http://www.privoxy.org/ for more information. The current code maturity level
is "beta", but seems stable to us :).
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Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling
Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
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1. IMPORTANT CHANGES
It will remain a development cycle with no actual release. 3.0.5 is the fruit
of these efforts.
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2. INSTALL
See the INSTALL file in this directory, for installing from raw source, and the
User Manual, for all other installation types.
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3. RUN
-privoxy [——help] [——version] [——no-daemon] [——pidfile PIDFILE] [——user USER
-[.GROUP]] [——chroot] [config_file]
+privoxy [??help] [??version] [??no-daemon] [??pidfile PIDFILE] [??user USER
+[.GROUP]] [??chroot] [??pre?chroot?nslookup HOSTNAME ][config_file]
See the man page or User Manual for an explanation of each option, and other
configuration and usage issues.
Or Debian: /etc/init.d/privoxy start
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4. CONFIGURATION
All configuration files are subject to unannounced changes during the
development process.
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5. DOCUMENTATION
documentation is posted on http://www.privoxy.org, in case you don't have it,
or can't find it.
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6. CONTACTING THE DEVELOPERS, BUG REPORTING AND FEATURE REQUESTS
configuration. However, please note the following hints, so we can provide you
with the best support:
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6.1. Get Support
get CC'd. Otherwise some responses will be directed to the mailing list only,
and you won't see them.
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6.2. Reporting Problems
"Problems" for our purposes, come in two forms:
- • Configuration issues, such as ads that slip through, or sites that don't
+ * Configuration issues, such as ads that slip through, or sites that don't
function properly due to one Privoxy "action" or another being turned "on".
- • "Bugs" in the programming code that makes up Privoxy, such as that might
+ * "Bugs" in the programming code that makes up Privoxy, such as that might
cause a crash.
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6.2.1. Reporting Ads or Other Configuration Problems
your feedback. These will be announced on the ijbswa-announce list and
available from our the files section of our project page.
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6.2.2. Reporting Bugs
Please be sure to provide the following information:
- • The exact Privoxy version you are using (if you got the source from CVS,
+ * The exact Privoxy version you are using (if you got the source from CVS,
please also provide the source code revisions as shown in http://
config.privoxy.org/show-version).
- • The operating system and versions you run Privoxy on, (e.g. Windows XP
+ * The operating system and versions you run Privoxy on, (e.g. Windows XP
SP2), if you are using a Unix flavor, sending the output of "uname -a"
should do, in case of GNU/Linux, please also name the distribution.
- • The name, platform, and version of the browser you were using (e.g.
+ * The name, platform, and version of the browser you were using (e.g.
Internet Explorer v5.5 for Mac).
- • The URL where the problem occurred, or some way for us to duplicate the
+ * The URL where the problem occurred, or some way for us to duplicate the
problem (e.g. http://somesite.example.com/?somethingelse=123).
- • Whether your version of Privoxy is one supplied by the Privoxy developers
+ * Whether your version of Privoxy is one supplied by the Privoxy developers
via SourceForge, or if you got your copy somewhere else.
- • Whether you are using Privoxy in tandem with another proxy such as Tor. If
+ * Whether you are using Privoxy in tandem with another proxy such as Tor. If
so, please temporary disable the other proxy to see if the symptoms change.
- • Whether you are using a personal firewall product. If so, does Privoxy work
+ * Whether you are using a personal firewall product. If so, does Privoxy work
without it?
- • Any other pertinent information to help identify the problem such as config
+ * Any other pertinent information to help identify the problem such as config
or log file excerpts (yes, you should have log file entries for each action
taken).
The appendix of the Privoxy User Manual also has helpful information on
understanding actions, and action debugging.
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6.3. Request New Features
improvement through our feature request tracker at http://sourceforge.net/
tracker/?atid=361118&group_id=11118.
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6.4. Other
projects / privoxy.git / blobdiff