Privoxy User Manual

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By: Privoxy Developers

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The user manual gives users information on how to install, configure and use - The Privoxy User Manual gives users information on how to + install, configure and use PrivoxyPrivoxy. -

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities + for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling + access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a + flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. + It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering - capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing - cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other - obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very - flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and - tastes. Privoxy has application for both - stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2.

Privoxy is based on Internet - Junkbuster (tm).

Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). + Donations are welcome.

You can find the latest version of the user manual at You can find the latest version of the Privoxy User Manual at http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/. Please see the Contact section on how to contact the developers. -

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

3. 2. Installation

3.1. 2.1. Binary Packages

2.1.1. Red Hat and SuSE RPMsRed Hat and Fedora RPMs
3.2. 2.1.2. DebianDebian and Ubuntu
3.3. 2.1.3. Windows
3.4. 2.1.4. Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, HP-UXSolaris
3.5. 2.1.5. OS/2
3.6. 2.1.6. Max OSXMac OS X
3.7. 2.1.7. AmigaOS
2.1.8. FreeBSD
2.1.9. Gentoo

4. 2.2. Building from Source

2.3. Keeping your Installation Up-to-Date

3. What's New in this Release

3.1. Note to Upgraders

5. 4. Quickstart to Using PrivoxyQuickstart to Using Privoxy

6. 4.1. Quickstart to Ad Blocking

5. Starting PrivoxyStarting Privoxy

6.1. 5.1. Red Hat and Fedora
5.2. Debian
5.3. Windows
5.4. Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, HP-UX and others
5.5. OS/2
5.6. Mac OS X
5.7. AmigaOS
5.8. Gentoo
5.9. Command Line Options

7. 6. Privoxy ConfigurationPrivoxy Configuration

7.1. Controlling Privoxy with Your Web Browser6.1. Controlling Privoxy with Your Web Browser
7.2. 6.2. Configuration Files Overview

7.3. 7. The Main Configuration File

7.3.1. 7.1. Local Set-up Documentation

7.1.1. user-manual
7.1.2. trust-info-url
7.1.3. admin-address
7.1.4. proxy-info-url

7.2. Configuration and Log File Locations

7.3.2. Local Set-up Documentation7.2.1. confdir
7.3.3. 7.2.2. templdir
7.2.3. logdir
7.2.4. actionsfile
7.2.5. filterfile
7.2.6. logfile
7.2.7. trustfile

7.3. Debugging

7.3.4. Access Control and Security7.3.1. debug
7.3.5. Forwarding7.3.2. single-threaded
7.3.6. Windows GUI Options7.3.3. hostname

7.4. Actions FilesAccess Control and Security

7.4.1. Finding the Right Mixlisten-address
7.4.2. How to Edittoggle
7.4.3. How Actions are Applied to URLsenable-remote-toggle
7.4.4. Patternsenable-remote-http-toggle
7.4.5. Actionsenable-edit-actions
7.4.6. Aliasesenforce-blocks
7.4.7. ACLs: permit-access and deny-access
7.4.8. buffer-limit

7.5. The Filter FileForwarding

7.5.1. forward
7.5.2. forward-socks4, forward-socks4a and forward-socks5
7.5.3. Advanced Forwarding Examples
7.5.4. forwarded-connect-retries

7.6. TemplatesMiscellaneous

7.6.1. accept-intercepted-requests
7.6.2. allow-cgi-request-crunching
7.6.3. split-large-forms
7.6.4. keep-alive-timeout
7.6.5. default-server-timeout
7.6.6. connection-sharing
7.6.7. socket-timeout
7.6.8. max-client-connections

7.7. Windows GUI Options

8. Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature -RequestsActions Files

8.1. Get SupportFinding the Right Mix

8.2. Report bugsHow to Edit

8.3. Request new featuresHow Actions are Applied to Requests

8.4. Report ads or other filter problemsPatterns

8.4.1. The Domain Pattern
8.4.2. The Path Pattern
8.4.3. The Tag Pattern

8.5. OtherActions

8.5.1. add-header
8.5.2. block
8.5.3. change-x-forwarded-for
8.5.4. client-header-filter
8.5.5. client-header-tagger
8.5.6. content-type-overwrite
8.5.7. crunch-client-header
8.5.8. crunch-if-none-match
8.5.9. crunch-incoming-cookies
8.5.10. crunch-server-header
8.5.11. crunch-outgoing-cookies
8.5.12. deanimate-gifs
8.5.13. downgrade-http-version
8.5.14. fast-redirects
8.5.15. filter
8.5.16. force-text-mode
8.5.17. forward-override
8.5.18. handle-as-empty-document
8.5.19. handle-as-image
8.5.20. hide-accept-language
8.5.21. hide-content-disposition
8.5.22. hide-if-modified-since
8.5.23. hide-from-header
8.5.24. hide-referrer
8.5.25. hide-user-agent
8.5.26. limit-connect
8.5.27. prevent-compression
8.5.28. overwrite-last-modified
8.5.29. redirect
8.5.30. server-header-filter
8.5.31. server-header-tagger
8.5.32. session-cookies-only
8.5.33. set-image-blocker
8.5.34. Summary

8.6. Aliases

8.7. Actions Files Tutorial

8.7.1. match-all.action
8.7.2. default.action
8.7.3. user.action

9. Copyright and HistoryFilter Files

9.1. CopyrightFilter File Tutorial
9.2. The Pre-defined Filters

10. Privoxy's Template Files

11. Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature +Requests

11.1. Get Support

11.2. Reporting Problems

11.2.1. Reporting Ads or Other Configuration Problems
11.2.2. Reporting Bugs

11.3. Request New Features

11.4. Other

12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History

12.1. License
12.2. History
12.3. Authors

10. 13. See Also

11. 14. Appendix

11.1. 14.1. Regular Expressions

11.2. Privoxy's Internal Pages14.2. Privoxy's Internal Pages

11.2.1. 14.2.1. Bookmarklets

11.3. 14.3. Chain of Events

11.4. 14.4. Anatomy of an ActionTroubleshooting: Anatomy of an Action