-$Id: TODO,v 1.11 2010/01/24 15:37:39 fabiankeil Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.44 2011/04/16 17:31:35 fabiankeil Exp $
-Some Privoxy related task, not ordered in any way.
+Some Privoxy related tasks, sorted by the time they
+have been added, not by priority.
1) Add some regression tests. Filters should be tested automatically
(variables too). Could probably reuse large parts of Privoxy-Filter-Test.
12) Add pipelining support.
-13) Use zlib to compress content before sending it to
+13) Use zlib to deflate content before sending it to
the client. Measure if it makes a difference.
-14) Log and filter POST parameters.
+ Update:
+ Note that this is already being worked on and mostly done
+ for buffered content and internal CGI responses.
+
+ The difference it does make, seems to be that it slows things
+ down if the client and Privoxy are running on the same system,
+ so for most users enabling it will make no sense.
+
+14) Allow to filter POST parameters.
15) If trusted CGI pages are requested without trusted referrer,
set the status code to 403 instead of 200.
32) In case of forwarding failures with socks port == 9050,
show extra info about Tor (the whole FAQ entry?).
-35) Do less work in the accept_connection() thread.
- Partly done. Good enough?
-
36) Unload unused action files directly, even if they are
disabled without replacement.
38) In the final results, explicitly list disabled multi actions
with their parameters. Not as trivial as it sounds.
-39) Verify loadcfg.c jarfile reloading and friends.
- /* XXX: Does disabling this actually work? */
-
-40) Fix core dumping in daemon mode.
+40) When running in daemon mode, Privoxy's working directory is '/'
+ which means it may not have permissions to dump core when necessary.
+ Figure out a way to solve this. Introduce a cwd config option?
41) Change documentation framework to one that works cross-platform.
Evaluate WML.
-42) Add DTrace hooks.
+42) Add DTrace hooks. Now that FreeBSD has userland DTrace
+ support there's no longer any reason not to.
+ DTrace bible preorderd.
43) Write a tool to check URL patterns against URLs in the log file.
This could be included in Privoxy-Regression-Test.
projects did when migrating away from SF.
54) Move away from CVS to a more modern revision control system.
+ Find out if there are any objection against going with Git.
+ Using Git would also have the advantage that SF now pretents
+ to support it, so we could do it independently from 53).
55) Apply for Coverity scans: http://scan.coverity.com/
http://coad.measurement-factory.com/details.html#pricing
57) Allow piping into external programs to allow more powerful
- filters and policy decisions.
+ filters and policy decisions. Incomplete support available
+ in Fabian's popen branch.
58) Move more template strings from the code into the actual templates.
64) Use proper copyright attribution. "Privoxy Developers"
is no legal entity.
-65) Polish Website.
+65) Polish Website. Probably involves ditching the Docbook
+ mess in favour of wml. There should be already some threads
+ in the mailinglists archives about this. See also #41.
66) Increase maximum number of action and filter files.
-67) Clean up directory layout. Depends on 54 so we don't
- lose the revision history.
+67) Clean up source code directory layout. Depends on 54 so
+ we don't lose the revision history.
68) Use standard make syntax so we don't depend on GNU make.
71) Allow to listen on multiple addresses without having to
bind to all.
-73) Factor FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING out of
- FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE so the later can be enabled
- on platforms without mutex support as well.
-
74) Let Privoxy-Regression-Test optionally check that action
sections which disable actions actually are preceded by
sections that enable said actions.
75) Create a tool that creates Privoxy action (and filter?) files
out of adblock files. Could be implemented as option for
url-pattern-translator.pl.
+
+76) Cache DNS responses. Note that this has been requested
+ several times by users, but is not a developer priority.
+ If you care about this, feel free to submit patches.
+
+77) Allow to configure the IP address used in outgoing connections.
+
+78) Allow to optionally use pcre's DFA algorithm.
+
+79) Evaluate pcre alternatives.
+
+80) Change FEATURE_EXTENDED_HOST_PATTERNS to support both
+ extended and vanilla host patterns at the same time.
+
+ Note that the requirement is to allow the user to decide
+ if the domain pattern should be interpreted as regex or
+ traditional host pattern and if it's not obvious that the
+ user made any decision, default to the latter.
+
+ Possible solutions would be:
+
+ 1. An always-use-regex-domain-patterns config option
+ 2. An enable-regex-domain-patterns-for-this-action-file option
+ 3. An enable-regex-domain-patterns-for-this-action-file-until-the-user-says-otherwise option
+ 4. A treat-the-domain-pattern-in-this-line-as-regex(-or-not) option
+ 5. Combinations of the options above
+
+ With 2+4, 3+4 or 2+3+4 being the preferences until
+ further discussion.
+
+82) Detect if the system time goes back in time let the user
+ know if it caused any connections to get closed.
+
+83) Make the FAQ available through the CGI interface like the
+ user manual is.
+
+84) Flesh out the user-manual delivery to serve pages from
+ other directories, too.
+
+85) Once #84 is done, write a script that populates a directory with
+ various common third-party icons (stumbleupon.png, facebook.png ...)
+ and redirect requests for them to Privoxy.
+
+86) Add a server-body-tagger action. This is trivial as as all the
+ functionallity required to do it already exists.
+
+87) Add a client-body-tagger action. This is less trivial as we currently
+ don't buffer client bodies. After 14) is implemented it would be
+ trivial, though.
+
+88) Investigate if there's a Perl module that Privoxy-Regression-Test
+ could optionally use to keep connections alive.
+
+89) When multiple block actions apply, consider showing all the block
+ reasons on the blocked page that haven't been overruled, not just
+ the last one.
+
+90) Implement NO-TAG: patterns that enable a section if the
+ provided pattern doesn't match any TAG. This would make
+ some things cleaner.
+
+91) Add an optional limit for internal redirects. It would probably
+ be reasonable to default to a limit of one and showing an error
+ message if the request for the redirect URL would be redirected
+ again.
+
+92) The statistics currently aren't calculated correctly by Privoxy
+ as each thread is only counted as one request which is no longer
+ correct. This should be fixed, or the statistic code removed.
+ Privoxy-Log-Parser's provides more detailed statistics, anyway.
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