-$Id: TODO,v 1.39 2011/04/16 17:29:38 fabiankeil Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.76 2013/01/05 18:39:19 fabiankeil Exp $
-Some Privoxy related tasks, sorted by the time they
+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
(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.
3) Fix some more XXX: comments.
-4) Fix some more compiler warnings. (Especially on amd64)
- Partly done.
-
6) Remove actions that aren't needed anymore:
content-type-overwrite should probably stay as it's also
11) CGI templates should use semantically-correct HTML
and scale properly.
-12) Add pipelining support.
-
-13) Use zlib to deflate content before sending it to
- the client. Measure if it makes a difference.
-
- 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.
+12) Support pipelining for outgoing connections.
14) Allow to filter POST parameters.
38) In the final results, explicitly list disabled multi actions
with their parameters. Not as trivial as it sounds.
-40) Fix core dumping in daemon mode. Introduce a cwd config option?
+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. Now that FreeBSD has userland DTrace
+42) Add a DTrace USDT provider. Now that FreeBSD has userland DTrace
support there's no longer any reason not to.
43) Write a tool to check URL patterns against URLs in the log file.
44) Privoxy-Log-Parser: Consider highlighting "Connection" in:
23:13:03.506 283b6100 Header: Replaced: 'Connection: Keep-Alive' with 'Connection: close'
-49) Add FAQ for NTLM proxies. Still necessary?
-
50) Investigate possible PCRS template speedup when searching
macros with strstr() before compiling pcrs commands.
Investigated, needs some restructuring but is probably worth it.
is no legal entity.
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.
+ mess in favour of wml. There are already several threads
+ in the mailinglist archives about this. See also #41.
-66) Increase maximum number of action and filter files.
+66) Stop hard-coding the 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.
received, consider passing the mess to the client instead
of showing the connect-failed template. Relates to #2698674.
-71) Allow to listen on multiple addresses without having to
- bind to all.
-
74) Let Privoxy-Regression-Test optionally check that action
sections which disable actions actually are preceded by
sections that enable said actions.
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.
trivial, though.
88) Investigate if there's a Perl module that Privoxy-Regression-Test
- could optionally use to keep connections alive.
+ could optionally use to keep connections alive, preferably while
+ requiring less forks at the same time.
89) When multiple block actions apply, consider showing all the block
reasons on the blocked page that haven't been overruled, not just
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.
+
+93) Add a config directive to let Privoxy explicitly request either
+ IPv4 (or IPv6) addresses, even if the system supports both.
+ Could be useful as a workaround for misconfigured setups where the
+ libc returns IPv6 addresses even if there's no IPv6 connectivity.
+
+94) Add a config directive to let Privoxy prefer either IPv4 (or IPv6)
+ addresses, instead of trusting the libc to return them in an order
+ 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 ressource, 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) Enabled filters should be easier to look up. Currently most functions
+ that work with filters spent more (duplicated) code on finding
+ filters than on actually doing something useful with them. Dividing
+ filters by type instead of filter file would reduce the lookup-code
+ quite a bit.
+
+98) When showing action section on the CGI pages, properly escape
+ line breaks so they can be copy&pasted into action files without
+ adjustments.
+
+99) Figure out a mechanism through which a user can easily enable
+ site-specific action sections that are too aggressive to be
+ enalbled by default. This could be similiar to the presettings
+ in default.action, but could also be just another action file
+ that isn't used by default.
+
+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.
+
+102) Add an include directive to split the config file into several parts.
+
+103) Potential performance improvement for large action files:
+ when figuring out which actions apply, check the action bitmask
+ before pattern matching and skip section that wouldn't modify the
+ actions already set. To increase the impact the sections would have
+ to be applied in reverse.
+
+104) The code to modify global_toggle_state should be factored out into
+ a separate function. Currently we mess with it in three different
+ 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.
+
+107) Support more pcrs variables, for example $destination-ip-address
+ and $source-ip-address.
+
+108) Allow to use a somewhat random string intead of PRIVOXY-FORCE.
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