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. New Features

3. Installation

3.1. Binary Packages

3.1.1. Red Hat and SuSE RPMs
3.1.2. Debian
3.1.3. Windows
3.1.4. Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, HP-UX
3.1.5. OS/2
3.1.6. Max OSX
3.1.7. AmigaOS

3.2. Building from Source

4. Quickstart to Using Privoxy

4.1. Note to Upgraders
4.2. Starting Privoxy
4.3. Command Line Options

5. Privoxy Configuration

5.1. Controlling Privoxy with Your Web Browser

5.2. Configuration Files Overview

5.3. The Main Configuration File

5.3.1. Configuration and Log File Locations
5.3.2. Local Set-up Documentation
5.3.3. Debugging
5.3.4. Access Control and Security
5.3.5. Forwarding
5.3.6. Windows GUI Options

5.4. The Actions File

5.4.1. Finding the Right Mix
5.4.2. How to Edit
5.4.3. How Actions are Applied to URLs
5.4.4. Patterns
5.4.5. Actions
5.4.6. Aliases

5.5. The Filter File

5.6. Templates

6. Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests

6.1. Submitting Ads and "Action" Problems

7. Copyright and History

7.1. Copyright
7.2. History

8. See Also

9. Appendix

9.1. Regular Expressions

9.2. Privoxy's Internal Pages

9.2.1. Bookmarklets

9.3. Chain of Events

9.4. Anatomy of an Action

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