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*
- * File : $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/README,v $
+ * File : doc/source/readme.sgml
*
* Purpose : README file to give a short intro.
*
- * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2011 the
+ * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2020 the
* Privoxy team. https://www.privoxy.org/
*
* Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
*
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-This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.25. See
-https://www.privoxy.org/ for more information. The current code maturity level
-is "beta", but seems stable to us :).
+This README is included with Privoxy 3.0.29. See https://www.privoxy.org/ for
+more information. The current code maturity level is "stable".
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tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user
networks.
-Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
+Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 or later.
Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
The actions list can be configured via the web interface accessed via http://
p.p/, as well other options.
-All configuration files are subject to unannounced changes during the
-development process.
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5. DOCUMENTATION
-There should be documentation in the 'doc' subdirectory, but it may not be
-completed at this point. In particular, see the User Manual there, the FAQ, and
-those interested in Privoxy development, should look at developer-manual.
+There should be documentation in the 'doc' subdirectory. In particular, see the
+User Manual there, the FAQ, and those interested in Privoxy development, should
+look at developer-manual.
-The most up to date source of information on the current development version,
-may still be either comments in the source code, or the included configuration
-files. The source and configuration files are all well commented. The main
-configuration files are: 'config', 'default.action', and 'default.filter' in
-the top-level source directory.
+The source and configuration files are all well commented. The main
+configuration files are: 'config', 'default.action', and 'default.filter'.
Included documentation may vary according to platform and packager. All
documentation is posted on https://www.privoxy.org, in case you don't have it,
directive is being used and the following debug options are enabled (all of
them):
- debug 1 # Log the destination for each request Privoxy let through. See also debug 1024.
+ debug 1 # Log the destination for each request Privoxy let through.
+ # See also debug 1024.
debug 2 # show each connection status
debug 4 # show I/O status
debug 8 # show header parsing
debug 128 # debug redirects
debug 256 # debug GIF de-animation
debug 512 # Common Log Format
- debug 1024 # Log the destination for requests Privoxy didn't let through, and the reason why.
+ debug 1024 # Log the destination for requests Privoxy didn't let through,
+ # and the reason why.
debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings.
debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors
+ debug 65536 # Log applying actions
If you are having trouble with a filter, please additionally enable
debug 64 # debug regular expression filters
- If you are using Privoxy 3.0.17 or later and suspect that it interprets the
- request or the response incorrectly, please enable
+ If you suspect that Privoxy interprets the request or the response
+ incorrectly, please enable
debug 32768 # log all data read from the network
The SourceForge support trackers may be used as well, but have various
technical problems that are unlikely to be fixed anytime soon. If you don't get
-a timely response, please try the mailing list as well. While it's hosted at
-SourceForge as well, it usually works as expected.
+a timely response, please try the mailing list as well.