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11 Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
12 IJBSWA team. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net
14 Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
15 by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
16 Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com
21 <title>Junkbuster Frequently Asked Questions</title>
23 <pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.6 2002/03/07 13:16:31 oes Exp $</pubdate>
28 <orgname>By: Junkbuster Developers</orgname>
35 The FAQ document gives users and developers alike answers to frequently
36 asked questions about the Internet Junkbuster. The Internet Junkbuster is an application
37 that provides privacy and security to the user of the world wide web.
40 You can find the latest version of the document at <ulink url="http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/faq/">http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/faq/</ulink>.
41 Please see the Contact section in the user-manual if you want to contact the developers.
45 Feel free to send a note to the developers at <email>ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</email>.
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52 <sect1 id="introduction"><title>Introduction</title>
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60 <sect1 id="questions"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
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64 <sect2 id="installation"><title>Installation</title>
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72 <sect2 id="configuration"><title>Configuration</title>
74 <sect3 id="yahoo"><title>How can I make my Yahoo account work?</title>
80 <sect3 id="hotmail"> <title>How can I make my Hotmail account work?</title>
86 <sect3 id="gmx"> <title>How can I make my GMX account work?</title>
92 <sect3 id="browseconfig"> <title>Why can I change the configuration with a
93 browser? Does that not raise security issues?</title>
95 What I don't understand, is how I can browser edit the config file as a
96 regular user, while the whole /etc/junkbuster hierarchy belongs to the user
97 "junkbuster", with only 644 perms.
100 When you use the browser-based editor, JunkBuster itself is writing to the
101 config files. Because JunkBuster is running as the user "junkbuster", it can
102 update the config files.
105 If you don't like this, setting "enable-edit-actions 0" in the config file
106 will disable the browser-based editor. If you're that paranoid, you should
107 also consider setting "enable-remote-toggle 0" to prevent browser-based
108 enabling/disabling of JunkBuster.
111 Note that normally only local users can connect to JunkBuster, so this is not
112 (normally) a security problem.
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120 <sect2 id="misc"><title>Misc</title>
122 <sect3 id="loadingtimes"><title>I noticed considerable
123 delays in page requests compared to the old IJB. What's wrong?</title>
125 Using the default filtering configuration, I noticed considerable delays in
126 page requests compared to the old IJB. Loading pages with large contents
127 seemed to take forever, then suddenly delivering all the content at once.
130 The whole content must be loaded in order to filter, and nothing is is
131 sent to the browser during this time. The loading time does not really
132 change in real numbers, but the feeling is different, because most
133 browsers are able to start rendering incomplete content, giving the
134 user a feeling of "it works".
137 To modify the content of a page (i.e. make frames resizeable again, etc.) and
138 not just replace ads, the Internet Junkbuster needs to download the entire
139 page first, do its content magic and then send the page to the browser.
144 <sect3 id="configurl"><title>What is the "http://i.j.b/"?</title>
146 Since JunkBuster sits between your web browser and the Internet, it can be
147 programmed to handle certain pages specially.
151 With recent versions of JunkBuster (version 2.9.x), you can get some
152 information about JunkBuster and change some settings by going to
153 http://i.j.b/ or, equivalently, http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/
154 (Note that i.j.b is far easier to type but may not work in some
159 These pages are *not* forwarded to a server on the internet - instead they are
160 handled by a special web server which is built in to JunkBuster.
164 If you are not running JunkBuster, then http://i.j.b/ will fail, and
165 http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/ will return a web page telling you
166 you're not running JunkBuster.
170 If you have version 2.0.2, then the equivalent is
171 http://example.com/show-proxy-args (but you get far less information, and you
172 should really consider upgrading to 2.9.x).
177 <sect3 id="badfiledesc"><title>I get the message 'Bad File Descriptor', why?</title>
183 <sect3 id="proxy-chaining"><title>How do I chain Junkbuster with other proxies
184 (e.g. squid)?</title>
190 <sect3 id="jointeam"><title>I would like to help you, what do I do?</title>
192 Well, helping the team is always a good idea. We welcome new developers,
193 RPM gurus or documentation makers. Simply get an account on sourceforge.net
194 and mail your id to the developer mailing list. Once we have added you to
195 the team, you'll have write access to the CVS repository, and we'll find a
196 suitable task for you together.
200 <sect3 id="blocklist"><title>Do you still maintain the blocklists?</title>
202 No. The format of the blocklists has changed significantly in the versions
203 2.9.x. Once we have released the new version, there will again be
204 blocklists that you can update automatically.
208 <sect3 id="newads"><title>How can I submit new ads?</title>
210 As of now, please discontinue to submit new ad blocking infos. Once we
211 have released the new version, there will again be a form on the website,
212 which you can use to contribute new ads.
216 <sect3 id="ip"><title>How can I hide my IP address?</title>
218 You cannot hide your IP address with Junkbuster.
222 <sect3 id="image"><title>What is the imagefile (simage.ini, etc.) for?</title>
224 Anytime the Junkbuster determines (with the help of the blocklist) that a URL
225 contains an advertisement, it has to decide whether this advertisement is an
226 image or not. The Junkbuster uses the imagefile for that purpose.
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235 <sect1 id="contact"><title>Contact the developers</title>
236 <para>Please see the user manual for information on how to contact the developers.
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241 <sect1 id="copyright"><title>Copyright and History</title>
242 <para>Please see the user manual for information on Copyright and History.
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247 <sect1 id="seealso"><title>See also</title>
248 <para>Please see the user manual for information on references.
254 Tue 09/11/01 06:38:14 PM EST: Test SGML doc by Hal Burgiss.
256 Last modified: Mon Sep 10 19:22:09 CEST 2001
258 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
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278 Committing changes by Stefan
280 Revision 1.5 2002/03/02 15:50:04 swa
281 2.9.11 version. more input for docs.
283 Revision 1.4 2002/02/24 14:34:24 jongfoster
284 Formatting changes. Now changing the doctype to DocBook XML 4.1
285 will work - no other changes are needed.
287 Revision 1.3 2001/09/23 10:13:48 swa
288 upload process established. run make webserver and
289 the documentation is moved to the webserver. documents
290 are now linked correctly.
292 Revision 1.2 2001/09/13 15:20:17 swa
293 merged standards into developer manual
295 Revision 1.1 2001/09/12 15:36:41 swa
296 source files for junkbuster documentation
298 Revision 1.3 2001/09/10 17:43:59 swa
299 first proposal of a structure.
301 Revision 1.2 2001/06/13 14:28:31 swa
302 docs should have an author.
304 Revision 1.1 2001/06/13 14:20:37 swa
305 first import of project's documentation for the webserver.