Privoxy User Manual

By: Privoxy Developers

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The user manual gives users information on how to install, configure and use Privoxy.

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 based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).

You can find the latest version of the 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

1.1. Features

3. Installation

3.1. Red Hat and SuSE RPMs
3.2. Debian
3.3. Windows
3.4. Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, HP-UX
3.5. OS/2
3.6. Max OSX
3.7. AmigaOS

4. Note to Upgraders

5. Quickstart to Using Privoxy

6. Starting Privoxy

6.1. Command Line Options

7. Privoxy Configuration

7.1. Controlling Privoxy with Your Web Browser

7.2. Configuration Files Overview

7.3. The Main Configuration File

7.3.1. Configuration and Log File Locations
7.3.2. Local Set-up Documentation
7.3.3. Debugging
7.3.4. Access Control and Security
7.3.5. Forwarding
7.3.6. Windows GUI Options

7.4. Actions Files

7.4.1. Finding the Right Mix
7.4.2. How to Edit
7.4.3. How Actions are Applied to URLs
7.4.4. Patterns
7.4.5. Actions
7.4.6. Aliases

7.5. The Filter File

7.6. Templates

8. Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests

8.1. Get Support
8.2. Report bugs
8.3. Request new features
8.4. Report ads or other filter problems
8.5. Other

9. Copyright and History

9.1. Copyright
9.2. History

10. See Also

11. Appendix

11.1. Regular Expressions

11.2. Privoxy's Internal Pages

11.2.1. Bookmarklets

11.3. Chain of Events

11.4. Anatomy of an Action

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