From 810230bc8970a478f229a3ce8838b30f3303cae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hal9 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 06:41:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Move default profiles table from FAQ to U-M, and other minor related changes. Add faq on cookies. --- doc/source/faq.sgml | 199 ++++++++++-------------------------- doc/source/user-manual.sgml | 154 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/source/faq.sgml b/doc/source/faq.sgml index e19852b9..6720f88a 100644 --- a/doc/source/faq.sgml +++ b/doc/source/faq.sgml @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ - - - - + + + + @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ This file belongs into ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/ - $Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.24 2002/10/15 12:50:22 oes Exp $ + $Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.25 2002/10/29 03:21:50 hal9 Exp $ Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers See LICENSE. @@ -50,9 +50,12 @@ ======================================================================== NOTE: Please read developer-manual/documentation.html before touching - anything in this, or other Privoxy documentation. You have been warned! - Failure to abide by this rule will result in the revocation of your license to live a peaceful existence! + + Please we keep the info in this file as version independent as possible + so we only have to maintain one FAQ. Where significant changes are + made to Privoxy configuration, please note the change in such a way that + it makes sense to both users of older and newer versions. ======================================================================== @@ -72,7 +75,7 @@ -$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.24 2002/10/15 12:50:22 oes Exp $ +$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.25 2002/10/29 03:21:50 hal9 Exp $ - - - - - - - - - - - Ad-blocking by URL - yes - yes - yes - - - - Ad-filtering by size - yes - yes - yes - - - - GIF de-animation - no - yes - yes - - - - Referer forging - no - yes - yes - - - - Cookie handling - none - session-only - kill - - - - Pop-up killing - no - yes - yes - - - - Fast redirects - no - no - yes - - - - HTML taming - yes - yes - yes - - - - JavaScript taming - yes - yes - yes - - - - Web-bug killing - yes - yes - yes - - - - Fun text replacements - no - no - yes - - - - Image tag reordering - no - no - yes - - - - Ad-filtering by link - no - no - yes - - - - Demoronizer - no - no - yes - - - - - - - + Where the defaults are likely to break some sites, exceptions for known popular problem sites are included, but in - general, the more aggressive your default settings are, the more - exceptions you will have to make later. See the user manual for a more - deatiled discussion. + general, the more aggressive your default settings are, the more exceptions + you will have to make later. See the User Manual + for a more deatiled discussion. - It should be noted that the Radical profile is not only more + It should be noted that the Radical profile (formerly known + as the Advanced profile) is not only more aggressive, but also includes fun and, extreme usage of most of Privoxy's features. Use at your own risk! @@ -1151,6 +1029,33 @@ and thus avoid individual browser configuration? + +How can I allow permanent cookies for my trusted sites? + + + There are several actions that relate to cookies. The default behavior is to + allow only session cookies, which means the cookies only last + for the current browser session. This eliminates most kinds of abuse related + to cookies. But there may be cases where we want cookies to last. + + + To disable all cookie actions, so that cookies are allowed unrestricted, + both in and out, for example.com: + + + + { -crunch-incoming-cookies -crunch-outgoing-cookies -session-cookies-only -filter{content-cookies} } + .example.com + + + Place the above in user.action. Note some of these may + be off by default anyway, so this might be redundant, but there is no harm + being explicit in what you want to happen. user.action + includes an alias for this situation, called + allow-cookies. + + + @@ -1294,7 +1199,7 @@ how to do that. Please note that you (technically) need the latest url="http://www.multiproxy.org/anon_list.htm">multiproxy.org and many more through Google. A particularly interesting project is the JAP service offered by the Technical University of Dresden (http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html. + url="http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html">http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html). There is, however, even in the single-machine case the possibility to make the @@ -1600,7 +1505,8 @@ and related issues? activated the fun filter which is clearly labeled Text replacements for subversive browsing fun! or you have implicitly activated it by choosing the - Radical profile in the web-based editor. + Radical profile in the web-based editor (formerly known + as the Advanced profile). @@ -1931,6 +1837,9 @@ FIXME: Commented out until we have something to put here. HB 03/18/02. Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. $Log: faq.sgml,v $ +Revision 1.61.2.25 2002/10/29 03:21:50 hal9 +Add 3 Q/A's relating to HTML in email. Other minor touchups. + Revision 1.61.2.24 2002/10/15 12:50:22 oes s/Advanced/Radical/ (stupid me) diff --git a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml index 25fe34cd..87415afe 100644 --- a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml +++ b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ - - + + - - + + @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ This file belongs into ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/ - $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.22 2002/10/12 00:51:53 hal9 Exp $ + $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.23 2002/10/21 02:32:01 hal9 Exp $ Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers See LICENSE. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ -$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.22 2002/10/12 00:51:53 hal9 Exp $ +$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.23 2002/10/21 02:32:01 hal9 Exp $ + + + + + + + + + + + Ad-blocking by URL + yes + yes + yes + + + + Ad-filtering by size + yes + yes + yes + + + + GIF de-animation + no + yes + yes + + + + Referer forging + no + yes + yes + + + + Cookie handling + none + session-only + kill + + + + Pop-up killing + no + yes + yes + + + + Fast redirects + no + no + yes + + + + HTML taming + yes + yes + yes + + + + JavaScript taming + yes + yes + yes + + + + Web-bug killing + yes + yes + yes + + + + Fun text replacements + no + no + yes + + + + Image tag reordering + no + no + yes + + + + Ad-filtering by link + no + no + yes + + + + Demoronizer + no + no + yes + + + + + + + + The list of actions files to be used are defined in the main configuration - file, and are processed in the order they are defined. The content of these - can all be viewed and edited from default.action is typically process before + user.action). The content of these can all be viewed and + edited from http://config.privoxy.org/show-status. @@ -5769,6 +5904,9 @@ In file: user.action [ View ] [ Edit ]