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Purpose : FAQ
- Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2020 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
Based partially on the Internet Junkbuster FAQ originally written by and
<subscript>
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- <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2018 by
+ <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2020 by
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy Developers</ulink>
</subscript>
</pubdate>
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy</ulink>.
It is not a substitute for the
<ulink url="../user-manual/index.html"><citetitle>Privoxy User Manual</citetitle></ulink>.
-<!--
- This works, at least in some situtations:
- Test: <ulink url="privoxy-user-manual.pdf"><citetitle>User Manual</citetitle></ulink>.
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<ulink url="https://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's general donation page</ulink>.
</para>
-<para>
- You can also donate to Privoxy using a bank account or a "Paypal" address:
-</para>
-<literallayout>
- Name on account: <ulink url="https://www.zwiebelfreunde.de/">Zwiebelfreunde e.V.</ulink>
- IBAN: DE95430609671126825604
- BIC: GENODEM1GLS
- Bank: GLS Bank
-</literallayout>
-<literallayout>
- "Paypal" address: privoxy@zwiebelfreunde.de
-</literallayout>
-<para>
- 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.
-</para>
-
-<para>
- 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.
-</para>
-
<para>
If you have any questions regarding donations please mail to either the
public user mailing list or, if it's a private matter, to
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Gold (10000 EUR/year)</term>
+ <term>Gold (12000 USD/year)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Logo shown at the bottom of the
+ Logo or text link shown at the bottom of the
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy homepage</ulink>.
Logo, link and self description on the
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/sponsors/">sponsor page</ulink>.
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Silver (1000 EUR/year)</term>
+ <term>Silver (1200 USD/year)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Logo shown randomly at the bottom of the
+ Logo or text link shown at the bottom of the
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy homepage</ulink>.
Logo, link and self description on the
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/sponsors/">sponsor page</ulink>.
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Bronze (500 EUR/year)</term>
+ <term>Bronze (600 USD/year)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Logo and link on the <ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/sponsors/">sponsor page</ulink>.
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="getupdates"><title>Where can I get updated Actions Files?</title>
<para>
Based on your feedback and the continuing development, updates of
- <filename>default.action</filename> will be
- made available from time to time on the <ulink
- url="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">files section</ulink> of
- our <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/">project page</ulink>.
+ <filename>default.action</filename> are available from
+ <ulink
+ url="https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob_plain;f=default.action.master;hb=HEAD">git</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
<title>Can Privoxy run as a service
on Win2K/NT/XP?</title>
<para>
-<![%p-newstuff;[
- Yes. Version 3.0.5 introduces full <application>Windows</application> service
- functionality. See <ulink url="../user-manual/installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">
+ Yes. Full <application>Windows</application> service
+ functionality was introduced in <application>Privoxy</application> 3.0.5.
+ See <ulink url="../user-manual/installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">
the <citetitle>User Manual</citetitle></ulink> for details on how to install and configure
<application>Privoxy</application> as a service.
</para>
-<para>
- Earlier ]]>3.x versions could run as a system service using <command>srvany.exe</command>.
- See the discussion at <ulink
- url="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118</ulink>,
- for details, and a sample configuration.
-</para>
</sect2>
<para>
For a good discussion of some of the issues involved (including privacy and
security issues), see
- <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=629518&group_id=11118">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=629518&group_id=11118</ulink>.
+ <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/support-requests/107/"
+ >https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/support-requests/107/</ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
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
- <application>Privoxy's</application> reach.
+ <application>Privoxy's</application> reach unless you enable
+ <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#HTTPS-INSPECTION">https-inspection</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
All in all, &my-app; can help manage cookies in general, can help minimize
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="ssl">
<title>How can Privoxy filter Secure (HTTPS) URLs?</title>
<para>
- Since secure HTTP connections are encrypted SSL sessions between your browser
- and the secure site, and are meant to be reliably <emphasis>secure</emphasis>,
- there is little that <application>Privoxy</application> can do but hand the raw
+ If you enable
+ <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#HTTPS-INSPECTION">https-inspection</ulink>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> will impersonate the destination
+ server and can thus filter encrypted requests and responses as well.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Without
+ <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#HTTPS-INSPECTION">https-inspection</ulink>
+ secure HTTP connections are encrypted SSL sessions between your
+ browser and the secure site, and there is little
+ that <application>Privoxy</application> can do but hand the raw
gibberish data though from one end to the other unprocessed.
</para>
<para>
for HTTPS.
</para>
<para>
- Adding HTTP/2 support is on the TODO list but currently
- nobody is known to work on it.
+ Adding HTTP/2 support is on the
+ <ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob_plain;f=TODO;hb=HEAD">TODO</ulink>
+ list but currently nobody is known to work on it.
</para>
</sect2>
<para>
Upgrading <application>Privoxy</application>, or going to the most recent
<filename>default.action</filename> file available from <ulink
- url="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">SourceForge</ulink>
+ url="https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob_plain;f=default.action.master;hb=HEAD">git</ulink>
might be worth a try, too.
</para>
</sect2>
this is not considered a Privoxy bug.
</para>
<para>
- To prevent the crashes you can rewrite your filter to use less ressources,
+ To prevent the crashes you can rewrite your filter to use less resources,
increase the relevant memory limit or recompile pcre to use less stack space.
For details please see the
<ulink url="http://pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrestack.html">pcrestack man page</ulink>