<!entity license SYSTEM "license.sgml">
<!entity p-authors SYSTEM "p-authors.sgml">
<!entity config SYSTEM "p-config.sgml">
-<!entity p-version "3.0.2">
-<!entity p-status "STABLE">
+<!entity p-version "3.0.3">
+<!entity p-status "stable">
<!entity % p-authors-formal "INCLUDE"> <!-- include additional text, etc -->
-<!entity % p-not-stable "INCLUDE">
-<!entity % p-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity % p-not-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity % p-stable "INCLUDE">
<!entity % p-text "IGNORE"> <!-- define we are not a text only doc -->
<!entity % p-doc "INCLUDE"> <!-- and we are a formal doc -->
<!entity % p-readme "IGNORE">
This file belongs into
ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
- $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.36 2003/12/10 02:26:26 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.37 2004/01/29 22:36:11 hal9 Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001- 2003 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
See LICENSE.
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.36 2003/12/10 02:26:26 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.37 2004/01/29 22:36:11 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
<term>Effect:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- HTML and JavaScript pages, to which this action
- applies, are filtered on-the-fly through the specified regular expression
+ All files of text-based type, most notably HTML and JavaScript, to which this
+ action applies, are filtered on-the-fly through the specified regular expression
based substitutions. (Note: as of version 3.0.3 plain text documents
- are exempted from filtering.)
+ are exempted from filtering, because web servers often use the
+ <literal>text/plain</literal> MIME type for all files whose type they
+ don't know.)
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
data, and all pending data, is passed through unfiltered.
</para>
<para>
- Inappropriate MIME types, such as zipped files, are not filtered at all.
- Encrypted SSL data (from HTTPS servers) cannot be filtered either since
- this would violate the integrity of the secure transaction. Otherwise,
- <emphasis>any</emphasis> content is subject to filtering, and limited
- only by configuration. So, for instance, source code might be filtered
- in some situations - if the configuration <emphasis>does not disallow
- it</emphasis>.
+ Inadequate MIME types, such as zipped files, are not filtered at all.
+ (Again, only text-based types except plain text). Encrypted SSL data
+ (from HTTPS servers) cannot be filtered either, since this would violate
+ the integrity of the secure transaction. In some situations it might
+ be necessary to protect certain text, like source code, from filtering
+ by defining appropriate <literal>-filter</literal> sections.
</para>
<para>
At this time, <application>Privoxy</application> cannot (yet!) uncompress compressed
# These aliases define combinations of actions that are useful for
# certain types of sites:
#
-fragile = -block -crunch-all-cookies -filter -fast-redirects -hide-referer -kill-popups
+fragile = -block -crunch-all-cookies -filter -fast-redirects -hide-referrer -kill-popups
shop = -crunch-all-cookies allow-popups
# Allow ads for selected useful free sites:
<para>
<screen>
{ allow-all-cookies }
+sourceforge.net
sunsolve.sun.com
-slashdot.org
+.slashdot.org
.yahoo.com
.msdn.microsoft.com
.redhat.com</screen>
</para>
<para>
- Some file types you may not want to filter.
- <application>Privoxy</application> makes no distinctions between regular web
- pages and downloads done via your web browser if it is an html type
- document.
+ Some file types you may not want to filter for various reasons:
</para>
<para>
<screen>
-# Documentation should not need filtering (at least on some sites).
-.tldp.org</screen>
+# Technical documentation is likely to contain strings that might
+# erroneously get altered by the JavaScript-oriented filters:
+#
+.tldp.org
+/(.*/)?selfhtml/
+
+# And this stupid host sends streaming video with a wrong MIME type,
+# so that Privoxy thinks it is getting HTML and starts filtering:
+#
+stupid-server.example.com/</screen>
</para>
<para>
<screen>
{ +<link linkend="BLOCK">block</link> }
www.example.com/nasty-ads/sponsor.gif
-another.popular.site.net/more/junk/here/
-
-# Here we found one that is not in <application>Privoxy's</application> default blocked list:
-.adfactory.net</screen>
+another.popular.site.net/more/junk/here/</screen>
</para>
<para>
- To force URLs that tend to have ad images, but it is difficult for
- <application>Privoxy</application> to know this since the ultimate returned
- object is obscured for one reason or another, we can try to force these to be
- treated as images (and thus avoid <application>Privoxy's</application>
- <quote>BLOCKED</quote> banner page). Note that if what is returned by the
- server turns out NOT to be an image, then your browser typically will display
- a broken icon image. Use cautiously.
+ The URLs of dynamically generated banners, especially from large banner
+ farms, often don't use the well-known image file name extensions, which
+ makes it impossible for <application>Privoxy</application> to guess
+ the file type just by looking at the URL.
+ You can use the <literal>+block-as-image</literal> alias defined above for
+ these cases.
+ Note that objects which match this rule but then turn out NOT to be an
+ image are typically rendered as a <quote>broken image</quote> icon by the
+ browser. Use cautiously.
</para>
<para>
<screen>
{ +block-as-image }
-# A shockwave ad, very annoying.
-.trip.com/.*\.swf
.doubleclick.net
/Realmedia/ads/
-adremote.</screen>
+ar.atwola.com/</screen>
</para>
<para>
<para>
This filter translates the MS-only characters into Latin-1 equivalents.
It is not necessary when using MS products, and will cause corruption of
- UTF-8 (non-Latin-1) pages. It might be worthwhile for non-MS platforms,
- if wierd fonts sometimes appear on some pages.
+ all documents that use 8-bit character sets other than Latin-1. It's mostly
+ worthwhile for Europeans on non-MS platforms, if wierd garbage characters
+ sometimes appear on some pages.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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$Log: user-manual.sgml,v $
+ Revision 1.123.2.37 2004/01/29 22:36:11 hal9
+ Updates for no longer filtering text/plain, and demoronizer default settings,
+ and copyright notice dates.
+
Revision 1.123.2.36 2003/12/10 02:26:26 hal9
Changed the demoronizer filter description.
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