<!entity copyright SYSTEM "copyright.sgml">
<!entity license SYSTEM "license.sgml">
<!entity p-version "3.0.11">
-<!entity p-status "UNRELEASED">
-<!entity % p-not-stable "INCLUDE">
-<!entity % p-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity p-status "stable">
+<!entity % p-not-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity % p-stable "INCLUDE">
<!entity % p-text "IGNORE"> <!-- define we are not a text only doc -->
<!entity % p-doc "INCLUDE"> <!-- and we are a formal doc -->
<!entity % p-supp-userman "INCLUDE"> <!-- Include all from supported.sgml -->
<!entity my-copy "©"> <!-- kludge for docbook2man -->
<!entity % p-newstuff "INCLUDE"> <!-- exclude stuff from devel versions -->
+<!entity % seealso-extra "INCLUDE"> <!-- extra stuff from seealso.sgml -->
<!entity my-app "<application>Privoxy</application>">
]>
<!--
This file belongs into
ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
- $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.49 2009/02/10 16:30:20 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.55 2009/02/19 02:20:21 hal9 Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.49 2009/02/10 16:30:20 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.55 2009/02/19 02:20:21 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
<quote>browser</quote> or not. Though this may not be the best approach for
dealing with some of the common abuses of HTML in email. See <link
linkend="outlook">How can I configure <application>Privoxy</application>
- with <application>Outlook Express</application>?</link> below for more on
+ with <application>Outlook</application>?</link> below for more on
this.
</para>
<para>
</sect2>
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="outlook">
-<title>How can I configure Privoxy for use with Outlook
- Express?</title>
+<title>How can I configure Privoxy for use with Outlook?</title>
<para>
- <application>Outlook Express</application> uses <application>Internet Explorer</application>
- components to both render HTML, and fetch any HTTP requests that may be embedded in an HTML email.
- So however you have <application>Privoxy</application> configured to work
- with IE, this configuration should automatically be shared.
+ Versions of <application>Outlook</application> prior to Office 2007, use
+ <application>Internet Explorer</application> components to both render HTML,
+ and fetch any HTTP requests that may be embedded in an HTML email. So however
+ you have <application>Privoxy</application> configured to work with IE, this
+ configuration should automatically be shared, at least with older version of
+ Internet Explorer.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft is instead using the MS-Word rendering
+ engine with Outlook. It is unknown whether this can be configured to use a
+ proxy.
+ <!-- FIXME HB 2009-02-15 -->
</para>
</sect2>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="se-linux">
+<title>I get selinux error messages. How can I fix this?</title>
+<para>
+ Please report the problem to the creator of your selinux policies.
+</para>
+<para>
+ The problem is that some selinux policy writers aren't familiar
+ with the application they are trying to <quote>secure</quote> and
+ thus create policies that make no sense.
+</para>
+<para>
+ In <application>Privoxy's</application> case the problem usually
+ is that the policy only allows outgoing connections for certain
+ destination ports (e.g. 80 and 443). While this may cover the
+ standard ports, websites occasionally use other ports as well.
+ This isn't a security problem and therefore <application>Privoxy's</application>
+ default configuration doesn't block these requests.
+</para>
+<para>
+ If you really want to block these ports (and don't be able
+ to load websites that don't use standard ports), you should
+ configure Privoxy to block these ports as well, so it doesn't
+ trigger the selinux warnings.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="gentoo-ricers">
+<title>I compiled &my-app; with Gentoo's portage and it appears to be very slow. Why?</title>
+<para>
+ Probably you unintentionally compiled &my-app; without threading support
+ in which case requests have to be serialized and only one can be served
+ at the same time.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Check your <quote>USE</quote> flags and make sure they include
+ <quote>threads</quote>. If they don't, add the flag and rebuild &my-app;.
+</para>
+<para>
+ If you compiled &my-app; with threading support (on POSIX-based systems),
+ the <quote>Conditional #defines</quote> section on <ulink
+ url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</ulink>
+ will list <quote>FEATURE_PTHREAD</quote> as <quote>enabled</quote>.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+
</sect1>
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$Log: faq.sgml,v $
+Revision 2.55 2009/02/19 02:20:21 hal9
+Make some links in seealso conditional. Man page is now privoxy only links.
+
+Revision 2.54 2009/02/15 20:47:12 hal9
+Fix small typo.
+
+Revision 2.53 2009/02/15 20:46:13 hal9
+Update Outlook HTML rendering engine comments re: Office 2007.
+
+Revision 2.52 2009/02/14 10:27:52 fabiankeil
+Finish last paragraph in the selinux entry which
+I unintentionally committed with the last commit.
+
+Revision 2.51 2009/02/12 16:08:26 fabiankeil
+Declare the code stable.
+
+Revision 2.50 2009/02/11 18:13:36 fabiankeil
+State the obvious.
+
Revision 2.49 2009/02/10 16:30:20 fabiankeil
Add a workaround for "unauthenticated content" warnings on HTTPS sites.
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