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Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
<artheader>
<title>Privoxy User Manual</title>
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+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.62 2002/03/30 04:15:53 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
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<author>
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<abstract>
+<![%dummy;[
+ <para>
+ <comment>
+ This is here to keep vim syntax file from breaking :/
+ If I knew enough to fix it, I would.
+ PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE! HB: hal@foobox.net
+ </comment>
+ </para>
+]]>
+
<para>
The user manual gives users information on how to install, configure and use
<application>Privoxy</application>. <application>Privoxy</application> is a
</para>
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- The section is in both user-manual and faq. Please keep in sync.
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-<para>
- <itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Integrated browser based configuration and control utility (<ulink
- url="http://p.p">http://p.p</ulink>). Browser-based tracing of rule
- and filter effects.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-<!--
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Modularized configuration that will allow for system wide settings, and
- individual user settings. (not implemented yet, probably a 3.1 feature)
- </para>
- </listitem>
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- <listitem>
- <para>
- Blocking of annoying pop-up browser windows.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- HTTP/1.1 compliant (most, but not all 1.1 features are supported).
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration files, and
- generally a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax over
- previous versions.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- GIF de-animation.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Web page content filtering (removes banners based on size,
- invisible <quote>web-bugs</quote>, JavaScript, pop-ups, status bar abuse,
- etc.)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
-
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads).
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- User-customizable HTML templates (e.g. 404 error page).
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Improved cookie management features (e.g. session based cookies).
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Improved signal handling, and a true daemon mode (Unix).
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Builds from source on most UNIX-like systems. Packages available for: Linux
- (RedHat, SuSE, or Debian), Windows, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX, OS/2, HP-UX 11 and AmigaOS.
-
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- In addition, the configuration is much more powerful and versatile over-all.
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
-</para>
+&newfeatures;
</sect2>
<listitem><para>Submit bugs only thru our <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=111118">Sourceforge bug
forum</ulink>.
-Make sure that the bug has not already been submitted. Please try to
-verify that it is a <application>Privoxy</application> bug, and not
-a browser or site bug first. If you are using your own custom configuration,
-please try the stock configs to see if the problem is a configuration
-related bug. And if not using the latest development snapshot, please
-try the latest one. Or even better, CVS sources.</para>
-</listitem>
-
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Make sure that the bug has not already been submitted. Please try to
+ verify that it is a <application>Privoxy</application> bug, and not a
+ browser or site bug first. If you are using your own custom configuration,
+ please try the stock configs to see if the problem is a configuration
+ related bug. And if not using the latest development snapshot, please try
+ the latest one. Or even better, CVS sources. Please be sure to include the
+ <application>Privoxy</application>/<application>Junkbuster</application>
+ version, platform, browser, any pertinent log data, any other relevant
+ details (please be specific) and, if possible, some way to reproduce the
+ bug.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem><para>Submit feature requests only thru our <ulink
url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=361118&group_id=11118&func=browse">Sourceforge feature request forum</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<para>
The way <application>Privoxy</application> applies <quote>actions</quote>
- 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 <emphasis>see</emphasis>
- just what <application>Privoxy</application> is doing. Especially,
- if something <application>Privoxy</application> is doing is causing
- us a problem inadvertantly. It can be a little daunting to look at
- the actions files themselves, since they tend to be filled with
+ and <quote>filters</quote> 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
+ <emphasis>see</emphasis> just what <application>Privoxy</application> is
+ doing. Especially, if something <application>Privoxy</application> is doing
+ is causing us a problem inadvertantly. It can be a little daunting to look at
+ the actions and filters files themselves, since they tend to be filled with
<quote>regular expressions</quote> whose consequences are not always
so obvious. <application>Privoxy</application> provides the
<ulink url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</ulink>
Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
$Log: user-manual.sgml,v $
+ Revision 1.62 2002/03/30 04:15:53 hal9
+ - Fix privoxy.org/config links.
+ - Paste in Bookmarklets from Toggle page.
+ - Move Quickstart nearer top, and minor rework.
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Revision 1.61 2002/03/29 01:31:08 hal9
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