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*** Version 3.0.17 Stable ***
-- In chat(), add another last-chunk-check right after parsing the server headers.
- Should fix #3028326 reported by "Karsten".
-- In server_response_is_complete(), expect no body if the status code is 204.
- Should fix #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a user with no visible name.
- Most likely also fixes a bunch of other AJAX-related problem
- reports we closed in the past due to insufficient information.
-- Added LOG_LEVEL_WRITING to log the not-yet-parsed data received.
- This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
-- Enable the IPv6 code on Windows versions that support it.
+- Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the content was small
+ enough to be read with the body, causing Privoxy to wait for the
+ end of the content until the server closed the connection or the
+ request timed out. Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
+- Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
+ like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy to
+ wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection
+ or the request timed out. Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a
+ user with no visible name. Most likely also fixes a bunch of other
+ AJAX-related problem reports that got closed in the past due to
+ insufficient information and lack of feedback.
+- Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
+ Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
+ as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
+ where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
+- Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
+ network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
+- The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
- Time will tell if this causes problems for earlier Windows
- versions, but if it does, it should be easy enough to fix.
-- Feature Requests 3040263 :: Add "user.filter" to "Edit" menu
- - add an "Edit User Filters" menu item to the Privoxy Windows systray icon and
- change the "Edit Filters" menu item to "Edit Default Filters"
-- Add configure option --enable-large-file-support. It sets a few defines
- that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files larger
- then 2GB.
-- In log_error(), log as much of %N "strings" as the buffer allows.
- Previously we'd stop at the first nul byte which is pretty useless.
- While at it, replace non-printable characters in %N "strings" with
- their hex value so the result can't span multiple lines and \r's
- don't cause a mess.
-- create a log record when reading an action, filter or trust file.
+- In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
+ GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
+- Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
+ defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
+ larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
+ management.
+- Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
+ pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
+ so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
+ necessary.
+- Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
- Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
where the test expected the alias.
- CGI interface improvements:
- - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
- header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
- Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
- - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
- when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
- Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
- - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
- - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
- Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
- - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain http:// or https:// in the path.
- Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
- - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
- local user manual delivery is disabled.
+ - In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
+ header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
+ Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
+ - Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
+ when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
+ Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
+ - Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
+ - Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
+ Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
+ - In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain
+ http:// or https:// in the path. Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
+ - Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
+ local user manual delivery is disabled.
- Action file improvements:
- - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
- - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
- - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
- - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
- - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
- - fix for ijbswa-Support Requests-3001830: Activate user.filter by default
- - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too.
- Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
- - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
- - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
- fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
- - Actionsfile feedback item #2974204 2010-03-21
- don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net
- - Actionsfile feedback item #2975895 2010-03-24
- block chartbeat ping tracking
- - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
- - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
- so users should be able to "go there anyway".
- Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
- - Also let refresh-tags filter invalid refresh tags where the 'url='
- part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
- While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
- refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
- - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
- work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
- +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document
- to
- +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document
- - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners
- I'm not sure about blocking 160x578 images, but
- pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imagad?xxx
- could use blocking.
- - Block another omniture tracking domain
- - Added a range-requests tagger.
+ - Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
+ - Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
+ - Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
+ - Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
+ - Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
+ - Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
+ - Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
+ - Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
+ fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
+ - Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
+ - Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
+ - Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
+ - Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
+ so users should be able to "go there anyway".
+ Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
+ - Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
+ the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
+ While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
+ refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
+ - javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
+ work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
+ +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document to
+ +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document.
+ - ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
+ - Block another omniture tracking domain.
+ - Added a range-requests tagger.
+ - Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
+ default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
+ cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
+ Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@.
- Documentation improvements:
- - Explicitly mention how to match any URL.
- - Consistently recommending socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
- its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
- - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
- slower than it is.
+ - Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
+ - Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
+ its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
+ - Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
+ slower than it is.
+ - Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
+ - Fixed a link to the 'intercepting' entry and add another one.
+ - Rename the 'Other' section to 'Mailing Lists' and reword it
+ to make it clear that nobody is forced to use the trackers
+ - Note that 'anonymously' posting on the trackers may not always
+ be possible.
+ - Suggest to enable debug 32768 when suspecting parsing problems.
- Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
- - Also gather statistics for blocked requests.
- - Also gather statistics for fast redirections.
- - In print_stats(), also provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
- - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
- - Also gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
- used by the client.
- - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
- - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with a decimal number.
- - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together with the server headers. We better stop reading.
- - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
- - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
- Maximum number of connections reached.
- - Accept and highlight actions and filter filte loading:
- Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
- Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
-
-- GNUmakefile improvements:
- - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
- - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
- working for years.
- - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
- one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
- - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
- work with standard tar.
+ - Gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
+ used by the client.
+ - Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
+ - Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
+ - Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
+ - Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
+ statistics about how many request where made per host.
+ - Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
+ - Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
+ a decimal number.
+ - Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
+ with the server headers. We better stop reading.
+ - Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
+ - Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
+ Maximum number of connections reached.
+ - Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
+ - Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
+ - Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
+ - Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
+ the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
+ - Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
- Code cleanups:
- - Remove the next member from the client_state struct.
- Only the main thread needs access to all client
- states so give it its own struct.
- - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
- - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
- - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
- Spotted by cppcheck.
- - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in an ifdef __OS2__ block.
- Spotted by cppcheck.
- - In resolve_hostname_to_ip(), limit the scope of the variable 'dns_retries'.
- - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where it isn't used.
- Spotted by cppcheck.
- - In xtoi(), limit the scope of the variable d2.
- - In main(), limit the scope of the variable pid.
- - In client_if_modified_since(), limit the scope of the variables hours, minutes and seconds.
- - In server_last_modified(), limit the scope of the variables days, hours, minutes and seconds.
- - In add_to_iob(), limit the scope of the variable 'want' and turn an interestingly looking for loop into a boring while loop.
- - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
- - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
- connection, not just the source IP address.
- - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
- - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged completely or not at all.
- - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values. There's no
- reason not to abort() if they don't.
- - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a cannnot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
- - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
- - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it to http_response.crunch_reason.
+ - Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
+ thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
+ - Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
+ - Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
+ - Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
+ - In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
+ an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ - In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
+ it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ - Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ - In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
+ boring while loop.
+ - Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
+ - In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
+ connection, not just the source IP address.
+ - In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
+ - In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
+ completely or not at all.
+ - In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
+ There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
+ - Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
+ cannot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
+ - Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
+ move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
+ - Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
+ to http_response.crunch_reason.
+ - Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
+ - Fix white-space in a log message in remove_chunked_transfer_coding().
+ While at it, add a note that the message doesn't seem to
+ be entirely correct and should be improved later on.
+
+- GNUmakefile improvements:
+ - Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
+ - Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
+ working for years.
+ - Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
+ one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
+ - Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
+ work with standard tar.
*** Version 3.0.16 Stable ***