From: hal9 <hal9@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:32:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: This is primarily syncing What's New and Note to Upgraders sections with the many
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This is primarily syncing What's New and Note to Upgraders sections with the many
new features and changes (gleaned from memory but mostly from ChangeLog).
---
diff --git a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
index c51c1462..ecd6a882 100644
--- a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
This file belongs into
ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
- $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.39 2007/11/05 02:34:49 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.40 2007/11/10 17:10:59 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.39 2007/11/05 02:34:49 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.40 2007/11/10 17:10:59 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
@@ -449,15 +449,146 @@ How to install the binary packages depends on your operating system:
<para>
<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Two new actions <link
+ linkend="server-header-tagger">server-header-tagger</link>
+ and <link
+ linkend="client-header-tagger">client-header-tagger</link>
+ that can be used to apply arbitrary <quote>tags</quote> to
+ each request's headers. These <quote>tags</quote> can then
+ subsequently be used by other actions, greatly increasing
+ &my-app;'s flexibity and selectivity. See <link
+ linkend="tag-pattern">tag patterns</link> for more on tags.
+
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Header filtering can be done with dedicated header filters now. As a result
the actions <quote>filter-client-headers</quote> and <quote>filter-server-headers</quote>
that were introduced with <application>Privoxy 3.0.5</application> to apply
the content filters to the headers as, well have been removed again.
+ See the new actions <link
+ linkend="server-header-filter">server-header-filter</link>
+ and <link
+ linkend="client-header-filter">client-header-filter</link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ There are four new options for the main <filename>config</filename> file:
+ </para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link
+ linkend="allow-cgi-request-crunching">allow-cgi-request-crunching</link>
+ which allows requests for Privoxy's internal CGI pages to be
+ blocked, redirected or (un)trusted like ordinary requests.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link
+ linkend="split-large-forms">split-large-forms</link>
+ that will work around a browser bug that caused IE6 and IE7 to
+ ignore the Submit button on the Privoxy's edit-actions-for-url CGI
+ page.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link
+ linkend="accept-intercepted-requests">accept-intercepted-requests</link>
+ which will combine Privoxy with any packet filter to create an intercepting
+ proxy for HTTP/1.1 requests (and for HTTP/1.0 requests with Host
+ header set) so that explicitly setting the browser's proxy settings
+ is not necessary.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <link
+ linkend="templdir">templdir</link>
+ to designate an alternate location for Privoxy's own CGI templates
+ to make sure any locally customized templates aren't overwritten
+ during upgrades.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A new command line option <literal>--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname</literal> to
+ intialize the resolver library before chroot'ing. On some systems this
+ reduces the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
+ (Patch provided by Stephen Gildea)
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <link
+ linkend="forward-override">forward-override</link> action
+ allows changing of the forwarding settings based on client headers like the
+ User-Agent, or the request origin.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <link
+ linkend="redirect">redirect</link> action can now use regular
+ expression substitutions against the original URL.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <application>zlib</application> support is now available as a compile
+ time option for compressed documents.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve various filters, and add new ones.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Include support for RFC 3253 so that <filename>Subversion</filename> works
+ with &my-app;.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Logging can be turned on or off.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A number of improvements to Privoxy's internal CGI pages, including the
+ use of favicons for error and control pages.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Many bugfixes, memory leaks addressed, code improvements, and logging
+ improvments.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+
<!-- pre-3.0.6 changes:
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -681,6 +812,18 @@ How to install the binary packages depends on your operating system:
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <quote>filter-client-headers</quote> and
+ <quote>filter-server-headers</quote> actions that were introduced with
+ <application>Privoxy 3.0.5</application> to apply the content filters to
+ the headers as, well have been removed and replaced with new actions.
+ See the <link
+ linkend="whatsnew">What's New section</link> above.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+
<!--
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -3023,7 +3166,7 @@ for details.
<para>
<screen>
# Tag every request with the User-Agent header
-{+client-header-filter{user-agent}}
+{+client-header-tagger{user-agent}}
/
</screen>
</para>
@@ -5812,7 +5955,7 @@ example.org/instance-that-is-delivered-as-xml-but-is-not
<para>
<screen>
# Tag every request with the declared content type
-{+client-header-tagger{content-type}}
+{+server-header-tagger{content-type}}
/
</screen>
</para>
@@ -7774,11 +7917,17 @@ pre-defined filters for your convenience:
<para>
The templates are basically normal HTML files, but with place-holders (called symbols
- or exports), which <application>Privoxy</application> fills at run time. You can
- edit the templates with a normal text editor, should you want to customize them.
- (<emphasis>Not recommended for the casual user</emphasis>). Note that
- just like in configuration files, lines starting with <literal>#</literal> are
- ignored when the templates are filled in.
+ or exports), which <application>Privoxy</application> fills at run time. It
+ is possible to edit the templates with a normal text editor, should you want
+ to customize them. (<emphasis>Not recommended for the casual
+ user</emphasis>). Should you create your own custom templates, you should use
+ the <filename>config</filename> setting <link linkend="templdir">templdir</link>
+ to specify an alternate location, so your templates do not get overwritten
+ during upgrades.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that just like in configuration files, lines starting
+ with <literal>#</literal> are ignored when the templates are filled in.
</para>
<para>
@@ -8960,6 +9109,10 @@ In file: user.action <guibutton>[ View ]</guibutton> <guibutton>[ Edit ]</guibut
USA
$Log: user-manual.sgml,v $
+ Revision 2.40 2007/11/10 17:10:59 fabiankeil
+ In the first third of the file, mention several times that
+ the action editor is disabled by default in 3.0.7 beta and later.
+
Revision 2.39 2007/11/05 02:34:49 hal9
Various changes in preparation for the upcoming release. Much yet to be done.