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<H1>PRIVOXY</H1>
-Section: (1)<BR>Updated:
08 April 2002<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
+Section: (1)<BR>Updated:
25 April 2002<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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Don't become a daemon, i.e. don't fork and become process group
leader, don't detach from controlling tty, and do all logging there.
<DT><B>--pidfile </B><I>pidfile</I><B></B><DD>
-After (optionally) writing the PID file, assume the user ID of user
-and the GID of group, or, if the optional group was not given, the
-default group of user. Exit if the privileges are not sufficient to
-do so.
+On startup, write the process ID to <I>pidfile</I>.
+Delete the <I>pidfile</I> on exit.
+Failiure to create or delete the <I>pidfile</I>
+is non-fatal. If no <B>--pidfile</B> option is given, no PID file will be used.
<DT><B>--user </B><I>user[.group]</I><B></B><DD>
After (optionally) writing the PID file, assume the user ID of
<I>user</I> and the GID of
stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
<P>
-<B>Privoxy</B> is based on the code of the
-<B>Internet Junkbuster</B> (tm).
-<B>Junkbuster</B> was originally written by JunkBusters
-Corporation, and was released as free open-source software under the GNU GPL.
-Stefan Waldherr made many improvements, and started the SourceForge project
-to continue development.
-<P>
-
-<B>Privoxy</B> continues the
-<B>Junkbuster</B> tradition, but adds many
-refinements, enhancements and new features.
+<B>Privoxy</B> is based on <B>Internet
+Junkbuster</B> (tm).
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<H2>INSTALLATION AND USAGE</H2>
<B>Privoxy</B> can be configured with the various configuration
files. The default configuration files are: <I>config</I>,
-<I>default.action</I>, and
-<I>default.filter</I>. These are well commented. On Unix and
-Unix-like systems, these are located in <I>/etc/privoxy/</I> by
-default. On Windows, OS/2 and AmigaOS, these files are in the same directory
-as the <B>Privoxy</B> executable.
+<I>default.filter</I>, and
+<I>default.action</I>. <I>user.action</I> should
+be used for locally defined exceptions to the default rules of
+<I>default.action</I> These are all well commented. On Unix
+and Unix-like systems, these are located in
+<I>/etc/privoxy/</I> by default. On Windows, OS/2 and AmigaOS,
+these files are in the same directory as the <B>Privoxy</B>
+executable.
<P>
The name and number of configuration files has changed from previous
<P>
-A brief example of what a <I>default.action</I> configuration
-might look like:
+A brief example of what a simple <I>default.action</I>
+configuration might look like:
<P>
<PRE>
-
# Define a few useful custom aliases for later use
{{alias}}
- # Don't accept cookies
- +no-cookies = +no-cookies-set +no-cookies-read
-
- # Do accept cookies
- -no-cookies = -no-cookies-set -no-cookies-read
-
- # Treat these blocked URLs as images.
- +imageblock = +block +image
+ # Useful aliases
+ +prevent-cookies = +prevent-setting-cookies +prevent-reading-cookies
+ -prevent-cookies = -prevent-setting-cookies -prevent-reading-cookies
+ +imageblock = +block +handle-as-image
- # Define page filters we want to use.
- myfilters = +filter{html-annoyances} +filter{js-annoyances}\
- +filter{no-popups} +filter{webbugs}
+ # Fragile sites should have the minimum changes
+ fragile = -block -deanimate-gifs -fast-redirects -filter \
+ -hide-referer -prevent-cookies -kill-popups
- ## Default Policies (actions) ############################
+ ## Turn some actions on ################################
{ \
- -block \
- -downgrade \
- +fast-redirects \
- myfilters \
- +no-compression \
- +hide-forwarded \
- +hide-from{block} \
- +hide-referer{forge} \
- -hide-user-agent \
- -image \
- +image-blocker{blank} \
- +no-cookies-keep \
- -no-cookies-read \
- -no-cookies-set \
- +no-popups \
- -vanilla-wafer \
- -wafer \
+ -add-header \
+ -block \
+ +deanimate-gifs{last} \
+ -downgrade-http-version \
+ -fast-redirects \
+ +filter{html-annoyances} \
+ +filter{js-annoyances} \
+ +filter{content-cookies} \
+ +filter{webbugs} \
+ +filter{banners-by-size} \
+ +hide-forwarded-for-headers \
+ +hide-from-header{block} \
+ +hide-referrer{forge} \
+ -hide-user-agent \
+ -handle-as-image \
+ +set-image-blocker{pattern} \
+ -limit-connect \
+ +prevent-compression \
+ +session-cookies-only \
+ +prevent-reading-cookies \
+ +prevent-setting-cookies \
+ -kill-popups \
}
- /
+ / # Match all URLs
+
+ # Block, and treat these URL patterns as if they were 'images'.
+ {+imageblock}
+ .ad.doubleclick.net
+ .a[0-9].yimg.com/(?:(?!/i/).)*$
+ ad.*.doubleclick.net
+
+ # Block any URLs that match these patterns
+ {+block}
+ ad*.
+ .*ads.
+ banner?.
+ /.*count(er)?\.(pl|cgi|exe|dll|asp|php[34]?)
+ /(?:.*/)?(publicite|werbung|rekla(ma|me|am)|maino(kset|nta|s)?)/
+ .hitbox.com
+
+ # Make exceptions for these harmless ones that would be
+ # caught by +block above.
+ {-block}
+ adsl.
+ advice.
+ .*downloads.
+</PRE>
- # Now set exceptions to the above defined policies #######
+<P>
+
+Then for a <I>user.action</I>, we would put local,
+narrowly defined exceptions:
+<P>
+<PRE>
+ # Set personal exceptions to the policies in default.action #######
# Sites where we want persistant cookies
- {-no-cookies -no-cookies-keep}
+ {-prevent-reading-cookies -prevent-setting-cookies -session-cookies-only}
.redhat.com
.sun.com
- .yahoo.com
.msdn.microsoft.com
-
- # This site requires cookies AND 'fast-redirects' on
- {-no-cookies -no-cookies-keep -fast-redirects}
- .nytimes.com
-
- # Add custom headers, and turn off filtering of page source
- {+add-header{X-Privacy: Yes please} #-add-header{*} \
- +add-header{X-User-Tracking: No thanks!} -filter}
- privacy.net
-
- # Block, and treat these URLs as 'images'.
- {+imageblock}
- .adforce.imgis.com
- .ad.preferences.com/image.*
- .ads.web.aol.com
- .ad-adex3.flycast.com
- .ad.doubleclick.net
- .ln.doubleclick.net
- .ad.de.doubleclick.net
- /.*/count\.cgi\?.*df=
- 194.221.183.22[1-7]
- a196.g.akamai.net/7/196/2670/000[12]/images.gmx.net/i4/images/.*/
-
- # Block any URLs that match these patterns
- {+block}
- /.*/(.*[-_.])?ads?[0-9]?(/|[-_.].*|\.(gif|jpe?g))
- /.*/(plain|live|rotate)[-_.]?ads?/
- /.*/(sponsor)s?[0-9]?/
- /.*/ad(server|stream|juggler)\.(cgi|pl|dll|exe)
- /.*/adbanners/
- /.*/adv((er)?ts?|ertis(ing|ements?))?/
- /.*/banners?/
- /.*/popupads/
- /.*/advert[0-9]+\.jpg
- /ad_images/
- /.*/ads/
- /images/.*/.*_anim\.gif
- /rotations/
- /.*(ms)?backoff(ice)?.*\.(gif|jpe?g)
- 195.63.104.*/(inbox|log|meld|folderlu|folderru|log(in|out)[lmr]u|)
- .images.nytimes.com
- .images.yahoo.com/adv/
- /.*cnnstore\.gif
+
+ {-block -fast-redirects}
+ .forbes.com
</PRE>
<P>
<I>/usr/sbin/privoxy</I>
<I>/etc/privoxy/config</I>
<I>/etc/privoxy/default.action</I>
- <I>/etc/privoxy/advanced.action</I>
- <I>/etc/privoxy/basic.action</I>
- <I>/etc/privoxy/intermediate.action</I>
+ <I>/etc/privoxy/standard.action</I>
+ <I>/etc/privoxy/user.action</I>
<I>/etc/privoxy/default.filter</I>
<I>/etc/privoxy/trust</I>
<I>/etc/privoxy/templates/*</I>
<A HREF="http://config.privoxy.org">http://config.privoxy.org</A>
may work in some situations where the first does not.
<P>
+<A HREF="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</A>
+to submit ``misses'' to the developers.
+<P>
<A HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/cookies.html">http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/cookies.html</A>
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/">http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/</A>
<P>
<PRE>
- Stefan Waldherr
- Andreas Oesterhelt
Jon Foster
- Markus Breitenbach
+ Andreas Oesterhelt
+ Stefan Waldherr
Thomas Steudten
- David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)
- Gabriel L. Somlo
+ Rodney Stromlund
+ Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)
Hal Burgiss (docs)
+ Alexander Lazic
+ Gábor Lipták
+ Guy
Haroon Rafique
- John Venvertloh
+ David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)
Joerg Strohmayer
- Rodney Stromlund
- Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)
Sarantis Paskalis
- Shamim Mohamed
- Gábor Lipták
- Alexander Lazic
</PRE>
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