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ChangeLog for Privoxy
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-*** Version 3.0.20 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.20 beta ***
- Bug fixes:
- Client sockets are now properly shutdown and drained before being
- General improvements:
- Significantly improved keep-alive support for both client and server
connections.
- - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to each
- request that Privoxy acts upon.
- - New directive client-header-order can be used to forward client headers in
- a different order than that in which they arrived.
- - New directive tolerate-pipelining can be used to enable client-side
- pipelining. If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will
- keep pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
+ - New debug log level 65536 which logs all actions that were applied to
+ the request.
+ - New directive client-header-order to forward client headers in a
+ different order than the one in which they arrived.
+ - New directive tolerate-pipelining to allow client-side pipelining.
+ If enabled (3.0.20 beta enables it by default), Privoxy will keep
+ pipelined client requests around to deal with them once the current
request has been served.
- - New --config-test option lets Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
+ - New --config-test option to let Privoxy exit after checking whether or not
the configuration seems valid. The limitations noted in TODO #22 and #23
- still apply. Logging the problem to the logfile if one is configured and
- --no-daemon isn't used could be considered non-intuitive and might also
- clobber messages emitted by an already running instance. Based on a patch
- by Ramkumar Chinchani.
- - Add limit-cookie-lifetime{} action. It can be used to let cookies expire
- before the end of the session. limit-cookie-lifetime{0} creates session
- cookies and can thus replace the session-cookies-only action in the future.
- Idea originally suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
+ still apply. Based on a patch by Ramkumar Chinchani.
+ - New limit-cookie-lifetime{} action to let cookies expire before the end
+ of the session. Suggested by Rick Sykes in #1049575.
- Increase the hard-coded maximum number of actions and filter files from
10 to 30 (each). It doesn't significantly affect Privoxy's memory usage
and recompiling wasn't an option for all Privoxy users that reached the
intentions. When looking at the response headers alone, it previously
wasn't obvious from the client's perspective that no additional responses
should be expected.
- - Stop considering client sockets tainted after receving a request with body.
+ - Stop considering client sockets tainted after receiving a request with body.
It hasn't been necessary for a while now and unnecessarily causes test
failures when using curl's test suite.
- Allow HTTP/1.0 clients to signal interest in keep-alive through the
Downgrade the removal message to LOG_LEVEL_HEADER to clarify that it's not
an error in Privoxy and is unlikely to cause any problems in general.
Anonymously reported in #3599335.
- - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket in
- accept_connection(). This should further reduce the chances of the client
- getting an incomplete response, even though Privoxy wrote it in its
- entirety to the socket.
+ - Set the socket option SO_LINGER for the client socket.
- Move several variable declarations to the beginning of their code block.
- It's how we usually do it and is apparently also required when compiling
- with gcc 2.95. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
- - Optionally let parse_header_time() sanity check strptime() results before
- trusting them. Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in
- the past and the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc:
- http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=173421
- - Attempt to work around (or at least reduce the) video playback issues with
- various Apple clients as reported in #3426305. In client_range(), let
- headers pass if the range starts at the beginning.
+ It's required when compiling with gcc 2.95 which is still used on some
+ platforms. Initial patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
+ - Optionally try to sanity-check strptime() results before trusting them.
+ Broken strptime() implementations have caused problems in the past and
+ the most recent offender seems to be FreeBSD's libc (standards/173421).
+ - When filtering is enabled, let Range headers pass if the range starts at
+ the beginning. This should work around (or at least reduce) the video
+ playback issues with various Apple clients as reported by Duc in #3426305.
- Do not confuse a client hanging up with a connection time out. If a client
closes its side of the connection without sending a request line, do not
send the CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESPONSE, but report the condition
- On Windows, the logfile is now written before showing the GUI error
message which blocks until the user acknowledges it.
Reported by Adriaan in #3593603.
+ - Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in the CGI interface. The new
+ parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
+ to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
+ Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
+ - Decrease the chances of parse failures after requests with unsupported
+ methods were sent to the CGI interface.
- Action file improvements:
- - Remove the comment that indicated that updated versions of this file are
- released on their own.
+ - Remove the comment that indicated that updated default.action versions
+ are released on their own.
- Block 'optimize.indieclick.com/' and 'optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/'
- Unblock 'adjamblog.wordpress.com/' and 'adjamblog.files.wordpress.com/'.
Reported by Ryan Farmer in #3496116.
- Block '/openx/www/delivery/'.
- Disable fast-redirects for '.googleapis.com/'.
- Block 'imp.double.net/'. Reported by David Bo in #3070411.
- - Block 'gm-link.com/' whis is used for email tracking.
+ - Block 'gm-link.com/' which is used for email tracking.
Reported by David Bo in #1812733.
- Verify that requests to "bwp." are blocked. URL taken from #1736879
submitted by Francois Marier.
- Spell 'refresh-tags' correctly. Reported by Don in #3571927.
- Sort manpage options alphabetically.
- Remove an incorrect sentence in the toggle section. The toggle state
- doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon and
- having to toggle Privoxy off to not show the icon makes no sense anyway.
+ doesn't affect whether or not the Windows version uses the tray icon.
Reported by Zeno Kugy in #3596395.
- - Add the DNT header to the client-header-order example.
- Add new contributors since 3.0.19.
- Log message improvements:
- When stopping to watch a client socket due to pipelining, additionally log
the socket number.
- - log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
+ - Log the client socket and its condition before closing it. This makes it
more obvious that the socket actually gets closed and should help when
diagnosing problems like #3464439.
- In case of SOCKS5 failures, do not explicitly log the server's response.
"debug 32768" anyway. This reverts v1.81 and the follow-up bug fix v1.84.
- Relocate the connection-accepted message from listen_loop() to serve().
This way it's printed by the thread that is actually serving the
- connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files. While
- at it, use an upper-case first character which is more consistent with the
- other log messages.
+ connection which is nice when grepping for thread ids in log files.
- Code cleanups:
- Remove compatibility layer for versions prior to 3.0 since it has been
- Various data type corrections.
- Change visibility of several code segments when compiling without
FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE enabled for clarity.
- - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters ouside the ASCII range.
+ - In pcrs_get_delimiter(), do not use delimiters outside the ASCII range.
Fixes a clang complaint.
- Fix an error message in get_last_url() nobody is supposed to see.
Reported by Matthew Fischer in #3507301.
- Fix a typo in the no-zlib-support complaint. Patch submitted by Matthew
Fischer in #3507304.
- - Update an error message that still tried to print directive_hash as long
- Shorten ssplit()'s prototype by removing the last two arguments. We always
want to skip empty fields and ignore leading delimiters, so having
parameters for this only complicates the API.
- Turn family mismatches in match_sockaddr() into fatal errors.
- Let enlist_unique_header() verify that the caller didn't pass a header
containing either \r or \n.
- - Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int.
- That's what hash_string() actually returns and using a potentiallly larger
- type is at best useless.
+ - Change the hashes used in load_config() to unsigned int. That's what
+ hash_string() actually returns and using a potentially larger type
+ is at best useless.
- Use privoxy_tolower() instead of vanilla tolower() with manual casting of
the argument.
+ - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
- Privoxy-Regression-Test:
+ - Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
+ it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
+ around with the Ignore directive.
+ - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
+ - Include the Privoxy version in the output.
- Various grammar and spelling corrections in documentation and code.
- Additional tests for range requests with filtering enabled.
- Tests with mostly invalid range request.
- - Log to STDOUT instead of STDERR.
- Add a couple of hide-if-modified-since{} tests with different date formats.
- Cleaned up the format of the regression-tests.action file to match the
format of default.action.
- Remove the "Copyright" line from print_version(). When using --help, every
line of screen space matters and thus shouldn't be wasted on things the
user doesn't care about.
- - Fix comment typos.
- - Add an 'Overwrite condition' directive to skip any matching tests before
- it. As it has a global scope, using it is more convenient than clowning
- around with the Ignore directive.
- - Include the Privoxy version in the output.
- Privoxy-Log-Parser:
- Improve the --statistics performance by skipping sanity checks for input
- that shouldn't affect the results anyway. In my non-scientific benchmarks
- this reduces the runtime by about 45%. Also add a --strict-checks option
+ that shouldn't affect the results anyway. Add a --strict-checks option
that enables some of the checks again, just in case anybody cares.
- - Accept and highlight: Stopping to watch the client socket. There's already
- another request waiting.
- - Cleanup variable initialization in print_non_clf_message().
- - Properly highlight the new log messages from get_request_line().
- - Let get_percentage() show 0 of x as 0% even if x is 0 as well.
- - Accept and ignore: Enlisting (sorted|left-over) header ...
- - Accept the shiny new LOG_LEVEL_ACTIONS.
- - Accept and highlight: Closing client socket 5. Keep-alive: 0, Socket
- alive: 1. Data available: 0.
- - Stop suppressing messages about accepted client connections and highlight
- them properly.
- - Accept and highlight: Accepted connection from 10.0.0.1 on socket 5.
- - Accept and highlight: Continuing buffering server headers from socket 5.
- Bytes most recently read: 498.
- - Accept and highlight: Client request 4 arrived in time on socket 7.
- - Accept and highlight: Closing client socket 8. Keep-alive: 1. Socket
- alive: 0. Data available: 0. Configuration file change detected: 0.
- Requests received: 11.
- - Accept and highlight: Drained 180 bytes before closing socket 6.
- - Accept and highlight the extended log message for client sockets.
- - Accept and highlight: Tainting client socket 7 due to unread data.
- - Accept and highlight: Optimistically sending 318 bytes of client
- headers intended for www.privoxy.org.
- - Accept and highlight: Client request 8 has been pipelined on socket 7 and
- the socket is still alive.
- - Accept: There better be a request body.
- - Accept and highlight: Shifting 360 pipelined bytes by 360 bytes.
- - Accept and highlight: Multiple Content-Type headers detected. Removing and
- ignoring: Content-Type: text/html.
+ - The distribution of client requests per connection is included in
+ the --statistic output.
+ - The --accept-unknown-messages option has been removed and the behavior
+ is now the default.
+ - Accept and (mostly) highlight new log messages introduced with
+ Privoxy 3.0.20.
- uagen:
- - Bump generated Firefox version to 16.
-
-- CGI interface improvements & bug fixes:
- - Remove an unreasonable parameter limit in parse_cgi_parameters(). The new
- parameter limit depends on the memory available and is currently unlikely
- to be reachable, due to other limits in both Privoxy and common clients.
- Reported by Andrew on ijbswa-users@.
- - Catch ssplit() failures in parse_cgi_parameters().
- - Deal with unsupported methods sent to the CGI pages by discarding any
- data following the headers.
+ - Bump generated Firefox version to 17.
- GNUmakefile improvements:
- The dok-tidy target no longer taints documents with a tidy-mark
- Let w3m itself do the line wrapping for the config file. It works better
than fmt as it can honour pre tags causing less unintentional line breaks.
- Ditch a pointless '-r' passed to rm to delete files.
- - Prevent completely empty lines in configure and try to unfold
- unintentional line breaks.
- - Let the config-file target optimistically update the original. Most of the
- issues are fixed now and it makes diffing with git easier.
+ - The config-file target now requires less manual intervention and updates
+ the original config.
- Change WDUMP to generate ASCII. Add WDUMP_UTF8 to allow UTF-8 in the
AUTHORS file so the names are right.
- Stop pretending that lynx and links are supported for the documentation.
- configure improvements:
- On Haiku, do not pass -lpthread to the compiler. Haiku's pthreads
implementation is contained in its system library, libroot, so no
- additional library needs to be searched. Patch submitted by Simon South in
- #3564815.
+ additional library needs to be searched.
+ Patch submitted by Simon South in #3564815.
- Additional Haiku-specific improvements. Disable checks intended for
multi-user systems as Haiku is presently single-user. Group Haiku-specific
settings in their own section, following the pattern for Solaris, OS/2 and
AmigaOS. Add additional library-related settings to remove the need for
- providing configure with custom LDFLAGS. Submitted by Simon South in
- #3574538.
- - Several improvements for clarity, diffability and logic.
+ providing configure with custom LDFLAGS.
+ Submitted by Simon South in #3574538.
- *** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
+*** Version 3.0.19 Stable ***
- Bug fixes:
- Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered content.
- The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
as fatal errors.
-*** Version 3.0.15 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.15 beta ***
- In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
- Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
- Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
-*** Version 3.0.14 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.14 beta ***
- The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to
reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of
- The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
for groups and id.
-*** Version 3.0.13 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.13 beta ***
- Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided
the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration.
http://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/privoxy-log-parser/
Documentation is available through perldoc(1).
-*** Version 3.0.9 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.9 beta ***
- Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by
the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
config.txt referenced a nonexisting file
- Minor documentation fixes.
-*** Version 3.0.7 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.7 beta ***
- Added zlib support to filter content with gzip and deflate
encoding. (Patch provided by Wil Mahan)
- Changed webinterface default values for hide-user-agent, hide-referrer
and set-image-blocker.
-*** Version 3.0.5 Beta ***
+*** Version 3.0.5 beta ***
- Windows version can be installed/started as a service.
- Windows icon stays blue when Privoxy is idle, green when busy.
user.action. user.action is for personal/local configuration.
- The usual many small and miscellaneous bug and security fixes.
-*** Version 2.9.14 Beta ***
+*** Version 2.9.14 beta ***
- Fix Solaris compile problem (gateway.h and filters.h)
- Makefile fixes for Solaris, FreeBSD (?)
- #include mechansim for common text in templates
- Various other minor fixes.
-*** Version 2.9.13 Beta ***
+*** Version 2.9.13 beta ***
- *NEWS*: The project has been renamed to Privoxy! The new name is
reflected throughout (file locations, etc).
- RPM spec file make over.
-*** Version 2.9.12 Beta ***
+*** Version 2.9.12 beta ***
- **READ**: The default listening PORT is NOW 8118!!! Changed from
8000 due to conflict with NAS (Network Audio Server, whatever that
- Various other minor fixes.
-*** Version 2.9.11 Beta Changes ***
+*** Version 2.9.11 beta Changes ***
- Add "session" cookie concept where cookies exist for the life
of that browser session only (ie never goes to disk).
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-Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2010 the
+Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2013 the
Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
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