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- Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
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-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.135 2017/03/27 10:22:27 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
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warranty? Registration?</title>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> is free software and licensed under the <ulink
- url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2</ulink>.
+ url="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2</ulink>.
It is free to use, copy, modify or distribute as you wish under the terms of this
license. Please see the <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> section for more
information on the license and copyright. Or the <filename>LICENSE</filename> file
<ulink url="https://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's general donation page</ulink>.
</para>
-<para>
- You can also donate to Privoxy using a bank account or a "Paypal" address:
-</para>
-<literallayout>
- Name on account: <ulink url="https://www.zwiebelfreunde.de/">Zwiebelfreunde e.V.</ulink>
- IBAN: DE95430609671126825604
- BIC: GENODEM1GLS
- Bank: GLS Bank
-</literallayout>
-<literallayout>
- "Paypal" address: privoxy@zwiebelfreunde.de
-</literallayout>
-<para>
- Donations made through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. are tax-deductible in Germany
- and other countries that recognize German charitable clubs. Feel free to
- use the Subject field to provide a name to be credited and a list of TODO
- list items you are interested in the most. For example: Max Mustermann: #16, #1, #14.
-</para>
-
-<para>
- Note that donations made through Zwiebelfreunde e.V. currently can't be checked
- automatically so you may not get credited right away. The credits currently
- reflect donations received before 2016-01-14.
-</para>
-
<para>
If you have any questions regarding donations please mail to either the
public user mailing list or, if it's a private matter, to
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Gold (10000 EUR/year)</term>
+ <term>Gold (12000 USD/year)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Logo shown at the bottom of the
+ Logo or text link shown at the bottom of the
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy homepage</ulink>.
Logo, link and self description on the
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/sponsors/">sponsor page</ulink>.
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Silver (1000 EUR/year)</term>
+ <term>Silver (1200 USD/year)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Logo shown randomly at the bottom of the
+ Logo or text link shown at the bottom of the
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy homepage</ulink>.
Logo, link and self description on the
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/sponsors/">sponsor page</ulink>.
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Bronze (500 EUR/year)</term>
+ <term>Bronze (600 USD/year)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Logo and link on the <ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/sponsors/">sponsor page</ulink>.
our server, no requests are made to the sponsor website unless
the links are being used.
</para>
+<para>
+ Link targets are without path (<quote>https://www.example.org/</quote>
+ not <quote>https://www.example.org/seo/keyword/spam/</quote>).
+</para>
<para>
The details may change over time but changes will only affect new sponsors
(or existing sponsors that explicitly agreed to the changes).
</para>
<para>
If you want to become a sponsor, please contact
- <ulink url="mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de">Fabian Keil</ulink>.
+ <ulink url="mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de">Fabian Keil</ulink>
+ and include the link target in the mail.
New sponsors are only accepted if no developer objects.
</para>
</sect2>
-<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="actionfile-differences">
<title>There are several different <quote>actions</quote> files. What are
the differences?</title>
<para>
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="getupdates"><title>Where can I get updated Actions Files?</title>
<para>
Based on your feedback and the continuing development, updates of
- <filename>default.action</filename> will be
- made available from time to time on the <ulink
- url="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">files section</ulink> of
- our <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/">project page</ulink>.
+ <filename>default.action</filename> are available from
+ <ulink
+ url="https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob_plain;f=default.action.master;hb=HEAD">git</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
<title>Can Privoxy run as a service
on Win2K/NT/XP?</title>
<para>
-<![%p-newstuff;[
- Yes. Version 3.0.5 introduces full <application>Windows</application> service
- functionality. See <ulink url="../user-manual/installation.html#installation-pack-win">
+ Yes. Full <application>Windows</application> service
+ functionality was introduced in <application>Privoxy</application> 3.0.5.
+ See <ulink url="../user-manual/installation.html#INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">
the <citetitle>User Manual</citetitle></ulink> for details on how to install and configure
<application>Privoxy</application> as a service.
</para>
-<para>
- Earlier ]]>3.x versions could run as a system service using <command>srvany.exe</command>.
- See the discussion at <ulink
- url="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118</ulink>,
- for details, and a sample configuration.
-</para>
</sect2>
<para>
For a good discussion of some of the issues involved (including privacy and
security issues), see
- <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=629518&group_id=11118">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=629518&group_id=11118</ulink>.
+ <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/support-requests/107/"
+ >https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/support-requests/107/</ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
amount of guesswork. It is not realistic to catch all of these short of
disabling Javascript, which would break many sites. And lastly, if the
cookies are embedded in a HTTPS/SSL secure session via Javascript, they are beyond
- <application>Privoxy's</application> reach.
+ <application>Privoxy's</application> reach unless you enable
+ <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#HTTPS-INSPECTION">https-inspection</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
All in all, &my-app; can help manage cookies in general, can help minimize
during upgrades. You can, however, create completely new templates,
place them in another directory and specify the alternate path in the main
<filename>config</filename>. For details, have a look at the <ulink
- url="../user-manual/config.html#templdir">templdir</ulink> option.
+ url="../user-manual/config.html#TEMPLDIR">templdir</ulink> option.
</para>
</sect2>
</para>
<screen>
# forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
- </screen>
+</screen>
<para>
Note that if you got Tor through one of the bundles, you may
have to change the port from 9050 to 9150 (or even another one).
# forward 192.168.*.*/ .
# forward 10.*.*.*/ .
# forward 127.*.*.*/ .
- </screen>
+</screen>
<para>
Unencrypted connections to systems in these address ranges will
be as (un)secure as the local network is, but the alternative is
</para>
<screen>
# forward localhost/ .
- </screen>
+</screen>
<para>
Save the modified configuration file and open
<ulink url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</ulink>
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="ssl">
<title>How can Privoxy filter Secure (HTTPS) URLs?</title>
<para>
- Since secure HTTP connections are encrypted SSL sessions between your browser
- and the secure site, and are meant to be reliably <emphasis>secure</emphasis>,
- there is little that <application>Privoxy</application> can do but hand the raw
+ If you enable
+ <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#HTTPS-INSPECTION">https-inspection</ulink>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> will impersonate the destination
+ server and can thus filter encrypted requests and responses as well.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Without
+ <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#HTTPS-INSPECTION">https-inspection</ulink>
+ secure HTTP connections are encrypted SSL sessions between your
+ browser and the secure site, and there is little
+ that <application>Privoxy</application> can do but hand the raw
gibberish data though from one end to the other unprocessed.
</para>
<para>
for HTTPS.
</para>
<para>
- Adding HTTP/2 support is on the TODO list but currently
- nobody is known to work on it.
+ Adding HTTP/2 support is on the
+ <ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob_plain;f=TODO;hb=HEAD">TODO</ulink>
+ list but currently nobody is known to work on it.
</para>
</sect2>
<para>
Upgrading <application>Privoxy</application>, or going to the most recent
<filename>default.action</filename> file available from <ulink
- url="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">SourceForge</ulink>
+ url="https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob_plain;f=default.action.master;hb=HEAD">git</ulink>
might be worth a try, too.
</para>
</sect2>
this is not considered a Privoxy bug.
</para>
<para>
- To prevent the crashes you can rewrite your filter to use less ressources,
+ To prevent the crashes you can rewrite your filter to use less resources,
increase the relevant memory limit or recompile pcre to use less stack space.
For details please see the
<ulink url="http://pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrestack.html">pcrestack man page</ulink>
</para>
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- <sect2><title>License</title>
+ <sect2 id="privoxy-license"><title>License</title>
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&license;
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- <sect2><title>History</title>
+ <sect2 id="history"><title>History</title>
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&history;
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