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<!entity copyright SYSTEM "copyright.sgml">
<!entity license SYSTEM "license.sgml">
-<!entity p-version "3.0.11">
+<!entity p-version "3.0.17">
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+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.76 2010/11/22 10:35:02 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
<subscript>
<!-- Completely the wrong markup, but very little is allowed -->
<!-- in this part of an article. FIXME -->
- <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2009 by
+ <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2010 by
<ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy Developers</ulink>
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.59 2009/03/28 15:33:41 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.76 2010/11/22 10:35:02 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
url="../developer-manual/index.html">Developer's Manual</ulink>.
While it is partly out of date, it's still worth reading.
</para>
+<para>
+ Our <ulink url="http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO?view=markup">TODO list</ulink>
+ may be of interest to you as well.
+ Please let us know if you want to work on one of the items listed.
+</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="donate"><title>Would you like to donate?</title>
please have a look at
<ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's donation page</ulink>
to see what the options are.
-<para>
+</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<title>There are several different <quote>actions</quote> files. What are
the differences?</title>
<para>
- Three actions files
- are being included by the developers, to be used for
- different purposes: These are
- <filename>default.action</filename>, the <quote>main</quote> actions file
- which is actively maintained by the <application>Privoxy</application>
- developers and typically sets the default policies, <filename>user.action</filename>,
- where users are encouraged to make their private customizations.
- Please see <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html">the actions chapter</ulink>
- in the <ulink url="../user-manual/index.html">User Manual</ulink> for a more
- detailed explanation.
-</para>
-
-<para>
- Earlier versions included three different versions of the
- <filename>default.action</filename> file. The new scheme allows for
- greater flexibility of local configuration, and for browser based
- selection of pre-defined <quote>aggressiveness</quote> levels.
+ Please have a look at the <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html">the actions chapter</ulink>
+ in the <ulink url="../user-manual/index.html">User Manual</ulink> for a detailed explanation.
</para>
</sect2>
<para>
If you run <application>Privoxy</application> for multiple untrusted users (e.g. in
a LAN) or aren't entirely in control of your own browser, you will probably want
- to make sure that the the web-based editor and remote toggle features are
+ to make sure that the web-based editor and remote toggle features are
<quote>off</quote> by setting <quote><literal><ulink
url="../user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</ulink>
0</literal></quote> and <quote><literal><ulink
<ulink
url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#FILTER"><literal>filter</literal>
action</ulink> in one of the actions files. Content filtering is automatically
- disabled for inappropriate MIME types, but if you now better than Privoxy
+ disabled for inappropriate MIME types, but if you know better than Privoxy
what should or should not be filtered you can filter any content you like.
</para>
<para>
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="otherproxy">
-<title>How can I make Privoxy work with other
-proxies like Squid or Tor?</title>
+<title>How can I make Privoxy work with other proxies?</title>
<para>
This can be done and is often useful to combine the benefits of
- <application>Privoxy</application> with those of a another proxy.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> with those of a another proxy,
+ for example to cache content.
See the <ulink
url="../user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING">forwarding chapter</ulink>
in the <ulink url="../user-manual/index.html">User Manual</ulink> which
- describes how to do this, and the <link linkend="TOR">
- How do I use Privoxy together with
- Tor</link> section below.
+ describes how to do this. If you intend to use Privoxy with Tor,
+ please also have a look at
+ <link linkend="TOR">How do I use Privoxy together with Tor</link>.
</para>
</sect2>
<para>
No, its more complicated than that. This only works with special kinds
- of proxies known as <quote>intercepting</quote> proxies (see below).
+ of proxies known as <quote>intercepting</quote> proxies
+ (<link linkend="INTERCEPTING">see below</link>).
</para>
</sect2>
<para>
However, some people say <quote>transparent proxy</quote> when they
mean <quote>intercepting proxy</quote>. If you are one of them,
- please read the <ulink url="#intercepting">next entry</ulink>.
+ please read the <link linkend="INTERCEPTING">next entry</link>.
</para>
</sect2>
If you verified that <application>Privoxy</application> and <application>Tor</application>
are working, it is time to connect them. As far as <application>Privoxy</application>
is concerned, <application>Tor</application> is just another proxy that can be reached
- by socks4 or socks4a. Most likely you are interested in <application>Tor</application>
- to increase your anonymity level, therefore you should use socks4a, to make sure DNS requests are
- done through <application>Tor</application> and thus invisible to your local network.
+ by socks4, socks4a and socks5. Most likely you are interested in <application>Tor</application>
+ to increase your anonymity level, therefore you should use socks5, to make sure DNS
+ requests are done through <application>Tor</application> and thus invisible to your
+ local network. Using socks4a would work too, but with socks5 you get more precise error
+ messages.
</para>
<![%p-newstuff;[
</para>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="surprise-privoxy">
+<title>How did you manage to get Privoxy on my computer without my consent?</title>
+
+<para>
+ We didn't. We make Privoxy available for download, but we don't go
+ around installing it on other people's systems behind their back.
+ If you discover Privoxy running on your system and are sure you didn't
+ install it yourself, somebody else did. You may not even be running
+ the real Privoxy, but maybe something else that only pretends to be
+ Privoxy, or maybe something that is based on the real Privoxy,
+ but has been modified.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Lately there have been reports of problems with some kind of
+ Privoxy versions that come preinstalled on some Netbooks.
+ Some of the problems described are inconsistent with the behaviour
+ of official Privoxy versions, which suggests that the preinstalled
+ software may contain vendor modifications that we don't know about
+ and thus can't debug.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Privoxy's <link linkend="copyright">license</link> allows vendor
+ modifications, but the vendor has to comply with the license,
+ which involves informing the user about the changes and to make
+ the changes available under the same license as Privoxy itself.
+</para>
+<para>
+ If you are having trouble with a modified Privoxy version,
+ please try to talk to whoever made the modifications before
+ reporting the problem to us. Please also try to convince
+ whoever made the modifications to talk to us. If you think
+ somebody gave you a modified Privoxy version without complying
+ to the license, please let us know.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
</sect1>
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+Revision 2.76 2010/11/22 10:35:02 fabiankeil
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+Revision 2.75 2010/11/13 10:08:00 fabiankeil
+Fix a link to the 'intercepting' entry and add another one
+
+Revision 2.74 2010/11/13 10:07:46 fabiankeil
+Remove the product names in the 'otherproxy' entry's title.
+
+I'm tired of getting the 'otherproxy' entry as first hit
+when searching the index for the Tor FAQ.
+
+Revision 2.73 2010/11/06 12:55:48 fabiankeil
+Set p-version to 3.0.17
+
+Revision 2.72 2010/02/27 12:13:17 fabiankeil
+Fix spelling.
+
+Revision 2.71 2010/02/27 12:12:13 fabiankeil
+Consistently recommending socks5 in the Tor entry and mention its advantage compared to socks4a.
+Reported by David in #2960129.
+
+Revision 2.70 2010/02/20 18:08:31 ler762
+fix typo
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+Revision 2.69 2010/02/13 17:38:27 fabiankeil
+Update entities for 3.0.16 stable.
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+Revision 2.68 2010/01/30 19:51:28 fabiankeil
+New FAQ entry: How did you manage to get Privoxy on my computer without my consent?
+
+Also bump copyright.
+
+Revision 2.67 2009/11/15 14:24:12 fabiankeil
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+
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+
+Revision 2.65 2009/07/18 16:24:39 fabiankeil
+Bump entities for 3.0.14 beta.
+
+Revision 2.64 2009/07/18 12:18:52 fabiankeil
+Don't describe the action files in the FAQ when we can simply link to the description in the User Manual.
+
+Revision 2.63 2009/06/15 15:08:03 fabiankeil
+Patch #2806626 from Frédéric Crozat to fix a closing tag.
+
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+
+Revision 2.61 2009/06/12 11:52:33 fabiankeil
+Mention the TODO list in the participate entry.
+
+Revision 2.60 2009/04/07 12:25:05 fabiankeil
+In the "I would like to help ..." entry:
+- Change the ids to more general ones as helping out doesn't require
+ joining the team (and joining the team requires significantly helping
+ out first, anyway).
+- Add links to the subscription pages for the main mailing lists.
+
Revision 2.59 2009/03/28 15:33:41 fabiankeil
Recommend the use of forward-socks5 when forwarding to Tor.
The error messages are more detailed than with forward-socks4a.