-$Id: TODO,v 1.88 2013/12/24 13:35:41 fabiankeil Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.132 2015/08/12 10:38:16 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
-1) Add some regression tests. Filters should be tested automatically
+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
+
+1) Add more regression tests. Filters should be tested automatically
(variables too). Could probably reuse large parts of Privoxy-Filter-Test.
Note that there is currently work in progress to leverage curl's
- test suite which could be used for this as well.
+ test suite, patches have been submitted upstream:
+ http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2014-06/0070.html
3) Fix some more XXX: comments.
macros with strstr() before compiling pcrs commands.
Investigated, needs some restructuring but is probably worth it.
-51) Make user-manual directive more generic to allow serving
- the FAQ and other stuff, too. Consider changing the port
- for "same origin policy" issues.
+51) Make user-manual directive more generic to allow serving the FAQ
+ and files from user-specified directories. Consider changing the
+ port for "same origin policy" issues.
53) Find a more reliable hoster. Involves finding out what our
requirements are and which SF alternatives fulfil them.
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.
+
+ 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).
-55) Apply for Coverity scans: http://scan.coverity.com/
-
-56) Apply for the "free online access for qualified open-source
- software projects" for the Co-Advisor HTTP compliance tests:
- http://coad.measurement-factory.com/details.html#pricing
-
-57) Allow piping into external programs to allow more powerful
- filters and policy decisions. Incomplete support available
- in Fabian's popen branch.
-
58) Move more template strings from the code into the actual templates.
59) Import the German template translation.
82) Detect if the system time goes back in time let the user
know if it caused any connections to get closed.
-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.
+ functionality 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
can cause problems for gpg when uploading keys through Privoxy.
115) Add ICAP (RFC 3507) support. FR #3615158.
+
+116) Due to the use of sscanf(), Privoxy currently will fail to properly
+ parse chunks whose size can't be represented with 32 bit. This is
+ unlikely to cause problems in the real world, but should eventually
+ be fixed anyway. See also:
+ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959100
+
+118) There should be "escaped" dynamic variables that are guaranteed
+ not to break filters.
+
+119) Evaluate using pcre's jit mode.
+
+120) Add an option to limit pcre's recursion limit below the default.
+ On some platforms the recursion limit doesn't prevent pcre from
+ 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
+ should be translated to outgoing HTTP/2 requests where possible
+ (and if desired by the user).
+
+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.
+
+125) Allow clients to HTTPS-encrypt the proxy connection.
+ Interested donors: 1.
+
+126) Run the Co-Advisor HTTP compliance tests, evaluate the results,
+ fix the compliance issues that aren't by design and document
+ the rest.
+ Note that Privoxy developers qualify for free account upgrades:
+ http://coad.measurement-factory.com/details.html#pricing
+
+127) Add "real" CGI support (serve program output instead of forwarding
+ the request). The work is mostly done due to +external-filter{}.
+
+128) Add a config directive to control the stack limit.
+
+129) Completely implement RFC 7230 4.1 (Chunked Transfer Coding).
+ Currently Privoxy doesn't properly deal with trailers which
+ are rarely used in the real world but should be supported anyway.
+
+130) Move header_tagger() out of the parser structs and let it execute
+ taggers one-by-one against all headers so the header order has less
+ influence on the tagging result. As a bonus, dynamic taggers would
+ have to be compiled less often.
+
+131) The handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok directive should be replaced with
+ 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.
+
+134) Track the total number of bytes written to and received from a socket.
+
+135) Add OpenBSM audit support.
+
+136) Make builds reproducible.
+
+137) Add a (preferably vector-based) logo.
+
+138) Bring back the scripts to provide actions file feedback.
+
+ Once upon a time (~2003) there were scripts on the webserver
+ to make reporting action file feedback more convenient for the
+ user and the actual reports more useful for the developers.
+ They have been unusable for years and have thus been disabled,
+ but making the reporting mechanism available again would be a
+ good idea.
+
+141) Port Privoxy to CloudABI, which, despite the name, is actually
+ rather neet. https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc
+
+142) Remove or update the "internal" pcre version.
+
+##########################################################################
+
+Hosting wish list (relevant for #53)
+
+What we need:
+
+- Bug tracker
+- Mailinglists (Mailman with public archives preferred)
+- Webspace (on a Unix-like OS that works with the webserver targets
+ in GNUMakefile)
+- Source code repositories (currently CVS, but migrating away
+ from it is TODO #54 anyway and shouldn't be too much trouble)
+- Commit mails (preferably with unified diffs)
+
+(Unsorted) details to look at when evaluating hosters:
+
+1. Preferably no third-party ads and trackers.
+ External images, CSS and JavaScript may count as trackers
+ but texts like "supported by company XYZ" may be acceptable.
+
+2. JavaScript should be optional or not used at all.
+
+3. Services we don't need shouldn't be enabled anyway.
+ (We currently don't use Web forums, wikis, surveys etc.)
+
+4. It would be preferable if the hoster didn't have a bad track
+ record as far as user experience, security and privacy are
+ concerned and if the terms of service are "reasonable" and
+ haven't changed too often in the past. Updates in the past
+ should have been improvements and not regressions.
+
+5. It would be preferable if most of the server administration
+ is done by a trusted third-party (or at least not a lot of work
+ for us).
+
+6. The server(s) should be located in a country with laws we can
+ understand and follow (or at least not unintentionally violate).
+
+7. A server location in a country with some kind of due process
+ and strong data protection laws (at least on paper) would be
+ preferable.
+
+8. Given that Privoxy is a free software project it would be
+ preferable if the hoster would use free software where possible.
+
+9. Migrating away from the hoster in the future without losing
+ any important data should be possible without writing web
+ scrapers first.
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