p>Please see the warnings in the FAQ that <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not intended to be a substitute
- for a firewall or to encourage anyone to defer addressing basic
- security weaknesses.</p>
-
- <p>Multiple ACL lines are OK. If any ACLs are specified,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> only talks to IP
- addresses that match at least one <tt class=
- "LITERAL">permit-access</tt> line and don't match any
- subsequent <tt class="LITERAL">deny-access</tt> line. In other
- words, the last match wins, with the default being <tt class=
- "LITERAL">deny-access</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>If <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is using a
- forwarder (see <tt class="LITERAL">forward</tt> below) for a
- particular destination URL, the <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_addr</i></tt> that is examined is the
- address of the forwarder and <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">NOT</i></span> the address of the ultimate target.
- This is necessary because it may be impossible for the local
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to determine the IP
- address of the ultimate target (that's often what gateways are
- used for).</p>
-
- <p>You should prefer using IP addresses over DNS names, because
- the address lookups take time. All DNS names must resolve! You
- can <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not</i></span>
- use domain patterns like <span class="QUOTE">"*.org"</span> or
- partial domain names. If a DNS name resolves to multiple IP
- addresses, only the first one is used.</p>
-
- <p>Some systems allow IPv4 clients to connect to IPv6 server
- sockets. Then the client's IPv4 address will be translated by
- the system into IPv6 address space with special prefix
- ::ffff:0:0/96 (so called IPv4 mapped IPv6 address).
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can handle it and maps
- such ACL addresses automatically.</p>
-
- <p>Denying access to particular sites by ACL may have undesired
- side effects if the site in question is hosted on a machine
- which also hosts other sites (most sites are).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Explicitly define the default behavior if no ACL and
- <tt class="LITERAL">listen-address</tt> are set: <span class=
- "QUOTE">"localhost"</span> is OK. The absence of a <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_addr</i></tt> implies that <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> destination
- addresses are OK:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ACLS">7.4.7. ACLs: permit-access and deny-access</a>
+ </h4>
+ <a name="PERMIT-ACCESS"></a><a name="DENY-ACCESS"></a>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Who can access what.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>src_addr</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>][/<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>src_masklen</i></tt>] [<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_addr</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>][/<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_masklen</i></tt>]]
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Where <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>src_addr</i></tt> and <tt
+ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_addr</i></tt> are IPv4 addresses
+ in dotted decimal notation or valid DNS names, <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt> is a port number, and <tt
+ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>src_masklen</i></tt> and <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_masklen</i></tt> are subnet masks in
+ CIDR notation, i.e. integer values from 2 to 30
+ representing the length (in bits) of the network address.
+ The masks and the whole destination part are optional.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If your system implements <a href=
+ "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3493" target="_top">RFC
+ 3493</a>, then <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>src_addr</i></tt>
+ and <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_addr</i></tt> can be
+ IPv6 addresses delimeted by brackets, <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt> can be a number or a service
+ name, and <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>src_masklen</i></tt>
+ and <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_masklen</i></tt> can be
+ a number from 0 to 128.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If no <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt> is
+ specified, any port will match. If no <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>src_masklen</i></tt> or <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>src_masklen</i></tt> is given, the
+ complete IP address has to match (i.e. 32 bits for IPv4 and
+ 128 bits for IPv6).
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Don't restrict access further than implied by <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">listen-address</tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Access controls are included at the request of ISPs and
+ systems administrators, and <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">are not usually needed by individual
+ users</i></span>. For a typical home user, it will normally
+ suffice to ensure that <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> only listens on the localhost
+ (127.0.0.1) or internal (home) network address by means of
+ the <a href="config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS"><span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">listen-address</i></span></a> option.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please see the warnings in the FAQ that <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is not intended to be a
+ substitute for a firewall or to encourage anyone to defer
+ addressing basic security weaknesses.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Multiple ACL lines are OK. If any ACLs are specified, <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> only talks to IP
+ addresses that match at least one <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">permit-access</tt> line and don't match any
+ subsequent <tt class="LITERAL">deny-access</tt> line. In
+ other words, the last match wins, with the default being
+ <tt class="LITERAL">deny-access</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is using a
+ forwarder (see <tt class="LITERAL">forward</tt> below) for
+ a particular destination URL, the <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_addr</i></tt> that is examined is the
+ address of the forwarder and <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">NOT</i></span> the address of the ultimate
+ target. This is necessary because it may be impossible for
+ the local <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
+ determine the IP address of the ultimate target (that's
+ often what gateways are used for).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You should prefer using IP addresses over DNS names,
+ because the address lookups take time. All DNS names must
+ resolve! You can <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">not</i></span> use domain patterns like <span
+ class="QUOTE">"*.org"</span> or partial domain names. If a
+ DNS name resolves to multiple IP addresses, only the first
+ one is used.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Some systems allow IPv4 clients to connect to IPv6 server
+ sockets. Then the client's IPv4 address will be translated
+ by the system into IPv6 address space with special prefix
+ ::ffff:0:0/96 (so called IPv4 mapped IPv6 address). <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can handle it and maps
+ such ACL addresses automatically.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Denying access to particular sites by ACL may have
+ undesired side effects if the site in question is hosted on
+ a machine which also hosts other sites (most sites are).
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Explicitly define the default behavior if no ACL and <tt
+ class="LITERAL">listen-address</tt> are set: <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"localhost"</span> is OK. The absence of a <tt
+ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>dst_addr</i></tt> implies that <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span>
+ destination addresses are OK:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
permit-access localhost
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Allow any host on the same class C subnet as www.privoxy.org
- access to nothing but www.example.com (or other domains hosted
- on the same system):</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Allow any host on the same class C subnet as
+ www.privoxy.org access to nothing but www.example.com (or
+ other domains hosted on the same system):
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
permit-access www.privoxy.org/24 www.example.com/32
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Allow access from any host on the 26-bit subnet
- 192.168.45.64 to anywhere, with the exception that
- 192.168.45.73 may not access the IP address behind
- www.dirty-stuff.example.com:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- permit-access 192.168.45.64/26
- deny-access 192.168.45.73 www.dirty-stuff.example.com
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Allow access from the IPv4 network 192.0.2.0/24 even if
- listening on an IPv6 wild card address (not supported on all
- platforms):</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- permit-access 192.0.2.0/24
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>This is equivalent to the following line even if listening
- on an IPv4 address (not supported on all platforms):</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- permit-access [::ffff:192.0.2.0]/120
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="BUFFER-LIMIT" id="BUFFER-LIMIT">7.4.8.
- buffer-limit</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Maximum size of the buffer for content filtering.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Size in Kbytes</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>4096</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Use a 4MB (4096 KB) limit.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>For content filtering, i.e. the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">+filter</tt> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">+deanimate-gif</tt> actions, it is necessary that
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> buffers the entire
- document body. This can be potentially dangerous, since a
- server could just keep sending data indefinitely and wait for
- your RAM to exhaust -- with nasty consequences. Hence this
- option.</p>
-
- <p>When a document buffer size reaches the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">buffer-limit</tt>, it is flushed to the client
- unfiltered and no further attempt to filter the rest of the
- document is made. Remember that there may be multiple threads
- running, which might require up to <tt class=
- "LITERAL">buffer-limit</tt> Kbytes <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">each</i></span>, unless you have
- enabled <span class="QUOTE">"single-threaded"</span> above.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ENABLE-PROXY-AUTHENTICATION-FORWARDING"
- id="ENABLE-PROXY-AUTHENTICATION-FORWARDING">7.4.9.
- enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether or not proxy authentication through <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> should work.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0 or 1</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Proxy authentication headers are removed.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Privoxy itself does not support proxy authentication, but
- can allow clients to authenticate against Privoxy's parent
- proxy.</p>
-
- <p>By default Privoxy (3.0.21 and later) don't do that and
- remove Proxy-Authorization headers in requests and
- Proxy-Authenticate headers in responses to make it harder for
- malicious sites to trick inexperienced users into providing
- login information.</p>
-
- <p>If this option is enabled the headers are forwarded.</p>
-
- <p>Enabling this option is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">not recommended</i></span> if there is no parent
- proxy that requires authentication or if the local network
- between Privoxy and the parent proxy isn't trustworthy. If
- proxy authentication is only required for some requests, it is
- recommended to use a client header filter to remove the
- authentication headers for requests where they aren't
- needed.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="FORWARDING" id="FORWARDING">7.5.
- Forwarding</a></h2>
-
- <p>This feature allows routing of HTTP requests through a chain of
- multiple proxies.</p>
-
- <p>Forwarding can be used to chain Privoxy with a caching proxy to
- speed up browsing. Using a parent proxy may also be necessary if the
- machine that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs on has no
- direct Internet access.</p>
-
- <p>Note that parent proxies can severely decrease your privacy level.
- For example a parent proxy could add your IP address to the request
- headers and if it's a caching proxy it may add the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Etag"</span> header to revalidation requests again, even
- though you configured Privoxy to remove it. It may also ignore
- Privoxy's header time randomization and use the original values which
- could be used by the server as cookie replacement to track your steps
- between visits.</p>
-
- <p>Also specified here are SOCKS proxies. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> supports the SOCKS 4 and SOCKS 4A
- protocols.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="FORWARD" id="FORWARD">7.5.1.
- forward</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>To which parent HTTP proxy specific requests should be
- routed.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt>
- <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt>[:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>]</p>
-
- <p>where <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt> is
- a <a href="actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">URL pattern</a> that
- specifies to which requests (i.e. URLs) this forward rule shall
- apply. Use <tt class="LITERAL">/</tt> to denote <span class=
- "QUOTE">"all URLs"</span>. <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt>[:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>] is the DNS name or IP address
- of the parent HTTP proxy through which the requests should be
- forwarded, optionally followed by its listening port (default:
- 8000). Use a single dot (<tt class="LITERAL">.</tt>) to denote
- <span class="QUOTE">"no forwarding"</span>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Don't use parent HTTP proxies.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>If <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> is
- <span class="QUOTE">"."</span>, then requests are not forwarded
- to another HTTP proxy but are made directly to the web
- servers.</p>
-
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> can be a
- numerical IPv6 address (if <a href=
- "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3493" target="_top">RFC 3493</a>
- is implemented). To prevent clashes with the port delimiter,
- the whole IP address has to be put into brackets. On the other
- hand a <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt>
- containing an IPv6 address has to be put into angle brackets
- (normal brackets are reserved for regular expressions
- already).</p>
-
- <p>Multiple lines are OK, they are checked in sequence, and the
- last match wins.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Everything goes to an example parent proxy, except SSL on
- port 443 (which it doesn't handle):</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- forward / parent-proxy.example.org:8080
- forward :443 .
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Everything goes to our example ISP's caching proxy, except
- for requests to that ISP's sites:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- forward / caching-proxy.isp.example.net:8000
- forward .isp.example.net .
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Parent proxy specified by an IPv6 address:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- forward / [2001:DB8::1]:8000
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Suppose your parent proxy doesn't support IPv6:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
- forward / parent-proxy.example.org:8000
- forward ipv6-server.example.org .
- forward <[2-3][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]:*> .
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="SOCKS" id="SOCKS">7.5.2. forward-socks4,
- forward-socks4a, forward-socks5 and forward-socks5t</a></h4><a name=
- "FORWARD-SOCKS4" id="FORWARD-SOCKS4"></a><a name="FORWARD-SOCKS4A"
- id="FORWARD-SOCKS4A"></a>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Through which SOCKS proxy (and optionally to which parent
- HTTP proxy) specific requests should be routed.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt>
- <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>socks_proxy</i></tt>[:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>] <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt>[:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>]</p>
-
- <p>where <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt> is
- a <a href="actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">URL pattern</a> that
- specifies to which requests (i.e. URLs) this forward rule shall
- apply. Use <tt class="LITERAL">/</tt> to denote <span class=
- "QUOTE">"all URLs"</span>. <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> and <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>socks_proxy</i></tt> are IP addresses in
- dotted decimal notation or valid DNS names (<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> may be <span class=
- "QUOTE">"."</span> to denote <span class="QUOTE">"no HTTP
- forwarding"</span>), and the optional <tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt> parameters are TCP ports, i.e.
- integer values from 1 to 65535</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Don't use SOCKS proxies.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Multiple lines are OK, they are checked in sequence, and the
- last match wins.</p>
-
- <p>The difference between <tt class=
- "LITERAL">forward-socks4</tt> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">forward-socks4a</tt> is that in the SOCKS 4A
- protocol, the DNS resolution of the target hostname happens on
- the SOCKS server, while in SOCKS 4 it happens locally.</p>
-
- <p>With <tt class="LITERAL">forward-socks5</tt> the DNS
- resolution will happen on the remote server as well.</p>
-
- <p><tt class="LITERAL">forward-socks5t</tt> works like vanilla
- <tt class="LITERAL">forward-socks5</tt> but lets <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> additionally use Tor-specific
- SOCKS extensions. Currently the only supported SOCKS extension
- is optimistic data which can reduce the latency for the first
- request made on a newly created connection.</p>
-
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>socks_proxy</i></tt> and
- <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> can be a
- numerical IPv6 address (if <a href=
- "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3493" target="_top">RFC 3493</a>
- is implemented). To prevent clashes with the port delimiter,
- the whole IP address has to be put into brackets. On the other
- hand a <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt>
- containing an IPv6 address has to be put into angle brackets
- (normal brackets are reserved for regular expressions
- already).</p>
-
- <p>If <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> is
- <span class="QUOTE">"."</span>, then requests are not forwarded
- to another HTTP proxy but are made (HTTP-wise) directly to the
- web servers, albeit through a SOCKS proxy.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>From the company example.com, direct connections are made to
- all <span class="QUOTE">"internal"</span> domains, but
- everything outbound goes through their ISP's proxy by way of
- example.com's corporate SOCKS 4A gateway to the Internet.</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- forward-socks4a / socks-gw.example.com:1080 www-cache.isp.example.net:8080
- forward .example.com .
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>A rule that uses a SOCKS 4 gateway for all destinations but
- no HTTP parent looks like this:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- forward-socks4 / socks-gw.example.com:1080 .
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>To chain Privoxy and Tor, both running on the same system,
- you would use something like:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Note that if you got Tor through one of the bundles, you may
- have to change the port from 9050 to 9150 (or even another
- one). For details, please check the documentation on the
- <a href="https://torproject.org/" target="_top">Tor
- website</a>.</p>
-
- <p>The public <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> network
- can't be used to reach your local network, if you need to
- access local servers you therefore might want to make some
- exceptions:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- forward 192.168.*.*/ .
- forward 10.*.*.*/ .
- forward 127.*.*.*/ .
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Unencrypted connections to systems in these address ranges
- will be as (un)secure as the local network is, but the
- alternative is that you can't reach the local network through
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> at all. Of course this
- may actually be desired and there is no reason to make these
- exceptions if you aren't sure you need them.</p>
-
- <p>If you also want to be able to reach servers in your local
- network by using their names, you will need additional
- exceptions that look like this:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- forward localhost/ .
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ADVANCED-FORWARDING-EXAMPLES" id=
- "ADVANCED-FORWARDING-EXAMPLES">7.5.3. Advanced Forwarding
- Examples</a></h4>
-
- <p>If you have links to multiple ISPs that provide various special
- content only to their subscribers, you can configure multiple
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxies</span> which have connections to
- the respective ISPs to act as forwarders to each other, so that
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">your</i></span> users can
- see the internal content of all ISPs.</p>
-
- <p>Assume that host-a has a PPP connection to isp-a.example.net. And
- host-b has a PPP connection to isp-b.example.org. Both run
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Their forwarding
- configuration can look like this:</p>
-
- <p>host-a:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- forward / .
- forward .isp-b.example.net host-b:8118
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>host-b:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- forward / .
- forward .isp-a.example.org host-a:8118
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Now, your users can set their browser's proxy to use either host-a
- or host-b and be able to browse the internal content of both isp-a
- and isp-b.</p>
-
- <p>If you intend to chain <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- and <span class="APPLICATION">squid</span> locally, then chaining as
- <tt class="LITERAL">browser -> squid -> privoxy</tt> is the
- recommended way.</p>
-
- <p>Assuming that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and
- <span class="APPLICATION">squid</span> run on the same box, your
- <span class="APPLICATION">squid</span> configuration could then look
- like this:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- # Define Privoxy as parent proxy (without ICP)
- cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 8118 7 no-query
-
- # Define ACL for protocol FTP
- acl ftp proto FTP
-
- # Do not forward FTP requests to Privoxy
- always_direct allow ftp
-
- # Forward all the rest to Privoxy
- never_direct allow all
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>You would then need to change your browser's proxy settings to
- <span class="APPLICATION">squid</span>'s address and port. Squid
- normally uses port 3128. If unsure consult <tt class=
- "LITERAL">http_port</tt> in <tt class="FILENAME">squid.conf</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>You could just as well decide to only forward requests you suspect
- of leading to Windows executables through a virus-scanning parent
- proxy, say, on <tt class="LITERAL">antivir.example.com</tt>, port
- 8010:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- forward / .
- forward /.*\.(exe|com|dll|zip)$ antivir.example.com:8010
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="FORWARDED-CONNECT-RETRIES" id=
- "FORWARDED-CONNECT-RETRIES">7.5.4. forwarded-connect-retries</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>How often Privoxy retries if a forwarded connection request
- fails.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Number of retries.</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Connections forwarded through other proxies are treated like
- direct connections and no retry attempts are made.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>forwarded-connect-retries</i></tt> is mainly
- interesting for socks4a connections, where <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can't detect why the connections
- failed. The connection might have failed because of a DNS
- timeout in which case a retry makes sense, but it might also
- have failed because the server doesn't exist or isn't
- reachable. In this case the retry will just delay the
- appearance of Privoxy's error message.</p>
-
- <p>Note that in the context of this option, <span class=
- "QUOTE">"forwarded connections"</span> includes all connections
- that Privoxy forwards through other proxies. This option is not
- limited to the HTTP CONNECT method.</p>
-
- <p>Only use this option, if you are getting lots of
- forwarding-related error messages that go away when you try
- again manually. Start with a small value and check Privoxy's
- logfile from time to time, to see how many retries are usually
- needed.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>forwarded-connect-retries 1</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="MISC" id="MISC">7.6. Miscellaneous</a></h2>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS" id=
- "ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS">7.6.1.
- accept-intercepted-requests</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether intercepted requests should be treated as valid.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Only proxy requests are accepted, intercepted requests are
- treated as invalid.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>If you don't trust your clients and want to force them to
- use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, enable this
- option and configure your packet filter to redirect outgoing
- HTTP connections into <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Note that intercepting encrypted connections (HTTPS) isn't
- supported.</p>
-
- <p>Make sure that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span>
- own requests aren't redirected as well. Additionally take care
- that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can't
- intentionally connect to itself, otherwise you could run into
- redirection loops if <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span>
- listening port is reachable by the outside or an attacker has
- access to the pages you visit.</p>
-
- <p>If you are running Privoxy as intercepting proxy without
- being able to intercept all client requests you may want to
- adjust the CGI templates to make sure they don't reference
- content from config.privoxy.org.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>accept-intercepted-requests 1</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ALLOW-CGI-REQUEST-CRUNCHING" id=
- "ALLOW-CGI-REQUEST-CRUNCHING">7.6.2.
- allow-cgi-request-crunching</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether requests to <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> CGI pages can be blocked or
- redirected.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ignores block and
- redirect actions for its CGI pages.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>By default <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ignores
- block or redirect actions for its CGI pages. Intercepting these
- requests can be useful in multi-user setups to implement
- fine-grained access control, but it can also render the
- complete web interface useless and make debugging problems
- painful if done without care.</p>
-
- <p>Don't enable this option unless you're sure that you really
- need it.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>allow-cgi-request-crunching 1</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="SPLIT-LARGE-FORMS" id=
- "SPLIT-LARGE-FORMS">7.6.3. split-large-forms</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether the CGI interface should stay compatible with broken
- HTTP clients.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The CGI form generate long GET URLs.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> CGI forms can
- lead to rather long URLs. This isn't a problem as far as the
- HTTP standard is concerned, but it can confuse clients with
- arbitrary URL length limitations.</p>
-
- <p>Enabling split-large-forms causes <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to divide big forms into smaller
- ones to keep the URL length down. It makes editing a lot less
- convenient and you can no longer submit all changes at once,
- but at least it works around this browser bug.</p>
-
- <p>If you don't notice any editing problems, there is no reason
- to enable this option, but if one of the submit buttons appears
- to be broken, you should give it a try.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>split-large-forms 1</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="KEEP-ALIVE-TIMEOUT" id=
- "KEEP-ALIVE-TIMEOUT">7.6.4. keep-alive-timeout</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Number of seconds after which an open connection will no
- longer be reused.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Time in seconds.</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>None</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Connections are not kept alive.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This option allows clients to keep the connection to
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> alive. If the server
- supports it, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will keep
- the connection to the server alive as well. Under certain
- circumstances this may result in speed-ups.</p>
-
- <p>By default, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
- close the connection to the server if the client connection
- gets closed, or if the specified timeout has been reached
- without a new request coming in. This behaviour can be changed
- with the <a href="#CONNECTION-SHARING" target=
- "_top">connection-sharing</a> option.</p>
-
- <p>This option has no effect if <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has been compiled without
- keep-alive support.</p>
-
- <p>Note that a timeout of five seconds as used in the default
- configuration file significantly decreases the number of
- connections that will be reused. The value is used because some
- browsers limit the number of connections they open to a single
- host and apply the same limit to proxies. This can result in a
- single website <span class="QUOTE">"grabbing"</span> all the
- connections the browser allows, which means connections to
- other websites can't be opened until the connections currently
- in use time out.</p>
-
- <p>Several users have reported this as a Privoxy bug, so the
- default value has been reduced. Consider increasing it to 300
- seconds or even more if you think your browser can handle it.
- If your browser appears to be hanging, it probably can't.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>keep-alive-timeout 300</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="TOLERATE-PIPELINING" id=
- "TOLERATE-PIPELINING">7.6.5. tolerate-pipelining</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether or not pipelined requests should be served.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1.</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>None</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>If Privoxy receives more than one request at once, it
- terminates the client connection after serving the first
- one.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> currently doesn't
- pipeline outgoing requests, thus allowing pipelining on the
- client connection is not guaranteed to improve the
- performance.</p>
-
- <p>By default <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> tries to
- discourage clients from pipelining by discarding aggressively
- pipelined requests, which forces the client to resend them
- through a new connection.</p>
-
- <p>This option lets <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- tolerate pipelining. Whether or not that improves performance
- mainly depends on the client configuration.</p>
-
- <p>If you are seeing problems with pages not properly loading,
- disabling this option could work around the problem.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>tolerate-pipelining 1</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="DEFAULT-SERVER-TIMEOUT" id=
- "DEFAULT-SERVER-TIMEOUT">7.6.6. default-server-timeout</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Assumed server-side keep-alive timeout if not specified by
- the server.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Time in seconds.</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>None</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Connections for which the server didn't specify the
- keep-alive timeout are not reused.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Enabling this option significantly increases the number of
- connections that are reused, provided the <a href=
- "#KEEP-ALIVE-TIMEOUT" target="_top">keep-alive-timeout</a>
- option is also enabled.</p>
-
- <p>While it also increases the number of connections problems
- when <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> tries to reuse a
- connection that already has been closed on the server side, or
- is closed while <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is
- trying to reuse it, this should only be a problem if it happens
- for the first request sent by the client. If it happens for
- requests on reused client connections, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will simply close the connection
- and the client is supposed to retry the request without
- bothering the user.</p>
-
- <p>Enabling this option is therefore only recommended if the
- <a href="#CONNECTION-SHARING" target=
- "_top">connection-sharing</a> option is disabled.</p>
-
- <p>It is an error to specify a value larger than the <a href=
- "#KEEP-ALIVE-TIMEOUT" target="_top">keep-alive-timeout</a>
- value.</p>
-
- <p>This option has no effect if <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has been compiled without
- keep-alive support.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>default-server-timeout 60</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CONNECTION-SHARING" id=
- "CONNECTION-SHARING">7.6.7. connection-sharing</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether or not outgoing connections that have been kept
- alive should be shared between different incoming
- connections.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>None</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Connections are not shared.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This option has no effect if <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has been compiled without
- keep-alive support, or if it's disabled.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Note that reusing connections doesn't necessary cause
- speedups. There are also a few privacy implications you should
- be aware of.</p>
-
- <p>If this option is effective, outgoing connections are shared
- between clients (if there are more than one) and closing the
- browser that initiated the outgoing connection does no longer
- affect the connection between <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and the server unless the client's
- request hasn't been completed yet.</p>
-
- <p>If the outgoing connection is idle, it will not be closed
- until either <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> or the
- server's timeout is reached. While it's open, the server knows
- that the system running <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is still there.</p>
-
- <p>If there are more than one client (maybe even belonging to
- multiple users), they will be able to reuse each others
- connections. This is potentially dangerous in case of
- authentication schemes like NTLM where only the connection is
- authenticated, instead of requiring authentication for each
- request.</p>
-
- <p>If there is only a single client, and if said client can
- keep connections alive on its own, enabling this option has
- next to no effect. If the client doesn't support connection
- keep-alive, enabling this option may make sense as it allows
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to keep outgoing
- connections alive even if the client itself doesn't support
- it.</p>
-
- <p>You should also be aware that enabling this option increases
- the likelihood of getting the "No server or forwarder data"
- error message, especially if you are using a slow connection to
- the Internet.</p>
-
- <p>This option should only be used by experienced users who
- understand the risks and can weight them against the
- benefits.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>connection-sharing 1</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="SOCKET-TIMEOUT" id="SOCKET-TIMEOUT">7.6.8.
- socket-timeout</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Number of seconds after which a socket times out if no data
- is received.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Time in seconds.</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>None</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A default value of 300 seconds is used.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The default is quite high and you probably want to reduce
- it. If you aren't using an occasionally slow proxy like Tor,
- reducing it to a few seconds should be fine.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>socket-timeout 300</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="MAX-CLIENT-CONNECTIONS" id=
- "MAX-CLIENT-CONNECTIONS">7.6.9. max-client-connections</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Maximum number of client connections that will be
- served.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Positive number.</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>128</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Connections are served until a resource limit is
- reached.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> creates one thread
- (or process) for every incoming client connection that isn't
- rejected based on the access control settings.</p>
-
- <p>If the system is powerful enough, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can theoretically deal with
- several hundred (or thousand) connections at the same time, but
- some operating systems enforce resource limits by shutting down
- offending processes and their default limits may be below the
- ones <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> would require
- under heavy load.</p>
-
- <p>Configuring <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
- enforce a connection limit below the thread or process limit
- used by the operating system makes sure this doesn't happen.
- Simply increasing the operating system's limit would work too,
- but if <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't the only
- application running on the system, you may actually want to
- limit the resources used by <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
-
- <p>If <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is only used by
- a single trusted user, limiting the number of client
- connections is probably unnecessary. If there are multiple
- possibly untrusted users you probably still want to
- additionally use a packet filter to limit the maximal number of
- incoming connections per client. Otherwise a malicious user
- could intentionally create a high number of connections to
- prevent other users from using <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Obviously using this option only makes sense if you choose a
- limit below the one enforced by the operating system.</p>
-
- <p>One most POSIX-compliant systems <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can't properly deal with more than
- FD_SETSIZE file descriptors at the same time and has to reject
- connections if the limit is reached. This will likely change in
- a future version, but currently this limit can't be increased
- without recompiling <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- with a different FD_SETSIZE limit.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>max-client-connections 256</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOC-RETURNS-OK" id=
- "HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOC-RETURNS-OK">7.6.10.
- handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The status code Privoxy returns for pages blocked with
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT" target=
- "_top">+handle-as-empty-document</a></tt>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Privoxy returns a status 403(forbidden) for all blocked
- pages.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if set:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Privoxy returns a status 200(OK) for pages blocked with
- +handle-as-empty-document and a status 403(Forbidden) for all
- other blocked pages.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This directive was added as a work-around for Firefox bug
- 492459: <span class="QUOTE">"Websites are no longer rendered if
- SSL requests for JavaScripts are blocked by a proxy."</span>
- (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492459"
- target=
- "_top">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492459</a>),
- the bug has been fixed for quite some time, but this directive
- is also useful to make it harder for websites to detect whether
- or not resources are being blocked.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="ENABLE-COMPRESSION" id=
- "ENABLE-COMPRESSION">7.6.11. enable-compression</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether or not buffered content is compressed before
- delivery.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Privoxy does not compress buffered content.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Effect if set:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Privoxy compresses buffered content before delivering it to
- the client, provided the client supports it.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dd>
- <p>This directive is only supported if Privoxy has been
- compiled with FEATURE_COMPRESSION, which should not to be
- confused with FEATURE_ZLIB.</p>
+ <p>
+ Allow access from any host on the 26-bit subnet
+ 192.168.45.64 to anywhere, with the exception that
+ 192.168.45.73 may not access the IP address behind
+ www.dirty-stuff.example.com:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ permit-access 192.168.45.64/26
+ deny-access 192.168.45.73 www.dirty-stuff.example.com
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>Compressing buffered content is mainly useful if Privoxy and
- the client are running on different systems. If they are
- running on the same system, enabling compression is likely to
- slow things down. If you didn't measure otherwise, you should
- assume that it does and keep this option disabled.</p>
+ <p>
+ Allow access from the IPv4 network 192.0.2.0/24 even if
+ listening on an IPv6 wild card address (not supported on
+ all platforms):
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ permit-access 192.0.2.0/24
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>Privoxy will not compress buffered content below a certain
- length.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <p>
+ This is equivalent to the following line even if listening
+ on an IPv4 address (not supported on all platforms):
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ permit-access [::ffff:192.0.2.0]/120
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="BUFFER-LIMIT">7.4.8. buffer-limit</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Maximum size of the buffer for content filtering.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Size in Kbytes
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 4096
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Use a 4MB (4096 KB) limit.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ For content filtering, i.e. the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">+filter</tt> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">+deanimate-gif</tt> actions, it is necessary that
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> buffers the entire
+ document body. This can be potentially dangerous, since a
+ server could just keep sending data indefinitely and wait
+ for your RAM to exhaust -- with nasty consequences. Hence
+ this option.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When a document buffer size reaches the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">buffer-limit</tt>, it is flushed to the client
+ unfiltered and no further attempt to filter the rest of the
+ document is made. Remember that there may be multiple
+ threads running, which might require up to <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">buffer-limit</tt> Kbytes <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">each</i></span>, unless you
+ have enabled <span class="QUOTE">"single-threaded"</span>
+ above.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ENABLE-PROXY-AUTHENTICATION-FORWARDING">7.4.9.
+ enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether or not proxy authentication through <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> should work.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0 or 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Proxy authentication headers are removed.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy itself does not support proxy authentication, but
+ can allow clients to authenticate against Privoxy's parent
+ proxy.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ By default Privoxy (3.0.21 and later) don't do that and
+ remove Proxy-Authorization headers in requests and
+ Proxy-Authenticate headers in responses to make it harder
+ for malicious sites to trick inexperienced users into
+ providing login information.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If this option is enabled the headers are forwarded.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Enabling this option is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">not recommended</i></span> if there is no parent
+ proxy that requires authentication or if the local network
+ between Privoxy and the parent proxy isn't trustworthy. If
+ proxy authentication is only required for some requests, it
+ is recommended to use a client header filter to remove the
+ authentication headers for requests where they aren't
+ needed.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
</div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="FORWARDING">7.5. Forwarding</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ This feature allows routing of HTTP requests through a chain of
+ multiple proxies.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Forwarding can be used to chain Privoxy with a caching proxy to
+ speed up browsing. Using a parent proxy may also be necessary if
+ the machine that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs on
+ has no direct Internet access.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that parent proxies can severely decrease your privacy level.
+ For example a parent proxy could add your IP address to the request
+ headers and if it's a caching proxy it may add the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Etag"</span> header to revalidation requests again, even
+ though you configured Privoxy to remove it. It may also ignore
+ Privoxy's header time randomization and use the original values
+ which could be used by the server as cookie replacement to track
+ your steps between visits.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Also specified here are SOCKS proxies. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> supports the SOCKS 4 and SOCKS 4A
+ protocols.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="FORWARD">7.5.1. forward</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ To which parent HTTP proxy specific requests should be
+ routed.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt> <tt
+ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>]
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ where <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt> is
+ a <a href="actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">URL pattern</a>
+ that specifies to which requests (i.e. URLs) this forward
+ rule shall apply. Use <tt class="LITERAL">/</tt> to denote
+ <span class="QUOTE">"all URLs"</span>. <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>] is the DNS name or IP
+ address of the parent HTTP proxy through which the requests
+ should be forwarded, optionally followed by its listening
+ port (default: 8000). Use a single dot (<tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.</tt>) to denote <span class="QUOTE">"no
+ forwarding"</span>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Don't use parent HTTP proxies.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ If <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> is <span
+ class="QUOTE">"."</span>, then requests are not forwarded
+ to another HTTP proxy but are made directly to the web
+ servers.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> can be a
+ numerical IPv6 address (if <a href=
+ "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3493" target="_top">RFC
+ 3493</a> is implemented). To prevent clashes with the port
+ delimiter, the whole IP address has to be put into
+ brackets. On the other hand a <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt> containing an IPv6
+ address has to be put into angle brackets (normal brackets
+ are reserved for regular expressions already).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Multiple lines are OK, they are checked in sequence, and
+ the last match wins.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Everything goes to an example parent proxy, except SSL on
+ port 443 (which it doesn't handle):
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ forward / parent-proxy.example.org:8080
+ forward :443 .
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="COMPRESSION-LEVEL" id=
- "COMPRESSION-LEVEL">7.6.12. compression-level</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The compression level that is passed to the zlib library
- when compressing buffered content.</p>
- </dd>
+ <p>
+ Everything goes to our example ISP's caching proxy, except
+ for requests to that ISP's sites:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ forward / caching-proxy.isp.example.net:8000
+ forward .isp.example.net .
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
+ <p>
+ Parent proxy specified by an IPv6 address:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ forward / [2001:DB8::1]:8000
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Positive number ranging from 0 to
- 9.</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
+ <p>
+ Suppose your parent proxy doesn't support IPv6:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ forward / parent-proxy.example.org:8000
+ forward ipv6-server.example.org .
+ forward <[2-3][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]:*> .
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="SOCKS">7.5.2. forward-socks4, forward-socks4a,
+ forward-socks5 and forward-socks5t</a>
+ </h4>
+ <a name="FORWARD-SOCKS4"></a><a name="FORWARD-SOCKS4A"></a>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Through which SOCKS proxy (and optionally to which parent
+ HTTP proxy) specific requests should be routed.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt> <tt
+ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>socks_proxy</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>] <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>]
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ where <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt> is
+ a <a href="actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">URL pattern</a>
+ that specifies to which requests (i.e. URLs) this forward
+ rule shall apply. Use <tt class="LITERAL">/</tt> to denote
+ <span class="QUOTE">"all URLs"</span>. <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> and <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>socks_proxy</i></tt> are IP addresses in
+ dotted decimal notation or valid DNS names (<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> may be <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"."</span> to denote <span class="QUOTE">"no HTTP
+ forwarding"</span>), and the optional <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt> parameters are TCP ports,
+ i.e. integer values from 1 to 65535
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Unset</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Don't use SOCKS proxies.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Multiple lines are OK, they are checked in sequence, and
+ the last match wins.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The difference between <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">forward-socks4</tt> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">forward-socks4a</tt> is that in the SOCKS 4A
+ protocol, the DNS resolution of the target hostname happens
+ on the SOCKS server, while in SOCKS 4 it happens locally.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ With <tt class="LITERAL">forward-socks5</tt> the DNS
+ resolution will happen on the remote server as well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">forward-socks5t</tt> works like vanilla
+ <tt class="LITERAL">forward-socks5</tt> but lets <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> additionally use
+ Tor-specific SOCKS extensions. Currently the only supported
+ SOCKS extension is optimistic data which can reduce the
+ latency for the first request made on a newly created
+ connection.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>socks_proxy</i></tt> and <tt
+ class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> can be a
+ numerical IPv6 address (if <a href=
+ "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3493" target="_top">RFC
+ 3493</a> is implemented). To prevent clashes with the port
+ delimiter, the whole IP address has to be put into
+ brackets. On the other hand a <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>target_pattern</i></tt> containing an IPv6
+ address has to be put into angle brackets (normal brackets
+ are reserved for regular expressions already).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> is <span
+ class="QUOTE">"."</span>, then requests are not forwarded
+ to another HTTP proxy but are made (HTTP-wise) directly to
+ the web servers, albeit through a SOCKS proxy.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ From the company example.com, direct connections are made
+ to all <span class="QUOTE">"internal"</span> domains, but
+ everything outbound goes through their ISP's proxy by way
+ of example.com's corporate SOCKS 4A gateway to the
+ Internet.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ forward-socks4a / socks-gw.example.com:1080 www-cache.isp.example.net:8080
+ forward .example.com .
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
+ <p>
+ A rule that uses a SOCKS 4 gateway for all destinations but
+ no HTTP parent looks like this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ forward-socks4 / socks-gw.example.com:1080 .
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dd>
- <p>1</p>
- </dd>
+ <p>
+ To chain Privoxy and Tor, both running on the same system,
+ you would use something like:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
+ <p>
+ Note that if you got Tor through one of the bundles, you
+ may have to change the port from 9050 to 9150 (or even
+ another one). For details, please check the documentation
+ on the <a href="https://torproject.org/" target="_top">Tor
+ website</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The public <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> network
+ can't be used to reach your local network, if you need to
+ access local servers you therefore might want to make some
+ exceptions:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ forward 192.168.*.*/ .
+ forward 10.*.*.*/ .
+ forward 127.*.*.*/ .
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <dd>
- <p>Compressing the data more takes usually longer than
- compressing it less or not compressing it at all. Which level
- is best depends on the connection between Privoxy and the
- client. If you can't be bothered to benchmark it for yourself,
- you should stick with the default and keep compression
- disabled.</p>
+ <p>
+ Unencrypted connections to systems in these address ranges
+ will be as (un)secure as the local network is, but the
+ alternative is that you can't reach the local network
+ through <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> at all. Of
+ course this may actually be desired and there is no reason
+ to make these exceptions if you aren't sure you need them.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you also want to be able to reach servers in your local
+ network by using their names, you will need additional
+ exceptions that look like this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ forward localhost/ .
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ADVANCED-FORWARDING-EXAMPLES">7.5.3. Advanced Forwarding
+ Examples</a>
+ </h4>
+ <p>
+ If you have links to multiple ISPs that provide various special
+ content only to their subscribers, you can configure multiple
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxies</span> which have connections
+ to the respective ISPs to act as forwarders to each other, so
+ that <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">your</i></span>
+ users can see the internal content of all ISPs.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Assume that host-a has a PPP connection to isp-a.example.net. And
+ host-b has a PPP connection to isp-b.example.org. Both run <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. Their forwarding
+ configuration can look like this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ host-a:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ forward / .
+ forward .isp-b.example.net host-b:8118
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ host-b:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ forward / .
+ forward .isp-a.example.org host-a:8118
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Now, your users can set their browser's proxy to use either
+ host-a or host-b and be able to browse the internal content of
+ both isp-a and isp-b.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you intend to chain <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ and <span class="APPLICATION">squid</span> locally, then chaining
+ as <tt class="LITERAL">browser -> squid -> privoxy</tt> is
+ the recommended way.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Assuming that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and <span
+ class="APPLICATION">squid</span> run on the same box, your <span
+ class="APPLICATION">squid</span> configuration could then look
+ like this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ # Define Privoxy as parent proxy (without ICP)
+ cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 8118 7 no-query
- <p>If compression is disabled, the compression level is
- irrelevant.</p>
- </dd>
+ # Define ACL for protocol FTP
+ acl ftp proto FTP
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
+ # Do not forward FTP requests to Privoxy
+ always_direct allow ftp
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ # Forward all the rest to Privoxy
+ never_direct allow all
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ You would then need to change your browser's proxy settings to
+ <span class="APPLICATION">squid</span>'s address and port. Squid
+ normally uses port 3128. If unsure consult <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">http_port</tt> in <tt class="FILENAME">squid.conf</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You could just as well decide to only forward requests you
+ suspect of leading to Windows executables through a
+ virus-scanning parent proxy, say, on <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">antivir.example.com</tt>, port 8010:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ forward / .
+ forward /.*\.(exe|com|dll|zip)$ antivir.example.com:8010
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="FORWARDED-CONNECT-RETRIES">7.5.4.
+ forwarded-connect-retries</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ How often Privoxy retries if a forwarded connection request
+ fails.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Number of retries.</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Connections forwarded through other proxies are treated
+ like direct connections and no retry attempts are made.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>forwarded-connect-retries</i></tt> is
+ mainly interesting for socks4a connections, where <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can't detect why the
+ connections failed. The connection might have failed
+ because of a DNS timeout in which case a retry makes sense,
+ but it might also have failed because the server doesn't
+ exist or isn't reachable. In this case the retry will just
+ delay the appearance of Privoxy's error message.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that in the context of this option, <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"forwarded connections"</span> includes all
+ connections that Privoxy forwards through other proxies.
+ This option is not limited to the HTTP CONNECT method.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Only use this option, if you are getting lots of
+ forwarding-related error messages that go away when you try
+ again manually. Start with a small value and check
+ Privoxy's logfile from time to time, to see how many
+ retries are usually needed.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ forwarded-connect-retries 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="MISC">7.6. Miscellaneous</a>
+ </h2>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS">7.6.1.
+ accept-intercepted-requests</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether intercepted requests should be treated as valid.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Only proxy requests are accepted, intercepted requests are
+ treated as invalid.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ If you don't trust your clients and want to force them to
+ use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, enable this
+ option and configure your packet filter to redirect
+ outgoing HTTP connections into <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that intercepting encrypted connections (HTTPS) isn't
+ supported.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Make sure that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span>
+ own requests aren't redirected as well. Additionally take
+ care that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can't
+ intentionally connect to itself, otherwise you could run
+ into redirection loops if <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> listening port is reachable
+ by the outside or an attacker has access to the pages you
+ visit.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are running Privoxy as intercepting proxy without
+ being able to intercept all client requests you may want to
+ adjust the CGI templates to make sure they don't reference
+ content from config.privoxy.org.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ accept-intercepted-requests 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ALLOW-CGI-REQUEST-CRUNCHING">7.6.2.
+ allow-cgi-request-crunching</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether requests to <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> CGI pages can be blocked or
+ redirected.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ignores block and
+ redirect actions for its CGI pages.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ By default <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> ignores
+ block or redirect actions for its CGI pages. Intercepting
+ these requests can be useful in multi-user setups to
+ implement fine-grained access control, but it can also
+ render the complete web interface useless and make
+ debugging problems painful if done without care.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Don't enable this option unless you're sure that you really
+ need it.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ allow-cgi-request-crunching 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="SPLIT-LARGE-FORMS">7.6.3. split-large-forms</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether the CGI interface should stay compatible with
+ broken HTTP clients.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">0</i></span>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The CGI form generate long GET URLs.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> CGI forms can
+ lead to rather long URLs. This isn't a problem as far as
+ the HTTP standard is concerned, but it can confuse clients
+ with arbitrary URL length limitations.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Enabling split-large-forms causes <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to divide big forms into
+ smaller ones to keep the URL length down. It makes editing
+ a lot less convenient and you can no longer submit all
+ changes at once, but at least it works around this browser
+ bug.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you don't notice any editing problems, there is no
+ reason to enable this option, but if one of the submit
+ buttons appears to be broken, you should give it a try.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ split-large-forms 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="KEEP-ALIVE-TIMEOUT">7.6.4. keep-alive-timeout</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Number of seconds after which an open connection will no
+ longer be reused.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Time in seconds.</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ None
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Connections are not kept alive.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This option allows clients to keep the connection to <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> alive. If the server
+ supports it, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
+ keep the connection to the server alive as well. Under
+ certain circumstances this may result in speed-ups.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ By default, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
+ close the connection to the server if the client connection
+ gets closed, or if the specified timeout has been reached
+ without a new request coming in. This behaviour can be
+ changed with the <a href="#CONNECTION-SHARING" target=
+ "_top">connection-sharing</a> option.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This option has no effect if <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has been compiled without
+ keep-alive support.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that a timeout of five seconds as used in the default
+ configuration file significantly decreases the number of
+ connections that will be reused. The value is used because
+ some browsers limit the number of connections they open to
+ a single host and apply the same limit to proxies. This can
+ result in a single website <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"grabbing"</span> all the connections the browser
+ allows, which means connections to other websites can't be
+ opened until the connections currently in use time out.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Several users have reported this as a Privoxy bug, so the
+ default value has been reduced. Consider increasing it to
+ 300 seconds or even more if you think your browser can
+ handle it. If your browser appears to be hanging, it
+ probably can't.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ keep-alive-timeout 300
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="TOLERATE-PIPELINING">7.6.5. tolerate-pipelining</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether or not pipelined requests should be served.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1.</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ None
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ If Privoxy receives more than one request at once, it
+ terminates the client connection after serving the first
+ one.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> currently doesn't
+ pipeline outgoing requests, thus allowing pipelining on the
+ client connection is not guaranteed to improve the
+ performance.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ By default <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> tries
+ to discourage clients from pipelining by discarding
+ aggressively pipelined requests, which forces the client to
+ resend them through a new connection.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This option lets <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ tolerate pipelining. Whether or not that improves
+ performance mainly depends on the client configuration.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are seeing problems with pages not properly loading,
+ disabling this option could work around the problem.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ tolerate-pipelining 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="DEFAULT-SERVER-TIMEOUT">7.6.6.
+ default-server-timeout</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Assumed server-side keep-alive timeout if not specified by
+ the server.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Time in seconds.</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ None
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Connections for which the server didn't specify the
+ keep-alive timeout are not reused.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Enabling this option significantly increases the number of
+ connections that are reused, provided the <a href=
+ "#KEEP-ALIVE-TIMEOUT" target="_top">keep-alive-timeout</a>
+ option is also enabled.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ While it also increases the number of connections problems
+ when <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> tries to
+ reuse a connection that already has been closed on the
+ server side, or is closed while <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is trying to reuse it, this
+ should only be a problem if it happens for the first
+ request sent by the client. If it happens for requests on
+ reused client connections, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will simply close the
+ connection and the client is supposed to retry the request
+ without bothering the user.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Enabling this option is therefore only recommended if the
+ <a href="#CONNECTION-SHARING" target=
+ "_top">connection-sharing</a> option is disabled.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is an error to specify a value larger than the <a href=
+ "#KEEP-ALIVE-TIMEOUT" target="_top">keep-alive-timeout</a>
+ value.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This option has no effect if <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has been compiled without
+ keep-alive support.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ default-server-timeout 60
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CONNECTION-SHARING">7.6.7. connection-sharing</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether or not outgoing connections that have been kept
+ alive should be shared between different incoming
+ connections.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ None
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Connections are not shared.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This option has no effect if <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has been compiled without
+ keep-alive support, or if it's disabled.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Note that reusing connections doesn't necessary cause
+ speedups. There are also a few privacy implications you
+ should be aware of.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If this option is effective, outgoing connections are
+ shared between clients (if there are more than one) and
+ closing the browser that initiated the outgoing connection
+ does no longer affect the connection between <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and the server unless the
+ client's request hasn't been completed yet.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If the outgoing connection is idle, it will not be closed
+ until either <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> or
+ the server's timeout is reached. While it's open, the
+ server knows that the system running <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is still there.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If there are more than one client (maybe even belonging to
+ multiple users), they will be able to reuse each others
+ connections. This is potentially dangerous in case of
+ authentication schemes like NTLM where only the connection
+ is authenticated, instead of requiring authentication for
+ each request.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If there is only a single client, and if said client can
+ keep connections alive on its own, enabling this option has
+ next to no effect. If the client doesn't support connection
+ keep-alive, enabling this option may make sense as it
+ allows <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to keep
+ outgoing connections alive even if the client itself
+ doesn't support it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You should also be aware that enabling this option
+ increases the likelihood of getting the "No server or
+ forwarder data" error message, especially if you are using
+ a slow connection to the Internet.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This option should only be used by experienced users who
+ understand the risks and can weight them against the
+ benefits.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ connection-sharing 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="SOCKET-TIMEOUT">7.6.8. socket-timeout</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Number of seconds after which a socket times out if no data
+ is received.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Time in seconds.</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ None
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A default value of 300 seconds is used.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The default is quite high and you probably want to reduce
+ it. If you aren't using an occasionally slow proxy like
+ Tor, reducing it to a few seconds should be fine.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ socket-timeout 300
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="MAX-CLIENT-CONNECTIONS">7.6.9.
+ max-client-connections</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Maximum number of client connections that will be served.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Positive number.</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 128
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Connections are served until a resource limit is reached.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> creates one thread
+ (or process) for every incoming client connection that
+ isn't rejected based on the access control settings.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If the system is powerful enough, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can theoretically deal with
+ several hundred (or thousand) connections at the same time,
+ but some operating systems enforce resource limits by
+ shutting down offending processes and their default limits
+ may be below the ones <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> would require under heavy
+ load.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Configuring <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
+ enforce a connection limit below the thread or process
+ limit used by the operating system makes sure this doesn't
+ happen. Simply increasing the operating system's limit
+ would work too, but if <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't the only application
+ running on the system, you may actually want to limit the
+ resources used by <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is only used by
+ a single trusted user, limiting the number of client
+ connections is probably unnecessary. If there are multiple
+ possibly untrusted users you probably still want to
+ additionally use a packet filter to limit the maximal
+ number of incoming connections per client. Otherwise a
+ malicious user could intentionally create a high number of
+ connections to prevent other users from using <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Obviously using this option only makes sense if you choose
+ a limit below the one enforced by the operating system.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ One most POSIX-compliant systems <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can't properly deal with more
+ than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors at the same time and has
+ to reject connections if the limit is reached. This will
+ likely change in a future version, but currently this limit
+ can't be increased without recompiling <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with a different FD_SETSIZE
+ limit.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ max-client-connections 256
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOC-RETURNS-OK">7.6.10.
+ handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The status code Privoxy returns for pages blocked with <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT" target=
+ "_top">+handle-as-empty-document</a></tt>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy returns a status 403(forbidden) for all blocked
+ pages.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if set:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy returns a status 200(OK) for pages blocked with
+ +handle-as-empty-document and a status 403(Forbidden) for
+ all other blocked pages.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This directive was added as a work-around for Firefox bug
+ 492459: <span class="QUOTE">"Websites are no longer
+ rendered if SSL requests for JavaScripts are blocked by a
+ proxy."</span> (<a href=
+ "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492459"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492459</a>),
+ the bug has been fixed for quite some time, but this
+ directive is also useful to make it harder for websites to
+ detect whether or not resources are being blocked.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="ENABLE-COMPRESSION">7.6.11. enable-compression</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether or not buffered content is compressed before
+ delivery.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or 1</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if unset:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy does not compress buffered content.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Effect if set:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy compresses buffered content before delivering it to
+ the client, provided the client supports it.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This directive is only supported if Privoxy has been
+ compiled with FEATURE_COMPRESSION, which should not to be
+ confused with FEATURE_ZLIB.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Compressing buffered content is mainly useful if Privoxy
+ and the client are running on different systems. If they
+ are running on the same system, enabling compression is
+ likely to slow things down. If you didn't measure
+ otherwise, you should assume that it does and keep this
+ option disabled.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy will not compress buffered content below a certain
+ length.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="COMPRESSION-LEVEL">7.6.12. compression-level</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The compression level that is passed to the zlib library
+ when compressing buffered content.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Positive number ranging from 0
+ to 9.</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 1
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Compressing the data more takes usually longer than
+ compressing it less or not compressing it at all. Which
+ level is best depends on the connection between Privoxy and
+ the client. If you can't be bothered to benchmark it for
+ yourself, you should stick with the default and keep
+ compression disabled.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If compression is disabled, the compression level is
+ irrelevant.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Best speed (compared to the other levels)
compression-level 1
# Best compression
compression-level 0
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CLIENT-HEADER-ORDER" id=
- "CLIENT-HEADER-ORDER">7.6.13. client-header-order</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The order in which client headers are sorted before
- forwarding them.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Client header names delimited by
- spaces or tabs</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>None</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>By default <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> leaves
- the client headers in the order they were sent by the client.
- Headers are modified in-place, new headers are added at the end
- of the already existing headers.</p>
-
- <p>The header order can be used to fingerprint client requests
- independently of other headers like the User-Agent.</p>
-
- <p>This directive allows to sort the headers differently to
- better mimic a different User-Agent. Client headers will be
- emitted in the order given, headers whose name isn't explicitly
- specified are added at the end.</p>
-
- <p>Note that sorting headers in an uncommon way will make
- fingerprinting actually easier. Encrypted headers are not
- affected by this directive.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CLIENT-SPECIFIC-TAG" id=
- "CLIENT-SPECIFIC-TAG">7.6.14. client-specific-tag</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The name of a tag that will always be set for clients that
- requested it through the webinterface.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Tag name followed by a
- description that will be shown in the webinterface</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>None</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>This is an experimental feature. The syntax is
- likely to change in future versions.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- </div>
-
- <p>Client-specific tags allow Privoxy admins to create
- different profiles and let the users chose which one they want
- without impacting other users.</p>
-
- <p>One use case is allowing users to circumvent certain blocks
- without having to allow them to circumvent all blocks. This is
- not possible with the <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle
- feature</a> because it would bluntly disable all blocks for all
- users and also affect other actions like filters. It also is
- set globally which renders it useless in most multi-user
- setups.</p>
-
- <p>After a client-specific tag has been defined with the
- client-specific-tag directive, action sections can be activated
- based on the tag by using a <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CLIENT-TAG-PATTERN" target=
- "_top">CLIENT-TAG</a> pattern. The CLIENT-TAG pattern is
- evaluated at the same priority as URL patterns, as a result the
- last matching pattern wins. Tags that are created based on
- client or server headers are evaluated later on and can
- overrule CLIENT-TAG and URL patterns!</p>
-
- <p>The tag is set for all requests that come from clients that
- requested it to be set. Note that "clients" are differentiated
- by IP address, if the IP address changes the tag has to be
- requested again.</p>
-
- <p>Clients can request tags to be set by using the CGI
- interface <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags"
- target="_top">http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags</a>. The
- specific tag description is only used on the web page and
- should be phrased in away that the user understand the effect
- of the tag.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CLIENT-HEADER-ORDER">7.6.13. client-header-order</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The order in which client headers are sorted before
+ forwarding them.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Client header names delimited by
+ spaces or tabs</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ None
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ By default <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> leaves
+ the client headers in the order they were sent by the
+ client. Headers are modified in-place, new headers are
+ added at the end of the already existing headers.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The header order can be used to fingerprint client requests
+ independently of other headers like the User-Agent.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This directive allows to sort the headers differently to
+ better mimic a different User-Agent. Client headers will be
+ emitted in the order given, headers whose name isn't
+ explicitly specified are added at the end.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that sorting headers in an uncommon way will make
+ fingerprinting actually easier. Encrypted headers are not
+ affected by this directive.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CLIENT-SPECIFIC-TAG">7.6.14. client-specific-tag</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The name of a tag that will always be set for clients that
+ requested it through the webinterface.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Tag name followed by a
+ description that will be shown in the webinterface</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ None
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ This is an experimental feature. The syntax is
+ likely to change in future versions.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ Client-specific tags allow Privoxy admins to create
+ different profiles and let the users chose which one they
+ want without impacting other users.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ One use case is allowing users to circumvent certain blocks
+ without having to allow them to circumvent all blocks. This
+ is not possible with the <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle
+ feature</a> because it would bluntly disable all blocks for
+ all users and also affect other actions like filters. It
+ also is set globally which renders it useless in most
+ multi-user setups.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ After a client-specific tag has been defined with the
+ client-specific-tag directive, action sections can be
+ activated based on the tag by using a <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CLIENT-TAG-PATTERN" target=
+ "_top">CLIENT-TAG</a> pattern. The CLIENT-TAG pattern is
+ evaluated at the same priority as URL patterns, as a result
+ the last matching pattern wins. Tags that are created based
+ on client or server headers are evaluated later on and can
+ overrule CLIENT-TAG and URL patterns!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The tag is set for all requests that come from clients that
+ requested it to be set. Note that "clients" are
+ differentiated by IP address, if the IP address changes the
+ tag has to be requested again.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Clients can request tags to be set by using the CGI
+ interface <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags"
+ target="_top">http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags</a>.
+ The specific tag description is only used on the web page
+ and should be phrased in away that the user understand the
+ effect of the tag.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Define a couple of tags, the described effect requires action sections
# that are enabled based on CLIENT-TAG patterns.
client-specific-tag circumvent-blocks Overrule blocks but do not affect other actions
disable-content-filters Disable content-filters but do not affect other actions
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="CLIENT-TAG-LIFETIME" id=
- "CLIENT-TAG-LIFETIME">7.6.15. client-tag-lifetime</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>How long a temporarily enabled tag remains enabled.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Time in seconds.</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>60</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>This is an experimental feature. The syntax is
- likely to change in future versions.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- </div>
-
- <p>In case of some tags users may not want to enable them
- permanently, but only for a short amount of time, for example
- to circumvent a block that is the result of an overly-broad URL
- pattern.</p>
-
- <p>The CGI interface <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags</a> therefore
- provides a "enable this tag temporarily" option. If it is used,
- the tag will be set until the client-tag-lifetime is over.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CLIENT-TAG-LIFETIME">7.6.15. client-tag-lifetime</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ How long a temporarily enabled tag remains enabled.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>Time in seconds.</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 60
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ This is an experimental feature. The syntax is
+ likely to change in future versions.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ In case of some tags users may not want to enable them
+ permanently, but only for a short amount of time, for
+ example to circumvent a block that is the result of an
+ overly-broad URL pattern.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The CGI interface <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags</a> therefore
+ provides a "enable this tag temporarily" option. If it is
+ used, the tag will be set until the client-tag-lifetime is
+ over.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Increase the time to life for temporarily enabled tags to 3 minutes
client-tag-lifetime 180
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="TRUST-X-FORWARDED-FOR" id=
- "TRUST-X-FORWARDED-FOR">7.6.16. trust-x-forwarded-for</a></h4>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Specifies:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Whether or not Privoxy should use IP addresses specified
- with the X-Forwarded-For header</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Type of value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or one</i></tt></p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Default value:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>0</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Notes:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>This is an experimental feature. The syntax is
- likely to change in future versions.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- </div>
-
- <p>If clients reach Privoxy through another proxy, for example
- a load balancer, Privoxy can't tell the client's IP address
- from the connection. If multiple clients use the same proxy,
- they will share the same client tag settings which is usually
- not desired.</p>
-
- <p>This option lets Privoxy use the X-Forwarded-For header
- value as client IP address. If the proxy sets the header,
- multiple clients using the same proxy do not share the same
- client tag settings.</p>
-
- <p>This option should only be enabled if Privoxy can only be
- reached through a proxy and if the proxy can be trusted to set
- the header correctly. It is recommended that ACL are used to
- make sure only trusted systems can reach Privoxy.</p>
-
- <p>If access to Privoxy isn't limited to trusted systems, this
- option would allow malicious clients to change the client tags
- for other clients or increase Privoxy's memory requirements by
- registering lots of client tag settings for clients that don't
- exist.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Examples:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="TRUST-X-FORWARDED-FOR">7.6.16. trust-x-forwarded-for</a>
+ </h4>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Specifies:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Whether or not Privoxy should use IP addresses specified
+ with the X-Forwarded-For header
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Type of value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>0 or one</i></tt>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Default value:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ 0
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Notes:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ This is an experimental feature. The syntax is
+ likely to change in future versions.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ If clients reach Privoxy through another proxy, for example
+ a load balancer, Privoxy can't tell the client's IP address
+ from the connection. If multiple clients use the same
+ proxy, they will share the same client tag settings which
+ is usually not desired.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This option lets Privoxy use the X-Forwarded-For header
+ value as client IP address. If the proxy sets the header,
+ multiple clients using the same proxy do not share the same
+ client tag settings.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This option should only be enabled if Privoxy can only be
+ reached through a proxy and if the proxy can be trusted to
+ set the header correctly. It is recommended that ACL are
+ used to make sure only trusted systems can reach Privoxy.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If access to Privoxy isn't limited to trusted systems, this
+ option would allow malicious clients to change the client
+ tags for other clients or increase Privoxy's memory
+ requirements by registering lots of client tag settings for
+ clients that don't exist.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ Examples:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="90%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Allow systems that can reach Privoxy to provide the client
# IP address with a X-Forwarded-For header.
trust-x-forwarded-for 1
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
</div>
</div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="WINDOWS-GUI">7.7. Windows GUI Options</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has a number of options
+ specific to the Windows GUI interface:
+ </p>
+ <a name="ACTIVITY-ANIMATION"></a>
+ <p>
+ If <span class="QUOTE">"activity-animation"</span> is set to 1, the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> icon will animate when
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span> is active. To turn off, set to
+ 0.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">activity-animation 1</i></span><br>
+ </tt>
+ </p>
+ <a name="LOG-MESSAGES"></a>
+ <p>
+ If <span class="QUOTE">"log-messages"</span> is set to 1, <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> copies log messages to the
+ console window. The log detail depends on the <a href=
+ "config.html#DEBUG">debug</a> directive.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">log-messages 1</i></span><br>
+ </tt>
+ </p>
+ <a name="LOG-BUFFER-SIZE"></a>
+ <p>
+ If <span class="QUOTE">"log-buffer-size"</span> is set to 1, the
+ size of the log buffer, i.e. the amount of memory used for the log
+ messages displayed in the console window, will be limited to <span
+ class="QUOTE">"log-max-lines"</span> (see below).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Warning: Setting this to 0 will result in the buffer to grow
+ infinitely and eat up all your memory!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">log-buffer-size 1</i></span><br>
+ </tt>
+ </p>
+ <a name="LOG-MAX-LINES"></a>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">log-max-lines</span> is the maximum
+ number of lines held in the log buffer. See above.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">log-max-lines 200</i></span><br>
+ </tt>
+ </p>
+ <a name="LOG-HIGHLIGHT-MESSAGES"></a>
+ <p>
+ If <span class="QUOTE">"log-highlight-messages"</span> is set to 1,
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will highlight portions of
+ the log messages with a bold-faced font:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">log-highlight-messages 1</i></span><br>
+ </tt>
+ </p>
+ <a name="LOG-FONT-NAME"></a>
+ <p>
+ The font used in the console window:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">log-font-name Comic Sans MS</i></span><br>
+ </tt>
+ </p>
+ <a name="LOG-FONT-SIZE"></a>
+ <p>
+ Font size used in the console window:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">log-font-size 8</i></span><br>
+ </tt>
+ </p>
+ <a name="SHOW-ON-TASK-BAR"></a>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"show-on-task-bar"</span> controls whether or
+ not <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will appear as a
+ button on the Task bar when minimized:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">show-on-task-bar 0</i></span><br>
+ </tt>
+ </p>
+ <a name="CLOSE-BUTTON-MINIMIZES"></a>
+ <p>
+ If <span class="QUOTE">"close-button-minimizes"</span> is set to 1,
+ the Windows close button will minimize <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> instead of closing the program (close
+ with the exit option on the File menu).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">close-button-minimizes 1</i></span><br>
+ </tt>
+ </p>
+ <a name="HIDE-CONSOLE"></a>
+ <p>
+ The <span class="QUOTE">"hide-console"</span> option is specific to
+ the MS-Win console version of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. If this option is used, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will disconnect from and hide the
+ command console.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <tt class="LITERAL"> #<span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">hide-console</i></span><br>
+ </tt>
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="WINDOWS-GUI" id="WINDOWS-GUI">7.7. Windows
- GUI Options</a></h2>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> has a number of options
- specific to the Windows GUI interface:</p><a name="ACTIVITY-ANIMATION"
- id="ACTIVITY-ANIMATION"></a>
-
- <p>If <span class="QUOTE">"activity-animation"</span> is set to 1, the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> icon will animate when
- <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy"</span> is active. To turn off, set to
- 0.</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">activity-animation 1</i></span><br>
- </tt></p><a name="LOG-MESSAGES" id=
- "LOG-MESSAGES"></a>
-
- <p>If <span class="QUOTE">"log-messages"</span> is set to 1,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> copies log messages to the
- console window. The log detail depends on the <a href=
- "config.html#DEBUG">debug</a> directive.</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">log-messages 1</i></span><br>
- </tt></p><a name="LOG-BUFFER-SIZE" id=
- "LOG-BUFFER-SIZE"></a>
-
- <p>If <span class="QUOTE">"log-buffer-size"</span> is set to 1, the
- size of the log buffer, i.e. the amount of memory used for the log
- messages displayed in the console window, will be limited to
- <span class="QUOTE">"log-max-lines"</span> (see below).</p>
-
- <p>Warning: Setting this to 0 will result in the buffer to grow
- infinitely and eat up all your memory!</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">log-buffer-size 1</i></span><br>
- </tt></p><a name="LOG-MAX-LINES" id=
- "LOG-MAX-LINES"></a>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">log-max-lines</span> is the maximum number
- of lines held in the log buffer. See above.</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">log-max-lines 200</i></span><br>
- </tt></p><a name="LOG-HIGHLIGHT-MESSAGES" id=
- "LOG-HIGHLIGHT-MESSAGES"></a>
-
- <p>If <span class="QUOTE">"log-highlight-messages"</span> is set to 1,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will highlight portions of the
- log messages with a bold-faced font:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">log-highlight-messages 1</i></span><br>
- </tt></p><a name="LOG-FONT-NAME" id=
- "LOG-FONT-NAME"></a>
-
- <p>The font used in the console window:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">log-font-name Comic Sans
- MS</i></span><br>
- </tt></p><a name="LOG-FONT-SIZE" id=
- "LOG-FONT-SIZE"></a>
-
- <p>Font size used in the console window:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">log-font-size 8</i></span><br>
- </tt></p><a name="SHOW-ON-TASK-BAR" id=
- "SHOW-ON-TASK-BAR"></a>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"show-on-task-bar"</span> controls whether or
- not <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will appear as a button on
- the Task bar when minimized:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">show-on-task-bar 0</i></span><br>
- </tt></p><a name="CLOSE-BUTTON-MINIMIZES" id=
- "CLOSE-BUTTON-MINIMIZES"></a>
-
- <p>If <span class="QUOTE">"close-button-minimizes"</span> is set to 1,
- the Windows close button will minimize <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> instead of closing the program (close with
- the exit option on the File menu).</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">close-button-minimizes 1</i></span><br>
- </tt></p><a name="HIDE-CONSOLE" id=
- "HIDE-CONSOLE"></a>
-
- <p>The <span class="QUOTE">"hide-console"</span> option is specific to
- the MS-Win console version of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
- If this option is used, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will
- disconnect from and hide the command console.</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"><tt class="LITERAL"> #<span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">hide-console</i></span><br>
- </tt></p>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="configuration.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="actions-file.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Privoxy Configuration
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Actions Files
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href=
- "configuration.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href=
- "actions-file.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Privoxy Configuration</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Actions Files</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Privoxy Configuration</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Starting Privoxy" href="startup.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="The Main Configuration File" href="config.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="startup.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="config.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="CONFIGURATION" id="CONFIGURATION">6. Privoxy
- Configuration</a></h1>
-
- <p>All <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration is stored
- in text files. These files can be edited with a text editor. Many
- important aspects of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can also be
- controlled easily with a web browser.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="CONTROL-WITH-WEBBROWSER" id=
- "CONTROL-WITH-WEBBROWSER">6.1. Controlling Privoxy with Your Web
- Browser</a></h2>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s user interface can be
- reached through the special URL <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/"
- target="_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> (shortcut: <a href=
- "http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>), which is a built-in page
- and works without Internet access. You will see the following
- section:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Privoxy Configuration
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Starting Privoxy" href="startup.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="The Main Configuration File" href="config.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="startup.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="config.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="CONFIGURATION">6. Privoxy Configuration</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ All <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration is stored
+ in text files. These files can be edited with a text editor. Many
+ important aspects of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can
+ also be controlled easily with a web browser.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CONTROL-WITH-WEBBROWSER">6.1. Controlling Privoxy with
+ Your Web Browser</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s user interface can be
+ reached through the special URL <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> (shortcut: <a href=
+ "http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>), which is a built-in
+ page and works without Internet access. You will see the following
+ section:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
</pre>
-
- <h2 class="BRIDGEHEAD"><a name="AEN859" id=
- "AEN859"></a> Privoxy Menu</h2>
+ <h2 class="BRIDGEHEAD">
+ <a name="AEN859"></a> Privoxy Menu
+ </h2>
+<pre>
</pre>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>
- ▪ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status"
- target="_top">View & change the current
- configuration</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>
- ▪ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-version"
- target="_top">View the source code version numbers</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>
- ▪ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-request"
- target="_top">View the request headers.</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>
- ▪ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info"
- target="_top">Look up which actions apply to a URL and
- why</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>
- ▪ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle"
- target="_top">Toggle Privoxy on or off</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td>
- ▪ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.25/user-manual/"
- target="_top">Documentation</a></td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ ▪ <a
+ href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">View & change the current configuration</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ ▪ <a
+ href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-version" target=
+ "_top">View the source code version numbers</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ ▪ <a
+ href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-request" target=
+ "_top">View the request headers.</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ ▪ <a
+ href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info" target=
+ "_top">Look up which actions apply to a URL and why</a>
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ ▪ <a
+ href="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle" target=
+ "_top">Toggle Privoxy on or off</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ ▪ <a
+ href="https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.25/user-manual/"
+ target="_top">Documentation</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+<pre>
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ This should be self-explanatory. Note the first item leads to an
+ editor for the <a href="actions-file.html">actions files</a>, which
+ is where the ad, banner, cookie, and URL blocking magic is
+ configured as well as other advanced features of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. This is an easy way to adjust various
+ aspects of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration.
+ The actions file, and other configuration files, are explained in
+ detail below.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Toggle Privoxy On or Off"</span> is handy for
+ sites that might have problems with your current actions and
+ filters. You can in fact use it as a test to see whether it is
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> causing the problem or
+ not. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> continues to run as a
+ proxy in this case, but all manipulation is disabled, i.e. <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> acts like a normal forwarding
+ proxy.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that several of the features described above are disabled by
+ default in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.7 beta and
+ later. Check the <a href="config.html" target="_top">configuration
+ file</a> to learn why and in which cases it's safe to enable them
+ again.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CONFOVERVIEW">6.2. Configuration Files Overview</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ For Unix, *BSD and Linux, all configuration files are located in
+ <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/privoxy/</tt> by default. For MS Windows,
+ OS/2, and AmigaOS these are all in the same directory as the <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> executable. The name and number
+ of configuration files has changed from previous versions, and is
+ subject to change as development progresses.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The installed defaults provide a reasonable starting point, though
+ some settings may be aggressive by some standards. For the time
+ being, the principle configuration files are:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The <a href="config.html">main configuration file</a> is named
+ <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> on Linux, Unix, BSD, OS/2, and
+ AmigaOS and <tt class="FILENAME">config.txt</tt> on Windows.
+ This is a required file.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">match-all.action</tt> is used to define
+ which <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> relating to
+ banner-blocking, images, pop-ups, content modification, cookie
+ handling etc should be applied by default. It should be the
+ first actions file loaded.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> defines many
+ exceptions (both positive and negative) from the default set of
+ actions that's configured in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">match-all.action</tt>. It should be the second
+ actions file loaded and shouldn't be edited by the user.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Multiple actions files may be defined in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">config</tt>. These are processed in the order they
+ are defined. Local customizations and locally preferred
+ exceptions to the default policies as defined in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">match-all.action</tt> (which you will most probably
+ want to define sooner or later) are best applied in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt>, where you can preserve them across
+ upgrades. The file isn't installed by all installers, but you
+ can easily create it yourself with a text editor.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There is also a web based editor that can be accessed from <a
+ href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a> (Shortcut: <a
+ href="http://p.p/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://p.p/show-status</a>) for the various actions
+ files.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Filter files"</span> (the <a href=
+ "filter-file.html">filter file</a>) can be used to re-write the
+ raw page content, including viewable text as well as embedded
+ HTML and JavaScript, and whatever else lurks on any given web
+ page. The filtering jobs are only pre-defined here; whether to
+ apply them or not is up to the actions files. <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.filter</tt> includes various filters made
+ available for use by the developers. Some are much more
+ intrusive than others, and all should be used with caution. You
+ may define additional filter files in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">config</tt> as you can with actions files. We
+ suggest <tt class="FILENAME">user.filter</tt> for any locally
+ defined filters or customizations.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ The syntax of the configuration and filter files may change between
+ different Privoxy versions, unfortunately some enhancements cost
+ backwards compatibility.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ All files use the <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
+ "LITERAL">#</tt>"</span> character to denote a comment (the rest of
+ the line will be ignored) and understand line continuation through
+ placing a backslash ("<tt class="LITERAL">\</tt>") as the very last
+ character in a line. If the <tt class="LITERAL">#</tt> is preceded
+ by a backslash, it looses its special function. Placing a <tt
+ class="LITERAL">#</tt> in front of an otherwise valid configuration
+ line to prevent it from being interpreted is called "commenting
+ out" that line. Blank lines are ignored.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The actions files and filter files can use Perl style <a href=
+ "appendix.html#REGEX">regular expressions</a> for maximum
+ flexibility.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ After making any changes, there is no need to restart <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in order for the changes to take
+ effect. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> detects such
+ changes automatically. Note, however, that it may take one or two
+ additional requests for the change to take effect. When changing
+ the listening address of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
+ these <span class="QUOTE">"wake up"</span> requests must obviously
+ be sent to the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">old</i></span> listening address.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ While under development, the configuration content is subject to
+ change. The below documentation may not be accurate by the time you
+ read this. Also, what constitutes a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"default"</span> setting, may change, so please check all
+ your configuration files on important issues.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="startup.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="config.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Starting Privoxy
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ The Main Configuration File
</td>
</tr>
</table>
-
- <p>This should be self-explanatory. Note the first item leads to an
- editor for the <a href="actions-file.html">actions files</a>, which is
- where the ad, banner, cookie, and URL blocking magic is configured as
- well as other advanced features of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. This is an easy way to adjust various
- aspects of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> configuration. The
- actions file, and other configuration files, are explained in detail
- below.</p>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"Toggle Privoxy On or Off"</span> is handy for
- sites that might have problems with your current actions and filters.
- You can in fact use it as a test to see whether it is <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> causing the problem or not. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> continues to run as a proxy in this case,
- but all manipulation is disabled, i.e. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> acts like a normal forwarding proxy.</p>
-
- <p>Note that several of the features described above are disabled by
- default in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.7 beta and
- later. Check the <a href="config.html" target="_top">configuration
- file</a> to learn why and in which cases it's safe to enable them
- again.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="CONFOVERVIEW" id="CONFOVERVIEW">6.2.
- Configuration Files Overview</a></h2>
-
- <p>For Unix, *BSD and Linux, all configuration files are located in
- <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/privoxy/</tt> by default. For MS Windows,
- OS/2, and AmigaOS these are all in the same directory as the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> executable. The name and
- number of configuration files has changed from previous versions, and
- is subject to change as development progresses.</p>
-
- <p>The installed defaults provide a reasonable starting point, though
- some settings may be aggressive by some standards. For the time being,
- the principle configuration files are:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>The <a href="config.html">main configuration file</a> is named
- <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> on Linux, Unix, BSD, OS/2, and
- AmigaOS and <tt class="FILENAME">config.txt</tt> on Windows. This
- is a required file.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">match-all.action</tt> is used to define
- which <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> relating to
- banner-blocking, images, pop-ups, content modification, cookie
- handling etc should be applied by default. It should be the first
- actions file loaded.</p>
-
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> defines many exceptions
- (both positive and negative) from the default set of actions that's
- configured in <tt class="FILENAME">match-all.action</tt>. It should
- be the second actions file loaded and shouldn't be edited by the
- user.</p>
-
- <p>Multiple actions files may be defined in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">config</tt>. These are processed in the order they are
- defined. Local customizations and locally preferred exceptions to
- the default policies as defined in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">match-all.action</tt> (which you will most probably want
- to define sooner or later) are best applied in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.action</tt>, where you can preserve them across
- upgrades. The file isn't installed by all installers, but you can
- easily create it yourself with a text editor.</p>
-
- <p>There is also a web based editor that can be accessed from
- <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a> (Shortcut:
- <a href="http://p.p/show-status" target=
- "_top">http://p.p/show-status</a>) for the various actions
- files.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"Filter files"</span> (the <a href=
- "filter-file.html">filter file</a>) can be used to re-write the raw
- page content, including viewable text as well as embedded HTML and
- JavaScript, and whatever else lurks on any given web page. The
- filtering jobs are only pre-defined here; whether to apply them or
- not is up to the actions files. <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.filter</tt> includes various filters made
- available for use by the developers. Some are much more intrusive
- than others, and all should be used with caution. You may define
- additional filter files in <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> as you
- can with actions files. We suggest <tt class=
- "FILENAME">user.filter</tt> for any locally defined filters or
- customizations.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>The syntax of the configuration and filter files may change between
- different Privoxy versions, unfortunately some enhancements cost
- backwards compatibility.</p>
-
- <p>All files use the <span class="QUOTE">"<tt class=
- "LITERAL">#</tt>"</span> character to denote a comment (the rest of the
- line will be ignored) and understand line continuation through placing
- a backslash ("<tt class="LITERAL">\</tt>") as the very last character
- in a line. If the <tt class="LITERAL">#</tt> is preceded by a
- backslash, it looses its special function. Placing a <tt class=
- "LITERAL">#</tt> in front of an otherwise valid configuration line to
- prevent it from being interpreted is called "commenting out" that line.
- Blank lines are ignored.</p>
-
- <p>The actions files and filter files can use Perl style <a href=
- "appendix.html#REGEX">regular expressions</a> for maximum
- flexibility.</p>
-
- <p>After making any changes, there is no need to restart <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in order for the changes to take effect.
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> detects such changes
- automatically. Note, however, that it may take one or two additional
- requests for the change to take effect. When changing the listening
- address of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, these <span class=
- "QUOTE">"wake up"</span> requests must obviously be sent to the
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">old</i></span> listening
- address.</p>
-
- <p>While under development, the configuration content is subject to
- change. The below documentation may not be accurate by the time you
- read this. Also, what constitutes a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"default"</span> setting, may change, so please check all your
- configuration files on important issues.</p>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="startup.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="config.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Starting Privoxy</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">The Main Configuration
- File</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature
- Requests</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy's Template Files" href=
- "templates.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Privoxy Copyright, License and History" href=
- "copyright.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="templates.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "copyright.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="CONTACT" id="CONTACT">11. Contacting the
- Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</a></h1>
-
- <p>We value your feedback. In fact, we rely on it to improve <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and its configuration. However, please note
- the following hints, so we can provide you with the best support.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="SUFFICIENT-INFORMATION" id=
- "SUFFICIENT-INFORMATION">11.1. Please provide sufficient
- information</a></h2>
-
- <p>A lot of support requests don't contain enough information and can't
- be solved without a lot of back and forth which causes unnecessary
- delays. Reading this section should help to prevent that.</p>
-
- <p>Before contacting us to report a problem, please try to verify that
- it is a <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> problem, and not a
- browser or site problem or documented behaviour that just happens to be
- different than what you expected. If unsure, try <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=disable" target="_top">toggling
- off</a> <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, and see if the
- problem persists.</p>
-
- <p>If you are using your own custom configuration, please try the
- default configuration to see if the problem is configuration related.
- If you're having problems with a feature that is disabled by default,
- please ask around on the mailing list if others can reproduce the
- problem.</p>
-
- <p>If you aren't using the latest Privoxy version, the problem may have
- been found and fixed in the meantime. We would appreciate if you could
- take the time to <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/installation.html" target=
- "_top">upgrade to the latest version</a> and verify that the problem
- still exists.</p>
-
- <p>Please be sure to provide the following information when reporting
- problems or requesting support:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>The exact <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version you
- are using.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The operating system and versions you run <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on, e.g. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Windows XP SP2</span>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The name, platform, and version of the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">browser</span> you were using (e.g. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Internet Explorer v5.5</span> for Mac).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The URL where the problem occurred, or some way for us to
- duplicate the problem (e.g. <tt class=
- "LITERAL">http://somesite.example.com/?somethingelse=123</tt>).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Whether your version of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- is one supplied by the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- developers via SourceForge, or if you got your copy somewhere
- else.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Whether you are using <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- together with another proxy such as <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Tor</span>. If so, please temporary disable the other
- proxy to see if the symptoms change.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Whether you are using a personal firewall product. If so, does
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> work without it?</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Any other pertinent information to help identify the problem
- such as config or log file excerpts (yes, you should have log file
- entries for each action taken). To get a meaningful logfile, please
- make sure that the <a href="../user-manual/config.html#LOGFILE"
- target="_top">logfile directive</a> is being used and the following
- <a href="../user-manual/config.html#DEBUG" target="_top">debug
- options</a> are enabled (all of them):</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- debug 1 # Log the destination for each request Privoxy let through. See also debug 1024.<br>
-
- debug 2 # show each connection status<br>
-
- debug 4 # show I/O status<br>
-
- debug 8 # show header parsing<br>
-
- debug 128 # debug redirects<br>
- debug 256 # debug GIF de-animation<br>
-
- debug 512 # Common Log Format<br>
-
- debug 1024 # Log the destination for requests Privoxy didn't let through, and the reason why.<br>
-
- debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings.<br>
-
- debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors</p>
-
- <p>If you are having trouble with a filter, please additionally
- enable</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- debug 64 # debug regular expression filters</p>If
- you are using Privoxy 3.0.17 or later and suspect that it
- interprets the request or the response incorrectly, please enable
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- debug 32768 # log all data read from the network</p>
-
- <p>It's easy for us to ignore log messages that aren't relevant but
- missing log messages may make it impossible to investigate a
- problem. If you aren't sure which of the debug directives are
- relevant, please just enable all of them and let us worry about
- it.</p>
-
- <p>Note that Privoxy log files may contain sensitive information so
- please don't submit any logfiles you didn't read first. You can
- mask sensitive information as long as it's clear that you removed
- something.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>You don't have to tell us your actual name when filing a problem
- report, but if you don't, please use a nickname so we can differentiate
- between your messages and the ones entered by other "anonymous" users
- that may respond to your request if they have the same problem or
- already found a solution. Note that due to spam the trackers may not
- always allow to post without being logged into SourceForge. If that's
- the case, you are still free to create a login that isn't directly
- linked to your name, though.</p>
-
- <p>Please also check the status of your request a few days after
- submitting it, as we may request additional information. If you use a
- SF id, you should automatically get a mail when someone responds to
- your request. Please don't bother to add an email address when using
- the tracker. If you prefer to communicate through email, just use one
- of the mailing lists directly.</p>
-
- <p>If you are new to reporting problems, you might be interested in
- <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html" target=
- "_top">How to Report Bugs Effectively</a>.</p>
-
- <p>The <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT" target=
- "_top">appendix of the Privoxy User Manual</a> also has helpful
- information on understanding <tt class="LITERAL">actions</tt>, and
- <tt class="LITERAL">action</tt> debugging.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="CONTACT-SUPPORT" id="CONTACT-SUPPORT">11.2.
- Get Support</a></h2>
-
- <p>All users are welcome to discuss their issues on the <a href=
- "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-users" target=
- "_top">users mailing list</a>, where the developers also hang
- around.</p>
-
- <p>Please don't send private support requests to individual Privoxy
- developers, either use the mailing lists or the support trackers.</p>
-
- <p>If you have to contact a Privoxy developer directly for other
- reasons, please send a real mail and do not bother with SourceForge's
- messaging system. Answers to SourceForge messages are usually bounced
- by SourceForge's mail server in which case the developer wasted time
- writing a response you don't get. From your point of view it will look
- like your message has been completely ignored, so this is frustrating
- for all parties involved.</p>
-
- <p>Note that the Privoxy mailing lists are moderated. Posts from
- unsubscribed addresses have to be accepted manually by a moderator.
- This may cause a delay of several days and if you use a subject that
- doesn't clearly mention Privoxy or one of its features, your message
- may be accidentally discarded as spam.</p>
-
- <p>If you aren't subscribed, you should therefore spend a few seconds
- to come up with a proper subject. Additionally you should make it clear
- that you want to get CC'd. Otherwise some responses will be directed to
- the mailing list only, and you won't see them.</p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy's Template Files" href=
+ "templates.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Privoxy Copyright, License and History" href=
+ "copyright.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="templates.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="copyright.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="REPORTING" id="REPORTING">11.3. Reporting
- Problems</a></h2>
-
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"Problems"</span> for our purposes, come in two
- forms:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Configuration issues, such as ads that slip through, or sites
- that don't function properly due to one <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <span class="QUOTE">"action"</span> or
- another being turned <span class="QUOTE">"on"</span>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="QUOTE">"Bugs"</span> in the programming code that
- makes up <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, such as that
- might cause a crash. Documentation issues, for example spelling
- errors and unclear descriptions, are bugs, too.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="CONTACT-ADS" id="CONTACT-ADS">11.3.1.
- Reporting Ads or Other Configuration Problems</a></h3>
-
- <p>Please send feedback on ads that slipped through, innocent images
- that were blocked, sites that don't work properly, and other
- configuration related problem of <tt class=
- "FILENAME">default.action</tt> file, to <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288"
- target=
- "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288</a>,
- the Actions File Tracker.</p>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="CONTACT">11. Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and
+ Feature Requests</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ We value your feedback. In fact, we rely on it to improve <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and its configuration. However,
+ please note the following hints, so we can provide you with the best
+ support.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SUFFICIENT-INFORMATION">11.1. Please provide sufficient
+ information</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ A lot of support requests don't contain enough information and
+ can't be solved without a lot of back and forth which causes
+ unnecessary delays. Reading this section should help to prevent
+ that.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Before contacting us to report a problem, please try to verify that
+ it is a <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> problem, and not a
+ browser or site problem or documented behaviour that just happens
+ to be different than what you expected. If unsure, try <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=disable" target=
+ "_top">toggling off</a> <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
+ and see if the problem persists.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are using your own custom configuration, please try the
+ default configuration to see if the problem is configuration
+ related. If you're having problems with a feature that is disabled
+ by default, please ask around on the mailing list if others can
+ reproduce the problem.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you aren't using the latest Privoxy version, the problem may
+ have been found and fixed in the meantime. We would appreciate if
+ you could take the time to <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/installation.html" target=
+ "_top">upgrade to the latest version</a> and verify that the
+ problem still exists.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please be sure to provide the following information when reporting
+ problems or requesting support:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The exact <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version you
+ are using.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The operating system and versions you run <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on, e.g. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Windows XP SP2</span>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The name, platform, and version of the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">browser</span> you were using (e.g. <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Internet Explorer v5.5</span> for Mac).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The URL where the problem occurred, or some way for us to
+ duplicate the problem (e.g. <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">http://somesite.example.com/?somethingelse=123</tt>).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Whether your version of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is one supplied by the <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> developers via SourceForge,
+ or if you got your copy somewhere else.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Whether you are using <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ together with another proxy such as <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span>. If so, please temporary disable the
+ other proxy to see if the symptoms change.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Whether you are using a personal firewall product. If so, does
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> work without it?
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Any other pertinent information to help identify the problem
+ such as config or log file excerpts (yes, you should have log
+ file entries for each action taken). To get a meaningful
+ logfile, please make sure that the <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#LOGFILE" target="_top">logfile
+ directive</a> is being used and the following <a href=
+ "../user-manual/config.html#DEBUG" target="_top">debug
+ options</a> are enabled (all of them):
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ debug 1 # Log the destination for each request Privoxy let through. See also debug 1024.<br>
+
+ debug 2 # show each connection status<br>
+
+ debug 4 # show I/O status<br>
+
+ debug 8 # show header parsing<br>
+
+ debug 128 # debug redirects<br>
+
+ debug 256 # debug GIF de-animation<br>
+
+ debug 512 # Common Log Format<br>
+
+ debug 1024 # Log the destination for requests Privoxy didn't let through, and the reason why.<br>
+
+ debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings.<br>
+
+ debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ If you are having trouble with a filter, please additionally
+ enable
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ debug 64 # debug regular expression filters
+ </p>
+ If you are using Privoxy 3.0.17 or later and suspect that it
+ interprets the request or the response incorrectly, please enable
+
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ debug 32768 # log all data read from the network
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ It's easy for us to ignore log messages that aren't relevant
+ but missing log messages may make it impossible to investigate
+ a problem. If you aren't sure which of the debug directives are
+ relevant, please just enable all of them and let us worry about
+ it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that Privoxy log files may contain sensitive information
+ so please don't submit any logfiles you didn't read first. You
+ can mask sensitive information as long as it's clear that you
+ removed something.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ You don't have to tell us your actual name when filing a problem
+ report, but if you don't, please use a nickname so we can
+ differentiate between your messages and the ones entered by other
+ "anonymous" users that may respond to your request if they have the
+ same problem or already found a solution. Note that due to spam the
+ trackers may not always allow to post without being logged into
+ SourceForge. If that's the case, you are still free to create a
+ login that isn't directly linked to your name, though.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please also check the status of your request a few days after
+ submitting it, as we may request additional information. If you use
+ a SF id, you should automatically get a mail when someone responds
+ to your request. Please don't bother to add an email address when
+ using the tracker. If you prefer to communicate through email, just
+ use one of the mailing lists directly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are new to reporting problems, you might be interested in <a
+ href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html"
+ target="_top">How to Report Bugs Effectively</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT"
+ target="_top">appendix of the Privoxy User Manual</a> also has
+ helpful information on understanding <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">actions</tt>, and <tt class="LITERAL">action</tt>
+ debugging.
+ </p>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="CONTACT-BUGS" id="CONTACT-BUGS">11.3.2.
- Reporting Bugs</a></h3>
-
- <p>Before reporting bugs, please make sure that the bug has
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not already been
- submitted</i></span> and observe the additional hints at the top of
- the <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=11118&atid=111118"
- target="_top">submit form</a>. If already submitted, please feel free
- to add any info to the original report that might help to solve the
- issue.</p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CONTACT-SUPPORT">11.2. Get Support</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ All users are welcome to discuss their issues on the <a href=
+ "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-users" target=
+ "_top">users mailing list</a>, where the developers also hang
+ around.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please don't send private support requests to individual Privoxy
+ developers, either use the mailing lists or the support trackers.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you have to contact a Privoxy developer directly for other
+ reasons, please send a real mail and do not bother with
+ SourceForge's messaging system. Answers to SourceForge messages are
+ usually bounced by SourceForge's mail server in which case the
+ developer wasted time writing a response you don't get. From your
+ point of view it will look like your message has been completely
+ ignored, so this is frustrating for all parties involved.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that the Privoxy mailing lists are moderated. Posts from
+ unsubscribed addresses have to be accepted manually by a moderator.
+ This may cause a delay of several days and if you use a subject
+ that doesn't clearly mention Privoxy or one of its features, your
+ message may be accidentally discarded as spam.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you aren't subscribed, you should therefore spend a few seconds
+ to come up with a proper subject. Additionally you should make it
+ clear that you want to get CC'd. Otherwise some responses will be
+ directed to the mailing list only, and you won't see them.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="REPORTING">11.3. Reporting Problems</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Problems"</span> for our purposes, come in two
+ forms:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Configuration issues, such as ads that slip through, or sites
+ that don't function properly due to one <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"action"</span> or another being turned <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"on"</span>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Bugs"</span> in the programming code that
+ makes up <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, such as that
+ might cause a crash. Documentation issues, for example spelling
+ errors and unclear descriptions, are bugs, too.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CONTACT-ADS">11.3.1. Reporting Ads or Other
+ Configuration Problems</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Please send feedback on ads that slipped through, innocent images
+ that were blocked, sites that don't work properly, and other
+ configuration related problem of <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">default.action</tt> file, to <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288</a>,
+ the Actions File Tracker.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="CONTACT-BUGS">11.3.2. Reporting Bugs</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Before reporting bugs, please make sure that the bug has <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">not already been
+ submitted</i></span> and observe the additional hints at the top
+ of the <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=11118&atid=111118"
+ target="_top">submit form</a>. If already submitted, please feel
+ free to add any info to the original report that might help to
+ solve the issue.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SECURITY-CONTACT">11.4. Reporting security problems</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ If you discovered a security problem or merely suspect that a bug
+ might be a security issue, please mail Fabian Keil
+ <fk@fabiankeil.de> (OpenPGP fingerprint: 4F36 C17F 3816 9136
+ 54A1 E850 6918 2291 8BA2 371C).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Usually you should get a response within a day, otherwise it's
+ likely that either your mail or the response didn't make it. If
+ that happens, please mail to the developer list to request a status
+ update.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="MAILING-LISTS">11.5. Mailing Lists</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ If you prefer to communicate through email, instead of using a web
+ interface, feel free to use one of the mailing lists. To discuss
+ issues that haven't been completely diagnosed yet, please use the
+ Privoxy users list. Technically interested users and people who
+ wish to contribute to the project are always welcome on the
+ developers list. You can find an overview of all <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>-related mailing lists, including list
+ archives, at: <a href="https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo"
+ target="_top">https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo</a>. The
+ lists hosted on privoxy.org have been created in 2016, the
+ previously-used lists hosted at SourceForge are deprecated but the
+ archives may still be useful: <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=11118" target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=11118</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="SF-TRACKERS">11.6. SourceForge support trackers</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=211118"
+ target="_top">SourceForge support trackers</a> may be used as well,
+ but have various technical problems that are unlikely to be fixed
+ anytime soon. If you don't get a timely response, please try the
+ mailing list as well. While it's hosted at SourceForge as well, it
+ usually works as expected.
+ </p>
</div>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="SECURITY-CONTACT" id=
- "SECURITY-CONTACT">11.4. Reporting security problems</a></h2>
-
- <p>If you discovered a security problem or merely suspect that a bug
- might be a security issue, please mail Fabian Keil
- <fk@fabiankeil.de> (OpenPGP fingerprint: 4F36 C17F 3816 9136 54A1
- E850 6918 2291 8BA2 371C).</p>
-
- <p>Usually you should get a response within a day, otherwise it's
- likely that either your mail or the response didn't make it. If that
- happens, please mail to the developer list to request a status
- update.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="MAILING-LISTS" id="MAILING-LISTS">11.5.
- Mailing Lists</a></h2>
-
- <p>If you prefer to communicate through email, instead of using a web
- interface, feel free to use one of the mailing lists. To discuss issues
- that haven't been completely diagnosed yet, please use the Privoxy
- users list. Technically interested users and people who wish to
- contribute to the project are always welcome on the developers list.
- You can find an overview of all <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>-related mailing lists, including list
- archives, at: <a href="https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo"
- target="_top">https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo</a>. The lists
- hosted on privoxy.org have been created in 2016, the previously-used
- lists hosted at SourceForge are deprecated but the archives may still
- be useful: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=11118"
- target="_top">https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=11118</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="SF-TRACKERS" id="SF-TRACKERS">11.6.
- SourceForge support trackers</a></h2>
-
- <p>The <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=211118"
- target="_top">SourceForge support trackers</a> may be used as well, but
- have various technical problems that are unlikely to be fixed anytime
- soon. If you don't get a timely response, please try the mailing list
- as well. While it's hosted at SourceForge as well, it usually works as
- expected.</p>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="templates.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="copyright.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Privoxy's Template Files
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Privoxy Copyright, License and History
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="templates.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="copyright.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Privoxy's Template
- Files</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Privoxy Copyright, License
- and History</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Privoxy Copyright, License and History</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title=
- "Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests" href=
- "contact.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="See Also" href="seealso.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="contact.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="seealso.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="COPYRIGHT" id="COPYRIGHT">12. Privoxy
- Copyright, License and History</a></h1>
-
- <p>Copyright © 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
- "EMAIL"><<a href=
- "mailto:privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org">privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org</a>></code></p>
-
- <p>Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous
- Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
- "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
- redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
- "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published by
- the Free Software Foundation and included in the next section.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="LICENSE" id="LICENSE">12.1. License</a></h2>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Privoxy Copyright, License and History
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title=
+ "Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests" href=
+ "contact.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="See Also" href="seealso.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="contact.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="seealso.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="COPYRIGHT">12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ Copyright © 2001-2016 by Privoxy Developers <code class=
+ "EMAIL"><<a href=
+ "mailto:privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org">privoxy-devel@lists.privoxy.org</a>></code>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Some source code is based on code Copyright © 1997 by Anonymous
+ Coders and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the <i class=
+ "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is free software; you can
+ redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <i class=
+ "CITETITLE">GNU General Public License</i>, version 2, as published
+ by the Free Software Foundation and included in the next section.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="LICENSE">12.1. License</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
Public License instead of this License.
-
</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="HISTORY">12.2. History</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
+ Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
+ This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
+ advertising and user tracking.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
+ techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
+ browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not.
+ Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release,
+ available from Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been
+ released under the GNU <a href=
+ "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" target=
+ "_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
+ software, to which eventually a number of people contributed
+ patches. It could already replace banners with a transparent image,
+ and had a first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very
+ closely based on the original, with all its limitations, such as
+ the lack of HTTP/1.1 support, flexible per-site configuration, or
+ content modification. The last release from this effort was version
+ 2.0.2-10, published in 2000.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Then, some <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS"
+ target="_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started
+ turning the software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled
+ it, adding many <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
+ target="_top">new features</a> along the way.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
+ whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
+ (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is
+ still actively maintained.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="AUTHORS">12.3. Authors</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Current Privoxy Team:
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ Fabian Keil, lead developer<br>
+ David Schmidt<br>
+ Hal Burgiss<br>
+ Lee Rian<br>
+ Roland Rosenfeld<br>
+ Ian Silvester
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Former Privoxy Team Members:
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ Johny Agotnes<br>
+ Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
+ Moritz Barsnick<br>
+ Ian Cummings<br>
+ Brian Dessent<br>
+ Jon Foster<br>
+ Karsten Hopp<br>
+ Alexander Lazic<br>
+ Daniel Leite<br>
+ Gábor Lipták<br>
+ Adam Lock<br>
+ Guy Laroche<br>
+ Justin McMurtry<br>
+ Mark Miller<br>
+ Gerry Murphy<br>
+ Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
+ Haroon Rafique<br>
+ Georg Sauthoff<br>
+ Thomas Steudten<br>
+ Jörg Strohmayer<br>
+ Rodney Stromlund<br>
+ Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
+ Sarantis Paskalis<br>
+ Stefan Waldherr
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs,
+ provided patches, made suggestions, donated or contributed in some
+ other way. These include (in alphabetical order):
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ Rustam Abdullaev<br>
+ Anatoly Arzhnikov<br>
+ Ken Arromdee<br>
+ Natxo Asenjo<br>
+ Devin Bayer<br>
+ Havard Berland<br>
+ David Bo<br>
+ Gergely Bor<br>
+ Francois Botha<br>
+ Reiner Buehl<br>
+ Andrew J. Caines<br>
+ Clifford Caoile<br>
+ Edward Carrel<br>
+ Pak Chan<br>
+ Wan-Teh Chang<br>
+ Sam Chen<br>
+ Ramkumar Chinchani<br>
+ Billy Crook<br>
+ Frédéric Crozat<br>
+ Matthew Daley<br>
+ Michael T. Davis<br>
+ Markus Dittrich<br>
+ Mattes Dolak<br>
+ Matthias Drochner<br>
+ Peter E.<br>
+ Florian Effenberger<br>
+ Markus Elfring<br>
+ Ryan Farmer<br>
+ Matthew Fischer<br>
+ Dean Gaudet<br>
+ Stephen Gildea<br>
+ John McGowan<br>
+ Lizik Grelier<br>
+ Daniel Griscom<br>
+ Felix Gröbert<br>
+ Bernard Guillot<br>
+ Jeff H.<br>
+ Tim H.<br>
+ Aaron Hamid<br>
+ Basil Hussain<br>
+ Darel Henman<br>
+ Magnus Holmgren<br>
+ Eric M. Hopper<br>
+ Ralf Horstmann<br>
+ Stefan Huehner<br>
+ Peter Hyman<br>
+ Derek Jennings<br>
+ Andrew Jones<br>
+ Julien Joubert<br>
+ Ralf Jungblut<br>
+ Petr Kadlec<br>
+ Robert Klemme<br>
+ Steven Kolins<br>
+ Korda<br>
+ Stefan Kurtz<br>
+ Zeno Kugy<br>
+ David Laight<br>
+ Bert van Leeuwen<br>
+ Don Libes<br>
+ Paul Lieverse<br>
+ Han Liu<br>
+ Toby Lyward<br>
+ Wil Mahan<br>
+ Jindrich Makovicka<br>
+ Raphael Marichez<br>
+ Francois Marier<br>
+ Angelina Matson<br>
+ Jonathan McKenzie<br>
+ David Mediavilla<br>
+ J. Momberger<br>
+ Raphael Moll<br>
+ Mathew Murphy<br>
+ Amuro Namie<br>
+ Mark Nelson<br>
+ Adam Piggott<br>
+ Petr Písar<br>
+ Dan Price<br>
+ Kai Raven<br>
+ Roberto Ragusa<br>
+ Félix Rauch<br>
+ Chris John Riley<br>
+ Maynard Riley<br>
+ Andreas Rutkauskas<br>
+ Bart Schelstraete<br>
+ Gregory Seidman<br>
+ Atman Sense<br>
+ Chung-chieh Shan<br>
+ Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler<br>
+ Simon South<br>
+ Dan Stahlke<br>
+ Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
+ Rick Sykes<br>
+ Spinor S.<br>
+ Peter Thoenen<br>
+ Martin Thomas<br>
+ Reuben Thomas<br>
+ Guybrush Threepwood<br>
+ Joel Verhagen<br>
+ Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
+ Jochen Voss<br>
+ David Wagner<br>
+ Glenn Washburn<br>
+ Song Weijia<br>
+ Jörg Weinmann<br>
+ Darren Wiebe<br>
+ Anduin Withers<br>
+ Yang Xia<br>
+ Jarry Xu<br>
+ Oliver Yeoh<br>
+ Jamie Zawinski<br>
+ Eduard Wulff
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by
+ Junkbusters Corp. and Anonymous Coders.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib which is
+ written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version written
+ by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(), Privoxy is using
+ the one from the GNU C Library written by Ulrich Drepper.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="contact.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="seealso.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ See Also
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="HISTORY" id="HISTORY">12.2. History</a></h2>
-
- <p>A long time ago, there was the <span class="APPLICATION">Internet
- Junkbuster</span>, by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation.
- This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of web
- advertising and user tracking.</p>
-
- <p>But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the
- techniques for forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their
- browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Junkbuster</span> did not. Version
- 2.0.2, published in 1998, was the last official release, available from
- Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the
- GNU <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
- target="_top">GPL</a>, which allowed further development by others.</p>
-
- <p>So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the
- software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches.
- It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a
- first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on
- the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1
- support, flexible per-site configuration, or content modification. The
- last release from this effort was version 2.0.2-10, published in
- 2000.</p>
-
- <p>Then, some <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html#AUTHORS" target=
- "_top">developers</a> picked up the thread, and started turning the
- software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many
- <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/introduction.html#FEATURES"
- target="_top">new features</a> along the way.</p>
-
- <p>The result of this is <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>,
- whose first stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002.</p>
-
- <p>As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website
- (http://www.junkbusters.com/) has been shut down, but Privoxy is still
- actively maintained.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AUTHORS" id="AUTHORS">12.3. Authors</a></h2>
-
- <p>Current Privoxy Team:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
- Fabian Keil, lead developer<br>
- David Schmidt<br>
- Hal Burgiss<br>
- Lee Rian<br>
- Roland Rosenfeld<br>
- Ian Silvester</p>
-
- <p>Former Privoxy Team Members:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"> Johny Agotnes<br>
- Rodrigo Barbosa<br>
- Moritz Barsnick<br>
- Ian Cummings<br>
- Brian Dessent<br>
- Jon Foster<br>
- Karsten Hopp<br>
- Alexander Lazic<br>
- Daniel Leite<br>
- Gábor Lipták<br>
- Adam Lock<br>
- Guy Laroche<br>
- Justin McMurtry<br>
- Mark Miller<br>
- Gerry Murphy<br>
- Andreas Oesterhelt<br>
- Haroon Rafique<br>
- Georg Sauthoff<br>
- Thomas Steudten<br>
- Jörg Strohmayer<br>
- Rodney Stromlund<br>
- Sviatoslav Sviridov<br>
- Sarantis Paskalis<br>
- Stefan Waldherr</p>
-
- <p>Thanks to the many people who have tested Privoxy, reported bugs,
- provided patches, made suggestions, donated or contributed in some
- other way. These include (in alphabetical order):</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"> Rustam Abdullaev<br>
- Anatoly Arzhnikov<br>
- Ken Arromdee<br>
- Natxo Asenjo<br>
- Devin Bayer<br>
- Havard Berland<br>
- David Bo<br>
- Gergely Bor<br>
- Francois Botha<br>
- Reiner Buehl<br>
- Andrew J. Caines<br>
- Clifford Caoile<br>
- Edward Carrel<br>
- Pak Chan<br>
- Wan-Teh Chang<br>
- Sam Chen<br>
- Ramkumar Chinchani<br>
- Billy Crook<br>
- Frédéric Crozat<br>
- Matthew Daley<br>
- Michael T. Davis<br>
- Markus Dittrich<br>
- Mattes Dolak<br>
- Matthias Drochner<br>
- Peter E.<br>
- Florian Effenberger<br>
- Markus Elfring<br>
- Ryan Farmer<br>
- Matthew Fischer<br>
- Dean Gaudet<br>
- Stephen Gildea<br>
- John McGowan<br>
- Lizik Grelier<br>
- Daniel Griscom<br>
- Felix Gröbert<br>
- Bernard Guillot<br>
- Jeff H.<br>
- Tim H.<br>
- Aaron Hamid<br>
- Basil Hussain<br>
- Darel Henman<br>
- Magnus Holmgren<br>
- Eric M. Hopper<br>
- Ralf Horstmann<br>
- Stefan Huehner<br>
- Peter Hyman<br>
- Derek Jennings<br>
- Andrew Jones<br>
- Julien Joubert<br>
- Ralf Jungblut<br>
- Petr Kadlec<br>
- Robert Klemme<br>
- Steven Kolins<br>
- Korda<br>
- Stefan Kurtz<br>
- Zeno Kugy<br>
- David Laight<br>
- Bert van Leeuwen<br>
- Don Libes<br>
- Paul Lieverse<br>
- Han Liu<br>
- Toby Lyward<br>
- Wil Mahan<br>
- Jindrich Makovicka<br>
- Raphael Marichez<br>
- Francois Marier<br>
- Angelina Matson<br>
- Jonathan McKenzie<br>
- David Mediavilla<br>
- J. Momberger<br>
- Raphael Moll<br>
- Mathew Murphy<br>
- Amuro Namie<br>
- Mark Nelson<br>
- Adam Piggott<br>
- Petr Písar<br>
- Dan Price<br>
- Kai Raven<br>
- Roberto Ragusa<br>
- Félix Rauch<br>
- Chris John Riley<br>
- Maynard Riley<br>
- Andreas Rutkauskas<br>
- Bart Schelstraete<br>
- Gregory Seidman<br>
- Atman Sense<br>
- Chung-chieh Shan<br>
- Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler<br>
- Simon South<br>
- Dan Stahlke<br>
- Oliver Stoeneberg<br>
- Rick Sykes<br>
- Spinor S.<br>
- Peter Thoenen<br>
- Martin Thomas<br>
- Reuben Thomas<br>
- Guybrush Threepwood<br>
- Joel Verhagen<br>
- Bobby G. Vinyard<br>
- Jochen Voss<br>
- David Wagner<br>
- Glenn Washburn<br>
- Song Weijia<br>
- Jörg Weinmann<br>
- Darren Wiebe<br>
- Anduin Withers<br>
- Yang Xia<br>
- Jarry Xu<br>
- Oliver Yeoh<br>
- Jamie Zawinski<br>
- Eduard Wulff</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is based in part on code originally developed by Junkbusters
- Corp. and Anonymous Coders.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy heavily relies on Philip Hazel's PCRE.</p>
-
- <p>The code to filter compressed content makes use of zlib which is
- written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.</p>
-
- <p>On systems that lack snprintf(), Privoxy is using a version written
- by Mark Martinec. On systems that lack strptime(), Privoxy is using the
- one from the GNU C Library written by Ulrich Drepper.</p>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="contact.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="seealso.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Contacting the Developers,
- Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">See Also</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Filter Files</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Actions Files" href="actions-file.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Privoxy's Template Files" href="templates.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "actions-file.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "templates.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="FILTER-FILE" id="FILTER-FILE">9. Filter
- Files</a></h1>
-
- <p>On-the-fly text substitutions need to be defined in a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"filter file"</span>. Once defined, they can then be invoked as
- an <span class="QUOTE">"action"</span>.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> supports three different
- pcrs-based filter actions: <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt> to rewrite the content that is
- send to the client, <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER">client-header-filter</a></tt> to
- rewrite headers that are send by the client, and <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-FILTER">server-header-filter</a></tt> to
- rewrite headers that are send by the server.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> also supports two tagger
- actions: <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER">client-header-tagger</a></tt>
- and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-TAGGER">server-header-tagger</a></tt>.
- Taggers and filters use the same syntax in the filter files, the
- difference is that taggers don't modify the text they are filtering, but
- use a rewritten version of the filtered text as tag. The tags can then be
- used to change the applying actions through sections with <a href=
- "actions-file.html#TAG-PATTERN">tag-patterns</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Finally <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> supports the
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER">external-filter</a></tt> action to
- enable <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "filter-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER-SYNTAX">external filters</a></tt>
- written in proper programming languages.</p>
-
- <p>Multiple filter files can be defined through the <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href="config.html#FILTERFILE">filterfile</a></tt> config
- directive. The filters as supplied by the developers are located in
- <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt>. It is recommended that any
- locally defined or modified filters go in a separately defined file such
- as <tt class="FILENAME">user.filter</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>Common tasks for content filters are to eliminate common annoyances in
- HTML and JavaScript, such as pop-up windows, exit consoles, crippled
- windows without navigation tools, the infamous <BLINK> tag etc, to
- suppress images with certain width and height attributes (standard banner
- sizes or web-bugs), or just to have fun.</p>
-
- <p>Enabled content filters are applied to any content whose <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Content Type"</span> header is recognised as a sign of
- text-based content, with the exception of <tt class=
- "LITERAL">text/plain</tt>. Use the <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FORCE-TEXT-MODE">force-text-mode</a> action to also
- filter other content.</p>
-
- <p>Substitutions are made at the source level, so if you want to
- <span class="QUOTE">"roll your own"</span> filters, you should first be
- familiar with HTML syntax, and, of course, regular expressions.</p>
-
- <p>Just like the <a href="actions-file.html">actions files</a>, the
- filter file is organized in sections, which are called <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">filters</i></span> here. Each filter
- consists of a heading line, that starts with one of the <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">keywords</i></span> <tt class=
- "LITERAL">FILTER:</tt>, <tt class="LITERAL">CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER:</tt> or
- <tt class="LITERAL">SERVER-HEADER-FILTER:</tt> followed by the filter's
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">name</i></span>, and a short
- (one line) <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">description</i></span> of what it does. Below that line come
- the <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">jobs</i></span>, i.e.
- lines that define the actual text substitutions. By convention, the name
- of a filter should describe what the filter <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">eliminates</i></span>. The comment is used
- in the <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target="_top">web-based user
- interface</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Once a filter called <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt> has been
- defined in the filter file, it can be invoked by using an action of the
- form +<tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a>{<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>}</tt> in any <a href=
- "actions-file.html">actions file</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Filter definitions start with a header line that contains the filter
- type, the filter name and the filter description. A content filter header
- line for a filter called <span class="QUOTE">"foo"</span> could look like
- this:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-FILTER: foo Replace all "foo" with "bar"
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Below that line, and up to the next header line, come the jobs that
- define what text replacements the filter executes. They are specified in
- a syntax that imitates <a href="http://www.perl.org/" target=
- "_top">Perl</a>'s <tt class="LITERAL">s///</tt> operator. If you are
- familiar with Perl, you will find this to be quite intuitive, and may
- want to look at the PCRS documentation for the subtle differences to Perl
- behaviour.</p>
-
- <p>Most notably, the non-standard option letter <tt class=
- "LITERAL">U</tt> is supported, which turns the default to ungreedy
- matching (add <tt class="LITERAL">?</tt> to quantifiers to turn them
- greedy again).</p>
-
- <p>The non-standard option letter <tt class="LITERAL">D</tt> (dynamic)
- allows to use the variables $host, $origin (the IP address the request
- came from), $path, $url and $listen-address (the address on which Privoxy
- accepted the client request. Example: 127.0.0.1:8118). They will be
- replaced with the value they refer to before the filter is executed.</p>
-
- <p>Note that '$' is a bad choice for a delimiter in a dynamic filter as
- you might end up with unintended variables if you use a variable name
- directly after the delimiter. Variables will be resolved without escaping
- anything, therefore you also have to be careful not to chose delimiters
- that appear in the replacement text. For example '<' should be save,
- while '?' will sooner or later cause conflicts with $url.</p>
-
- <p>The non-standard option letter <tt class="LITERAL">T</tt> (trivial)
- prevents parsing for backreferences in the substitute. Use it if you want
- to include text like '$&' in your substitute without quoting.</p>
-
- <p>If you are new to <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
- "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a>, you might
- want to take a look at the <a href="appendix.html#REGEX">Appendix on
- regular expressions</a>, and see the <a href=
- "http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html" target="_top">Perl manual</a> for
- <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html" target="_top">the
- <tt class="LITERAL">s///</tt> operator's syntax</a> and <a href=
- "http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html" target="_top">Perl-style regular
- expressions</a> in general. The below examples might also help to get you
- started.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="FILTER-FILE-TUT" id="FILTER-FILE-TUT">9.1.
- Filter File Tutorial</a></h2>
-
- <p>Now, let's complete our <span class="QUOTE">"foo"</span> content
- filter. We have already defined the heading, but the jobs are still
- missing. Since all it does is to replace <span class=
- "QUOTE">"foo"</span> with <span class="QUOTE">"bar"</span>, there is
- only one (trivial) job needed:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Filter Files
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Actions Files" href="actions-file.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Privoxy's Template Files" href="templates.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-s/foo/bar/
-</pre>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="actions-file.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="templates.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
-
- <p>But wait! Didn't the comment say that <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> occurrences of
- <span class="QUOTE">"foo"</span> should be replaced? Our current job
- will only take care of the first <span class="QUOTE">"foo"</span> on
- each page. For global substitution, we'll need to add the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">g</tt> option:</p>
-
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="FILTER-FILE">9. Filter Files</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ On-the-fly text substitutions need to be defined in a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"filter file"</span>. Once defined, they can then be invoked
+ as an <span class="QUOTE">"action"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> supports three different
+ pcrs-based filter actions: <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></tt> to rewrite the content
+ that is send to the client, <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER">client-header-filter</a></tt>
+ to rewrite headers that are send by the client, and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-FILTER">server-header-filter</a></tt>
+ to rewrite headers that are send by the server.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> also supports two tagger
+ actions: <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER">client-header-tagger</a></tt>
+ and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-TAGGER">server-header-tagger</a></tt>.
+ Taggers and filters use the same syntax in the filter files, the
+ difference is that taggers don't modify the text they are filtering,
+ but use a rewritten version of the filtered text as tag. The tags can
+ then be used to change the applying actions through sections with <a
+ href="actions-file.html#TAG-PATTERN">tag-patterns</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Finally <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> supports the <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER">external-filter</a></tt> action
+ to enable <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "filter-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER-SYNTAX">external filters</a></tt>
+ written in proper programming languages.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Multiple filter files can be defined through the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href="config.html#FILTERFILE">filterfile</a></tt> config
+ directive. The filters as supplied by the developers are located in
+ <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt>. It is recommended that any
+ locally defined or modified filters go in a separately defined file
+ such as <tt class="FILENAME">user.filter</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Common tasks for content filters are to eliminate common annoyances
+ in HTML and JavaScript, such as pop-up windows, exit consoles,
+ crippled windows without navigation tools, the infamous <BLINK>
+ tag etc, to suppress images with certain width and height attributes
+ (standard banner sizes or web-bugs), or just to have fun.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Enabled content filters are applied to any content whose <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Content Type"</span> header is recognised as a sign of
+ text-based content, with the exception of <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">text/plain</tt>. Use the <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FORCE-TEXT-MODE">force-text-mode</a> action to
+ also filter other content.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Substitutions are made at the source level, so if you want to <span
+ class="QUOTE">"roll your own"</span> filters, you should first be
+ familiar with HTML syntax, and, of course, regular expressions.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Just like the <a href="actions-file.html">actions files</a>, the
+ filter file is organized in sections, which are called <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">filters</i></span> here. Each filter
+ consists of a heading line, that starts with one of the <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">keywords</i></span> <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">FILTER:</tt>, <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER:</tt> or <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">SERVER-HEADER-FILTER:</tt> followed by the filter's <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">name</i></span>, and a short
+ (one line) <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">description</i></span> of what it does. Below that line
+ come the <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">jobs</i></span>,
+ i.e. lines that define the actual text substitutions. By convention,
+ the name of a filter should describe what the filter <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">eliminates</i></span>. The comment is
+ used in the <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">web-based user interface</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Once a filter called <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt> has
+ been defined in the filter file, it can be invoked by using an action
+ of the form +<tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a>{<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>name</i></tt>}</tt> in any <a href=
+ "actions-file.html">actions file</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Filter definitions start with a header line that contains the filter
+ type, the filter name and the filter description. A content filter
+ header line for a filter called <span class="QUOTE">"foo"</span>
+ could look like this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
-s/foo/bar/g
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+FILTER: foo Replace all "foo" with "bar"
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- <p>Our complete filter now looks like this:</p>
+ <p>
+ Below that line, and up to the next header line, come the jobs that
+ define what text replacements the filter executes. They are specified
+ in a syntax that imitates <a href="http://www.perl.org/" target=
+ "_top">Perl</a>'s <tt class="LITERAL">s///</tt> operator. If you are
+ familiar with Perl, you will find this to be quite intuitive, and may
+ want to look at the PCRS documentation for the subtle differences to
+ Perl behaviour.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Most notably, the non-standard option letter <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">U</tt> is supported, which turns the default to ungreedy
+ matching (add <tt class="LITERAL">?</tt> to quantifiers to turn them
+ greedy again).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The non-standard option letter <tt class="LITERAL">D</tt> (dynamic)
+ allows to use the variables $host, $origin (the IP address the
+ request came from), $path, $url and $listen-address (the address on
+ which Privoxy accepted the client request. Example: 127.0.0.1:8118).
+ They will be replaced with the value they refer to before the filter
+ is executed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that '$' is a bad choice for a delimiter in a dynamic filter as
+ you might end up with unintended variables if you use a variable name
+ directly after the delimiter. Variables will be resolved without
+ escaping anything, therefore you also have to be careful not to chose
+ delimiters that appear in the replacement text. For example '<'
+ should be save, while '?' will sooner or later cause conflicts with
+ $url.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The non-standard option letter <tt class="LITERAL">T</tt> (trivial)
+ prevents parsing for backreferences in the substitute. Use it if you
+ want to include text like '$&' in your substitute without
+ quoting.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you are new to <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" target=
+ "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"Regular Expressions"</span></a>, you
+ might want to take a look at the <a href=
+ "appendix.html#REGEX">Appendix on regular expressions</a>, and see
+ the <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html" target="_top">Perl
+ manual</a> for <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html" target=
+ "_top">the <tt class="LITERAL">s///</tt> operator's syntax</a> and <a
+ href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html" target="_top">Perl-style
+ regular expressions</a> in general. The below examples might also
+ help to get you started.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="FILTER-FILE-TUT">9.1. Filter File Tutorial</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Now, let's complete our <span class="QUOTE">"foo"</span> content
+ filter. We have already defined the heading, but the jobs are still
+ missing. Since all it does is to replace <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"foo"</span> with <span class="QUOTE">"bar"</span>, there
+ is only one (trivial) job needed:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+s/foo/bar/
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
-FILTER: foo Replace all "foo" with "bar"
+ <p>
+ But wait! Didn't the comment say that <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> occurrences of <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"foo"</span> should be replaced? Our current job will only
+ take care of the first <span class="QUOTE">"foo"</span> on each
+ page. For global substitution, we'll need to add the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">g</tt> option:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
s/foo/bar/g
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>Let's look at some real filters for more interesting examples. Here
- you see a filter that protects against some common annoyances that
- arise from JavaScript abuse. Let's look at its jobs one after the
- other:</p>
+ <p>
+ Our complete filter now looks like this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+FILTER: foo Replace all "foo" with "bar"
+s/foo/bar/g
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Let's look at some real filters for more interesting examples. Here
+ you see a filter that protects against some common annoyances that
+ arise from JavaScript abuse. Let's look at its jobs one after the
+ other:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
FILTER: js-annoyances Get rid of particularly annoying JavaScript abuse
# Get rid of JavaScript referrer tracking. Test page: http://www.randomoddness.com/untitled.htm
#
s|(<script.*)document\.referrer(.*</script>)|$1"Not Your Business!"$2|Usg
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Following the header line and a comment, you see the job. Note that
- it uses <tt class="LITERAL">|</tt> as the delimiter instead of
- <tt class="LITERAL">/</tt>, because the pattern contains a forward
- slash, which would otherwise have to be escaped by a backslash
- (<tt class="LITERAL">\</tt>).</p>
-
- <p>Now, let's examine the pattern: it starts with the text <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><script.*</tt> enclosed in parentheses. Since the dot
- matches any character, and <tt class="LITERAL">*</tt> means:
- <span class="QUOTE">"Match an arbitrary number of the element left of
- myself"</span>, this matches <span class="QUOTE">"<script"</span>,
- followed by <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">any</i></span>
- text, i.e. it matches the whole page, from the start of the first
- <script> tag.</p>
-
- <p>That's more than we want, but the pattern continues: <tt class=
- "LITERAL">document\.referrer</tt> matches only the exact string
- <span class="QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span>. The dot needed to be
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">escaped</i></span>, i.e.
- preceded by a backslash, to take away its special meaning as a joker,
- and make it just a regular dot. So far, the meaning is: Match from the
- start of the first <script> tag in a the page, up to, and
- including, the text <span class="QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span>, if
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span> are present
- in the page (and appear in that order).</p>
-
- <p>But there's still more pattern to go. The next element, again
- enclosed in parentheses, is <tt class="LITERAL">.*</script></tt>.
- You already know what <tt class="LITERAL">.*</tt> means, so the whole
- pattern translates to: Match from the start of the first <script>
- tag in a page to the end of the last <script> tag, provided that
- the text <span class="QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span> appears
- somewhere in between.</p>
-
- <p>This is still not the whole story, since we have ignored the options
- and the parentheses: The portions of the page matched by sub-patterns
- that are enclosed in parentheses, will be remembered and be available
- through the variables <tt class="LITERAL">$1, $2, ...</tt> in the
- substitute. The <tt class="LITERAL">U</tt> option switches to ungreedy
- matching, which means that the first <tt class="LITERAL">.*</tt> in the
- pattern will only <span class="QUOTE">"eat up"</span> all text in
- between <span class="QUOTE">"<script"</span> and the <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">first</i></span> occurrence of
- <span class="QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span>, and that the second
- <tt class="LITERAL">.*</tt> will only span the text up to the
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">first</i></span>
- <span class="QUOTE">"</script>"</span> tag. Furthermore, the
- <tt class="LITERAL">s</tt> option says that the match may span multiple
- lines in the page, and the <tt class="LITERAL">g</tt> option again
- means that the substitution is global.</p>
-
- <p>So, to summarize, the pattern means: Match all scripts that contain
- the text <span class="QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span>. Remember the
- parts of the script from (and including) the start tag up to (and
- excluding) the string <span class="QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span> as
- <tt class="LITERAL">$1</tt>, and the part following that string, up to
- and including the closing tag, as <tt class="LITERAL">$2</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>Now the pattern is deciphered, but wasn't this about substituting
- things? So lets look at the substitute: <tt class="LITERAL">$1"Not Your
- Business!"$2</tt> is easy to read: The text remembered as <tt class=
- "LITERAL">$1</tt>, followed by <tt class="LITERAL">"Not Your
- Business!"</tt> (<span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">including</i></span> the quotation marks!), followed by the
- text remembered as <tt class="LITERAL">$2</tt>. This produces an exact
- copy of the original string, with the middle part (the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span>) replaced by <tt class=
- "LITERAL">"Not Your Business!"</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>The whole job now reads: Replace <span class=
- "QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span> by <tt class="LITERAL">"Not Your
- Business!"</tt> wherever it appears inside a <script> tag. Note
- that this job won't break JavaScript syntax, since both the original
- and the replacement are syntactically valid string objects. The script
- just won't have access to the referrer information anymore.</p>
-
- <p>We'll show you two other jobs from the JavaScript taming department,
- but this time only point out the constructs of special interest:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Following the header line and a comment, you see the job. Note that
+ it uses <tt class="LITERAL">|</tt> as the delimiter instead of <tt
+ class="LITERAL">/</tt>, because the pattern contains a forward
+ slash, which would otherwise have to be escaped by a backslash (<tt
+ class="LITERAL">\</tt>).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Now, let's examine the pattern: it starts with the text <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><script.*</tt> enclosed in parentheses. Since the dot
+ matches any character, and <tt class="LITERAL">*</tt> means: <span
+ class="QUOTE">"Match an arbitrary number of the element left of
+ myself"</span>, this matches <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"<script"</span>, followed by <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">any</i></span> text, i.e. it matches the whole
+ page, from the start of the first <script> tag.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ That's more than we want, but the pattern continues: <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">document\.referrer</tt> matches only the exact string
+ <span class="QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span>. The dot needed to
+ be <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">escaped</i></span>,
+ i.e. preceded by a backslash, to take away its special meaning as a
+ joker, and make it just a regular dot. So far, the meaning is:
+ Match from the start of the first <script> tag in a the page,
+ up to, and including, the text <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span>, if <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">both</i></span> are present in the page (and
+ appear in that order).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But there's still more pattern to go. The next element, again
+ enclosed in parentheses, is <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.*</script></tt>. You already know what <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.*</tt> means, so the whole pattern translates to: Match
+ from the start of the first <script> tag in a page to the end
+ of the last <script> tag, provided that the text <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span> appears somewhere in between.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This is still not the whole story, since we have ignored the
+ options and the parentheses: The portions of the page matched by
+ sub-patterns that are enclosed in parentheses, will be remembered
+ and be available through the variables <tt class="LITERAL">$1, $2,
+ ...</tt> in the substitute. The <tt class="LITERAL">U</tt> option
+ switches to ungreedy matching, which means that the first <tt
+ class="LITERAL">.*</tt> in the pattern will only <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"eat up"</span> all text in between <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"<script"</span> and the <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">first</i></span> occurrence of <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span>, and that the second <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.*</tt> will only span the text up to the <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">first</i></span> <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"</script>"</span> tag. Furthermore, the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">s</tt> option says that the match may span multiple lines
+ in the page, and the <tt class="LITERAL">g</tt> option again means
+ that the substitution is global.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ So, to summarize, the pattern means: Match all scripts that contain
+ the text <span class="QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span>. Remember
+ the parts of the script from (and including) the start tag up to
+ (and excluding) the string <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span> as <tt class="LITERAL">$1</tt>,
+ and the part following that string, up to and including the closing
+ tag, as <tt class="LITERAL">$2</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Now the pattern is deciphered, but wasn't this about substituting
+ things? So lets look at the substitute: <tt class="LITERAL">$1"Not
+ Your Business!"$2</tt> is easy to read: The text remembered as <tt
+ class="LITERAL">$1</tt>, followed by <tt class="LITERAL">"Not Your
+ Business!"</tt> (<span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">including</i></span> the quotation marks!), followed by
+ the text remembered as <tt class="LITERAL">$2</tt>. This produces
+ an exact copy of the original string, with the middle part (the
+ <span class="QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span>) replaced by <tt
+ class="LITERAL">"Not Your Business!"</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The whole job now reads: Replace <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"document.referrer"</span> by <tt class="LITERAL">"Not Your
+ Business!"</tt> wherever it appears inside a <script> tag.
+ Note that this job won't break JavaScript syntax, since both the
+ original and the replacement are syntactically valid string
+ objects. The script just won't have access to the referrer
+ information anymore.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ We'll show you two other jobs from the JavaScript taming
+ department, but this time only point out the constructs of special
+ interest:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# The status bar is for displaying link targets, not pointless blahblah
#
s/window\.status\s*=\s*(['"]).*?\1/dUmMy=1/ig
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p><tt class="LITERAL">\s</tt> stands for whitespace characters (space,
- tab, newline, carriage return, form feed), so that <tt class=
- "LITERAL">\s*</tt> means: <span class="QUOTE">"zero or more
- whitespace"</span>. The <tt class="LITERAL">?</tt> in <tt class=
- "LITERAL">.*?</tt> makes this matching of arbitrary text ungreedy.
- (Note that the <tt class="LITERAL">U</tt> option is not set). The
- <tt class="LITERAL">['"]</tt> construct means: <span class="QUOTE">"a
- single <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">or</i></span> a
- double quote"</span>. Finally, <tt class="LITERAL">\1</tt> is a
- back-reference to the first parenthesis just like <tt class=
- "LITERAL">$1</tt> above, with the difference that in the <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">pattern</i></span>, a backslash
- indicates a back-reference, whereas in the <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">substitute</i></span>, it's the
- dollar.</p>
-
- <p>So what does this job do? It replaces assignments of single- or
- double-quoted strings to the <span class="QUOTE">"window.status"</span>
- object with a dummy assignment (using a variable name that is hopefully
- odd enough not to conflict with real variables in scripts). Thus, it
- catches many cases where e.g. pointless descriptions are displayed in
- the status bar instead of the link target when you move your mouse over
- links.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL">\s</tt> stands for whitespace characters
+ (space, tab, newline, carriage return, form feed), so that <tt
+ class="LITERAL">\s*</tt> means: <span class="QUOTE">"zero or more
+ whitespace"</span>. The <tt class="LITERAL">?</tt> in <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.*?</tt> makes this matching of arbitrary text ungreedy.
+ (Note that the <tt class="LITERAL">U</tt> option is not set). The
+ <tt class="LITERAL">['"]</tt> construct means: <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"a single <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">or</i></span> a double quote"</span>. Finally, <tt
+ class="LITERAL">\1</tt> is a back-reference to the first
+ parenthesis just like <tt class="LITERAL">$1</tt> above, with the
+ difference that in the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">pattern</i></span>, a backslash indicates a
+ back-reference, whereas in the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">substitute</i></span>, it's the dollar.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ So what does this job do? It replaces assignments of single- or
+ double-quoted strings to the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"window.status"</span> object with a dummy assignment
+ (using a variable name that is hopefully odd enough not to conflict
+ with real variables in scripts). Thus, it catches many cases where
+ e.g. pointless descriptions are displayed in the status bar instead
+ of the link target when you move your mouse over links.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Kill OnUnload popups. Yummy. Test: http://www.zdnet.com/zdsubs/yahoo/tree/yfs.html
#
s/(<body [^>]*)onunload(.*>)/$1never$2/iU
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Including the <a href=
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Events-20001113/events.html#Events-eventgroupings-htmlevents"
- target="_top">OnUnload event binding</a> in the HTML DOM was a
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">CRIME</i></span>. When I
- close a browser window, I want it to close and die. Basta. This job
- replaces the <span class="QUOTE">"onunload"</span> attribute in
- <span class="QUOTE">"<body>"</span> tags with the dummy word
- <tt class="LITERAL">never</tt>. Note that the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">i</tt> option makes the pattern matching case-insensitive.
- Also note that ungreedy matching alone doesn't always guarantee a
- minimal match: In the first parenthesis, we had to use <tt class=
- "LITERAL">[^>]*</tt> instead of <tt class="LITERAL">.*</tt> to
- prevent the match from exceeding the <body> tag if it doesn't
- contain <span class="QUOTE">"OnUnload"</span>, but the page's content
- does.</p>
-
- <p>The last example is from the fun department:</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Including the <a href=
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Events-20001113/events.html#Events-eventgroupings-htmlevents"
+ target="_top">OnUnload event binding</a> in the HTML DOM was a
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">CRIME</i></span>. When I
+ close a browser window, I want it to close and die. Basta. This job
+ replaces the <span class="QUOTE">"onunload"</span> attribute in
+ <span class="QUOTE">"<body>"</span> tags with the dummy word
+ <tt class="LITERAL">never</tt>. Note that the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">i</tt> option makes the pattern matching
+ case-insensitive. Also note that ungreedy matching alone doesn't
+ always guarantee a minimal match: In the first parenthesis, we had
+ to use <tt class="LITERAL">[^>]*</tt> instead of <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">.*</tt> to prevent the match from exceeding the
+ <body> tag if it doesn't contain <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"OnUnload"</span>, but the page's content does.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The last example is from the fun department:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
FILTER: fun Fun text replacements
# Spice the daily news:
#
s/microsoft(?!\.com)/MicroSuck/ig
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Note the <tt class="LITERAL">(?!\.com)</tt> part (a so-called
- negative lookahead) in the job's pattern, which means: Don't match, if
- the string <span class="QUOTE">".com"</span> appears directly following
- <span class="QUOTE">"microsoft"</span> in the page. This prevents links
- to microsoft.com from being trashed, while still replacing the word
- everywhere else.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ Note the <tt class="LITERAL">(?!\.com)</tt> part (a so-called
+ negative lookahead) in the job's pattern, which means: Don't match,
+ if the string <span class="QUOTE">".com"</span> appears directly
+ following <span class="QUOTE">"microsoft"</span> in the page. This
+ prevents links to microsoft.com from being trashed, while still
+ replacing the word everywhere else.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# Buzzword Bingo (example for extended regex syntax)
#
s* industry[ -]leading \
*<font color="red"><b>BINGO!</b></font> \
*igx
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>The <tt class="LITERAL">x</tt> option in this job turns on extended
- syntax, and allows for e.g. the liberal use of (non-interpreted!)
- whitespace for nicer formatting.</p>
-
- <p>You get the idea?</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="PREDEFINED-FILTERS" id=
- "PREDEFINED-FILTERS">9.2. The Pre-defined Filters</a></h2>
-
- <p>The distribution <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> file
- contains a selection of pre-defined filters for your convenience:</p>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">js-annoyances</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>The purpose of this filter is to get rid of particularly
- annoying JavaScript abuse. To that end, it</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>replaces JavaScript references to the browser's referrer
- information with the string "Not Your Business!". This
- compliments the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-REFERRER">hide-referrer</a></tt>
- action on the content level.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>removes the bindings to the DOM's <a href=
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Events-20001113/events.html#Events-eventgroupings-htmlevents"
- target="_top">unload event</a> which we feel has no right to
- exist and is responsible for most <span class="QUOTE">"exit
- consoles"</span>, i.e. nasty windows that pop up when you
- close another one.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>removes code that causes new windows to be opened with
- undesired properties, such as being full-screen,
- non-resizeable, without location, status or menu bar etc.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Use with caution. This is an aggressive filter, and can break
- sites that rely heavily on JavaScript.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">js-events</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This is a very radical measure. It removes virtually all
- JavaScript event bindings, which means that scripts can not react
- to user actions such as mouse movements or clicks, window
- resizing etc, anymore. Use with caution!</p>
-
- <p>We <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">strongly
- discourage</i></span> using this filter as a default since it
- breaks many legitimate scripts. It is meant for use only on
- extra-nasty sites (should you really need to go there).</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">html-annoyances</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This filter will undo many common instances of HTML based
- abuse.</p>
-
- <p>The <tt class="LITERAL">BLINK</tt> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">MARQUEE</tt> tags are neutralized (yeah baby!), and
- browser windows will be created as resizeable (as of course they
- should be!), and will have location, scroll and menu bars -- even
- if specified otherwise.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">content-cookies</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Most cookies are set in the HTTP dialog, where they can be
- intercepted by the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a></tt>
- and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a></tt>
- actions. But web sites increasingly make use of HTML meta tags
- and JavaScript to sneak cookies to the browser on the content
- level.</p>
-
- <p>This filter disables most HTML and JavaScript code that reads
- or sets cookies. It cannot detect all clever uses of these types
- of code, so it should not be relied on as an absolute fix. Use it
- wherever you would also use the cookie crunch actions.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">refresh-tags</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Disable any refresh tags if the interval is greater than nine
- seconds (so that redirections done via refresh tags are not
- destroyed). This is useful for dial-on-demand setups, or for
- those who find this HTML feature annoying.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">unsolicited-popups</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This filter attempts to prevent only <span class=
- "QUOTE">"unsolicited"</span> pop-up windows from opening, yet
- still allow pop-up windows that the user has explicitly chosen to
- open. It was added in version 3.0.1, as an improvement over
- earlier such filters.</p>
-
- <p>Technical note: The filter works by redefining the window.open
- JavaScript function to a dummy function, <tt class=
- "LITERAL">PrivoxyWindowOpen()</tt>, during the loading and
- rendering phase of each HTML page access, and restoring the
- function afterward.</p>
-
- <p>This is recommended only for browsers that cannot perform this
- function reliably themselves. And be aware that some sites
- require such windows in order to function normally. Use with
- caution.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">all-popups</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Attempt to prevent <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">all</i></span> pop-up windows from opening. Note this
- should be used with even more discretion than the above, since it
- is more likely to break some sites that require pop-ups for
- normal usage. Use with caution.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">img-reorder</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This is a helper filter that has no value if used alone. It
- makes the <tt class="LITERAL">banners-by-size</tt> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">banners-by-link</tt> (see below) filters more effective
- and should be enabled together with them.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">banners-by-size</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This filter removes image tags purely based on what size they
- are. Fortunately for us, many ads and banner images tend to
- conform to certain standardized sizes, which makes this filter
- quite effective for ad stripping purposes.</p>
-
- <p>Occasionally this filter will cause false positives on images
- that are not ads, but just happen to be of one of the standard
- banner sizes.</p>
-
- <p>Recommended only for those who require extreme ad blocking.
- The default block rules should catch 95+% of all ads <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">without</i></span> this filter
- enabled.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">banners-by-link</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>This is an experimental filter that attempts to kill any
- banners if their URLs seem to point to known or suspected click
- trackers. It is currently not of much value and is not
- recommended for use by default.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">webbugs</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Webbugs are small, invisible images (technically 1X1 GIF
- images), that are used to track users across websites, and
- collect information on them. As an HTML page is loaded by the
- browser, an embedded image tag causes the browser to contact a
- third-party site, disclosing the tracking information through the
- requested URL and/or cookies for that third-party domain, without
- the user ever becoming aware of the interaction with the
- third-party site. HTML-ized spam also uses a similar technique to
- verify email addresses.</p>
-
- <p>This filter removes the HTML code that loads such <span class=
- "QUOTE">"webbugs"</span>.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">tiny-textforms</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A rather special-purpose filter that can be used to enlarge
- textareas (those multi-line text boxes in web forms) and turn off
- hard word wrap in them. It was written for the sourceforge.net
- tracker system where such boxes are a nuisance, but it can be
- handy on other sites, too.</p>
-
- <p>It is not recommended to use this filter as a default.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">jumping-windows</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Many consider windows that move, or resize themselves to be
- abusive. This filter neutralizes the related JavaScript code.
- Note that some sites might not display or behave as intended when
- using this filter. Use with caution.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">frameset-borders</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Some web designers seem to assume that everyone in the world
- will view their web sites using the same browser brand and
- version, screen resolution etc, because only that assumption
- could explain why they'd use static frame sizes, yet prevent
- their frames from being resized by the user, should they be too
- small to show their whole content.</p>
-
- <p>This filter removes the related HTML code. It should only be
- applied to sites which need it.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">demoronizer</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Many Microsoft products that generate HTML use non-standard
- extensions (read: violations) of the ISO 8859-1 aka Latin-1
- character set. This can cause those HTML documents to display
- with errors on standard-compliant platforms.</p>
-
- <p>This filter translates the MS-only characters into Latin-1
- equivalents. It is not necessary when using MS products, and will
- cause corruption of all documents that use 8-bit character sets
- other than Latin-1. It's mostly worthwhile for Europeans on
- non-MS platforms, if weird garbage characters sometimes appear on
- some pages, or user agents that don't correct for this on the
- fly.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">shockwave-flash</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A filter for shockwave haters. As the name suggests, this
- filter strips code out of web pages that is used to embed
- shockwave flash objects.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">quicktime-kioskmode</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Change HTML code that embeds Quicktime objects so that
- kioskmode, which prevents saving, is disabled.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">fun</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Text replacements for subversive browsing fun. Make fun of
- your favorite Monopolist or play buzzword bingo.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">crude-parental</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A demonstration-only filter that shows how <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can be used to delete web content on
- a keyword basis.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">ie-exploits</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>An experimental collection of text replacements to disable
- malicious HTML and JavaScript code that exploits known security
- holes in Internet Explorer.</p>
-
- <p>Presently, it only protects against Nimda and a cross-site
- scripting bug, and would need active maintenance to provide more
- substantial protection.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">site-specifics</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Some web sites have very specific problems, the cure for which
- doesn't apply anywhere else, or could even cause damage on other
- sites.</p>
-
- <p>This is a collection of such site-specific cures which should
- only be applied to the sites they were intended for, which is
- what the supplied <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file
- does. Users shouldn't need to change anything regarding this
- filter.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">google</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>A CSS based block for Google text ads. Also removes a width
- limitation and the toolbar advertisement.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">yahoo</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Another CSS based block, this time for Yahoo text ads. And
- removes a width limitation as well.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">msn</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Another CSS based block, this time for MSN text ads. And
- removes tracking URLs, as well as a width limitation.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">blogspot</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Cleans up some Blogspot blogs. Read the fine print before
- using this one!</p>
-
- <p>This filter also intentionally removes some navigation stuff
- and sets the page width to 100%. As a result, some rounded
- <span class="QUOTE">"corners"</span> would appear to early or not
- at all and as fixing this would require a browser that
- understands background-size (CSS3), they are removed instead.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">xml-to-html</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Server-header filter to change the Content-Type from xml to
- html.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">html-to-xml</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Server-header filter to change the Content-Type from html to
- xml.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">no-ping</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Removes the non-standard <tt class="LITERAL">ping</tt>
- attribute from anchor and area HTML tags.</p>
- </dd>
-
- <dt><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">hide-tor-exit-notation</i></span></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p>Client-header filter to remove the <b class="COMMAND">Tor</b>
- exit node notation found in Host and Referer headers.</p>
-
- <p>If <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and <b class=
- "COMMAND">Tor</b> are chained and <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is configured to use socks4a, one
- can use <span class=
- "QUOTE">"http://www.example.org.foobar.exit/"</span> to access
- the host <span class="QUOTE">"www.example.org"</span> through the
- <b class="COMMAND">Tor</b> exit node <span class=
- "QUOTE">"foobar"</span>.</p>
-
- <p>As the HTTP client isn't aware of this notation, it treats the
- whole string <span class=
- "QUOTE">"www.example.org.foobar.exit"</span> as host and uses it
- for the <span class="QUOTE">"Host"</span> and <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Referer"</span> headers. From the server's point of view
- the resulting headers are invalid and can cause problems.</p>
-
- <p>An invalid <span class="QUOTE">"Referer"</span> header can
- trigger <span class="QUOTE">"hot-linking"</span> protections, an
- invalid <span class="QUOTE">"Host"</span> header will make it
- impossible for the server to find the right vhost (several
- domains hosted on the same IP address).</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <p>This client-header filter removes the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"foo.exit"</span> part in those headers to prevent the
- mentioned problems. Note that it only modifies the HTTP headers,
- it doesn't make it impossible for the server to detect your
- <b class="COMMAND">Tor</b> exit node based on the IP address the
- request is coming from.</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <p>
+ The <tt class="LITERAL">x</tt> option in this job turns on extended
+ syntax, and allows for e.g. the liberal use of (non-interpreted!)
+ whitespace for nicer formatting.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You get the idea?
+ </p>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="EXTERNAL-FILTER-SYNTAX" id=
- "EXTERNAL-FILTER-SYNTAX">9.3. External filter syntax</a></h2>
-
- <p>External filters are scripts or programs that can modify the content
- in case common <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filters</a></tt> aren't powerful enough.</p>
-
- <p>External filters can be written in any language the platform
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs on supports.</p>
-
- <p>They are controlled with the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER">external-filter</a></tt> action and
- have to be defined in the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "config.html#FILTERFILE">filterfile</a></tt> first.</p>
-
- <p>The header looks like any other filter, but instead of pcrs jobs,
- external filters contain a single job which can be a program or a shell
- script (which may call other scripts or programs).</p>
-
- <p>External filters read the content from STDIN and write the rewritten
- content to STDOUT. The environment variables PRIVOXY_URL, PRIVOXY_PATH,
- PRIVOXY_HOST, PRIVOXY_ORIGIN, PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS can be used to get
- some details about the client request.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will temporary store the
- content to filter in the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "config.html#TEMPORARY-DIRECTORY">temporary-directory</a></tt>.</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="PREDEFINED-FILTERS">9.2. The Pre-defined Filters</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The distribution <tt class="FILENAME">default.filter</tt> file
+ contains a selection of pre-defined filters for your convenience:
+ </p>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">js-annoyances</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ The purpose of this filter is to get rid of particularly
+ annoying JavaScript abuse. To that end, it
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ replaces JavaScript references to the browser's referrer
+ information with the string "Not Your Business!". This
+ compliments the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-REFERRER">hide-referrer</a></tt>
+ action on the content level.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ removes the bindings to the DOM's <a href=
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Events-20001113/events.html#Events-eventgroupings-htmlevents"
+ target="_top">unload event</a> which we feel has no
+ right to exist and is responsible for most <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"exit consoles"</span>, i.e. nasty windows that
+ pop up when you close another one.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ removes code that causes new windows to be opened with
+ undesired properties, such as being full-screen,
+ non-resizeable, without location, status or menu bar etc.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ Use with caution. This is an aggressive filter, and can break
+ sites that rely heavily on JavaScript.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">js-events</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This is a very radical measure. It removes virtually all
+ JavaScript event bindings, which means that scripts can not
+ react to user actions such as mouse movements or clicks,
+ window resizing etc, anymore. Use with caution!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ We <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">strongly
+ discourage</i></span> using this filter as a default since it
+ breaks many legitimate scripts. It is meant for use only on
+ extra-nasty sites (should you really need to go there).
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">html-annoyances</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This filter will undo many common instances of HTML based
+ abuse.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The <tt class="LITERAL">BLINK</tt> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">MARQUEE</tt> tags are neutralized (yeah baby!), and
+ browser windows will be created as resizeable (as of course
+ they should be!), and will have location, scroll and menu
+ bars -- even if specified otherwise.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">content-cookies</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Most cookies are set in the HTTP dialog, where they can be
+ intercepted by the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a></tt>
+ and <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a></tt>
+ actions. But web sites increasingly make use of HTML meta
+ tags and JavaScript to sneak cookies to the browser on the
+ content level.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This filter disables most HTML and JavaScript code that reads
+ or sets cookies. It cannot detect all clever uses of these
+ types of code, so it should not be relied on as an absolute
+ fix. Use it wherever you would also use the cookie crunch
+ actions.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">refresh-tags</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Disable any refresh tags if the interval is greater than nine
+ seconds (so that redirections done via refresh tags are not
+ destroyed). This is useful for dial-on-demand setups, or for
+ those who find this HTML feature annoying.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">unsolicited-popups</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This filter attempts to prevent only <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"unsolicited"</span> pop-up windows from opening, yet
+ still allow pop-up windows that the user has explicitly
+ chosen to open. It was added in version 3.0.1, as an
+ improvement over earlier such filters.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Technical note: The filter works by redefining the
+ window.open JavaScript function to a dummy function, <tt
+ class="LITERAL">PrivoxyWindowOpen()</tt>, during the loading
+ and rendering phase of each HTML page access, and restoring
+ the function afterward.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This is recommended only for browsers that cannot perform
+ this function reliably themselves. And be aware that some
+ sites require such windows in order to function normally. Use
+ with caution.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">all-popups</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Attempt to prevent <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">all</i></span> pop-up windows from opening. Note
+ this should be used with even more discretion than the above,
+ since it is more likely to break some sites that require
+ pop-ups for normal usage. Use with caution.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">img-reorder</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This is a helper filter that has no value if used alone. It
+ makes the <tt class="LITERAL">banners-by-size</tt> and <tt
+ class="LITERAL">banners-by-link</tt> (see below) filters more
+ effective and should be enabled together with them.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">banners-by-size</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This filter removes image tags purely based on what size they
+ are. Fortunately for us, many ads and banner images tend to
+ conform to certain standardized sizes, which makes this
+ filter quite effective for ad stripping purposes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Occasionally this filter will cause false positives on images
+ that are not ads, but just happen to be of one of the
+ standard banner sizes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Recommended only for those who require extreme ad blocking.
+ The default block rules should catch 95+% of all ads <span
+ class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">without</i></span> this
+ filter enabled.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">banners-by-link</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ This is an experimental filter that attempts to kill any
+ banners if their URLs seem to point to known or suspected
+ click trackers. It is currently not of much value and is not
+ recommended for use by default.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">webbugs</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Webbugs are small, invisible images (technically 1X1 GIF
+ images), that are used to track users across websites, and
+ collect information on them. As an HTML page is loaded by the
+ browser, an embedded image tag causes the browser to contact
+ a third-party site, disclosing the tracking information
+ through the requested URL and/or cookies for that third-party
+ domain, without the user ever becoming aware of the
+ interaction with the third-party site. HTML-ized spam also
+ uses a similar technique to verify email addresses.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This filter removes the HTML code that loads such <span
+ class="QUOTE">"webbugs"</span>.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">tiny-textforms</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A rather special-purpose filter that can be used to enlarge
+ textareas (those multi-line text boxes in web forms) and turn
+ off hard word wrap in them. It was written for the
+ sourceforge.net tracker system where such boxes are a
+ nuisance, but it can be handy on other sites, too.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is not recommended to use this filter as a default.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">jumping-windows</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Many consider windows that move, or resize themselves to be
+ abusive. This filter neutralizes the related JavaScript code.
+ Note that some sites might not display or behave as intended
+ when using this filter. Use with caution.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">frameset-borders</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Some web designers seem to assume that everyone in the world
+ will view their web sites using the same browser brand and
+ version, screen resolution etc, because only that assumption
+ could explain why they'd use static frame sizes, yet prevent
+ their frames from being resized by the user, should they be
+ too small to show their whole content.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This filter removes the related HTML code. It should only be
+ applied to sites which need it.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">demoronizer</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Many Microsoft products that generate HTML use non-standard
+ extensions (read: violations) of the ISO 8859-1 aka Latin-1
+ character set. This can cause those HTML documents to display
+ with errors on standard-compliant platforms.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This filter translates the MS-only characters into Latin-1
+ equivalents. It is not necessary when using MS products, and
+ will cause corruption of all documents that use 8-bit
+ character sets other than Latin-1. It's mostly worthwhile for
+ Europeans on non-MS platforms, if weird garbage characters
+ sometimes appear on some pages, or user agents that don't
+ correct for this on the fly.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">shockwave-flash</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A filter for shockwave haters. As the name suggests, this
+ filter strips code out of web pages that is used to embed
+ shockwave flash objects.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">quicktime-kioskmode</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Change HTML code that embeds Quicktime objects so that
+ kioskmode, which prevents saving, is disabled.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">fun</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Text replacements for subversive browsing fun. Make fun of
+ your favorite Monopolist or play buzzword bingo.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">crude-parental</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A demonstration-only filter that shows how <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can be used to delete web
+ content on a keyword basis.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">ie-exploits</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ An experimental collection of text replacements to disable
+ malicious HTML and JavaScript code that exploits known
+ security holes in Internet Explorer.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Presently, it only protects against Nimda and a cross-site
+ scripting bug, and would need active maintenance to provide
+ more substantial protection.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">site-specifics</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Some web sites have very specific problems, the cure for
+ which doesn't apply anywhere else, or could even cause damage
+ on other sites.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This is a collection of such site-specific cures which should
+ only be applied to the sites they were intended for, which is
+ what the supplied <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt>
+ file does. Users shouldn't need to change anything regarding
+ this filter.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">google</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ A CSS based block for Google text ads. Also removes a width
+ limitation and the toolbar advertisement.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">yahoo</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Another CSS based block, this time for Yahoo text ads. And
+ removes a width limitation as well.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">msn</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Another CSS based block, this time for MSN text ads. And
+ removes tracking URLs, as well as a width limitation.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">blogspot</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Cleans up some Blogspot blogs. Read the fine print before
+ using this one!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This filter also intentionally removes some navigation stuff
+ and sets the page width to 100%. As a result, some rounded
+ <span class="QUOTE">"corners"</span> would appear to early or
+ not at all and as fixing this would require a browser that
+ understands background-size (CSS3), they are removed instead.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">xml-to-html</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Server-header filter to change the Content-Type from xml to
+ html.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">html-to-xml</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Server-header filter to change the Content-Type from html to
+ xml.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">no-ping</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Removes the non-standard <tt class="LITERAL">ping</tt>
+ attribute from anchor and area HTML tags.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">hide-tor-exit-notation</i></span>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ Client-header filter to remove the <b class="COMMAND">Tor</b>
+ exit node notation found in Host and Referer headers.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and <b class=
+ "COMMAND">Tor</b> are chained and <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is configured to use socks4a,
+ one can use <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"http://www.example.org.foobar.exit/"</span> to
+ access the host <span class="QUOTE">"www.example.org"</span>
+ through the <b class="COMMAND">Tor</b> exit node <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"foobar"</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As the HTTP client isn't aware of this notation, it treats
+ the whole string <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"www.example.org.foobar.exit"</span> as host and uses
+ it for the <span class="QUOTE">"Host"</span> and <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"Referer"</span> headers. From the server's point of
+ view the resulting headers are invalid and can cause
+ problems.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ An invalid <span class="QUOTE">"Referer"</span> header can
+ trigger <span class="QUOTE">"hot-linking"</span> protections,
+ an invalid <span class="QUOTE">"Host"</span> header will make
+ it impossible for the server to find the right vhost (several
+ domains hosted on the same IP address).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This client-header filter removes the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"foo.exit"</span> part in those headers to prevent
+ the mentioned problems. Note that it only modifies the HTTP
+ headers, it doesn't make it impossible for the server to
+ detect your <b class="COMMAND">Tor</b> exit node based on the
+ IP address the request is coming from.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="EXTERNAL-FILTER-SYNTAX">9.3. External filter syntax</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ External filters are scripts or programs that can modify the
+ content in case common <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filters</a></tt> aren't powerful enough.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ External filters can be written in any language the platform <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> runs on supports.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ They are controlled with the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER">external-filter</a></tt> action
+ and have to be defined in the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "config.html#FILTERFILE">filterfile</a></tt> first.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The header looks like any other filter, but instead of pcrs jobs,
+ external filters contain a single job which can be a program or a
+ shell script (which may call other scripts or programs).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ External filters read the content from STDIN and write the
+ rewritten content to STDOUT. The environment variables PRIVOXY_URL,
+ PRIVOXY_PATH, PRIVOXY_HOST, PRIVOXY_ORIGIN, PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS
+ can be used to get some details about the client request.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will temporary store the
+ content to filter in the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "config.html#TEMPORARY-DIRECTORY">temporary-directory</a></tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
EXTERNAL-FILTER: cat Pointless example filter that doesn't actually modify the content
/bin/cat
EXTERNAL-FILTER: citation-needed Adds a "[citation needed]" tag to an image. The coordinates may need adjustment.
/usr/local/bin/convert - -pointsize 16 -fill white -annotate +17+418 "[citation needed]" -
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <div class="WARNING">
- <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td align="center"><b>Warning</b></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td align="left">
- <p>Currently external filters are executed with <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s privileges! Only use external
- filters you understand and trust.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
- </div>
- <p>External filters are experimental and the syntax may change in the
- future.</p>
+ <div class="WARNING">
+ <table class="WARNING" border="1" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td align="CENTER">
+ <b>Warning</b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="LEFT">
+ <p>
+ Currently external filters are executed with <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s privileges! Only use
+ external filters you understand and trust.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ External filters are experimental and the syntax may change in the
+ future.
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="actions-file.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="templates.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Actions Files</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Privoxy's Template
- Files</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="actions-file.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="templates.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Actions Files
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Privoxy's Template Files
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Introduction" href="introduction.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="ARTICLE" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="ARTICLE">
- <div class="TITLEPAGE">
- <h1 class="TITLE"><a name="AEN2" id="AEN2">Privoxy 3.0.25 User
- Manual</a></h1>
-
- <p class="PUBDATE"><sub><a href="copyright.html">Copyright</a> ©
- 2001-2016 by <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy
- Developers</a></sub><br></p>
-
- <p class="PUBDATE">$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.213 2016/05/27 15:24:13
- fabiankeil Exp $<br></p>
-
- <div>
- <div class="ABSTRACT">
- <a name="AEN9" id="AEN9"></a>
-
- <p>The <i class="CITETITLE">Privoxy User Manual</i> gives users
- information on how to install, configure and use <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
- capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and
- HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other
- obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and
- can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has
- application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
- networks.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.</p>
-
- <p>Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public
- Interest (SPI).</p>
-
- <p>Helping hands and donations are welcome:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE</a></p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE"
- target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE</a></p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>You can find the latest version of the <i class=
- "CITETITLE">Privoxy User Manual</i> at <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/</a>. Please see the
- <a href="contact.html">Contact section</a> on how to contact the
- developers.</p>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Introduction" href="introduction.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="ARTICLE" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF"
+ vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="ARTICLE">
+ <div class="TITLEPAGE">
+ <h1 class="TITLE">
+ <a name="AEN2">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p class="PUBDATE">
+ <sub><a href="copyright.html">Copyright</a> © 2001-2016 by <a
+ href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy
+ Developers</a></sub><br>
+ </p>
+ <p class="PUBDATE">
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.213 2016/05/27 15:24:13 fabiankeil Exp
+ $<br>
+ </p>
+ <div>
+ <div class="ABSTRACT">
+ <a name="AEN9"></a>
+ <p>
+ The <i class="CITETITLE">Privoxy User Manual</i> gives users
+ information on how to install, configure and use <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/" target="_top">Privoxy</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering
+ capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and
+ HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other
+ obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration
+ and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It
+ has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
+ networks.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public
+ Interest (SPI).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Helping hands and donations are welcome:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ You can find the latest version of the <i class=
+ "CITETITLE">Privoxy User Manual</i> at <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/</a>. Please see the
+ <a href="contact.html">Contact section</a> on how to contact
+ the developers.
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
+ <hr>
+ </div>
+ <div class="TOC">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ <b>Table of Contents</b>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 1. <a href="introduction.html">Introduction</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 1.1. <a href="introduction.html#FEATURES">Features</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 2. <a href="installation.html">Installation</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 2.1. <a href="installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACKAGES">Binary
+ Packages</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 2.1.1. <a href=
+ "installation.html#INSTALLATION-DEB">Debian and
+ Ubuntu</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.1.2. <a href=
+ "installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">Windows</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.1.3. <a href=
+ "installation.html#INSTALLATION-OS2">OS/2</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.1.4. <a href="installation.html#INSTALLATION-MAC">Mac
+ OS X</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.1.5. <a href=
+ "installation.html#OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-PACKAGE">Installation
+ from ready-built package</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.1.6. <a href=
+ "installation.html#OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-SOURCE">Installation
+ from source</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.1.7. <a href=
+ "installation.html#INSTALLATION-FREEBSD">FreeBSD</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 2.2. <a href="installation.html#INSTALLATION-SOURCE">Building
+ from Source</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 2.3. <a href=
+ "installation.html#INSTALLATION-KEEPUPDATED">Keeping your
+ Installation Up-to-Date</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 3. <a href="whatsnew.html">What's New in this Release</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 3.1. <a href="whatsnew.html#UPGRADERSNOTE">Note to
+ Upgraders</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 4. <a href="quickstart.html">Quickstart to Using Privoxy</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 4.1. <a href=
+ "quickstart.html#QUICKSTART-AD-BLOCKING">Quickstart to Ad
+ Blocking</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 5. <a href="startup.html">Starting Privoxy</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 5.1. <a href="startup.html#START-DEBIAN">Debian</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.2. <a href="startup.html#START-FREEBSD">FreeBSD and
+ ElectroBSD</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.3. <a href="startup.html#START-WINDOWS">Windows</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.4. <a href="startup.html#START-UNICES">Generic instructions
+ for Unix derivates (Solaris, NetBSD, HP-UX etc.)</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.5. <a href="startup.html#START-OS2">OS/2</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.6. <a href="startup.html#START-MACOSX">Mac OS X</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 5.7. <a href="startup.html#CMDOPTIONS">Command Line
+ Options</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 6. <a href="configuration.html">Privoxy Configuration</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 6.1. <a href=
+ "configuration.html#CONTROL-WITH-WEBBROWSER">Controlling
+ Privoxy with Your Web Browser</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 6.2. <a href="configuration.html#CONFOVERVIEW">Configuration
+ Files Overview</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 7. <a href="config.html">The Main Configuration File</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 7.1. <a href="config.html#LOCAL-SET-UP">Local Set-up
+ Documentation</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 7.1.1. <a href="config.html#USER-MANUAL">user-manual</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.1.2. <a href=
+ "config.html#TRUST-INFO-URL">trust-info-url</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.1.3. <a href=
+ "config.html#ADMIN-ADDRESS">admin-address</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.1.4. <a href=
+ "config.html#PROXY-INFO-URL">proxy-info-url</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 7.2. <a href="config.html#CONF-LOG-LOC">Configuration and Log
+ File Locations</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 7.2.1. <a href="config.html#CONFDIR">confdir</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.2.2. <a href="config.html#TEMPLDIR">templdir</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.2.3. <a href=
+ "config.html#TEMPORARY-DIRECTORY">temporary-directory</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.2.4. <a href="config.html#LOGDIR">logdir</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.2.5. <a href="config.html#ACTIONSFILE">actionsfile</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.2.6. <a href="config.html#FILTERFILE">filterfile</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.2.7. <a href="config.html#LOGFILE">logfile</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.2.8. <a href="config.html#TRUSTFILE">trustfile</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 7.3. <a href="config.html#DEBUGGING">Debugging</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 7.3.1. <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.3.2. <a href=
+ "config.html#SINGLE-THREADED">single-threaded</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.3.3. <a href="config.html#HOSTNAME">hostname</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 7.4. <a href="config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL">Access Control and
+ Security</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 7.4.1. <a href=
+ "config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS">listen-address</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.4.2. <a href="config.html#TOGGLE">toggle</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.4.3. <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.4.4. <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.4.5. <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.4.6. <a href=
+ "config.html#ENFORCE-BLOCKS">enforce-blocks</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.4.7. <a href="config.html#ACLS">ACLs: permit-access and
+ deny-access</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.4.8. <a href=
+ "config.html#BUFFER-LIMIT">buffer-limit</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.4.9. <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-PROXY-AUTHENTICATION-FORWARDING">enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 7.5. <a href="config.html#FORWARDING">Forwarding</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 7.5.1. <a href="config.html#FORWARD">forward</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.5.2. <a href="config.html#SOCKS">forward-socks4,
+ forward-socks4a, forward-socks5 and forward-socks5t</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.5.3. <a href=
+ "config.html#ADVANCED-FORWARDING-EXAMPLES">Advanced
+ Forwarding Examples</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.5.4. <a href=
+ "config.html#FORWARDED-CONNECT-RETRIES">forwarded-connect-retries</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6. <a href="config.html#MISC">Miscellaneous</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.1. <a href=
+ "config.html#ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS">accept-intercepted-requests</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.2. <a href=
+ "config.html#ALLOW-CGI-REQUEST-CRUNCHING">allow-cgi-request-crunching</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.3. <a href=
+ "config.html#SPLIT-LARGE-FORMS">split-large-forms</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.4. <a href=
+ "config.html#KEEP-ALIVE-TIMEOUT">keep-alive-timeout</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.5. <a href=
+ "config.html#TOLERATE-PIPELINING">tolerate-pipelining</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.6. <a href=
+ "config.html#DEFAULT-SERVER-TIMEOUT">default-server-timeout</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.7. <a href=
+ "config.html#CONNECTION-SHARING">connection-sharing</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.8. <a href=
+ "config.html#SOCKET-TIMEOUT">socket-timeout</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.9. <a href=
+ "config.html#MAX-CLIENT-CONNECTIONS">max-client-connections</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.10. <a href=
+ "config.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOC-RETURNS-OK">handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.11. <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-COMPRESSION">enable-compression</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.12. <a href=
+ "config.html#COMPRESSION-LEVEL">compression-level</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.13. <a href=
+ "config.html#CLIENT-HEADER-ORDER">client-header-order</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.14. <a href=
+ "config.html#CLIENT-SPECIFIC-TAG">client-specific-tag</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.15. <a href=
+ "config.html#CLIENT-TAG-LIFETIME">client-tag-lifetime</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 7.6.16. <a href=
+ "config.html#TRUST-X-FORWARDED-FOR">trust-x-forwarded-for</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 7.7. <a href="config.html#WINDOWS-GUI">Windows GUI
+ Options</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 8. <a href="actions-file.html">Actions Files</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 8.1. <a href="actions-file.html#RIGHT-MIX">Finding the Right
+ Mix</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.2. <a href="actions-file.html#HOW-TO-EDIT">How to Edit</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.3. <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS-APPLY">How Actions
+ are Applied to Requests</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.4. <a href="actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">Patterns</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 8.4.1. <a href="actions-file.html#HOST-PATTERN">The Host
+ Pattern</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.4.2. <a href="actions-file.html#PATH-PATTERN">The Path
+ Pattern</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.4.3. <a href="actions-file.html#TAG-PATTERN">The
+ Request Tag Pattern</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.4.4. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#NEGATIVE-TAG-PATTERNS">The Negative
+ Request Tag Patterns</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.4.5. <a href="actions-file.html#CLIENT-TAG-PATTERN">The
+ Client Tag Pattern</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5. <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS">Actions</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.1. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#ADD-HEADER">add-header</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.2. <a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.3. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CHANGE-X-FORWARDED-FOR">change-x-forwarded-for</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.4. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER">client-header-filter</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.5. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER">client-header-tagger</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.6. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE">content-type-overwrite</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.7. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-CLIENT-HEADER">crunch-client-header</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.8. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH">crunch-if-none-match</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.9. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.10. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-SERVER-HEADER">crunch-server-header</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.11. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.12. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS">deanimate-gifs</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.13. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#DOWNGRADE-HTTP-VERSION">downgrade-http-version</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.14. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER">external-filter</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.15. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS">fast-redirects</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.16. <a href="actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.17. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FORCE-TEXT-MODE">force-text-mode</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.18. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FORWARD-OVERRIDE">forward-override</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.19. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT">handle-as-empty-document</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.20. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.21. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-ACCEPT-LANGUAGE">hide-accept-language</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.22. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-CONTENT-DISPOSITION">hide-content-disposition</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.23. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE">hide-if-modified-since</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.24. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-FROM-HEADER">hide-from-header</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.25. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-REFERRER">hide-referrer</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.26. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HIDE-USER-AGENT">hide-user-agent</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.27. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#LIMIT-CONNECT">limit-connect</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.28. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#LIMIT-COOKIE-LIFETIME">limit-cookie-lifetime</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.29. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#PREVENT-COMPRESSION">prevent-compression</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.30. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED">overwrite-last-modified</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.31. <a href="actions-file.html#REDIRECT">redirect</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.32. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-FILTER">server-header-filter</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.33. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-TAGGER">server-header-tagger</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.34. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">session-cookies-only</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.35. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.5.36. <a href="actions-file.html#SUMMARY">Summary</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 8.6. <a href="actions-file.html#ALIASES">Aliases</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.7. <a href="actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES">Actions Files
+ Tutorial</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 8.7.1. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#MATCH-ALL">match-all.action</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.7.2. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#DEFAULT-ACTION">default.action</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 8.7.3. <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#USER-ACTION">user.action</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 9. <a href="filter-file.html">Filter Files</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 9.1. <a href="filter-file.html#FILTER-FILE-TUT">Filter File
+ Tutorial</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 9.2. <a href="filter-file.html#PREDEFINED-FILTERS">The
+ Pre-defined Filters</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 9.3. <a href=
+ "filter-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER-SYNTAX">External filter
+ syntax</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 10. <a href="templates.html">Privoxy's Template Files</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 11. <a href="contact.html">Contacting the Developers, Bug
+ Reporting and Feature Requests</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 11.1. <a href="contact.html#SUFFICIENT-INFORMATION">Please
+ provide sufficient information</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 11.2. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-SUPPORT">Get Support</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 11.3. <a href="contact.html#REPORTING">Reporting Problems</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 11.3.1. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-ADS">Reporting Ads
+ or Other Configuration Problems</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 11.3.2. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-BUGS">Reporting
+ Bugs</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 11.4. <a href="contact.html#SECURITY-CONTACT">Reporting
+ security problems</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 11.5. <a href="contact.html#MAILING-LISTS">Mailing Lists</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 11.6. <a href="contact.html#SF-TRACKERS">SourceForge support
+ trackers</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 12. <a href="copyright.html">Privoxy Copyright, License and
+ History</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 12.1. <a href="copyright.html#LICENSE">License</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 12.2. <a href="copyright.html#HISTORY">History</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 12.3. <a href="copyright.html#AUTHORS">Authors</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ 13. <a href="seealso.html">See Also</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 14. <a href="appendix.html">Appendix</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ 14.1. <a href="appendix.html#REGEX">Regular Expressions</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 14.2. <a href="appendix.html#INTERNAL-PAGES">Privoxy's
+ Internal Pages</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 14.3. <a href="appendix.html#CHAIN">Chain of Events</a>
+ </dt>
+ <dt>
+ 14.4. <a href="appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">Troubleshooting:
+ Anatomy of an Action</a>
+ </dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
</div>
- <hr>
</div>
-
- <div class="TOC">
- <dl>
- <dt><b>Table of Contents</b></dt>
-
- <dt>1. <a href="introduction.html">Introduction</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>1.1. <a href="introduction.html#FEATURES">Features</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>2. <a href="installation.html">Installation</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>2.1. <a href="installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACKAGES">Binary
- Packages</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>2.1.1. <a href=
- "installation.html#INSTALLATION-DEB">Debian and
- Ubuntu</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.1.2. <a href=
- "installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">Windows</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.1.3. <a href=
- "installation.html#INSTALLATION-OS2">OS/2</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.1.4. <a href="installation.html#INSTALLATION-MAC">Mac
- OS X</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.1.5. <a href=
- "installation.html#OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-PACKAGE">Installation
- from ready-built package</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.1.6. <a href=
- "installation.html#OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-SOURCE">Installation
- from source</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.1.7. <a href=
- "installation.html#INSTALLATION-FREEBSD">FreeBSD</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>2.2. <a href="installation.html#INSTALLATION-SOURCE">Building
- from Source</a></dt>
-
- <dt>2.3. <a href=
- "installation.html#INSTALLATION-KEEPUPDATED">Keeping your
- Installation Up-to-Date</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>3. <a href="whatsnew.html">What's New in this Release</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>3.1. <a href="whatsnew.html#UPGRADERSNOTE">Note to
- Upgraders</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>4. <a href="quickstart.html">Quickstart to Using Privoxy</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>4.1. <a href=
- "quickstart.html#QUICKSTART-AD-BLOCKING">Quickstart to Ad
- Blocking</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>5. <a href="startup.html">Starting Privoxy</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>5.1. <a href="startup.html#START-DEBIAN">Debian</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.2. <a href="startup.html#START-FREEBSD">FreeBSD and
- ElectroBSD</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.3. <a href="startup.html#START-WINDOWS">Windows</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.4. <a href="startup.html#START-UNICES">Generic instructions
- for Unix derivates (Solaris, NetBSD, HP-UX etc.)</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.5. <a href="startup.html#START-OS2">OS/2</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.6. <a href="startup.html#START-MACOSX">Mac OS X</a></dt>
-
- <dt>5.7. <a href="startup.html#CMDOPTIONS">Command Line
- Options</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>6. <a href="configuration.html">Privoxy Configuration</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>6.1. <a href=
- "configuration.html#CONTROL-WITH-WEBBROWSER">Controlling Privoxy
- with Your Web Browser</a></dt>
-
- <dt>6.2. <a href="configuration.html#CONFOVERVIEW">Configuration
- Files Overview</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>7. <a href="config.html">The Main Configuration File</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>7.1. <a href="config.html#LOCAL-SET-UP">Local Set-up
- Documentation</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>7.1.1. <a href=
- "config.html#USER-MANUAL">user-manual</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.1.2. <a href=
- "config.html#TRUST-INFO-URL">trust-info-url</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.1.3. <a href=
- "config.html#ADMIN-ADDRESS">admin-address</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.1.4. <a href=
- "config.html#PROXY-INFO-URL">proxy-info-url</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>7.2. <a href="config.html#CONF-LOG-LOC">Configuration and Log
- File Locations</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>7.2.1. <a href="config.html#CONFDIR">confdir</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.2.2. <a href="config.html#TEMPLDIR">templdir</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.2.3. <a href=
- "config.html#TEMPORARY-DIRECTORY">temporary-directory</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.2.4. <a href="config.html#LOGDIR">logdir</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.2.5. <a href=
- "config.html#ACTIONSFILE">actionsfile</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.2.6. <a href=
- "config.html#FILTERFILE">filterfile</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.2.7. <a href="config.html#LOGFILE">logfile</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.2.8. <a href="config.html#TRUSTFILE">trustfile</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>7.3. <a href="config.html#DEBUGGING">Debugging</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>7.3.1. <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.3.2. <a href=
- "config.html#SINGLE-THREADED">single-threaded</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.3.3. <a href="config.html#HOSTNAME">hostname</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>7.4. <a href="config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL">Access Control and
- Security</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>7.4.1. <a href=
- "config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS">listen-address</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.4.2. <a href="config.html#TOGGLE">toggle</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.4.3. <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.4.4. <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.4.5. <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.4.6. <a href=
- "config.html#ENFORCE-BLOCKS">enforce-blocks</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.4.7. <a href="config.html#ACLS">ACLs: permit-access and
- deny-access</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.4.8. <a href=
- "config.html#BUFFER-LIMIT">buffer-limit</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.4.9. <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-PROXY-AUTHENTICATION-FORWARDING">enable-proxy-authentication-forwarding</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>7.5. <a href="config.html#FORWARDING">Forwarding</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>7.5.1. <a href="config.html#FORWARD">forward</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.5.2. <a href="config.html#SOCKS">forward-socks4,
- forward-socks4a, forward-socks5 and forward-socks5t</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.5.3. <a href=
- "config.html#ADVANCED-FORWARDING-EXAMPLES">Advanced
- Forwarding Examples</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.5.4. <a href=
- "config.html#FORWARDED-CONNECT-RETRIES">forwarded-connect-retries</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>7.6. <a href="config.html#MISC">Miscellaneous</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>7.6.1. <a href=
- "config.html#ACCEPT-INTERCEPTED-REQUESTS">accept-intercepted-requests</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.2. <a href=
- "config.html#ALLOW-CGI-REQUEST-CRUNCHING">allow-cgi-request-crunching</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.3. <a href=
- "config.html#SPLIT-LARGE-FORMS">split-large-forms</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.4. <a href=
- "config.html#KEEP-ALIVE-TIMEOUT">keep-alive-timeout</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.5. <a href=
- "config.html#TOLERATE-PIPELINING">tolerate-pipelining</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.6. <a href=
- "config.html#DEFAULT-SERVER-TIMEOUT">default-server-timeout</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.7. <a href=
- "config.html#CONNECTION-SHARING">connection-sharing</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.8. <a href=
- "config.html#SOCKET-TIMEOUT">socket-timeout</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.9. <a href=
- "config.html#MAX-CLIENT-CONNECTIONS">max-client-connections</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.10. <a href=
- "config.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOC-RETURNS-OK">handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.11. <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-COMPRESSION">enable-compression</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.12. <a href=
- "config.html#COMPRESSION-LEVEL">compression-level</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.13. <a href=
- "config.html#CLIENT-HEADER-ORDER">client-header-order</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.14. <a href=
- "config.html#CLIENT-SPECIFIC-TAG">client-specific-tag</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.15. <a href=
- "config.html#CLIENT-TAG-LIFETIME">client-tag-lifetime</a></dt>
-
- <dt>7.6.16. <a href=
- "config.html#TRUST-X-FORWARDED-FOR">trust-x-forwarded-for</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>7.7. <a href="config.html#WINDOWS-GUI">Windows GUI
- Options</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>8. <a href="actions-file.html">Actions Files</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>8.1. <a href="actions-file.html#RIGHT-MIX">Finding the Right
- Mix</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.2. <a href="actions-file.html#HOW-TO-EDIT">How to
- Edit</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.3. <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS-APPLY">How Actions
- are Applied to Requests</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.4. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">Patterns</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>8.4.1. <a href="actions-file.html#HOST-PATTERN">The Host
- Pattern</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.4.2. <a href="actions-file.html#PATH-PATTERN">The Path
- Pattern</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.4.3. <a href="actions-file.html#TAG-PATTERN">The
- Request Tag Pattern</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.4.4. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#NEGATIVE-TAG-PATTERNS">The Negative
- Request Tag Patterns</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.4.5. <a href="actions-file.html#CLIENT-TAG-PATTERN">The
- Client Tag Pattern</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>8.5. <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS">Actions</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>8.5.1. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#ADD-HEADER">add-header</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.2. <a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.3. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CHANGE-X-FORWARDED-FOR">change-x-forwarded-for</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.4. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER">client-header-filter</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.5. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CLIENT-HEADER-TAGGER">client-header-tagger</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.6. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE">content-type-overwrite</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.7. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-CLIENT-HEADER">crunch-client-header</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.8. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH">crunch-if-none-match</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.9. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-INCOMING-COOKIES">crunch-incoming-cookies</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.10. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-SERVER-HEADER">crunch-server-header</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.11. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#CRUNCH-OUTGOING-COOKIES">crunch-outgoing-cookies</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.12. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#DEANIMATE-GIFS">deanimate-gifs</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.13. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#DOWNGRADE-HTTP-VERSION">downgrade-http-version</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.14. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER">external-filter</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.15. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS">fast-redirects</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.16. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filter</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.17. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FORCE-TEXT-MODE">force-text-mode</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.18. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FORWARD-OVERRIDE">forward-override</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.19. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT">handle-as-empty-document</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.20. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.21. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-ACCEPT-LANGUAGE">hide-accept-language</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.22. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-CONTENT-DISPOSITION">hide-content-disposition</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.23. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE">hide-if-modified-since</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.24. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-FROM-HEADER">hide-from-header</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.25. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-REFERRER">hide-referrer</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.26. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#HIDE-USER-AGENT">hide-user-agent</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.27. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#LIMIT-CONNECT">limit-connect</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.28. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#LIMIT-COOKIE-LIFETIME">limit-cookie-lifetime</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.29. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#PREVENT-COMPRESSION">prevent-compression</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.30. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED">overwrite-last-modified</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.31. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#REDIRECT">redirect</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.32. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-FILTER">server-header-filter</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.33. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#SERVER-HEADER-TAGGER">server-header-tagger</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.34. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#SESSION-COOKIES-ONLY">session-cookies-only</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.35. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.5.36. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#SUMMARY">Summary</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>8.6. <a href="actions-file.html#ALIASES">Aliases</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.7. <a href="actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES">Actions Files
- Tutorial</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>8.7.1. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#MATCH-ALL">match-all.action</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.7.2. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#DEFAULT-ACTION">default.action</a></dt>
-
- <dt>8.7.3. <a href=
- "actions-file.html#USER-ACTION">user.action</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>9. <a href="filter-file.html">Filter Files</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>9.1. <a href="filter-file.html#FILTER-FILE-TUT">Filter File
- Tutorial</a></dt>
-
- <dt>9.2. <a href="filter-file.html#PREDEFINED-FILTERS">The
- Pre-defined Filters</a></dt>
-
- <dt>9.3. <a href=
- "filter-file.html#EXTERNAL-FILTER-SYNTAX">External filter
- syntax</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>10. <a href="templates.html">Privoxy's Template Files</a></dt>
-
- <dt>11. <a href="contact.html">Contacting the Developers, Bug
- Reporting and Feature Requests</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>11.1. <a href="contact.html#SUFFICIENT-INFORMATION">Please
- provide sufficient information</a></dt>
-
- <dt>11.2. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-SUPPORT">Get
- Support</a></dt>
-
- <dt>11.3. <a href="contact.html#REPORTING">Reporting
- Problems</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>11.3.1. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-ADS">Reporting Ads
- or Other Configuration Problems</a></dt>
-
- <dt>11.3.2. <a href="contact.html#CONTACT-BUGS">Reporting
- Bugs</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>11.4. <a href="contact.html#SECURITY-CONTACT">Reporting
- security problems</a></dt>
-
- <dt>11.5. <a href="contact.html#MAILING-LISTS">Mailing
- Lists</a></dt>
-
- <dt>11.6. <a href="contact.html#SF-TRACKERS">SourceForge support
- trackers</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>12. <a href="copyright.html">Privoxy Copyright, License and
- History</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>12.1. <a href="copyright.html#LICENSE">License</a></dt>
-
- <dt>12.2. <a href="copyright.html#HISTORY">History</a></dt>
-
- <dt>12.3. <a href="copyright.html#AUTHORS">Authors</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dt>13. <a href="seealso.html">See Also</a></dt>
-
- <dt>14. <a href="appendix.html">Appendix</a></dt>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dt>14.1. <a href="appendix.html#REGEX">Regular
- Expressions</a></dt>
-
- <dt>14.2. <a href="appendix.html#INTERNAL-PAGES">Privoxy's
- Internal Pages</a></dt>
-
- <dt>14.3. <a href="appendix.html#CHAIN">Chain of Events</a></dt>
-
- <dt>14.4. <a href="appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">Troubleshooting:
- Anatomy of an Action</a></dt>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="introduction.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Introduction
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href=
- "introduction.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Introduction</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Installation</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Introduction" href="introduction.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="What's New in this Release" href="whatsnew.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "introduction.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="whatsnew.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="INSTALLATION" id="INSTALLATION">2.
- Installation</a></h1>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is available both in
- convenient pre-compiled packages for a wide range of operating systems,
- and as raw source code. For most users, we recommend using the packages,
- which can be downloaded from our <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/" target="_top">Privoxy Project
- Page</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Note: On some platforms, the installer may remove previously installed
- versions, if found. (See below for your platform). In any case
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">be sure to backup your old
- configuration if it is valuable to you.</i></span> See the <a href=
- "whatsnew.html#UPGRADERSNOTE">note to upgraders</a> section below.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="INSTALLATION-PACKAGES" id=
- "INSTALLATION-PACKAGES">2.1. Binary Packages</a></h2>
-
- <p>How to install the binary packages depends on your operating
- system:</p>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-DEB" id=
- "INSTALLATION-DEB">2.1.1. Debian and Ubuntu</a></h3>
-
- <p>DEBs can be installed with <tt class="LITERAL">apt-get install
- privoxy</tt>, and will use <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/privoxy</tt> for
- the location of configuration files.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN" id=
- "INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">2.1.2. Windows</a></h3>
-
- <p>Just double-click the installer, which will guide you through the
- installation process. You will find the configuration files in the
- same directory as you installed <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in.</p>
-
- <p>Version 3.0.5 beta introduced full <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Windows</span> service functionality. On Windows only,
- the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> program has two new
- command line arguments to install and uninstall <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">service</i></span>.</p>
-
- <div class="VARIABLELIST">
- <dl>
- <dt>Arguments:</dt>
-
- <dd>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>--install</i></tt>[:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>service_name</i></tt>]</p>
-
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>--uninstall</i></tt>[:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE"><i>service_name</i></tt>]</p>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Installation
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Introduction" href="introduction.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="What's New in this Release" href="whatsnew.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="introduction.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="whatsnew.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="INSTALLATION">2. Installation</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is available both in
+ convenient pre-compiled packages for a wide range of operating
+ systems, and as raw source code. For most users, we recommend using
+ the packages, which can be downloaded from our <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/" target="_top">Privoxy
+ Project Page</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note: On some platforms, the installer may remove previously
+ installed versions, if found. (See below for your platform). In any
+ case <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">be sure to backup
+ your old configuration if it is valuable to you.</i></span> See the
+ <a href="whatsnew.html#UPGRADERSNOTE">note to upgraders</a> section
+ below.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="INSTALLATION-PACKAGES">2.1. Binary Packages</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ How to install the binary packages depends on your operating
+ system:
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="INSTALLATION-DEB">2.1.1. Debian and Ubuntu</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ DEBs can be installed with <tt class="LITERAL">apt-get install
+ privoxy</tt>, and will use <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/privoxy</tt>
+ for the location of configuration files.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">2.1.2. Windows</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Just double-click the installer, which will guide you through the
+ installation process. You will find the configuration files in
+ the same directory as you installed <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Version 3.0.5 beta introduced full <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Windows</span> service functionality. On Windows
+ only, the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> program has
+ two new command line arguments to install and uninstall <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">service</i></span>.
+ </p>
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ Arguments:
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>--install</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>service_name</i></tt>]
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>--uninstall</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>service_name</i></tt>]
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+ <p>
+ After invoking <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with <b
+ class="COMMAND">--install</b>, you will need to bring up the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Windows</span> service console to
+ assign the user you want <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ to run under, and whether or not you want it to run whenever the
+ system starts. You can start the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Windows</span> services console with the following
+ command: <b class="COMMAND">services.msc</b>. If you do not take
+ the manual step of modifying <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> service settings, it will not
+ start. Note too that you will need to give Privoxy a user account
+ that actually exists, or it will not be permitted to write to its
+ log and configuration files.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="INSTALLATION-OS2">2.1.3. OS/2</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ First, make sure that no previous installations of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> and / or <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> are left on your system. Check that
+ no <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> or <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> objects are in your startup
+ folder.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Then, just double-click the WarpIN self-installing archive, which
+ will guide you through the installation process. A shadow of the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> executable will be
+ placed in your startup folder so it will start automatically
+ whenever OS/2 starts.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The directory you choose to install <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> into will contain all of the
+ configuration files.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="INSTALLATION-MAC">2.1.4. Mac OS X</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Installation instructions for the OS X platform depend upon
+ whether you downloaded a ready-built installation package (.pkg
+ or .mpkg) or have downloaded the source code.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-PACKAGE">2.1.5. Installation from
+ ready-built package</a>
+ </h4>
+ <p>
+ The downloaded file will either be a .pkg (for OS X 10.5 upwards)
+ or a bzipped .mpkg file (for OS X 10.4). The former can be
+ double-clicked as is and the installation will start;
+ double-clicking the latter will unzip the .mpkg file which can
+ then be double-clicked to commence the installation.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The privoxy service will automatically start after a successful
+ installation (and thereafter every time your computer starts up)
+ however you will need to configure your web browser(s) to use it.
+ To do so, configure them to use a proxy for HTTP and HTTPS at the
+ address 127.0.0.1:8118.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To prevent the privoxy service from automatically starting when
+ your computer starts up, remove or rename the file <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ijbswa.privoxy.plist</tt>
+ (on OS X 10.5 and higher) or the folder named <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/Library/StartupItems/Privoxy</tt> (on OS X 10.4
+ 'Tiger').
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To manually start or stop the privoxy service, use the scripts
+ startPrivoxy.sh and stopPrivoxy.sh supplied in
+ /Applications/Privoxy. They must be run from an administrator
+ account, using sudo.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To uninstall, run /Applications/Privoxy/uninstall.command as sudo
+ from an administrator account.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-SOURCE">2.1.6. Installation from
+ source</a>
+ </h4>
+ <p>
+ To build and install the Privoxy source code on OS X you will
+ need to obtain the macsetup module from the Privoxy Sourceforge
+ CVS repository (refer to Sourceforge help for details of how to
+ set up a CVS client to have read-only access to the repository).
+ This module contains scripts that leverage the usual open-source
+ tools (available as part of Apple's free of charge Xcode
+ distribution or via the usual open-source software package
+ managers for OS X (MacPorts, Homebrew, Fink etc.) to build and
+ then install the privoxy binary and associated files. The
+ macsetup module's README file contains complete instructions for
+ its use.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The privoxy service will automatically start after a successful
+ installation (and thereafter every time your computer starts up)
+ however you will need to configure your web browser(s) to use it.
+ To do so, configure them to use a proxy for HTTP and HTTPS at the
+ address 127.0.0.1:8118.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To prevent the privoxy service from automatically starting when
+ your computer starts up, remove or rename the file <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ijbswa.privoxy.plist</tt>
+ (on OS X 10.5 and higher) or the folder named <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/Library/StartupItems/Privoxy</tt> (on OS X 10.4
+ 'Tiger').
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To manually start or stop the privoxy service, use the Privoxy
+ Utility for Mac OS X (also part of the macsetup module). This
+ application can start and stop the privoxy service and display
+ its log and configuration files.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To uninstall, run the macsetup module's uninstall.sh as sudo from
+ an administrator account.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3">
+ <a name="INSTALLATION-FREEBSD">2.1.7. FreeBSD</a>
+ </h3>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy is part of FreeBSD's Ports Collection, you can build and
+ install it with <tt class="LITERAL">cd /usr/ports/www/privoxy;
+ make install clean</tt>.
+ </p>
</div>
-
- <p>After invoking <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with
- <b class="COMMAND">--install</b>, you will need to bring up the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Windows</span> service console to assign
- the user you want <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to run
- under, and whether or not you want it to run whenever the system
- starts. You can start the <span class="APPLICATION">Windows</span>
- services console with the following command: <b class=
- "COMMAND">services.msc</b>. If you do not take the manual step of
- modifying <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> service
- settings, it will not start. Note too that you will need to give
- Privoxy a user account that actually exists, or it will not be
- permitted to write to its log and configuration files.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-OS2" id=
- "INSTALLATION-OS2">2.1.3. OS/2</a></h3>
-
- <p>First, make sure that no previous installations of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> and / or <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> are left on your system. Check that no
- <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> or <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> objects are in your startup folder.</p>
-
- <p>Then, just double-click the WarpIN self-installing archive, which
- will guide you through the installation process. A shadow of the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> executable will be placed in
- your startup folder so it will start automatically whenever OS/2
- starts.</p>
-
- <p>The directory you choose to install <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> into will contain all of the
- configuration files.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-MAC" id=
- "INSTALLATION-MAC">2.1.4. Mac OS X</a></h3>
-
- <p>Installation instructions for the OS X platform depend upon
- whether you downloaded a ready-built installation package (.pkg or
- .mpkg) or have downloaded the source code.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-PACKAGE" id=
- "OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-PACKAGE">2.1.5. Installation from ready-built
- package</a></h4>
-
- <p>The downloaded file will either be a .pkg (for OS X 10.5 upwards)
- or a bzipped .mpkg file (for OS X 10.4). The former can be
- double-clicked as is and the installation will start; double-clicking
- the latter will unzip the .mpkg file which can then be double-clicked
- to commence the installation.</p>
-
- <p>The privoxy service will automatically start after a successful
- installation (and thereafter every time your computer starts up)
- however you will need to configure your web browser(s) to use it. To
- do so, configure them to use a proxy for HTTP and HTTPS at the
- address 127.0.0.1:8118.</p>
-
- <p>To prevent the privoxy service from automatically starting when
- your computer starts up, remove or rename the file <tt class=
- "LITERAL">/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ijbswa.privoxy.plist</tt> (on OS
- X 10.5 and higher) or the folder named <tt class=
- "LITERAL">/Library/StartupItems/Privoxy</tt> (on OS X 10.4
- 'Tiger').</p>
-
- <p>To manually start or stop the privoxy service, use the scripts
- startPrivoxy.sh and stopPrivoxy.sh supplied in /Applications/Privoxy.
- They must be run from an administrator account, using sudo.</p>
-
- <p>To uninstall, run /Applications/Privoxy/uninstall.command as sudo
- from an administrator account.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-SOURCE" id=
- "OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-SOURCE">2.1.6. Installation from source</a></h4>
-
- <p>To build and install the Privoxy source code on OS X you will need
- to obtain the macsetup module from the Privoxy Sourceforge CVS
- repository (refer to Sourceforge help for details of how to set up a
- CVS client to have read-only access to the repository). This module
- contains scripts that leverage the usual open-source tools (available
- as part of Apple's free of charge Xcode distribution or via the usual
- open-source software package managers for OS X (MacPorts, Homebrew,
- Fink etc.) to build and then install the privoxy binary and
- associated files. The macsetup module's README file contains complete
- instructions for its use.</p>
-
- <p>The privoxy service will automatically start after a successful
- installation (and thereafter every time your computer starts up)
- however you will need to configure your web browser(s) to use it. To
- do so, configure them to use a proxy for HTTP and HTTPS at the
- address 127.0.0.1:8118.</p>
-
- <p>To prevent the privoxy service from automatically starting when
- your computer starts up, remove or rename the file <tt class=
- "LITERAL">/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ijbswa.privoxy.plist</tt> (on OS
- X 10.5 and higher) or the folder named <tt class=
- "LITERAL">/Library/StartupItems/Privoxy</tt> (on OS X 10.4
- 'Tiger').</p>
-
- <p>To manually start or stop the privoxy service, use the Privoxy
- Utility for Mac OS X (also part of the macsetup module). This
- application can start and stop the privoxy service and display its
- log and configuration files.</p>
-
- <p>To uninstall, run the macsetup module's uninstall.sh as sudo from
- an administrator account.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-FREEBSD" id=
- "INSTALLATION-FREEBSD">2.1.7. FreeBSD</a></h3>
-
- <p>Privoxy is part of FreeBSD's Ports Collection, you can build and
- install it with <tt class="LITERAL">cd /usr/ports/www/privoxy; make
- install clean</tt>.</p>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="INSTALLATION-SOURCE" id=
- "INSTALLATION-SOURCE">2.2. Building from Source</a></h2>
-
- <p>The most convenient way to obtain the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> sources is to download the source tarball
- from our <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/" target=
- "_top">project download page</a>.</p>
-
- <p>If you like to live on the bleeding edge and are not afraid of using
- possibly unstable development versions, you can check out the
- up-to-the-minute version directly from <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/code/?source=navbar" target=
- "_top">the CVS repository</a>.</p>
-
- <p>To build <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> from source,
- <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html" target=
- "_top">autoconf</a>, <a href=
- "http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html" target="_top">GNU make
- (gmake)</a>, and, of course, a C compiler like <a href=
- "http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html" target="_top">gcc</a> are
- required.</p>
-
- <p>When building from a source tarball, first unpack the source:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="INSTALLATION-SOURCE">2.2. Building from Source</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The most convenient way to obtain the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> sources is to download the source
+ tarball from our <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/" target=
+ "_top">project download page</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you like to live on the bleeding edge and are not afraid of
+ using possibly unstable development versions, you can check out the
+ up-to-the-minute version directly from <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/code/?source=navbar" target=
+ "_top">the CVS repository</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To build <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> from source, <a
+ href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html" target=
+ "_top">autoconf</a>, <a href=
+ "http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html" target="_top">GNU make
+ (gmake)</a>, and, of course, a C compiler like <a href=
+ "http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html" target="_top">gcc</a>
+ are required.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When building from a source tarball, first unpack the source:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.25-beta-src.tar.gz
cd privoxy-3.0.25-beta
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>For retrieving the current CVS sources, you'll need a CVS client
- installed. Note that sources from CVS are typically development
- quality, and may not be stable, or well tested. To download CVS source,
- check the Sourceforge documentation, which might give commands
- like:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ For retrieving the current CVS sources, you'll need a CVS client
+ installed. Note that sources from CVS are typically development
+ quality, and may not be stable, or well tested. To download CVS
+ source, check the Sourceforge documentation, which might give
+ commands like:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co current
cd current
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>This will create a directory named <tt class=
- "FILENAME">current/</tt>, which will contain the source tree.</p>
-
- <p>You can also check out any <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- <span class="QUOTE">"branch"</span>, just exchange the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">current</span> name with the wanted branch name (Example:
- v_3_0_branch for the 3.0 cvs tree).</p>
-
- <p>It is also strongly recommended to not run <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as root. You should configure/install/run
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as an unprivileged user,
- preferably by creating a <span class="QUOTE">"privoxy"</span> user and
- group just for this purpose. See your local documentation for the
- correct command line to do add new users and groups (something like
- <b class="COMMAND">adduser</b>, but the command syntax may vary from
- platform to platform).</p>
-
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">/etc/passwd</tt> might then look like:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ This will create a directory named <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">current/</tt>, which will contain the source tree.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ You can also check out any <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"branch"</span>, just exchange the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">current</span> name with the wanted branch name
+ (Example: v_3_0_branch for the 3.0 cvs tree).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It is also strongly recommended to not run <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as root. You should
+ configure/install/run <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as
+ an unprivileged user, preferably by creating a <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"privoxy"</span> user and group just for this purpose. See
+ your local documentation for the correct command line to do add new
+ users and groups (something like <b class="COMMAND">adduser</b>,
+ but the command syntax may vary from platform to platform).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/passwd</tt> might then look like:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
privoxy:*:7777:7777:privoxy proxy:/no/home:/no/shell
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>And then <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/group</tt>, like:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ And then <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/group</tt>, like:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
privoxy:*:7777:
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Some binary packages may do this for you.</p>
-
- <p>Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or CVS source:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Some binary packages may do this for you.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or CVS source:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
autoheader
autoconf
./configure # (--help to see options)
make -n install # (to see where all the files will go)
make -s install # (to really install, -s to silence output)
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Using GNU <b class="COMMAND">make</b>, you can have the first four
- steps automatically done for you by just typing:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Using GNU <b class="COMMAND">make</b>, you can have the first four
+ steps automatically done for you by just typing:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
make
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>in the freshly downloaded or unpacked source directory.</p>
-
- <p>To build an executable with security enhanced features so that users
- cannot easily bypass the proxy (e.g. <span class="QUOTE">"Go There
- Anyway"</span>), or alter their own configurations, <b class=
- "COMMAND">configure</b> like this:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ in the freshly downloaded or unpacked source directory.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To build an executable with security enhanced features so that
+ users cannot easily bypass the proxy (e.g. <span class="QUOTE">"Go
+ There Anyway"</span>), or alter their own configurations, <b class=
+ "COMMAND">configure</b> like this:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
./configure --disable-toggle --disable-editor --disable-force
</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Note that all of these options can also be disabled through the
+ configuration file.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">WARNING:</i></span> If
+ installing as root, the install will fail unless a non-root user or
+ group is specified, or a <tt class="LITERAL">privoxy</tt> user and
+ group already exist on the system. If a non-root user is specified,
+ and no group, then the installation will try to also use a group of
+ the same name as <span class="QUOTE">"user"</span>. If a group is
+ specified (and no user), then the support files will be installed
+ as writable by that group, and owned by the user running the
+ installation.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b class="COMMAND">configure</b> accepts <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">--with-user</tt> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">--with-group</tt> options for setting user and group
+ ownership of the configuration files (which need to be writable by
+ the daemon). The specified <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">user must already exist</i></span>. When starting <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, it must be run as this same
+ user to insure write access to configuration and log files!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Alternately, you can specify <tt class="LITERAL">user</tt> and <tt
+ class="LITERAL">group</tt> on the <b class="COMMAND">make</b>
+ command line, but be sure both already exist:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ make -s install USER=privoxy GROUP=privoxy
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ The default installation path for <b class="COMMAND">make
+ install</b> is <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>. This may of
+ course be customized with the various <b class=
+ "COMMAND">./configure</b> path options. If you are doing an install
+ to anywhere besides <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, be sure
+ to set the appropriate paths with the correct configure options (<b
+ class="COMMAND">./configure --help</b>). Non-privileged users must
+ of course have write access permissions to wherever the target
+ installation is going.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you do install to <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, the
+ install will use <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">sysconfdir=$prefix/etc/privoxy</tt> by default. All other
+ destinations, and the direct usage of <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">--sysconfdir</tt> flag behave like normal, i.e. will not
+ add the extra <tt class="FILENAME">privoxy</tt> directory. This is
+ for a safer install, as there may already exist another program
+ that uses a file with the <span class="QUOTE">"config"</span> name,
+ and thus makes <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local/etc</tt> cleaner.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If installing to <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, the
+ documentation will go by default to <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">$prefix/share/doc</tt>. But if this directory doesn't
+ exist, it will then try <tt class="FILENAME">$prefix/doc</tt> and
+ install there before creating a new <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">$prefix/share/doc</tt> just for <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Again, if the installs goes to <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, the <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">localstatedir</tt> (ie: <tt class="FILENAME">var/</tt>)
+ will default to <tt class="FILENAME">/var</tt> instead of <tt
+ class="LITERAL">$prefix/var</tt> so the logs will go to <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">/var/log/privoxy/</tt>, and the pid file will be created
+ in <tt class="FILENAME">/var/run/privoxy.pid</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b class="COMMAND">make install</b> will attempt to set the correct
+ values in <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> (main configuration
+ file). You should check this to make sure all values are correct.
+ If appropriate, an init script will be installed, but it is up to
+ the user to determine how and where to start <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. The init script should be checked for
+ correct paths and values, if anything other than a default install
+ is done.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If install finds previous versions of local configuration files,
+ most of these will not be overwritten, and the new ones will be
+ installed with a <span class="QUOTE">"new"</span> extension.
+ default.action and default.filter <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">will be overwritten</i></span>. You will then need to
+ manually update the other installed configuration files as needed.
+ The default template files <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">will</i></span> be overwritten. If you have customized,
+ local templates, these should be stored safely in a separate
+ directory and defined in <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> by the
+ <span class="QUOTE">"templdir"</span> directive. It is of course
+ wise to always back-up any important configuration files <span
+ class="QUOTE">"just in case"</span>. If a previous version of <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is already running, you will
+ have to restart it manually.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For more detailed instructions on how to build Redhat RPMs, Windows
+ self-extracting installers, building on platforms with special
+ requirements etc, please consult the <a href=
+ "https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/newrelease.html" target=
+ "_top">developer manual</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="INSTALLATION-KEEPUPDATED">2.3. Keeping your Installation
+ Up-to-Date</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ If you wish to receive an email notification whenever we release
+ updates of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> or the actions
+ file, <a href=
+ "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-announce"
+ target="_top">subscribe to our announce mailing list</a>,
+ privoxy-announce@lists.privoxy.org.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ In order not to lose your personal changes and adjustments when
+ updating to the latest <tt class="LITERAL">default.action</tt> file
+ we <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">strongly
+ recommend</i></span> that you use <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">user.action</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">user.filter</tt>
+ for your local customizations of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. See the <a href=
+ "actions-file.html">Chapter on actions files</a> for details.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="introduction.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="whatsnew.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Note that all of these options can also be disabled through the
- configuration file.</p>
-
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">WARNING:</i></span> If
- installing as root, the install will fail unless a non-root user or
- group is specified, or a <tt class="LITERAL">privoxy</tt> user and
- group already exist on the system. If a non-root user is specified, and
- no group, then the installation will try to also use a group of the
- same name as <span class="QUOTE">"user"</span>. If a group is specified
- (and no user), then the support files will be installed as writable by
- that group, and owned by the user running the installation.</p>
-
- <p><b class="COMMAND">configure</b> accepts <tt class=
- "LITERAL">--with-user</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">--with-group</tt>
- options for setting user and group ownership of the configuration files
- (which need to be writable by the daemon). The specified <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">user must already exist</i></span>. When
- starting <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, it must be run as
- this same user to insure write access to configuration and log
- files!</p>
-
- <p>Alternately, you can specify <tt class="LITERAL">user</tt> and
- <tt class="LITERAL">group</tt> on the <b class="COMMAND">make</b>
- command line, but be sure both already exist:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- make -s install USER=privoxy GROUP=privoxy
-</pre>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Introduction
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ What's New in this Release
</td>
</tr>
</table>
-
- <p>The default installation path for <b class="COMMAND">make
- install</b> is <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>. This may of course
- be customized with the various <b class="COMMAND">./configure</b> path
- options. If you are doing an install to anywhere besides <tt class=
- "FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, be sure to set the appropriate paths with
- the correct configure options (<b class="COMMAND">./configure
- --help</b>). Non-privileged users must of course have write access
- permissions to wherever the target installation is going.</p>
-
- <p>If you do install to <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, the
- install will use <tt class=
- "LITERAL">sysconfdir=$prefix/etc/privoxy</tt> by default. All other
- destinations, and the direct usage of <tt class=
- "LITERAL">--sysconfdir</tt> flag behave like normal, i.e. will not add
- the extra <tt class="FILENAME">privoxy</tt> directory. This is for a
- safer install, as there may already exist another program that uses a
- file with the <span class="QUOTE">"config"</span> name, and thus makes
- <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local/etc</tt> cleaner.</p>
-
- <p>If installing to <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, the
- documentation will go by default to <tt class=
- "FILENAME">$prefix/share/doc</tt>. But if this directory doesn't exist,
- it will then try <tt class="FILENAME">$prefix/doc</tt> and install
- there before creating a new <tt class="FILENAME">$prefix/share/doc</tt>
- just for <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Again, if the installs goes to <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>,
- the <tt class="LITERAL">localstatedir</tt> (ie: <tt class=
- "FILENAME">var/</tt>) will default to <tt class="FILENAME">/var</tt>
- instead of <tt class="LITERAL">$prefix/var</tt> so the logs will go to
- <tt class="FILENAME">/var/log/privoxy/</tt>, and the pid file will be
- created in <tt class="FILENAME">/var/run/privoxy.pid</tt>.</p>
-
- <p><b class="COMMAND">make install</b> will attempt to set the correct
- values in <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> (main configuration file).
- You should check this to make sure all values are correct. If
- appropriate, an init script will be installed, but it is up to the user
- to determine how and where to start <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. The init script should be checked for
- correct paths and values, if anything other than a default install is
- done.</p>
-
- <p>If install finds previous versions of local configuration files,
- most of these will not be overwritten, and the new ones will be
- installed with a <span class="QUOTE">"new"</span> extension.
- default.action and default.filter <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">will be overwritten</i></span>. You will then need to
- manually update the other installed configuration files as needed. The
- default template files <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">will</i></span> be overwritten. If you have customized,
- local templates, these should be stored safely in a separate directory
- and defined in <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> by the <span class=
- "QUOTE">"templdir"</span> directive. It is of course wise to always
- back-up any important configuration files <span class="QUOTE">"just in
- case"</span>. If a previous version of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is already running, you will have to
- restart it manually.</p>
-
- <p>For more detailed instructions on how to build Redhat RPMs, Windows
- self-extracting installers, building on platforms with special
- requirements etc, please consult the <a href=
- "https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/newrelease.html" target=
- "_top">developer manual</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="INSTALLATION-KEEPUPDATED" id=
- "INSTALLATION-KEEPUPDATED">2.3. Keeping your Installation
- Up-to-Date</a></h2>
-
- <p>If you wish to receive an email notification whenever we release
- updates of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> or the actions
- file, <a href=
- "https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-announce" target=
- "_top">subscribe to our announce mailing list</a>,
- privoxy-announce@lists.privoxy.org.</p>
-
- <p>In order not to lose your personal changes and adjustments when
- updating to the latest <tt class="LITERAL">default.action</tt> file we
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">strongly
- recommend</i></span> that you use <tt class="LITERAL">user.action</tt>
- and <tt class="LITERAL">user.filter</tt> for your local customizations
- of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. See the <a href=
- "actions-file.html">Chapter on actions files</a> for details.</p>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="introduction.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="whatsnew.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Introduction</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">What's New in this
- Release</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Introduction</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Installation" href="installation.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "installation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="INTRODUCTION" id="INTRODUCTION">1.
- Introduction</a></h1>
-
- <p>This documentation is included with the current beta version of
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, 3.0.25, and is mostly complete
- at this point. The most up to date reference for the time being is still
- the comments in the source files and in the individual configuration
- files. Development of a new version is currently nearing completion, and
- includes significant changes and enhancements over earlier versions.</p>
-
- <p>Since this is a beta version, not all new features are well tested.
- This documentation may be slightly out of sync as a result (especially
- with CVS sources). And there <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">may be</i></span> bugs, though hopefully not many!</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="FEATURES" id="FEATURES">1.1.
- Features</a></h2>
-
- <p>In addition to the core features of ad blocking and <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target="_top">cookie</a>
- management, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> provides many
- supplemental features, some of them currently under development, that
- give the end-user more control, more privacy and more freedom:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be
- kept alive independently from the client.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too, and
- the configure script detects it.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on
- client and server headers.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need
- to configure browsers individually.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server
- and client headers.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Can be chained with other proxies.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Integrated browser-based configuration and control utility at
- <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> (shortcut: <a href=
- "http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>). Browser-based tracing
- of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on
- size, invisible <span class="QUOTE">"web-bugs"</span> and HTML
- annoyances, etc.)</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and
- user settings to reside in separate files, so that installing
- updated actions files won't overwrite individual user settings.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the
- configuration files, and a more sophisticated and flexible
- configuration syntax.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>GIF de-animation.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script
- redirection).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages
- (e.g. "blocked" page).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location
- basis.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Many smaller new features added, limitations and bugs
- removed.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Introduction
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href=
+ "index.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Installation" href="installation.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="installation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href=
- "installation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Privoxy 3.0.25 User
- Manual</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Installation</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="INTRODUCTION">1. Introduction</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ This documentation is included with the current beta version of <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, 3.0.25, and is mostly complete at
+ this point. The most up to date reference for the time being is still
+ the comments in the source files and in the individual configuration
+ files. Development of a new version is currently nearing completion,
+ and includes significant changes and enhancements over earlier
+ versions.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Since this is a beta version, not all new features are well tested.
+ This documentation may be slightly out of sync as a result
+ (especially with CVS sources). And there <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">may be</i></span> bugs, though hopefully not many!
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="FEATURES">1.1. Features</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ In addition to the core features of ad blocking and <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
+ "_top">cookie</a> management, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> provides many supplemental features,
+ some of them currently under development, that give the end-user
+ more control, more privacy and more freedom:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Supports "Connection: keep-alive". Outgoing connections can be
+ kept alive independently from the client.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Supports IPv6, provided the operating system does so too, and
+ the configure script detects it.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Supports tagging which allows to change the behaviour based on
+ client and server headers.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Can be run as an "intercepting" proxy, which obviates the need
+ to configure browsers individually.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Sophisticated actions and filters for manipulating both server
+ and client headers.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Can be chained with other proxies.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Integrated browser-based configuration and control utility at
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a> (shortcut: <a href=
+ "http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>). Browser-based
+ tracing of rule and filter effects. Remote toggling.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Web page filtering (text replacements, removes banners based on
+ size, invisible <span class="QUOTE">"web-bugs"</span> and HTML
+ annoyances, etc.)
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Modularized configuration that allows for standard settings and
+ user settings to reside in separate files, so that installing
+ updated actions files won't overwrite individual user settings.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the
+ configuration files, and a more sophisticated and flexible
+ configuration syntax.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ GIF de-animation.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ User-customizable HTML templates for most proxy-generated pages
+ (e.g. "blocked" page).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Most features are controllable on a per-site or per-location
+ basis.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Many smaller new features added, limitations and bugs removed.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="installation.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Installation
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Quickstart to Using Privoxy</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="What's New in this Release" href=
- "whatsnew.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Starting Privoxy" href="startup.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="whatsnew.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="startup.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="QUICKSTART" id="QUICKSTART">4. Quickstart to
- Using Privoxy</a></h1>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Install <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. See the <a href=
- "installation.html">Installation Section</a> below for platform
- specific information.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Advanced users and those who want to offer <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> service to more than just their local
- machine should check the <a href="config.html">main config file</a>,
- especially the <a href=
- "config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL">security-relevant</a> options. These are
- off by default.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Start <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, if the
- installation program has not done this already (may vary according to
- platform). See the section <a href="startup.html">Starting
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span></a>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Set your browser to use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- as HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" target="_top">proxy</a>
- by setting the proxy configuration for address of <tt class=
- "LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt> and port <tt class="LITERAL">8118</tt>.
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">DO NOT</i></span> activate
- proxying for <tt class="LITERAL">FTP</tt> or any protocols besides
- HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) unless you intend to prevent your browser from
- using these protocols.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Flush your browser's disk and memory caches, to remove any cached
- ad images. If using <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
- manage <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
- "_top">cookies</a>, you should remove any currently stored cookies
- too.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>A default installation should provide a reasonable starting point
- for most. There will undoubtedly be occasions where you will want to
- adjust the configuration, but that can be dealt with as the need
- arises. Little to no initial configuration is required in most cases,
- you may want to enable the <a href="config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS"
- target="_top">web-based action editor</a> though. Be sure to read the
- warnings first.</p>
-
- <p>See the <a href="configuration.html">Configuration section</a> for
- more configuration options, and how to customize your installation.
- You might also want to look at the <a href=
- "quickstart.html#QUICKSTART-AD-BLOCKING">next section</a> for a quick
- introduction to how <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> blocks
- ads and banners.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>If you experience ads that slip through, innocent images that are
- blocked, or otherwise feel the need to fine-tune <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> behavior, take a look at the <a href=
- "actions-file.html">actions files</a>. As a quick start, you might
- find the <a href="actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES">richly commented
- examples</a> helpful. You can also view and edit the actions files
- through the <a href="http://config.privoxy.org" target=
- "_top">web-based user interface</a>. The Appendix <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<a href="appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">Troubleshooting: Anatomy
- of an Action</a>"</span> has hints on how to understand and debug
- actions that <span class="QUOTE">"misbehave"</span>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Please see the section <a href="contact.html">Contacting the
- Developers</a> on how to report bugs, problems with websites or to
- get help.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Now enjoy surfing with enhanced control, comfort and privacy!</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="QUICKSTART-AD-BLOCKING" id=
- "QUICKSTART-AD-BLOCKING">4.1. Quickstart to Ad Blocking</a></h2>
-
- <p>Ad blocking is but one of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span>
- array of features. Many of these features are for the technically
- minded advanced user. But, ad and banner blocking is surely common
- ground for everybody.</p>
-
- <p>This section will provide a quick summary of ad blocking so you can
- get up to speed quickly without having to read the more extensive
- information provided below, though this is highly recommended.</p>
-
- <p>First a bit of a warning ... blocking ads is much like blocking
- SPAM: the more aggressive you are about it, the more likely you are to
- block things that were not intended. And the more likely that some
- things may not work as intended. So there is a trade off here. If you
- want extreme ad free browsing, be prepared to deal with more
- <span class="QUOTE">"problem"</span> sites, and to spend more time
- adjusting the configuration to solve these unintended consequences. In
- short, there is not an easy way to eliminate <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> ads. Either take the easy
- way and settle for <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">most</i></span> ads blocked with the default configuration,
- or jump in and tweak it for your personal surfing habits and
- preferences.</p>
-
- <p>Secondly, a brief explanation of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span>.
- <span class="QUOTE">"Actions"</span> in this context, are the
- directives we use to tell <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
- perform some task relating to HTTP transactions (i.e. web browsing). We
- tell <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to take some <span class=
- "QUOTE">"action"</span>. Each action has a unique name and function.
- While there are many potential <span class="APPLICATION">actions</span>
- in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> arsenal, only a few are
- used for ad blocking. <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS">Actions</a>,
- and <a href="actions-file.html">action configuration files</a>, are
- explained in depth below.</p>
-
- <p>Actions are specified in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span>
- configuration, followed by one or more URLs to which the action should
- apply. URLs can actually be URL type <a href=
- "actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">patterns</a> that use wildcards so they
- can apply potentially to a range of similar URLs. The actions, together
- with the URL patterns are called a section.</p>
-
- <p>When you connect to a website, the full URL will either match one or
- more of the sections as defined in <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration, or not. If so, then
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will perform the respective
- actions. If not, then nothing special happens. Furthermore, web pages
- may contain embedded, secondary URLs that your web browser will use to
- load additional components of the page, as it parses the original
- page's HTML content. An ad image for instance, is just an URL embedded
- in the page somewhere. The image itself may be on the same server, or a
- server somewhere else on the Internet. Complex web pages will have many
- such embedded URLs. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can deal
- with each URL individually, so, for instance, the main page text is not
- touched, but images from such-and-such server are blocked.</p>
-
- <p>The most important actions for basic ad blocking are: <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt>, <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>,
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT">handle-as-empty-document</a></tt>,and
- <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>:</p>
-
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Quickstart to Using Privoxy
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="What's New in this Release" href=
+ "whatsnew.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Starting Privoxy" href="startup.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="whatsnew.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="startup.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="QUICKSTART">4. Quickstart to Using Privoxy</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ </p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p><tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> - this is perhaps the
- single most used action, and is particularly important for ad
- blocking. This action stops any contact between your browser and
- any URL patterns that match this action's configuration. It can be
- used for blocking ads, but also anything that is determined to be
- unwanted. By itself, it simply stops any communication with the
- remote server and sends <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s
- own built-in BLOCKED page instead to let you now what has happened
- (with some exceptions, see below).</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt> -
- tells <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to treat this URL as
- an image. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s default
- configuration already does this for all common image types (e.g.
- GIF), but there are many situations where this is not so easy to
- determine. So we'll force it in these cases. This is particularly
- important for ad blocking, since only if we know that it's an image
- of some kind, can we replace it with an image of our choosing,
- instead of the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> BLOCKED
- page (which would only result in a <span class="QUOTE">"broken
- image"</span> icon). There are some limitations to this though. For
- instance, you can't just brute-force an image substitution for an
- entire HTML page in most situations.</p>
+ <p>
+ Install <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. See the <a
+ href="installation.html">Installation Section</a> below for
+ platform specific information.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p><tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT">handle-as-empty-document</a></tt>
- - sends an empty document instead of <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> normal BLOCKED HTML page. This is
- useful for file types that are neither HTML nor images, such as
- blocking JavaScript files.</p>
+ <p>
+ Advanced users and those who want to offer <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> service to more than just their
+ local machine should check the <a href="config.html">main config
+ file</a>, especially the <a href=
+ "config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL">security-relevant</a> options. These
+ are off by default.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p><tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt> -
- tells <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> what to display in
- place of an ad image that has hit a block rule. For this to come
- into play, the URL must match a <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> action somewhere in the
- configuration, <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">and</i></span>, it must also match an <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>
- action.</p>
-
- <p>The configuration options on what to display instead of the ad
- are:</p>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">pattern</i></span> - a checkerboard pattern, so
- that an ad replacement is obvious. This is the default.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">blank</i></span> - A very small empty GIF image is
- displayed. This is the so-called <span class=
- "QUOTE">"invisible"</span> configuration option.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td> <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">http://<URL></i></span> - A redirect to any
- image anywhere of the user's choosing (advanced usage).</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
+ <p>
+ Start <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, if the
+ installation program has not done this already (may vary
+ according to platform). See the section <a href=
+ "startup.html">Starting <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span></a>.
+ </p>
</li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Advanced users will eventually want to explore <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filters</a></tt> as well. Filters are very
- different from <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">blocks</a></tt>. A <span class=
- "QUOTE">"block"</span> blocks a site, page, or unwanted contented.
- Filters are a way of filtering or modifying what is actually on the
- page. An example filter usage: a text replacement of <span class=
- "QUOTE">"no-no"</span> for <span class="QUOTE">"nasty-word"</span>.
- That is a very simple example. This process can be used for ad
- blocking, but it is more in the realm of advanced usage and has some
- pitfalls to be wary off.</p>
-
- <p>The quickest way to adjust any of these settings is with your
- browser through the special <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- editor at <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a> (shortcut: <a href=
- "http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/show-status</a>). This is an
- internal page, and does not require Internet access.</p>
-
- <p>Note that as of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.7 beta
- the action editor is disabled by default. Check the <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS" target="_top">enable-edit-actions
- section in the configuration file</a> to learn why and in which cases
- it's safe to enable again.</p>
-
- <p>If you decided to enable the action editor, select the appropriate
- <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> file, and click <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span>"</span>. It is best to put
- personal or local preferences in <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt>
- since this is not meant to be overwritten during upgrades, and will
- over-ride the settings in other files. Here you can insert new
- <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span>, and URLs for ad blocking or other
- purposes, and make other adjustments to the configuration. <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will detect these changes
- automatically.</p>
-
- <p>A quick and simple step by step example:</p>
-
- <ul>
<li>
- <p>Right click on the ad image to be blocked, then select
- <span class="QUOTE">"<span class="GUIMENUITEM">Copy Link
- Location</span>"</span> from the pop-up menu.</p>
+ <p>
+ Set your browser to use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ as HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" target=
+ "_top">proxy</a> by setting the proxy configuration for address
+ of <tt class="LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt> and port <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">8118</tt>. <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">DO NOT</i></span> activate proxying for <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">FTP</tt> or any protocols besides HTTP and HTTPS (SSL)
+ unless you intend to prevent your browser from using these
+ protocols.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Set your browser to <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a></p>
+ <p>
+ Flush your browser's disk and memory caches, to remove any cached
+ ad images. If using <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to
+ manage <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie"
+ target="_top">cookies</a>, you should remove any currently stored
+ cookies too.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Find <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> in the top section,
- and click on <span class="QUOTE">"<span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Edit</span>"</span>:</p>
-
- <div class="FIGURE">
- <a name="AEN612" id="AEN612"></a>
-
- <p><b>Figure 1. Actions Files in Use</b></p>
-
- <div class="MEDIAOBJECT">
- <p><img src="files-in-use.jpg"></p>
- </div>
- </div>
+ <p>
+ A default installation should provide a reasonable starting point
+ for most. There will undoubtedly be occasions where you will want
+ to adjust the configuration, but that can be dealt with as the
+ need arises. Little to no initial configuration is required in
+ most cases, you may want to enable the <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS" target="_top">web-based action
+ editor</a> though. Be sure to read the warnings first.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ See the <a href="configuration.html">Configuration section</a>
+ for more configuration options, and how to customize your
+ installation. You might also want to look at the <a href=
+ "quickstart.html#QUICKSTART-AD-BLOCKING">next section</a> for a
+ quick introduction to how <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> blocks ads and banners.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>You should have a section with only <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> listed under <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Actions:"</span>. If not, click a <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">Insert new section
- below</span>"</span> button, and in the new section that just
- appeared, click the <span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> button
- right under the word <span class="QUOTE">"Actions:"</span>. This
- will bring up a list of all actions. Find <tt class=
- "LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> near the
- top, and click in the <span class="QUOTE">"Enabled"</span> column,
- then <span class="QUOTE">"<span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Submit</span>"</span> just below the list.</p>
+ <p>
+ If you experience ads that slip through, innocent images that are
+ blocked, or otherwise feel the need to fine-tune <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> behavior, take a look at the <a
+ href="actions-file.html">actions files</a>. As a quick start, you
+ might find the <a href="actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES">richly
+ commented examples</a> helpful. You can also view and edit the
+ actions files through the <a href="http://config.privoxy.org"
+ target="_top">web-based user interface</a>. The Appendix <span
+ class="QUOTE">"<a href=
+ "appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">Troubleshooting: Anatomy of an
+ Action</a>"</span> has hints on how to understand and debug
+ actions that <span class="QUOTE">"misbehave"</span>.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Now, in the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
- "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> actions section, click the
- <span class="QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">Add</span>"</span>
- button, and paste the URL the browser got from <span class=
- "QUOTE">"<span class="GUIMENUITEM">Copy Link
- Location</span>"</span>. Remove the <tt class=
- "LITERAL">http://</tt> at the beginning of the URL. Then, click
- <span class="QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">Submit</span>"</span>
- (or <span class="QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">OK</span>"</span>
- if in a pop-up window).</p>
+ <p>
+ Please see the section <a href="contact.html">Contacting the
+ Developers</a> on how to report bugs, problems with websites or
+ to get help.
+ </p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Now go back to the original page, and press <b class=
- "KEYCAP">SHIFT-Reload</b> (or flush all browser caches). The image
- should be gone now.</p>
+ <p>
+ Now enjoy surfing with enhanced control, comfort and privacy!
+ </p>
</li>
</ul>
- <p>This is a very crude and simple example. There might be good reasons
- to use a wildcard pattern match to include potentially similar images
- from the same site. For a more extensive explanation of <span class=
- "QUOTE">"patterns"</span>, and the entire actions concept, see <a href=
- "actions-file.html">the Actions section</a>.</p>
-
- <p>For advanced users who want to hand edit their config files, you
- might want to now go to the <a href=
- "actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES">Actions Files Tutorial</a>. The ideas
- explained therein also apply to the web-based editor.</p>
-
- <p>There are also various <a href=
- "actions-file.html#FILTER">filters</a> that can be used for ad blocking
- (filters are a special subset of actions). These fall into the
- <span class="QUOTE">"advanced"</span> usage category, and are explained
- in depth in later sections.</p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="QUICKSTART-AD-BLOCKING">4.1. Quickstart to Ad Blocking</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Ad blocking is but one of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> array of features. Many of these
+ features are for the technically minded advanced user. But, ad and
+ banner blocking is surely common ground for everybody.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This section will provide a quick summary of ad blocking so you can
+ get up to speed quickly without having to read the more extensive
+ information provided below, though this is highly recommended.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ First a bit of a warning ... blocking ads is much like blocking
+ SPAM: the more aggressive you are about it, the more likely you are
+ to block things that were not intended. And the more likely that
+ some things may not work as intended. So there is a trade off here.
+ If you want extreme ad free browsing, be prepared to deal with more
+ <span class="QUOTE">"problem"</span> sites, and to spend more time
+ adjusting the configuration to solve these unintended consequences.
+ In short, there is not an easy way to eliminate <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">all</i></span> ads. Either take the
+ easy way and settle for <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">most</i></span> ads blocked with the default
+ configuration, or jump in and tweak it for your personal surfing
+ habits and preferences.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Secondly, a brief explanation of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"actions"</span>. <span class="QUOTE">"Actions"</span> in
+ this context, are the directives we use to tell <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to perform some task relating to HTTP
+ transactions (i.e. web browsing). We tell <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to take some <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"action"</span>. Each action has a unique name and
+ function. While there are many potential <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">actions</span> in <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> arsenal, only a few are used for ad
+ blocking. <a href="actions-file.html#ACTIONS">Actions</a>, and <a
+ href="actions-file.html">action configuration files</a>, are
+ explained in depth below.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Actions are specified in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span>
+ configuration, followed by one or more URLs to which the action
+ should apply. URLs can actually be URL type <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#AF-PATTERNS">patterns</a> that use wildcards so
+ they can apply potentially to a range of similar URLs. The actions,
+ together with the URL patterns are called a section.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When you connect to a website, the full URL will either match one
+ or more of the sections as defined in <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> configuration, or not. If so, then
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will perform the
+ respective actions. If not, then nothing special happens.
+ Furthermore, web pages may contain embedded, secondary URLs that
+ your web browser will use to load additional components of the
+ page, as it parses the original page's HTML content. An ad image
+ for instance, is just an URL embedded in the page somewhere. The
+ image itself may be on the same server, or a server somewhere else
+ on the Internet. Complex web pages will have many such embedded
+ URLs. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can deal with each
+ URL individually, so, for instance, the main page text is not
+ touched, but images from such-and-such server are blocked.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The most important actions for basic ad blocking are: <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt>, <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>, <tt
+ class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT">handle-as-empty-document</a></tt>,and
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> - this is perhaps the
+ single most used action, and is particularly important for ad
+ blocking. This action stops any contact between your browser
+ and any URL patterns that match this action's configuration. It
+ can be used for blocking ads, but also anything that is
+ determined to be unwanted. By itself, it simply stops any
+ communication with the remote server and sends <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s own built-in BLOCKED page
+ instead to let you now what has happened (with some exceptions,
+ see below).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt> -
+ tells <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to treat this
+ URL as an image. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>'s
+ default configuration already does this for all common image
+ types (e.g. GIF), but there are many situations where this is
+ not so easy to determine. So we'll force it in these cases.
+ This is particularly important for ad blocking, since only if
+ we know that it's an image of some kind, can we replace it with
+ an image of our choosing, instead of the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> BLOCKED page (which would only
+ result in a <span class="QUOTE">"broken image"</span> icon).
+ There are some limitations to this though. For instance, you
+ can't just brute-force an image substitution for an entire HTML
+ page in most situations.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT">handle-as-empty-document</a></tt>
+ - sends an empty document instead of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> normal BLOCKED HTML page. This
+ is useful for file types that are neither HTML nor images, such
+ as blocking JavaScript files.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#SET-IMAGE-BLOCKER">set-image-blocker</a></tt>
+ - tells <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> what to
+ display in place of an ad image that has hit a block rule. For
+ this to come into play, the URL must match a <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt>
+ action somewhere in the configuration, <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">and</i></span>, it must also
+ match an <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</a></tt>
+ action.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The configuration options on what to display instead of the ad
+ are:
+ </p>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">pattern</i></span> - a checkerboard pattern,
+ so that an ad replacement is obvious. This is the
+ default.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">blank</i></span> - A very small empty GIF
+ image is displayed. This is the so-called <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"invisible"</span> configuration option.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">http://<URL></i></span> - A redirect to
+ any image anywhere of the user's choosing (advanced
+ usage).
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ Advanced users will eventually want to explore <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filters</a></tt> as well. Filters are
+ very different from <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">blocks</a></tt>. A <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"block"</span> blocks a site, page, or unwanted contented.
+ Filters are a way of filtering or modifying what is actually on the
+ page. An example filter usage: a text replacement of <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"no-no"</span> for <span class="QUOTE">"nasty-word"</span>.
+ That is a very simple example. This process can be used for ad
+ blocking, but it is more in the realm of advanced usage and has
+ some pitfalls to be wary off.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The quickest way to adjust any of these settings is with your
+ browser through the special <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> editor at <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a> (shortcut: <a
+ href="http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/show-status</a>). This
+ is an internal page, and does not require Internet access.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that as of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> 3.0.7 beta
+ the action editor is disabled by default. Check the <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS" target="_top">enable-edit-actions
+ section in the configuration file</a> to learn why and in which
+ cases it's safe to enable again.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you decided to enable the action editor, select the appropriate
+ <span class="QUOTE">"actions"</span> file, and click <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span>"</span>. It is best to
+ put personal or local preferences in <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">user.action</tt> since this is not meant to be
+ overwritten during upgrades, and will over-ride the settings in
+ other files. Here you can insert new <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"actions"</span>, and URLs for ad blocking or other
+ purposes, and make other adjustments to the configuration. <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will detect these changes
+ automatically.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A quick and simple step by step example:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Right click on the ad image to be blocked, then select <span
+ class="QUOTE">"<span class="GUIMENUITEM">Copy Link
+ Location</span>"</span> from the pop-up menu.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Set your browser to <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/show-status" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</a>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Find <tt class="FILENAME">user.action</tt> in the top section,
+ and click on <span class="QUOTE">"<span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Edit</span>"</span>:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <div class="FIGURE">
+ <a name="AEN612"></a>
+ <p>
+ <b>Figure 1. Actions Files in Use</b>
+ </p>
+ <div class="MEDIAOBJECT">
+ <p>
+ <img src="files-in-use.jpg">
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ You should have a section with only <tt class="LITERAL"><a
+ href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> listed under
+ <span class="QUOTE">"Actions:"</span>. If not, click a <span
+ class="QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">Insert new section
+ below</span>"</span> button, and in the new section that just
+ appeared, click the <span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> button
+ right under the word <span class="QUOTE">"Actions:"</span>.
+ This will bring up a list of all actions. Find <tt class=
+ "LITERAL"><a href="actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> near
+ the top, and click in the <span class="QUOTE">"Enabled"</span>
+ column, then <span class="QUOTE">"<span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Submit</span>"</span> just below the list.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Now, in the <tt class="LITERAL"><a href=
+ "actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</a></tt> actions section, click
+ the <span class="QUOTE">"<span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Add</span>"</span> button, and paste the URL the
+ browser got from <span class="QUOTE">"<span class=
+ "GUIMENUITEM">Copy Link Location</span>"</span>. Remove the <tt
+ class="LITERAL">http://</tt> at the beginning of the URL. Then,
+ click <span class="QUOTE">"<span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Submit</span>"</span> (or <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"<span class="GUIBUTTON">OK</span>"</span> if in a
+ pop-up window).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Now go back to the original page, and press <b class=
+ "KEYCAP">SHIFT-Reload</b> (or flush all browser caches). The
+ image should be gone now.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ This is a very crude and simple example. There might be good
+ reasons to use a wildcard pattern match to include potentially
+ similar images from the same site. For a more extensive explanation
+ of <span class="QUOTE">"patterns"</span>, and the entire actions
+ concept, see <a href="actions-file.html">the Actions section</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For advanced users who want to hand edit their config files, you
+ might want to now go to the <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#ACT-EXAMPLES">Actions Files Tutorial</a>. The
+ ideas explained therein also apply to the web-based editor.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are also various <a href=
+ "actions-file.html#FILTER">filters</a> that can be used for ad
+ blocking (filters are a special subset of actions). These fall into
+ the <span class="QUOTE">"advanced"</span> usage category, and are
+ explained in depth in later sections.
+ </p>
+ </div>
</div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="whatsnew.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="startup.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">What's New in this
- Release</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Starting Privoxy</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="whatsnew.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="startup.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ What's New in this Release
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Starting Privoxy
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>See Also</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy Copyright, License and History" href=
- "copyright.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Appendix" href="appendix.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="copyright.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="appendix.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="SEEALSO" id="SEEALSO">13. See Also</a></h1>
-
- <p>Other references and sites of interest to <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> users:</p>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/</a>, the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Home page.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/</a>, the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> FAQ.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/" target=
- "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/</a>, the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> developer manual.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ See Also
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Privoxy Copyright, License and History" href=
+ "copyright.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Appendix" href="appendix.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
- <td><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/" target=
- "_top">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/</a>, the Project
- Page for <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on <a href=
- "http://sourceforge.net" target="_top">SourceForge</a>.</td>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
</tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
<tr>
- <td><a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
- "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a>, the web-based user
- interface. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> must be running
- for this to work. Shortcut: <a href="http://p.p/" target=
- "_top">http://p.p/</a></td>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="copyright.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="appendix.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
</tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288"
- target=
- "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288</a>,
- to submit <span class="QUOTE">"misses"</span> and other
- configuration related suggestions to the developers.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="SEEALSO">13. See Also</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ Other references and sites of interest to <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> users:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/</a>, the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Home page.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/</a>, the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> FAQ.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/</a>, the <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> developer manual.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/" target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/</a>, the
+ Project Page for <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> on <a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net" target="_top">SourceForge</a>.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://config.privoxy.org/</a>, the web-based user
+ interface. <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> must be
+ running for this to work. Shortcut: <a href="http://p.p/"
+ target="_top">http://p.p/</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288"
+ target=
+ "_top">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288</a>,
+ to submit <span class="QUOTE">"misses"</span> and other
+ configuration related suggestions to the developers.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.squid-cache.org/" target=
+ "_top">http://www.squid-cache.org/</a>, a popular caching
+ proxy, which is often used together with <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href=
+ "http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/"
+ target=
+ "_top">http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/</a>,
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Polipo</span> is a caching proxy with
+ advanced features like pipelining, multiplexing and caching of
+ partial instances. In many setups it can be used as <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Squid</span> replacement.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target=
+ "_top">https://www.torproject.org/</a>, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Tor</span> can help anonymize web browsing, web
+ publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other
+ applications.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
- <td><a href="http://www.squid-cache.org/" target=
- "_top">http://www.squid-cache.org/</a>, a popular caching proxy,
- which is often used together with <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</td>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="copyright.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="appendix.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
</tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href=
- "http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/"
- target="_top">http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/</a>,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Polipo</span> is a caching proxy with
- advanced features like pipelining, multiplexing and caching of
- partial instances. In many setups it can be used as <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Squid</span> replacement.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <table border="0">
- <tbody>
<tr>
- <td><a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target=
- "_top">https://www.torproject.org/</a>, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Tor</span> can help anonymize web browsing, web
- publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other
- applications.</td>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Privoxy Copyright, License and History
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Appendix
+ </td>
</tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="copyright.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="appendix.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Privoxy Copyright, License
- and History</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Appendix</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Starting Privoxy</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Quickstart to Using Privoxy" href=
- "quickstart.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Privoxy Configuration" href="configuration.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "quickstart.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "configuration.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="STARTUP" id="STARTUP">5. Starting
- Privoxy</a></h1>
-
- <p>Before launching <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> for the
- first time, you will want to configure your browser(s) to use
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a HTTP and HTTPS (SSL)
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" target=
- "_top">proxy</a>. The default is 127.0.0.1 (or localhost) for the proxy
- address, and port 8118 (earlier versions used port 8000). This is the one
- configuration step <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">that must
- be done</i></span>!</p>
-
- <p>Please note that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can only
- proxy HTTP and HTTPS traffic. It will not work with FTP or other
- protocols.</p>
-
- <div class="FIGURE">
- <a name="AEN667" id="AEN667"></a>
-
- <p><b>Figure 2. Proxy Configuration Showing Mozilla/Netscape HTTP and
- HTTPS (SSL) Settings</b></p>
-
- <div class="MEDIAOBJECT">
- <p><img src="proxy_setup.jpg"></p>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <p>With <span class="APPLICATION">Firefox</span>, this is typically set
- under:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Tools</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Options</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Advanced</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Network</span> -><span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Connection</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Settings</span><br></p>
-
- <p>Or optionally on some platforms:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Preferences</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">General</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Connection Settings</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Manual Proxy Configuration</span><br></p>
-
- <p>With <span class="APPLICATION">Netscape</span> (and <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Mozilla</span>), this can be set under:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Preferences</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Advanced</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Proxies</span> -> <span class="GUIBUTTON">HTTP
- Proxy</span><br></p>
-
- <p>For <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Explorer v.5-7</span>:</p>
-
- <p class="LITERALLAYOUT"> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Tools</span> -> <span class="GUIBUTTON">Internet
- Options</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">Connections</span> -> <span class=
- "GUIBUTTON">LAN Settings</span></p>
-
- <p>Then, check <span class="QUOTE">"Use Proxy"</span> and fill in the
- appropriate info (Address: 127.0.0.1, Port: 8118). Include HTTPS (SSL),
- if you want HTTPS proxy support too (sometimes labeled <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Secure"</span>). Make sure any checkboxes like <span class=
- "QUOTE">"Use the same proxy server for all protocols"</span> is
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">UNCHECKED</i></span>. You want
- only HTTP and HTTPS (SSL)!</p>
-
- <div class="FIGURE">
- <a name="AEN712" id="AEN712"></a>
-
- <p><b>Figure 3. Proxy Configuration Showing Internet Explorer HTTP and
- HTTPS (Secure) Settings</b></p>
-
- <div class="MEDIAOBJECT">
- <p><img src="proxy2.jpg"></p>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <p>After doing this, flush your browser's disk and memory caches to force
- a re-reading of all pages and to get rid of any ads that may be cached.
- Remove any <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
- "_top">cookies</a>, if you want <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- to manage that. You are now ready to start enjoying the benefits of using
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>!</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself is typically started
- by specifying the main configuration file to be used on the command line.
- If no configuration file is specified on the command line, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will look for a file named <tt class=
- "FILENAME">config</tt> in the current directory. Except on Win32 where it
- will try <tt class="FILENAME">config.txt</tt>.</p>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="START-DEBIAN" id="START-DEBIAN">5.1.
- Debian</a></h2>
-
- <p>We use a script. Note that Debian typically starts <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> upon booting per default. It will use the
- file <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/privoxy/config</tt> as its main
- configuration file.</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Starting Privoxy
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Quickstart to Using Privoxy" href=
+ "quickstart.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Privoxy Configuration" href="configuration.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- # /etc/init.d/privoxy start
-</pre>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="quickstart.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="configuration.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
</div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="STARTUP">5. Starting Privoxy</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ Before launching <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> for the
+ first time, you will want to configure your browser(s) to use <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" target="_top">proxy</a>.
+ The default is 127.0.0.1 (or localhost) for the proxy address, and
+ port 8118 (earlier versions used port 8000). This is the one
+ configuration step <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">that
+ must be done</i></span>!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Please note that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can only
+ proxy HTTP and HTTPS traffic. It will not work with FTP or other
+ protocols.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <div class="FIGURE">
+ <a name="AEN667"></a>
+ <p>
+ <b>Figure 2. Proxy Configuration Showing Mozilla/Netscape HTTP and
+ HTTPS (SSL) Settings</b>
+ </p>
+ <div class="MEDIAOBJECT">
+ <p>
+ <img src="proxy_setup.jpg">
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="START-FREEBSD" id="START-FREEBSD">5.2.
- FreeBSD and ElectroBSD</a></h2>
-
- <p>To start <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> upon booting, add
- "privoxy_enable='YES'" to <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/rc.conf</tt>.
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will use <tt class=
- "FILENAME">/usr/local/etc/privoxy/config</tt> as its main configuration
- file.</p>
-
- <p>If you installed <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> into a
- jail, the paths above are relative to the jail root.</p>
-
- <p>To start <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> manually, run:</p>
+ <p>
+ With <span class="APPLICATION">Firefox</span>, this is typically set
+ under:
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <span class="GUIBUTTON">Tools</span> -> <span
+ class="GUIBUTTON">Options</span> -> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Advanced</span> -> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Network</span> -><span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Connection</span> -> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Settings</span><br>
+
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Or optionally on some platforms:
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> -> <span
+ class="GUIBUTTON">Preferences</span> -> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">General</span> -> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Connection Settings</span> -> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Manual Proxy Configuration</span><br>
+
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ With <span class="APPLICATION">Netscape</span> (and <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Mozilla</span>), this can be set under:
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <span class="GUIBUTTON">Edit</span> -> <span
+ class="GUIBUTTON">Preferences</span> -> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Advanced</span> -> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">Proxies</span> -> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">HTTP Proxy</span><br>
+
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Explorer v.5-7</span>:
+ </p>
+ <p class="LITERALLAYOUT">
+ <span class="GUIBUTTON">Tools</span> -> <span
+ class="GUIBUTTON">Internet Options</span> -> <span
+ class="GUIBUTTON">Connections</span> -> <span class=
+ "GUIBUTTON">LAN Settings</span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Then, check <span class="QUOTE">"Use Proxy"</span> and fill in the
+ appropriate info (Address: 127.0.0.1, Port: 8118). Include HTTPS
+ (SSL), if you want HTTPS proxy support too (sometimes labeled <span
+ class="QUOTE">"Secure"</span>). Make sure any checkboxes like <span
+ class="QUOTE">"Use the same proxy server for all protocols"</span> is
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">UNCHECKED</i></span>. You
+ want only HTTP and HTTPS (SSL)!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <div class="FIGURE">
+ <a name="AEN712"></a>
+ <p>
+ <b>Figure 3. Proxy Configuration Showing Internet Explorer HTTP and
+ HTTPS (Secure) Settings</b>
+ </p>
+ <div class="MEDIAOBJECT">
+ <p>
+ <img src="proxy2.jpg">
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <p>
+ After doing this, flush your browser's disk and memory caches to
+ force a re-reading of all pages and to get rid of any ads that may be
+ cached. Remove any <a href=
+ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie" target=
+ "_top">cookies</a>, if you want <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to manage that. You are now ready to
+ start enjoying the benefits of using <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself is typically started
+ by specifying the main configuration file to be used on the command
+ line. If no configuration file is specified on the command line,
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will look for a file named
+ <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> in the current directory. Except on
+ Win32 where it will try <tt class="FILENAME">config.txt</tt>.
+ </p>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="START-DEBIAN">5.1. Debian</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ We use a script. Note that Debian typically starts <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> upon booting per default. It will use
+ the file <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/privoxy/config</tt> as its main
+ configuration file.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ # /etc/init.d/privoxy start
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="START-FREEBSD">5.2. FreeBSD and ElectroBSD</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ To start <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> upon booting, add
+ "privoxy_enable='YES'" to <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/rc.conf</tt>.
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will use <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">/usr/local/etc/privoxy/config</tt> as its main
+ configuration file.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you installed <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> into a
+ jail, the paths above are relative to the jail root.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To start <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> manually, run:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
# service privoxy onestart
</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="START-WINDOWS">5.3. Windows</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Click on the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Icon to start
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. If no configuration file
+ is specified on the command line, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will look for a file named <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">config.txt</tt>. Note that Windows will automatically
+ start <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> when the system
+ starts if you chose that option when installing.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can run with full Windows
+ service functionality. On Windows only, the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> program has two new command line
+ arguments to install and uninstall <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a service. See the <a href=
+ "installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">Windows Installation
+ instructions</a> for details.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="START-UNICES">5.4. Generic instructions for Unix derivates
+ (Solaris, NetBSD, HP-UX etc.)</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ Example Unix startup command:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+ # /usr/sbin/privoxy --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ Note that if you installed <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ through a package manager, the package will probably contain a
+ platform-specific script or configuration file to start <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> upon boot.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="START-OS2">5.5. OS/2</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ During installation, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is
+ configured to start automatically when the system restarts. You can
+ start it manually by double-clicking on the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> icon in the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> folder.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="START-MACOSX">5.6. Mac OS X</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ The privoxy service will automatically start after a successful
+ installation (and thereafter every time your computer starts up)
+ however you will need to configure your web browser(s) to use it.
+ To do so, configure them to use a proxy for HTTP and HTTPS at the
+ address 127.0.0.1:8118.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To prevent the privoxy service from automatically starting when
+ your computer starts up, remove or rename the file <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ijbswa.privoxy.plist</tt> (on
+ OS X 10.5 and higher) or the folder named <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/Library/StartupItems/Privoxy</tt> (on OS X 10.4
+ 'Tiger').
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To manually start or stop the privoxy service, use the scripts
+ startPrivoxy.sh and stopPrivoxy.sh supplied in
+ /Applications/Privoxy. They must be run from an administrator
+ account, using sudo.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="CMDOPTIONS">5.7. Command Line Options</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> may be invoked with the
+ following command-line options:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">--config-test</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Exit after loading the configuration files before binding to
+ the listen address. The exit code signals whether or not the
+ configuration files have been successfully loaded.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If the exit code is 1, at least one of the configuration files
+ is invalid, if it is 0, all the configuration files have been
+ successfully loaded (but may still contain errors that can
+ currently only be detected at run time).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This option doesn't affect the log setting, combination with
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">--no-daemon</i></span> is recommended if a
+ configured log file shouldn't be used.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--version</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Print version info and exit. Unix only.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--help</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Print short usage info and exit. Unix only.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">--no-daemon</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Don't become a daemon, i.e. don't fork and become process group
+ leader, and don't detach from controlling tty. Unix only.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--pidfile
+ FILE</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ On startup, write the process ID to <span class="emphasis"><i
+ class="EMPHASIS">FILE</i></span>. Delete the <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">FILE</i></span> on exit. Failure
+ to create or delete the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">FILE</i></span> is non-fatal. If no <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">FILE</i></span> option is given,
+ no PID file will be used. Unix only.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--user
+ USER[.GROUP]</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ After (optionally) writing the PID file, assume the user ID of
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">USER</i></span>, and
+ if included the GID of GROUP. Exit if the privileges are not
+ sufficient to do so. Unix only.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--chroot</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Before changing to the user ID given in the <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--user</i></span> option, chroot
+ to that user's home directory, i.e. make the kernel pretend to
+ the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> process that the
+ directory tree starts there. If set up carefully, this can
+ limit the impact of possible vulnerabilities in <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to the files contained in that
+ hierarchy. Unix only.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Specifies a hostname (for example www.privoxy.org) to look up
+ before doing a chroot. On some systems, initializing the
+ resolver library involves reading config files from /etc and/or
+ loading additional shared libraries from /lib. On these
+ systems, doing a hostname lookup before the chroot reduces the
+ number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For fastest startup speed, a good value is a hostname that is
+ not in /etc/hosts but that your local name server (listed in
+ /etc/resolv.conf) can resolve without recursion (that is,
+ without having to ask any other name servers). The hostname
+ need not exist, but if it doesn't, an error message (which can
+ be ignored) will be output.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">configfile</i></span>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If no <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">configfile</i></span> is included on the command
+ line, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will look for a
+ file named <span class="QUOTE">"config"</span> in the current
+ directory (except on Win32 where it will look for <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"config.txt"</span> instead). Specify full path to
+ avoid confusion. If no config file is found, <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will fail to start.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ On <span class="APPLICATION">MS Windows</span> only there are two
+ additional command-line options to allow <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to install and run as a <span class=
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">service</i></span>. See the <a href=
+ "installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">Window Installation
+ section</a> for details.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="quickstart.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="configuration.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
</td>
</tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="START-WINDOWS" id="START-WINDOWS">5.3.
- Windows</a></h2>
-
- <p>Click on the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> Icon to start
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. If no configuration file is
- specified on the command line, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- will look for a file named <tt class="FILENAME">config.txt</tt>. Note
- that Windows will automatically start <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> when the system starts if you chose that
- option when installing.</p>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can run with full Windows
- service functionality. On Windows only, the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> program has two new command line arguments
- to install and uninstall <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a
- service. See the <a href=
- "installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">Windows Installation
- instructions</a> for details.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="START-UNICES" id="START-UNICES">5.4. Generic
- instructions for Unix derivates (Solaris, NetBSD, HP-UX etc.)</a></h2>
-
- <p>Example Unix startup command:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- # /usr/sbin/privoxy --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config
-</pre>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Quickstart to Using Privoxy
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Privoxy Configuration
</td>
</tr>
</table>
-
- <p>Note that if you installed <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- through a package manager, the package will probably contain a
- platform-specific script or configuration file to start <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> upon boot.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="START-OS2" id="START-OS2">5.5. OS/2</a></h2>
-
- <p>During installation, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is
- configured to start automatically when the system restarts. You can
- start it manually by double-clicking on the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> icon in the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> folder.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="START-MACOSX" id="START-MACOSX">5.6. Mac OS
- X</a></h2>
-
- <p>The privoxy service will automatically start after a successful
- installation (and thereafter every time your computer starts up)
- however you will need to configure your web browser(s) to use it. To do
- so, configure them to use a proxy for HTTP and HTTPS at the address
- 127.0.0.1:8118.</p>
-
- <p>To prevent the privoxy service from automatically starting when your
- computer starts up, remove or rename the file <tt class=
- "LITERAL">/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ijbswa.privoxy.plist</tt> (on OS X
- 10.5 and higher) or the folder named <tt class=
- "LITERAL">/Library/StartupItems/Privoxy</tt> (on OS X 10.4
- 'Tiger').</p>
-
- <p>To manually start or stop the privoxy service, use the scripts
- startPrivoxy.sh and stopPrivoxy.sh supplied in /Applications/Privoxy.
- They must be run from an administrator account, using sudo.</p>
</div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="CMDOPTIONS" id="CMDOPTIONS">5.7. Command
- Line Options</a></h2>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> may be invoked with the
- following command-line options:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">--config-test</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Exit after loading the configuration files before binding to the
- listen address. The exit code signals whether or not the
- configuration files have been successfully loaded.</p>
-
- <p>If the exit code is 1, at least one of the configuration files
- is invalid, if it is 0, all the configuration files have been
- successfully loaded (but may still contain errors that can
- currently only be detected at run time).</p>
-
- <p>This option doesn't affect the log setting, combination with
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--no-daemon</i></span>
- is recommended if a configured log file shouldn't be used.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">--version</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Print version info and exit. Unix only.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--help</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Print short usage info and exit. Unix only.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">--no-daemon</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Don't become a daemon, i.e. don't fork and become process group
- leader, and don't detach from controlling tty. Unix only.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--pidfile
- FILE</i></span></p>
-
- <p>On startup, write the process ID to <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">FILE</i></span>. Delete the
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">FILE</i></span> on exit.
- Failure to create or delete the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">FILE</i></span> is non-fatal. If no <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">FILE</i></span> option is given, no
- PID file will be used. Unix only.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--user
- USER[.GROUP]</i></span></p>
-
- <p>After (optionally) writing the PID file, assume the user ID of
- <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">USER</i></span>, and if
- included the GID of GROUP. Exit if the privileges are not
- sufficient to do so. Unix only.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">--chroot</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Before changing to the user ID given in the <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--user</i></span> option, chroot to
- that user's home directory, i.e. make the kernel pretend to the
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> process that the directory
- tree starts there. If set up carefully, this can limit the impact
- of possible vulnerabilities in <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to the files contained in that
- hierarchy. Unix only.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">--pre-chroot-nslookup
- hostname</i></span></p>
-
- <p>Specifies a hostname (for example www.privoxy.org) to look up
- before doing a chroot. On some systems, initializing the resolver
- library involves reading config files from /etc and/or loading
- additional shared libraries from /lib. On these systems, doing a
- hostname lookup before the chroot reduces the number of files that
- must be copied into the chroot tree.</p>
-
- <p>For fastest startup speed, a good value is a hostname that is
- not in /etc/hosts but that your local name server (listed in
- /etc/resolv.conf) can resolve without recursion (that is, without
- having to ask any other name servers). The hostname need not exist,
- but if it doesn't, an error message (which can be ignored) will be
- output.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p><span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">configfile</i></span></p>
-
- <p>If no <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">configfile</i></span> is included on the command line,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will look for a file named
- <span class="QUOTE">"config"</span> in the current directory
- (except on Win32 where it will look for <span class=
- "QUOTE">"config.txt"</span> instead). Specify full path to avoid
- confusion. If no config file is found, <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> will fail to start.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>On <span class="APPLICATION">MS Windows</span> only there are two
- additional command-line options to allow <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to install and run as a <span class=
- "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">service</i></span>. See the <a href=
- "installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">Window Installation
- section</a> for details.</p>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="quickstart.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href=
- "configuration.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Quickstart to Using
- Privoxy</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Privoxy Configuration</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>Privoxy's Template Files</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Filter Files" href="filter-file.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title=
- "Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests" href=
- "contact.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "filter-file.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="contact.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="TEMPLATES" id="TEMPLATES">10. Privoxy's
- Template Files</a></h1>
-
- <p>All <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> built-in pages, i.e.
- error pages such as the <a href="http://show-the-404-error.page" target=
- "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"404 - No Such Domain"</span> error page</a>,
- the <a href="http://ads.bannerserver.example.com/nasty-ads/sponsor.html"
- target="_top"><span class="QUOTE">"BLOCKED"</span> page</a> and all pages
- of its <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target="_top">web-based user
- interface</a>, are generated from <span class="emphasis"><i class=
- "EMPHASIS">templates</i></span>. (<span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> must be running for the above links to work
- as intended.)</p>
-
- <p>These templates are stored in a subdirectory of the <a href=
- "config.html#CONFDIR">configuration directory</a> called <tt class=
- "FILENAME">templates</tt>. On Unixish platforms, this is typically
- <a href="file:///etc/privoxy/templates/" target="_top"><tt class=
- "FILENAME">/etc/privoxy/templates/</tt></a>.</p>
-
- <p>The templates are basically normal HTML files, but with place-holders
- (called symbols or exports), which <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> fills at run time. It is possible to edit
- the templates with a normal text editor, should you want to customize
- them. (<span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Not recommended for the
- casual user</i></span>). Should you create your own custom templates, you
- should use the <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> setting <a href=
- "config.html#TEMPLDIR">templdir</a> to specify an alternate location, so
- your templates do not get overwritten during upgrades.</p>
-
- <p>Note that just like in configuration files, lines starting with
- <tt class="LITERAL">#</tt> are ignored when the templates are filled
- in.</p>
-
- <p>The place-holders are of the form <tt class="LITERAL">@name@</tt>, and
- you will find a list of available symbols, which vary from template to
- template, in the comments at the start of each file. Note that these
- comments are not always accurate, and that it's probably best to look at
- the existing HTML code to find out which symbols are supported and what
- they are filled in with.</p>
-
- <p>A special application of this substitution mechanism is to make whole
- blocks of HTML code disappear when a specific symbol is set. We use this
- for many purposes, one of them being to include the beta warning in all
- our user interface (CGI) pages when <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is in an alpha or beta development
- stage:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ Privoxy's Template Files
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Filter Files" href="filter-file.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title=
+ "Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests" href=
+ "contact.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="filter-file.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="contact.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="TEMPLATES">10. Privoxy's Template Files</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ All <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> built-in pages, i.e.
+ error pages such as the <a href="http://show-the-404-error.page"
+ target="_top"><span class="QUOTE">"404 - No Such Domain"</span> error
+ page</a>, the <a href=
+ "http://ads.bannerserver.example.com/nasty-ads/sponsor.html" target=
+ "_top"><span class="QUOTE">"BLOCKED"</span> page</a> and all pages of
+ its <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target="_top">web-based user
+ interface</a>, are generated from <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">templates</i></span>. (<span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> must be running for the above links to
+ work as intended.)
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ These templates are stored in a subdirectory of the <a href=
+ "config.html#CONFDIR">configuration directory</a> called <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">templates</tt>. On Unixish platforms, this is typically <a
+ href="file:///etc/privoxy/templates/" target="_top"><tt class=
+ "FILENAME">/etc/privoxy/templates/</tt></a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The templates are basically normal HTML files, but with place-holders
+ (called symbols or exports), which <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> fills at run time. It is possible to
+ edit the templates with a normal text editor, should you want to
+ customize them. (<span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Not
+ recommended for the casual user</i></span>). Should you create your
+ own custom templates, you should use the <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">config</tt> setting <a href=
+ "config.html#TEMPLDIR">templdir</a> to specify an alternate location,
+ so your templates do not get overwritten during upgrades.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that just like in configuration files, lines starting with <tt
+ class="LITERAL">#</tt> are ignored when the templates are filled in.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The place-holders are of the form <tt class="LITERAL">@name@</tt>,
+ and you will find a list of available symbols, which vary from
+ template to template, in the comments at the start of each file. Note
+ that these comments are not always accurate, and that it's probably
+ best to look at the existing HTML code to find out which symbols are
+ supported and what they are filled in with.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A special application of this substitution mechanism is to make whole
+ blocks of HTML code disappear when a specific symbol is set. We use
+ this for many purposes, one of them being to include the beta warning
+ in all our user interface (CGI) pages when <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is in an alpha or beta development
+ stage:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
<!-- @if-unstable-start -->
... beta warning HTML code goes here ...
<!-- if-unstable-end@ -->
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>If the "unstable" symbol is set, everything in between and including
- <tt class="LITERAL">@if-unstable-start</tt> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">if-unstable-end@</tt> will disappear, leaving nothing but an
- empty comment:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ If the "unstable" symbol is set, everything in between and including
+ <tt class="LITERAL">@if-unstable-start</tt> and <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">if-unstable-end@</tt> will disappear, leaving nothing but
+ an empty comment:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
<!-- -->
</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>There's also an if-then-else construct and an <tt class=
- "LITERAL">#include</tt> mechanism, but you'll sure find out if you are
- inclined to edit the templates ;-)</p>
-
- <p>All templates refer to a style located at <a href=
- "http://config.privoxy.org/send-stylesheet" target="_top"><tt class=
- "LITERAL">http://config.privoxy.org/send-stylesheet</tt></a>. This is, of
- course, locally served by <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and
- the source for it can be found and edited in the <tt class=
- "FILENAME">cgi-style.css</tt> template.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="filter-file.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="contact.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Filter Files</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Contacting the Developers,
- Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>
+ There's also an if-then-else construct and an <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">#include</tt> mechanism, but you'll sure find out if you
+ are inclined to edit the templates ;-)
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ All templates refer to a style located at <a href=
+ "http://config.privoxy.org/send-stylesheet" target="_top"><tt class=
+ "LITERAL">http://config.privoxy.org/send-stylesheet</tt></a>. This
+ is, of course, locally served by <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and the source for it can be found and
+ edited in the <tt class="FILENAME">cgi-style.css</tt> template.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="filter-file.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="contact.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Filter Files
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
-"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
+Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
-<head>
- <title>What's New in this Release</title>
- <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
- "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
- <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
- <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Installation" href="installation.html">
- <link rel="NEXT" title="Quickstart to Using Privoxy" href=
- "quickstart.html">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
- <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
-</head>
-
-<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
-"#840084" alink="#0000FF">
- <div class="NAVHEADER">
- <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th colspan="3" align="center">Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "installation.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom"></td>
-
- <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href=
- "quickstart.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="WHATSNEW" id="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this
- Release</a></h1>
-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.25</span> beta introduces
- client-specific tags and includes a couple of minor improvements. It will
- be followed by a stable release in the near future.</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Bug fixes:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
- Previously new requests on reused connections inherited the
- toggle state from the previous request even though the toggle
- state could have changed. Reported by Robert Klemme.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static pcre
- code. These bugs are not considered security issues as the input
- is trusted. Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>General improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
- admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
- clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface. They
- are useful in multi-user setups where admins may want to allow
- users to disable certain actions and filters for themselves
- without affecting others. In single-user setups they are useful
- to allow more fine-grained toggling. For example to disable
- request blocking while still crunching cookies, or to disable
- experimental filters only. This is an experimental feature, the
- syntax and behaviour may change in future versions. Sponsored by
- Robert Klemme.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address
- variable which contains the address the request came in on. For
- external filters the variable is called $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS.
- Original patch contributed by pursievro.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Include the listen-address in the log message when logging new
- requests. Patch contributed by pursievro.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal
- errors.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before
- 1970 and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly. This is
- mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could also come
- handy when dealing with time-related support requests.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
- be unique now.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is
- logged as well.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced (CID
- #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Action file improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download
- resumption and Windows updates work with the default
- configuration.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/". Reported by ThTomate in #932.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Documentation improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate. As the
- archives have not been migrated, continue to mention the archives
- at SF in the contacting section for now.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
- running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>A bunch of links were converted to https://.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious that
- Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not just the
- homepage) is available as onion service.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage
- further by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also'
- section of the user manual. The section contains mostly links
- that are directly reachable from the homepage already and the
- rest is not significant enough to get a link from the
- homepage.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header and use
- a complete section to make copy and pasting more convenient. Add
- a comment to make it obvious that adding the header is not
- recommended for obvious reasons. Using the DNT header as example
- was suggested by Leo Wzukw.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Streamline the support-and-service template Instead of linking
- to the various support trackers (whose URLs hopefully change
- soon), link to the contact section of the user manual to increase
- the chances that users actually read it.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected to
- reach a local Privoxy installation.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently
- can't be checked automatically.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and
- ElectroBSD.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been
- working for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and HP-UX
- 11.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the
- last release of Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building Privoxy on
- Windows.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Various typos have been fixed.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Infrastructure improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and can be
- reached through https now.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated, you can
- subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is work in
- progress (TODO list item #53).</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Build system improvements:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
- with the intent to change the maximum number of client
- connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
- Sponsored by Robert Klemme.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than
- current.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git
- repository.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Include tools in the generic distribution.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs to get
- reproducible results.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the
- gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but a
- binary package. While at it, use a variable for the name to
- reduce the chances that the various references get out of sync
- and fix the gen-upload target which was looking in the wrong
- directory.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add regression-tests.action to the files that are
- distributed.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has
- been fixed.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented
- out years ago.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
- change the default level by a given value. This directive affects
- all tests located after it until the end of the file or a another
- "Default level offset" directive is reached. The purpose of this
- directive is to make it more convenient to skip similar tests in
- a given file without having to remove or disable the tests
- completely.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T instead of
- FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection to the time_t
- size.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix indentation in perldoc examples.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action
- file.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Bump version to 0.7.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https:// is used
- for the website.</p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="UPGRADERSNOTE" id="UPGRADERSNOTE">3.1. Note
- to Upgraders</a></h2>
-
- <p>A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier
- versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>:</p>
-
+ <head>
+ <title>
+ What's New in this Release
+ </title>
+ <meta name="GENERATOR" content=
+ "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79">
+ <link rel="HOME" title="Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual" href="index.html">
+ <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Installation" href="installation.html">
+ <link rel="NEXT" title="Quickstart to Using Privoxy" href=
+ "quickstart.html">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../p_doc.css">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="p_doc.css">
+ </head>
+ <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#EEEEEE" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink=
+ "#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="NAVHEADER">
+ <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">
+ Privoxy 3.0.25 User Manual
+ </th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="installation.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">
+ </td>
+ <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom">
+ <a href="quickstart.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT1">
+ <h1 class="SECT1">
+ <a name="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this Release</a>
+ </h1>
+ <p>
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.25</span> beta introduces
+ client-specific tags and includes a couple of minor improvements. It
+ will be followed by a stable release in the near future.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>The recommended way to upgrade <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to backup your old configuration
- files, install the new ones, verify that <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is working correctly and finally merge
- back your changes using <span class="APPLICATION">diff</span> and
- maybe <span class="APPLICATION">patch</span>.</p>
-
- <p>There are a number of new features in each <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release and most of them have to be
- explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration
- files obviously don't do that and due to syntax changes using old
- configuration files with a new <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't always possible anyway.</p>
+ <p>
+ Bug fixes:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Always use the current toggle state for new requests.
+ Previously new requests on reused connections inherited the
+ toggle state from the previous request even though the toggle
+ state could have changed. Reported by Robert Klemme.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Fixed two buffer-overflows in the (deprecated) static pcre
+ code. These bugs are not considered security issues as the
+ input is trusted. Found with afl-fuzz and ASAN.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely,
- including configuration files, therefore you should really save any
- important configuration files!</p>
+ <p>
+ General improvements:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Added support for client-specific tags which allow Privoxy
+ admins to pre-define tags that are set for all requests from
+ clients that previously opted in through the CGI interface.
+ They are useful in multi-user setups where admins may want to
+ allow users to disable certain actions and filters for
+ themselves without affecting others. In single-user setups
+ they are useful to allow more fine-grained toggling. For
+ example to disable request blocking while still crunching
+ cookies, or to disable experimental filters only. This is an
+ experimental feature, the syntax and behaviour may change in
+ future versions. Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Dynamic filters and taggers now support a $listen-address
+ variable which contains the address the request came in on.
+ For external filters the variable is called
+ $PRIVOXY_LISTEN_ADDRESS. Original patch contributed by
+ pursievro.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Add client-header-tagger 'listen-address'.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Include the listen-address in the log message when logging
+ new requests. Patch contributed by pursievro.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Turn invalid max-client-connections values into fatal errors.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The show-status page now shows whether or not dates before
+ 1970 and after 2038 are expected to be handled properly. This
+ is mainly useful for Privoxy-Regression-Test but could also
+ come handy when dealing with time-related support requests.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ On Mac OS X the thread id in log messages are more likely to
+ be unique now.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ When complaining about missing filters, the filter type is
+ logged as well.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ A couple of harmless coverity warnings were silenced (CID
+ #161202, CID #161203, CID #161211).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing
- configuration files, thinking you will want to do that
- yourself.</p>
+ <p>
+ Action file improvements:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Filtering is disabled for Range requests to let download
+ resumption and Windows updates work with the default
+ configuration.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Unblock ".ardmediathek.de/". Reported by ThTomate in #932.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now.
- You can change that in the <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug
- section</a> of the configuration file. You may also want to enable
- more verbose logging until you verified that the new <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version is working as expected.</p>
+ <p>
+ Documentation improvements:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Add FAQ entry for crashes caused by memory limits.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Remove obsolete FAQ entry about a bug in PHP 4.2.3.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Mention the new mailing lists were appropriate. As the
+ archives have not been migrated, continue to mention the
+ archives at SF in the contacting section for now.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Note that the templates should be adjusted if Privoxy is
+ running as intercepting proxy without getting all requests.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ A bunch of links were converted to https://.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Rephrase onion service paragraph to make it more obvious that
+ Tor is involved and that the whole website (and not just the
+ homepage) is available as onion service.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Streamline the "More information" section on the homepage
+ further by additionally ditching the link to the 'See also'
+ section of the user manual. The section contains mostly links
+ that are directly reachable from the homepage already and the
+ rest is not significant enough to get a link from the
+ homepage.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Change the add-header{} example to set the DNT header and use
+ a complete section to make copy and pasting more convenient.
+ Add a comment to make it obvious that adding the header is
+ not recommended for obvious reasons. Using the DNT header as
+ example was suggested by Leo Wzukw.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Streamline the support-and-service template Instead of
+ linking to the various support trackers (whose URLs hopefully
+ change soon), link to the contact section of the user manual
+ to increase the chances that users actually read it.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Add a FAQ entry for tainted sockets.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ More sections in the documentation have stable URLs now.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ FAQ: Explain why 'ping config.privoxy.org' is not expected to
+ reach a local Privoxy installation.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Note that donations done through Zwiebelfreunde e.V.
+ currently can't be checked automatically.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Updated section regarding starting Privoxy under OS X.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Use dedicated start instructions for FreeBSD and ElectroBSD.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Removed release instructions for AIX. They haven't been
+ working for years and unsurprisingly nobody seems to care.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Removed obsolete reference to the solaris-dist target.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Updated the release instructions for FreeBSD.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Removed unfinished release instructions for Amiga OS and
+ HP-UX 11.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Added a pointer to the Cygwin Time Machine for getting the
+ last release of Cygwin version 1.5 to use for building
+ Privoxy on Windows.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Various typos have been fixed.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Infrastructure improvements:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The website is no longer hosted at SourceForge and can be
+ reached through https now.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The mailing lists at SourceForge have been deprecated, you
+ can subscribe to the new ones at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Migrating the remaining services from SourceForge is work in
+ progress (TODO list item #53).
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Build system improvements:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Add configure argument to optimistically redefine FD_SETSIZE
+ with the intent to change the maximum number of client
+ connections Privoxy can handle. Only works with some libcs.
+ Sponsored by Robert Klemme.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Let the tarball-dist target skip files in ".git".
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Let the tarball-dist target work in cwds other than current.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Make the 'clean' target faster when run from a git
+ repository.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Include tools in the generic distribution.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Let the gen-dist target work in cwds other than current.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Sort find output that is used for distribution tarballs to
+ get reproducible results.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Don't add '-src' to the name of the tar ball generated by the
+ gen-dist target. The package isn't a source distribution but
+ a binary package. While at it, use a variable for the name to
+ reduce the chances that the various references get out of
+ sync and fix the gen-upload target which was looking in the
+ wrong directory.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Add regression-tests.action to the files that are
+ distributed.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The gen-dist target which was broken since 2002 (r1.92) has
+ been fixed.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Remove genclspec.sh which has been obsolete since 2009.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Remove obsolete reference to Redhat spec file.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Remove the obsolete announce target which has been commented
+ out years ago.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Let rsync skip files if the checksums match.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Three other config file settings are now off by default:
- <a href="config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>,
- <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>,
- and <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>. If you
- use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them, and be
- aware of the security issues involved.</p>
+ <p>
+ Privoxy-Regression-Test:
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Add a "Default level offset" directive which can be used to
+ change the default level by a given value. This directive
+ affects all tests located after it until the end of the file
+ or a another "Default level offset" directive is reached. The
+ purpose of this directive is to make it more convenient to
+ skip similar tests in a given file without having to remove
+ or disable the tests completely.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Let test level 17 depend on FEATURE_64_BIT_TIME_T instead of
+ FEATURE_PTHREAD which has no direct connection to the time_t
+ size.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Fix indentation in perldoc examples.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Don't overlook directives in the first line of the action
+ file.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Bump version to 0.7.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Fix detection of the Privoxy version now that https:// is
+ used for the website.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
</li>
</ul>
- </div>
- </div>
-
- <div class="NAVFOOTER">
- <hr align="left" width="100%">
-
- <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
- cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="installation.html"
- accesskey="P">Prev</a></td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html"
- accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
-
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="quickstart.html"
- accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Installation</td>
-
- <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"> </td>
- <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Quickstart to Using
- Privoxy</td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-</body>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2">
+ <a name="UPGRADERSNOTE">3.1. Note to Upgraders</a>
+ </h2>
+ <p>
+ A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier
+ versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>:
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ The recommended way to upgrade <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to backup your old
+ configuration files, install the new ones, verify that <span
+ class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is working correctly and
+ finally merge back your changes using <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">diff</span> and maybe <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">patch</span>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are a number of new features in each <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release and most of them have to
+ be explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old
+ configuration files obviously don't do that and due to syntax
+ changes using old configuration files with a new <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't always possible anyway.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely,
+ including configuration files, therefore you should really save
+ any important configuration files!
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing
+ configuration files, thinking you will want to do that
+ yourself.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now.
+ You can change that in the <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug
+ section</a> of the configuration file. You may also want to
+ enable more verbose logging until you verified that the new
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version is working as
+ expected.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ Three other config file settings are now off by default: <a
+ href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>, <a
+ href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>,
+ and <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>. If
+ you use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them,
+ and be aware of the security issues involved.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="NAVFOOTER">
+ <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
+ <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0"
+ cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ <a href="installation.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+ <a href="index.html" accesskey="H">Home</a>
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ <a href="quickstart.html" accesskey="N">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">
+ Installation
+ </td>
+ <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top">
+
+ </td>
+ <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">
+ Quickstart to Using Privoxy
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
</html>
+
projects / privoxy.git / commitdiff
