<!entity history SYSTEM "history.sgml">
<!entity copyright SYSTEM "copyright.sgml">
<!entity license SYSTEM "license.sgml">
-<!entity p-version "2.9.20">
-<!entity p-status "beta">
-<!entity % p-not-stable "INCLUDE">
-<!entity % p-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity p-version "3.0.0">
+<!entity p-status "stable">
+<!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-supp-userman "INCLUDE"> <!-- Include all from supported.sgml -->
This file belongs into
ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
- $Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.17 2002/08/14 00:01:18 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.18 2002/08/14 16:39:37 hal9 Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
See LICENSE.
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.17 2002/08/14 00:01:18 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.18 2002/08/14 16:39:37 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
<ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy</ulink>.
It can't and doesn't replace the
<ulink url="../user-manual/index.html"><citetitle>User Manual</citetitle></ulink>.
+<!--
+ This works, at least in some situtations:
+ Test: <ulink url="privoxy-user-manual.pdf"><citetitle>User Manual</citetitle></ulink>.
+-->
</para>
<!-- Include privoxy.sgml boilerplate: -->
<para>
Actions files are just text files in a special syntax and can be edited
- with a text editor. The probably easiest way is to access
+ with a text editor. But probably the easiest way is to access
<application>Privoxy</application>'s user interface with your web browser
at <ulink url="http://config.privoxy.org/">http://config.privoxy.org/</ulink>
(Shortcut: <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>) and then select
</para>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="port-80">
+<title>Can I just set <application>Privoxy</application> to use port 80
+and thus avoid individual browser configuration?</title>
+
+<para>
+ No, its more complicated than that. This only works with special kinds
+ of proxies known as <quote>transparent</quote> proxies (see below).
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="transparent">
<title>Can <application>Privoxy</application> run as a <quote>transparent
</quote> proxy?</title>
ads, but also its own CGI pages. What is a <quote>crunch</quote>?</title>
<para>
A <quote>crunch</quote> simply means <application>Privoxy</application> intercepted
- something, nothing more. Often this is indeed ads or banners, but
- <application>Privoxy</application> uses the same mechanism for trapping
- requests for its own internal pages. For instance, a request for
- <application>Privoxy's</application> configuration page at:
- <ulink url="http://config.privoxy.org">http://config.privoxy.org</ulink>,
- is intercepted (i.e. it does not go out to the 'net), and the familiar
- CGI configuration is returned to the browser, and the log consequently will
- show a <quote>crunch</quote>.
+ <emphasis>something</emphasis>, nothing more. Often this is indeed ads or
+ banners, but <application>Privoxy</application> uses the same mechanism for
+ trapping requests for its own internal pages. For instance, a request for
+ <application>Privoxy's</application> configuration page at: <ulink
+ url="http://config.privoxy.org">http://config.privoxy.org</ulink>, is
+ intercepted (i.e. it does not go out to the 'net), and the familiar CGI
+ configuration is returned to the browser, and the log consequently will show
+ a <quote>crunch</quote>.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="downloads">
+<title>Can <application>Privoxy</application> effect files that I download
+from a webserver? FTP server?</title>
+<para>
+ From the webserver's perspective, there is no difference between
+ viewing a document (i.e. a page), and downloading a file. The same is true of
+ <application>Privoxy</application>. If there is a match for a <literal><ulink
+ url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</ulink></literal> pattern,
+ it will still be blocked, and of course this is obvious. Filtering is
+ potentially more of a concern since the results are not always so obvious.
+</para>
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> knows the differences in files according
+ to the <quote>Document Type</quote> as reported by the webserver. If this is
+ reported accurately (e.g. <quote>application/zip</quote> for a zip archive),
+ then <application>Privoxy</application> knows to ignore these where
+ appropriate. It is possible, however, that documents that are of an unknown
+ type (generally assumed to be <quote>text/plain</quote>) will be filtered, as
+ will those that might be incorrectly reported by the webserver. If such a
+ file is a downloaded file that is intended to be saved to disk, then any
+ content that might have been altered by filtering, will be saved too, for
+ these (probably very rare) cases.
+</para>
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> does not do FTP at all, only HTTP
+ protocols.
</para>
</sect2>
+
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="seealso">
<title>Where can I find more information about <application>Privoxy</application>
and related issues?</title>
<title>I get a completely blank page at one site. <quote>View Source</quote>
shows only: <markup><![CDATA[<html><body></body></html>]]></markup>.</title>
<para>
- This is often the result of a webserver that mishandles the request
- <application>Privoxy</application> sends to not compress the content.
+ This is often the result of a webserver using
+ <application>PHP</application> that mishandles the request
+ <application>Privoxy</application> sends to not compress the content
+ (a <application>PHP</application> bug).
</para>
<para>
In a default configuration, <application>Privoxy</application> requests all
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