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Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com
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+ <Qandaset defaultlabel='qanda'>
+ <QandAEntry>
+ <question>
+ <para>
+ How are you?
+ </para>
+ </question>
+ <answer>
+ <para>
+ Fine.
+ </para>
+ </answer>
+ </QandAEntry>
+ </QandASet>
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-<article id="index">
+
+<article id="index" class="faq">
<artheader>
<title>Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions</title>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.34 2002/03/29 04:35:56 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.38 2002/04/02 03:49:10 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
<authorgroup>
<author>
</authorgroup>
<abstract>
+<![%dummy;[
+<para>
+ <comment>
+ This is here to keep vim syntax file from breaking :/
+ If I knew enough to fix it, I would.
+ PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE! HB: hal@foobox.net
+ </comment>
+</para>
+]]>
<para>
This FAQ gives users and developers alike answers to frequently asked
- questions about <application>Privoxy</application>.
+ questions about <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org">Privoxy</ulink>.
</para>
- <para>
- <application>Privoxy</application> is a web proxy with advanced filtering
- capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing
- cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
- obnoxious Internet junk. <application>Privoxy</application> has a very
- flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and
- tastes. <application>Privoxy</application> has application for both
- stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
-</para>
-<para>
- <application>Privoxy</application> is based on the code of the
- <application>Internet Junkbuster</application>.
- <application>Junkbuster</application> was originally written by JunkBusters
- Corporation, and was released as free open-source software under the GNU GPL.
- Stefan Waldherr made many improvements, and started the SourceForge project
- to continue development.
-</para>
+<!--
+ Include privoxy.sgml boilerplate:
+-->
+ &p-intro;
<para>
-You can find the latest version of the document at <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/faq/">http://www.privoxy.org/faq/</ulink>.
-Please see the Contact section in the
-<ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/contact.html">user-manual</ulink> if you want to contact the developers.
+ You can find the latest version of the document at <ulink
+ url="http://www.privoxy.org/faq/">http://www.privoxy.org/faq/</ulink>.
+ Please see the Contact section in the <ulink
+ url="../user-manual/contact.html">user-manual</ulink> if
+ you want to contact the developers.
</para>
<!-- <para> -->
</abstract>
</artheader>
-
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-
-<!--
-<sect1 id="introduction"><title>Introduction</title>
-<para>
- Fillme.
-</para>
+<sect1 id="intro" label=""><title></title>
+<!-- dummy section to force TOC on page by itself -->
+<!-- DO NOT REMOVE! please ;) -->
+<para> </para>
</sect1>
--->
-<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-
-<sect1 id="questions"><title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect2 id="general"><title>General Information</title>
+<sect1 label="1" id="general"><title>General Information</title>
-<sect
3 id="newjb"><title>What is this new version of <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
+<sect
2 renderas="sect3" id="newjb"><title>What is this new version of <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
<para>
- The original <application>Internet Junkbuster</application> (tm) is a
- copyrighted product of <ulink url="http://www.junkbusters.com">Junkbusters
- Corporation</ulink>. Development of this effort stopped some time ago as of
- version 2.0.2. Stefan Waldherr started the ijbswa project on <ulink
- url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/">Sourceforge</ulink> to rekindle
- development. Other developers subsequently joined with Stefan, and have
- since added many new features, refinements and enhancements. The result
+ The original <application><trademark>Internet
+ Junkbuster</trademark></application> (tm) is a copyrighted product of <ulink
+ url="http://www.junkbusters.com">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
+ Development of this effort stopped some time ago as of version 2.0.2. Stefan
+ Waldherr started the ijbswa project on <ulink
+ url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/">Sourceforge</ulink> to
+ rekindle development. Other developers subsequently joined with Stefan, and
+ have since added many new features, refinements and enhancements. The result
of this effort is <application>Privoxy</application>.
</para>
<para>
- <application>Privoxy</application> started with the
- <application>Junkbuster 2.0.2</application> code base, but has advanced
+ <application>Privoxy</application> has evolved from the
+ <application>Junkbuster 2.0.2</application> code base, and has advanced
significantly at this point.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Please see the <ulink
+ url="../user-manual/copyright.html#HISTORY">user-manual</ulink> for more
+ information on the history of <application>Junkbuster</application> and
+ <application>Privoxy</application>.
+ </para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="whyprivoxy">Why <quote>Privoxy</quote>? Why a name change at all?</title>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> is the
code, that it was time to make a clean break from the past and make
a name in their own right, especially now with the pending release of
version 3.0.
-
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect
3 id="differs"><title>How does <application>Privoxy</application> differ
+<sect
2 renderas="sect3" id="differs"><title>How does <application>Privoxy</application> differ
from the old <application>Junkbuster?</application></title>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> picks up where
not exist any more. This is replaced by <quote>actions</quote> files, such
as <filename>default.actions</filename>. This is where most of the per site
configuration is now.
-
</para>
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3 id="features"><title>What are some of the new features?</title>
-<!--
- This section is in both user-manual and faq. Please keep in sync!!!
--->
-<para>
- <itemizedlist>
+</sect2>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Integrated browser based configuration and control utility (<ulink
- url="http://p.p">http://p.p</ulink>). Browser-based tracing of rule
- and filter effects.
- </para>
- </listitem>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="features"><title>What are some of the new features?</title>
<!--
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Modularized configuration that will allow for system wide settings, and
- individual user settings. (not implemented yet, probably a 3.1 feature)
- </para>
- </listitem>
--->
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Blocking of annoying pop-up browser windows.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- HTTP/1.1 compliant (most, but not all 1.1 features are supported).
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in the configuration files, and
- generally a more sophisticated and flexible configuration syntax over
- previous versions.
- </para>
- </listitem>
+ Include newfeatures.sgml
+-->
+&newfeatures;
- <listitem>
- <para>
- GIF de-animation.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Web page content filtering (removes banners based on size,
- invisible <quote>web-bugs</quote>, JavaScript, pop-ups, status bar abuse,
- etc.)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Bypass many click-tracking scripts (avoids script redirection).
-
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Multi-threaded (POSIX and native threads).
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Auto-detection and re-reading of config file changes.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- User-customizable HTML templates (e.g. 404 error page).
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Improved cookie management features (e.g. session based cookies).
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Improved signal handling, and a true daemon mode (Unix).
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Builds from source on most UNIX-like systems. Packages available for: Linux
- (RedHat, SuSE, or Debian), Windows, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX, OS/2, HP-UX 11 and AmigaOS.
-
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- In addition, the configuration is much more powerful and versatile over-all.
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="proxymoron"><title>What is a <quote>proxy</quote>? How does
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="proxymoron"><title>What is a <quote>proxy</quote>? How does
<application>Privoxy</application> work? </title>
<para>
When you connect to a web site with <application>Privoxy</application>,
fits the <quote>filtering proxy</quote> category.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="knows">How does <application>Privoxy</application> know what is
an ad, and what is not?</title>
<para>
combinations as possible since there tend to be many, many variations used by
advertisers, and new ones are being introduced all the time.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="mistakes">Can <application>Privoxy</application> make mistakes?
This does not sound very scientific.</title>
<para>
(<link linkend="badsite">See the appendix below</link>.)
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="browsers2"><title>My browser does the same things as
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="browsers2"><title>My browser does the same things as
<application>Privoxy</application>. Why should I use
<application>Privoxy</application> at all?</title>
<para>
for possibly many browsers.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="license"><title>Is there is a license or fee? What about a
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="license"><title>Is there is a license or fee? What about a
warranty? Registration?</title>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> is licensed under the
GNU General Public License (GPL). It is free to use, copy,
modify or distribute as you wish under the terms of this license.
- See <ulink
- url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html</ulink>
- for specifics.
+ Please see the
+<ulink url="../user-manual/copyright.html#HISTORY">user-manual</ulink> for
+ more information on the license and copyright.
+
</para>
<para>
There is no warranty of any kind, expressed, implied or otherwise. That is
in every respect!
</para>
-</sect3>
-<sect3 id="jointeam"><title>I would like to help you, what do I do?</title>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="jointeam"><title>I would like to help you, what do I do?</title>
-<sect4 id="jointeam-money"><title>Money Money Money</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jointeam-money"><title>Money Money Money</title>
<para>
We, of course, welcome donations and use the money for domain registering,
regular world-wide get-togethers (hahaha). Anyway, we'll soon describe the
process how to donate money to the team.
</para>
-</sect4>
+</sect3>
-<sect4 id="jointeam-work"><title>You want to work with us?</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jointeam-work"><title>You want to work with us?</title>
<para>
Well, helping the team is always a good idea. We welcome new developers,
RPM gurus or documentation makers. Simply get an account on sourceforge.net
and mail your id to the developer mailing list. Then read the
- section Quickstart in the <ulink url="http://privoxy.org/developer-manual/quickstart.html">
+ section Quickstart in the <ulink url="../developer-manual/quickstart.html">
Developer's Manual</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
Once we have added you to the team, you'll have write access to the CVS
repository, and together we'll find a suitable task for you.
</para>
-</sect4>
-
</sect3>
</sect2>
+</sect1>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect2 id="installation"><title>Installation</title>
+<sect1 label="2" id="installation"><title>Installation</title>
-<sect3 id="whichbrowsers">
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="whichbrowsers">
<title>Which browsers are supported by <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
<para>
Any browser that can be configured to use a <quote>proxy</quote>, which
should be virtually all browsers. Direct browser support is not necessary
since <application>Privoxy</application> runs as a separate application and
- just exchanges standard HTML data with your browser.
+ just exchanges standard HTML data with your browser, just like a web server
+ does.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="whichos">
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="whichos">
<title>Which operating systems are supported?</title>
-<para>
- Right now Win32, Mac OSX, OS/2, AmigaOS, Linux, and many
- flavors of Unix.
-</para>
-
-<para>
- Source code is available, so porting to other operating systems,
- is always a possibility.
-
-</para>
-</sect3>
+<!--
+Include supported.sgml here:
+-->
+&supported;
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="newinstall"><title>Can I install
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="newinstall"><title>Can I install
<application>Privoxy</application> over <application>Junkbuster</application>?</title>
<para>
We recommend you uninstall <application>Junkbuster</application>
Note: Some installers may automatically uninstall
<application>Junkbuster</application>, if present!
</para>
-
-</sect3>
-<sect3>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="firststep">I just installed <application>Privoxy</application>. Is there anything
special I have to do now?</title>
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect
3 id="localhost"><title>What is the proxy address of <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
+<sect
2 renderas="sect3" id="localhost"><title>What is the proxy address of <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
<para>
If you set up the <application>Privoxy</application> to run on
the computer you browse from (rather than your ISP's server or some
protocols such as FTP, SMTP, IM, IRC, ICQ, or other Internet
protocols.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="nothing">I just installed <application>Privoxy</application>, and nothing is happening.
All the ads are there. What's wrong?</title>
</para>
-</sect3>
-
</sect2>
+</sect1>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect2 id="configuration"><title>Configuration</title>
+<sect1 label="3" id="configuration"><title>Configuration</title>
-<sect3 id="newconfig"><title>Can I use my old config files?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="newconfig"><title>Can I use my old config files?</title>
<para>
- There are major changes to <application>Junkbuster</application>
- configuration from version 2.0.x to 2.9.x and later. The older files will
- not work at all. If this is the case, you will need to re-enter your old
- data into the new configuration structure. This is probably also a good
- recommendation even if upgrading from 2.9.x to 3.x since there were
- many minor changes along the way.
+ There are major changes to <application>Junkbuster</application>,
+ <application>Privoxy</application>, configuration from version 2.0.x to
+ 2.9.x and later. Most of the older files will not work at all. This is
+ especially true of <filename>blocklist</filename>. If this is the case, you
+ will need to re-enter your old data into the new configuration structure.
+ This is probably also a good recommendation even if upgrading from 2.9.x to
+ 3.x since there were many minor changes along the way.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="actionsfile">What is an <quote>actions</quote> file?</title>
<para>
configuration (see below).
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="actionss">
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="actionss">
<title>The <quote>actions</quote>concept confuses me. Please list
some of these <quote>actions</quote>.</title>
<para>
<ulink url="../user-manual/configuration.html#ACTIONSFILE">user-manual</ulink>.
Please refer to that.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="actconfig">How are actions files configured? What is the easiest
way to do this?</title>
detailed explanation of these and other configuration files, and their
various options and syntax.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
<!--
FIXME: Commenting these out until we have some data there. HB 03/17/02.
-<sect3 id="yahoo"><title>How can I make my Yahoo account work?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="yahoo"><title>How can I make my Yahoo account work?</title>
<para>
Fillme.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="hotmail"> <title>How can I make my Hotmail account work?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="hotmail"> <title>How can I make my Hotmail account work?</title>
<para>
Fillme.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="gmx"> <title>How can I make my GMX account work?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="gmx"> <title>How can I make my GMX account work?</title>
<para>
Fillme.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-->
-<sect3 id="configfiles"> <title>What are the differences between
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="configfiles"> <title>What are the differences between
intermediate.action, basic.action, etc.?</title>
<para>
Configuring <application>Privoxy</application> is not easy. To help you get
</tgroup>
</table>
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="browseconfig"> <title>Why can I change the configuration with a
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="browseconfig"> <title>Why can I change the configuration with a
browser? Does that not raise security issues?</title>
<para>
What I don't understand, is how I can browser edit the config file as a
Note that normally only local users can connect to <application>Privoxy</application>, so this is not
(normally) a security problem.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="filterfile">What is <quote>default.filter</quote>?</title>
<para>
The <quote>default.filter</quote> file is used to <quote>filter</quote> any
file with the <quote>Actions List Editor</quote> from your browser.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="lanconfig">How can I set up <application>Privoxy</application> to act as a proxy for my
LAN?</title>
<para>
all browsers on the network then to use this address and port number.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="noseeum">Instead of ads, now I get a checkerboard pattern. I don't want to see anything.</title>
<para>
This is a configuration option for images that
<quote>Edit Actions List</quote> selection at <ulink
url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>. Or by hand editing the appropriate
actions file. This will only effect what is defined as <quote>images</quote>
- though. Also, any URLs that generate the bright red <quote>Blocked</quote>
+ though. Also, some URLs that generate the bright red <quote>Blocked</quote>
banner, can be moved to the <quote>+image-blocker</quote> section for the
- same reason.
-
+ same reason, but there are some limits and risks to this (see below).
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="whyseeum">Why would anybody want to see a checkerboard pattern?</title>
<para>
This can be helpful for troubleshooting problems. It might also be good
important.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="blockedisugly">I see large red banners on some pages that say
<quote>Blocked</quote>. Why and how do I get rid of this?</title>
<para>
for you to see why. These are handled differently than what has been defined
explicitly as <quote>images</quote> (e.g. ad banners). Depending on the
URL itself, it is sometimes hard for <application>Privoxy</application> to
- really know whether it is indeed an ad image or not.
+ really know whether there is indeed an ad image there or not. And there are
+ limitations as to what <application>Privoxy</application> can do to
+ <quote>fool</quote> the browser.
</para>
<para>
- If you want them to be treated as if they were images, so that they can be
- made invisible, then move the offending URL from the <quote>+block</quote>
- section to the <quote>+imageblock</quote> section of your actions file. Just
- be forewarned, if make any URL is made <quote>invisible</quote>, you may not
- have any inkling that something has been removed from that page.
+ For instance, if the ad is in a frame, then it is embedded in the separate
+ HTML page used for the frame. In this case, you cannot just substitute an
+ aribitray image (like we would for a <quote>blank</quote> image), for an HTML
+ page. The browser is expecting an HTML page, and that is what it must have
+ for frames. So this situation can be a little trickier to deal with, and
+ <application>Privoxy</application> will use the <quote>Blocked</quote> page.
</para>
+
<para>
- Alternately, you could modify the <quote><filename>block</filename></quote>
- HTML template that is used by <application>Privoxy</application> to display
- this, and make it something more to your liking.
+ If you want these to be treated as if they were images, so that they can be
+ made invisible, you can try moving the offending URL from the
+ <quote>+block</quote> section to the <quote>+imageblock</quote> section of
+ your actions file. Just be forewarned, if any URL is made
+ <quote>invisible</quote>, you may not have any inkling that something has
+ been removed from that page, or why. If this approach does not work, then you are
+ probably dealing with a frame (or <quote>ilayer</quote>), and the only thing
+ that can go there is an HTML page of some sort.
+</para>
+<para>
+ To deal with this situation, you could modify the
+ <quote><filename>block</filename></quote> HTML template that is used by
+ <application>Privoxy</application> to display this, and make it something
+ more to your liking. Currently, there is no configuration option for this.
+ You will have to modify, or create your own page, and use this to replace
+ <filename>templates/blocked</filename>, which is what
+ <application>Privoxy</application> uses to display the <quote>Blocked</quote>
+ page.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Another way to deal with this is find why and where
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is blocking the frame, and
+ diable this. Then let the <quote>+image-blocker</quote> action
+ handle the ad that is embedded in the frame's HTML page.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="alliseeisred">
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="alliseeisred">
<title>I cannot see all of the <quote>Blocked</quote> page banner. All I
see is a bright red square.</title>
<para>
This will usually allow you to see the entire Privoxy <quote>Blocked</quote>
page, and from there you can see just what is being blocked, and why.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="otherproxy">
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="otherproxy">
<title>How can I make <application>Privoxy</application> work with other
proxies like <application>Squid</application>?</title>
<para>
</para>
-</sect3>
-
</sect2>
+</sect1>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect2 id="misc"><title>Miscellaneous</title>
+<sect1 label="4"id="misc"><title>Miscellaneous</title>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="slowsme">How much does <application>Privoxy</application> slow my browsing down? This
has to add extra time to browsing.</title>
<para>
before displaying. See below.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="loadingtimes"><title>I noticed considerable
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="loadingtimes"><title>I noticed considerable
delays in page requests compared to the old Junkbuster. What's wrong?</title>
<para>
Using the default filtering configuration, I noticed considerable delays in
not just replace ads, <application>Privoxy</application> needs to download the
entire page first, do its content magic and then send the page to the browser.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="configurl"><title>What is the "http://p.p/"?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="configurl"><title>What is the "http://p.p/"?</title>
<para>
Since <application>Privoxy</application> sits between your web browser and the Internet, it can be
programmed to handle certain pages specially.
http://example.com/show-proxy-args (but you get far less information, and you
should really consider upgrading to 2.9.x).
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
<!--
FIXME: commented out until we have data. HB 03/18/02.
-<sect3 id="badfiledesc"><title>I get the message 'Bad File Descriptor', why?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="badfiledesc"><title>I get the message 'Bad File Descriptor', why?</title>
<para>
Fillme.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect
3 id="proxy-chaining"><title>How do I chain <application>Privoxy</application> with other proxies
+<sect
2 renderas="sect3" id="proxy-chaining"><title>How do I chain <application>Privoxy</application> with other proxies
(e.g. squid)?</title>
<para>
Fillme.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-->
-<sect3 id="blocklist"><title>Do you still maintain the blocklists?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="blocklist"><title>Do you still maintain the blocklists?</title>
<para>
No. The format of the blocklists has changed significantly in the versions
2.9.x. Once we have released the new stable version, v3.0, there will
again be blocklists that you can update automatically.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="newads"><title>How can I submit new ads?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="newads"><title>How can I submit new ads?</title>
<para>
As of now, please discontinue to submit new ad blocking infos. Once we
have released the new version, there will again be a form on the website,
which you can use to contribute new ads.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="ip"><title>How can I hide my IP address?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="ip"><title>How can I hide my IP address?</title>
<para>
You cannot hide your IP address with <application>Privoxy</application> or any other software, since
the server needs to know your IP address to send the answer to you.
url="http://www.multiproxy.org/anon_list.htm">multiproxy.org</ulink> and many
more through Google.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<!-- <sect3 id="image"><title>What is the imagefile (simage.ini, etc.) for?</title> -->
+<!-- <sect2 renderas="sect3" id="image"><title>What is the imagefile (simage.ini, etc.) for?</title> -->
<!-- <para> -->
<!-- Anytime <application>Privoxy</application> determines (with the help of the blocklist) that a URL -->
<!-- contains an advertisement, it has to decide whether this advertisement is an -->
<!-- image or not. <application>Privoxy</application> uses the imagefile for that purpose. -->
<!-- </para> -->
-<!-- </sect3> -->
+<!-- </sect2> -->
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="anonforsure">Can <application>Privoxy</application> guarantee I am anonymous?</title>
<para>
No. Your chances of remaining anonymous are greatly improved, but unless you
Luke!
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="sitebreak">Might some things break because header information is
being altered?</title>
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="caching">Can <application>Privoxy</application> act as a <quote>caching</quote> proxy to
speed up web browsing?</title>
<para>
before you ask, <application>Privoxy</application> can co-exist
with other kinds of proxies like <application>Squid</application>.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="firewall">What about as a firewall? Can <application>Privoxy</application> protect me?</title>
<para>
Not in the way you mean, or in the way a true firewall can, or a proxy that
has this specific capability. <application>Privoxy</application> can help
protect your privacy, but not really protect you from intrusion attempts.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="logo">The <application>Privoxy</application> logo that replaces ads is very blocky
and ugly looking. Can't a better font be used?</title>
Given the above problem, we have decided to remove the logo option entirely
[as of v2.9.13].
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="wasted">I have large empty spaces now where ads used to be.
Why?</title>
<para>
It is best left this way.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="ssl">How can <application>Privoxy</application> filter Secure (HTTPS) URLs?</title>
<para>
This is a limitation since HTTPS transactions are encrypted SSL sessions
are embedded in the SSL stream though.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="secure"><application>Privoxy</application> runs as a <quote>server</quote>. How
secure is it? Do I need to take any special precautions?</title>
<para>
Of course, a firewall is always good too. Better safe than sorry.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="turnoff">
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="turnoff">
<title>How can I temporarily disable <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
<para>
The easiest way is to access <application>Privoxy</application> with your
and select "Toggle Privoxy on or off" from that page.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="seealso">
+<title>Where can I find more information about <application>Privoxy</application>
+and related issues?</title>
+
+<!--
+ Include seealso.sgml
+-->
+
+ &seealso;
+
+<!--
+<para>
+ Please see the
+ <ulink url="../user-manual/seealso.html">user-manual</ulink> for
+ others references.
+</para>
+-->
</sect2>
+</sect1>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect2>
-<title id="trouble">Troubleshooting</title>
+<sect1 label="5" id="trouble">
+<title>Troubleshooting</title>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="refused">I just upgraded and am getting <quote>connection refused</quote>
with every web page?</title>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application>.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="flushit">I just added a new rule, but the steenkin ad is
still getting through. How?</title>
<para>
and see if any actions match your new rule.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="badsite">One of my favorite sites does not work with <application>Privoxy</application>.
What can I do?</title>
being applied to the URL. Now, armed with this information, go to <quote>Edit
the actions list</quote>. Here you should see various sections that have
various <application>Privoxy</application> features disabled for specific
- sites. Disabled <quote>actions</quote> will have a <quote>-</quote> (minus
- sign) in front of them. Add your problem page URL to one of these sections
- that looks like it is disabling the feature that is causing the
- problem. Re-try the page. There might be some trial and error involved. This
- is discussed in a little more detail in the
- <ulink url="../user-manual/appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">user-manual
- appendix</ulink>.
+ sites. Most disabled <quote>actions</quote> will have a <quote>-</quote> (minus
+ sign) in front of them. Some aliases are used just to disable other actions,
+ e.g. <quote>shop</quote> and <quote>fragile</quote>, and won't necessarily
+ use a <quote>+</quote> or <quote>-</quote> sign. Add your problem page
+ URL to one of these sections that looks like it is disabling the feature that
+ is causing the problem. Rember to flush your browser's caches when making
+ such changes! As a last resort, try <quote>fragile</quote> which
+ disables most actions. Now re-try the page. There might be some trial and
+ error involved. This is discussed in a little more detail in the <ulink
+ url="../user-manual/appendix.html#ACTIONSANAT">user-manual appendix</ulink>.
</para>
the same thing by editing the appropriate <quote>actions</quote> file.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="bugs">
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="bugs">
<title>Where can I get help? Report bugs? Feature Requests? Etc?</title>
<para>
Feedback is encouraged, whether good, bad or ugly. Please see the contact
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title id="time">What time is it?</title>
<para>
Time for you to go!
</para>
-</sect3>
-
</sect2>
</sect1>
-
+<!--
+</sect1>
+-->
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<!--
</para>
</sect1>
-->
-<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect1 id="copyright"><title>Copyright and History</title>
-<para>
- Please see the
-<ulink url="../user-manual/copyright.html#HISTORY">user-manual</ulink> for
- information on Copyright and History.
-</para>
-</sect1>
-<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect1 id="seealso"><title>See also</title>
-<para>
- Please see the
- <ulink url="../user-manual/seealso.html">user-manual</ulink> for
- others references.
-</para>
-</sect1>
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