-$Id: TODO,v 1.135 2015/12/27 12:56:33 fabiankeil Exp $
-
Some Privoxy-related tasks, sorted by the time they
have been added, not by priority.
The latest version should be available at:
-http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO
+https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob_plain;f=TODO;hb=HEAD
There's work in progress to fund development on these items using
donations. If you want to donate, please have a look at:
-http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
+https://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
1) Add more regression tests. Filters should be tested automatically
(variables too). Could probably reuse large parts of Privoxy-Filter-Test.
11) CGI templates should use semantically-correct HTML
and scale properly.
+ Work in progress.
+
12) Support pipelining for outgoing connections.
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.
-
-16) Filter SSL encrypted content as well.
-
- At the beginning we could use a unencrypted connection between
- client and Privoxy, and use an encrypted connection between
- Privoxy and the server.
-
- This should be good enough for most of the content the
- user would want to filter.
-
19) enable-forward-fallback. Syntax? Suggested by K.R.
21) User Manual delivery doesn't accept multiple slashes. Should it?
Figure out a way to solve this. Introduce a cwd config option?
41) Change documentation framework to one that works cross-platform.
- Evaluate WML.
+ Evaluate WML and txt2tags.
42) Add a DTrace USDT provider. Now that FreeBSD has userland DTrace
support there's no longer any reason not to.
It would probably also make sense to look into what other
projects did when migrating away from SF.
- 2014-05-13: Work in progress. Hosting wish list at the end
- of this file.
+ 2014-05: Work in progress. Hosting wish list at the end
+ of this file. Looks like most of the other projects
+ that left SF had lower standards and moved to hosters
+ that don't come close to sattisfying the requirements.
+ 2016-03: The website has been moved away from SF infrastructure
+ and is also available through https:// now.
+ 2016-04: Server rent for a year has been sponsored by ChameleonJohn.
+ 2016-04: The SF mailing lists have been deprecated, the new ones
+ are available at: https://lists.privoxy.org/
Interested donors: 1.
-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 pretends
- to support it, so we could do it independently from 53).
-
58) Move more template strings from the code into the actual templates.
59) Import the German template translation.
is no legal entity.
65) Polish Website. Probably involves ditching the Docbook
- mess in favour of wml. There are already several threads
- in the mailinglist archives about this. See also #41.
+ mess. There are already several threads in the mailinglist
+ archives about this. See also #41.
66) Stop hard-coding the number of action and filter files.
68) Use standard make syntax so we don't depend on GNU make.
69) Update autoconf setup (or move away from it).
+ Unfortunately the autoconf files can't be simply updated
+ due to license issues:
+ https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-devel/2016-April/000008.html
70) If the server connection is reset but the headers are
received, consider passing the mess to the client instead
82) Detect if the system time goes back in time let the user
know if it caused any connections to get closed.
-85) Once #84 is done, write a script that populates a directory with
+85) Once #51 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.
that makes sense. Like #93, this could be useful as a workaround
for misconfigured setups.
-95) Support a non-standard client header in CONNECT requests that
- contains the URL of the requested resource, which is then treated
- like the request URL.
-
- This way the client could opt-in for path-based blocking of https
- requests. Given that the headers from the CONNECT request aren't
- forwarded to the destination server, an unencrypted URL should be
- acceptable if the client and Privoxy are running on the same system
- or in a trusted environment.
-
96) Filters should be easier to look up. Currently get_filter() has to
go through all filters and skip the filter types the caller isn't
interested in.
-98) When showing action section on the CGI pages, properly escape
+98) When showing action sections on the CGI pages, properly escape
line breaks so they can be copy&pasted into action files without
adjustments.
100) Create a cross-platform Privoxy control program and retire
the win32 GUI. Integrate support for Privoxy-Regression-Test,
Privoxy-Log-Parser, Privoxy-Filter-Test, uagen and similar tools.
+ Interested donors: 1.
102) Add an include directive to split the config file into several parts.
files, but only in w32log.c the tray icon is explicitly set.
The logging is inconsistent as well. For details see #3525694.
-105) Add support for socks authentication.
-
106) actionlist.h should be embedded in a way that causes less text
segment bloat.
running out of stack space, causing the kernel to kill Privoxy
ungracefully.
-121) Add HTTP/2 support. As a first step, incomming HTTP/1.x requests
+121) Add HTTP/2 support. As a first step, incoming HTTP/1.x requests
should be translated to outgoing HTTP/2 requests where possible
(and if desired by the user).
+ Interested donors: 1.
122) Allow customized log messages.
-123) Evaluate if the voluntarily-disclose-session-keys option in Firefox
- (and other browsers) can be leveraged. Probably depends on #16.
-
124) Add support for the "lightweight OS capability and sandbox framework"
Capsicum. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/
Interested donors: 1.
an action so the behaviour can be enabled on a per-request basis.
Interested donors: 1.
-132) Provide a Tor hidden service to reach the Privoxy website.
- Work in progress: http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/
- This hidden service serves a copy of the www.privoxy.org content
- (filtered through Privoxy to replace some absolute URLs).
- Interested donors: 1.
-
133) Consider allowing bitcoin donations.
- Interested donors: 1.
+ Interested donors: 2.
134) Track the total number of bytes written to and received from a socket.
but making the reporting mechanism available again would be a
good idea.
+140) Toggling Privoxy off currently also disables stuff that
+ probably shouldn't be affected (such as actions like
+ forward-override). Investigate and fix or document.
+
141) Port Privoxy to CloudABI, which, despite the name, is actually
- rather neet. https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc
+ rather neat. https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc
142) Remove or update the "internal" pcre version.
143) Add support for OpenBSD's pledge feature once it's stablelized.
This should be a lot less work then #124.
-144) Allow Privoxy admins to pre-define tags that are be set for
- clients that previously opted-in through the CGI interface.
-
- This would be useful in multi-user setups where admins may
- want to allow users to disable certain actions and filters
- for themselves without affecting others.
-
- Even in single-user setups this could be useful to allow
- more fine-grained toggling. For example to disable request
- blocking while still crunching cookies, or to disable
- experimental filters only.
-
-145) Once #144 is implemented, allow clients to opt-in to the
- tagging for a limited amount of time (or number of requests).
-
-146) Once #144 is implemented, optionally allow to safe the opt-in
- status to disk.
+146) Allow to save the internal client tag state to disk and
+ load it after restarts.
+
+147) Improve "Building from Source" section in the user manual.
+ A common problem seems to be that it's not obvious to non-technical
+ users how the listed dependencies can be installed on the commonly
+ used platforms. Adding a couple of examples should also be useful for
+ technical users (like Privoxy developers) who want to install or test
+ Privoxy on platforms they are not familiar with.
+
+148) Add a config directive to change the CGI_SITE_2_HOST
+ (default: config.privoxy.org).
+
+ If Privoxy is used as reverse proxy or intercepting proxy without
+ getting intercepted requests, error pages created from default templates
+ currently can result in client requests to config.privoxy.org on the
+ Internet which may not be desirable.
+
+150) Add blacklistd support.
+
+151) Let the dok-tidy target work cross-platform without introducing
+ a ton of white-space changes that hide the content changes.
+
+152) Fix CSS references in the website documentation.
+ For many pages p_doc.css is specified twice using different paths.
+ Usually at least one works, but not all of them do and the
+ duplicated requests are pointless even if they don't end up with
+ a 404.
+
+153) Catch SIGINT and use it to close the listen socket, serve
+ remaining connections and shut down. This would allow higher
+ uptime and make testing more convenient.
+
+154) Underline links in docs and cgi pages. More precisely,
+ don't mess with the browser defaults for link underlining.
+
+155) The sig_handler() shouldn't call log_error().
+ While it isn't known to cause actual problems in normal operation,
+ it's technically incorrect and causes crashes when running in
+ valgrind.
+
+156) Reject socks requests with an explicit error message similar
+ to the one used for ftp. Motivation:
+ https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-users/2017-March/000195.html
+
+158) Use a single thread to wait for new requests on reused client connections.
+ Currently the thread that handles the first request on a connection
+ stays responsible for the client connect until it gets closed.
+ In case of lots of idle connections lots of waiting threads are used.
+ While it's conceivable that this ineffiency is irrelevant from a
+ performance point of view, using a single thread should reduce Privoxy's
+ memory footprint a bit which may be noticeable in case of multi-user setups
+ with hundreds of idle connections.
+
+160) Add keep-alive support with +https-inspection.
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