Privoxy User Manual

Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers

$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.105 2002/05/05 20:26:02 hal9 Exp $

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
2. Installation
2.1. Binary Packages
2.1.1. Red Hat and SuSE RPMs
2.1.2. Debian
2.1.3. Windows
2.1.4. Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, HP-UX
2.1.5. OS/2
2.1.6. Max OSX
2.1.7. AmigaOS
2.2. Building from Source
3. Note to Upgraders
4. Quickstart to Using Privoxy
5. Starting Privoxy
5.1. RedHat and Debian
5.2. SuSE
5.3. Windows
5.4. Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, HP-UX and others
5.5. OS/2
5.6. MAX OSX
5.7. AmigaOS
5.8. Command Line Options
6. Privoxy Configuration
6.1. Controlling Privoxy with Your Web Browser
6.2. Configuration Files Overview
7. The Main Configuration File
7.1. Configuration and Log File Locations
7.1.1. confdir
7.1.2. logdir
7.1.3. actionsfile
7.1.4. filterfile
7.1.5. logfile
7.1.6. jarfile
7.1.7. trustfile
7.2. Local Set-up Documentation
7.2.1. user-manual
7.2.2. trust-info-url
7.2.3. admin-address
7.2.4. proxy-info-url
7.3. Debugging
7.3.1. debug
7.3.2. single-threaded
7.4. Access Control and Security
7.4.1. listen-address
7.4.2. toggle
7.4.3. enable-remote-toggle
7.4.4. enable-edit-actions
7.4.5. ACLs: permit-access and deny-access
7.4.6. buffer-limit
7.5. Forwarding
7.5.1. forward
7.5.2. forward-socks4 and forward-socks4a
7.5.3. Advanced Forwarding Examples
7.6. Windows GUI Options
8. Actions Files
8.1. Finding the Right Mix
8.2. How to Edit
8.3. How Actions are Applied to URLs
8.4. Patterns
8.4.1. The Domain Pattern
8.4.2. The Path Pattern
8.5. Actions
8.5.1. +add-header
8.5.2. +block
8.5.3. +deanimate-gifs
8.5.4. +downgrade-http-version
8.5.5. +fast-redirects
8.5.6. +filter
8.5.7. +hide-forwarded-for-headers
8.5.8. +hide-from-header
8.5.9. +hide-referer
8.5.10. +hide-user-agent
8.5.11. +handle-as-image
8.5.12. +set-image-blocker
8.5.13. +limit-connect
8.5.14. +prevent-compression
8.5.15. +session-cookies-only
8.5.16. +prevent-reading-cookies
8.5.17. +prevent-setting-cookies
8.5.18. +kill-popups
8.5.19. +send-vanilla-wafer
8.5.20. +send-wafer
8.5.21. Summary
8.5.22. Sample Actions Files
8.6. Aliases
9. The Filter File
9.1. The +filter Action
10. Templates
11. Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
11.1. Get Support
11.2. Report bugs
11.3. Request new features
11.4. Report ads or other filter problems
11.5. Other
12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History
12.1. License
12.2. History
13. See Also
14. Appendix
14.1. Regular Expressions
14.2. Privoxy's Internal Pages
14.2.1. Bookmarklets
14.3. Chain of Events
14.4. Anatomy of an Action
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