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- IJBSWA team. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net
+ 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
+
+ <Qandaset defaultlabel='qanda'>
+ <QandAEntry>
+ <question>
+ <para>
+ How are you?
+ </para>
+ </question>
+ <answer>
+ <para>
+ Fine.
+ </para>
+ </answer>
+ </QandAEntry>
+ </QandASet>
+
+ ========================================================================
+ NOTE: Please read developer-manual/documentation.html before touching
+ anything in this, or other Privoxy documentation. You have been warned!
+ Failure to abide by this rule will result in the revocation of your license
+ to live a peaceful existence!
+ ========================================================================
+
-->
-<article id="index">
+
+<article id="index" class="faq">
<artheader>
-<title>Junkbuster Frequently Asked Questions</title>
+<title>Privoxy Frequently Asked Questions</title>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.12 2002/03/11 20:13:21 swa Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.44 2002/04/07 21:24:29 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<affiliation>
- <orgname>By: Junkbuster Developers</orgname>
+ <orgname>By: Privoxy Developers</orgname>
</affiliation>
</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>
-The FAQ document gives users and developers alike answers to frequently asked
-questions about the Internet Junkbuster. <application>Internet
-Junkbuster</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. Junkbuster has a very flexible configuration and can be
-customized to suit individual needs and tastes. <application>Internet
-Junkbuster</application> has application for both stand-alone systems and
-multi-user networks.
+ This FAQ gives users and developers alike answers to frequently asked
+ questions about <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org">Privoxy</ulink>
+ <![%p-stable;[ v.&p-version]]>.
</para>
+
+<!-- Include privoxy.sgml boilerplate: -->
+ &p-intro;
+<!-- end boilerplate -->
+
<para>
-You can find the latest version of the document at <ulink url="http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/faq/">http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/faq/</ulink>.
-Please see the Contact section in the user-manual 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 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>
-<sect3 id="newjb"><title>What is this new <application>Junkbuster</application>?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="newjb"><title>What is this new version of <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
<para>
- The original <application>Junkbuster</application> was a product of
- Junkbusters Corporation (tm). Development of this effort stopped
- as of version 2.0.2. Stefan Walherr started the ijbswa project on
- <ulink url="http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net">Sourceforge</ulink> to
- rekindle development. Other developers subsequently joined with
- Stefan, and have since added many new features and enhancements.
+ 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>
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3 id="differs"><title>How does it differ from the old <application>Junkbuster?</application></title>
<para>
- All the old features remain. The new <application>Junkbuster</application>
- still blocks ads and banners, still manages cookies, and protects
- privacy. But, these are all enhanced, and many new features have been
- added, all in the same vein.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> has evolved from the
+ <application>Junkbuster 2.0.2</application> code base, and has advanced
+ significantly at this point.
</para>
- <para>
- The configuration has changed significantly. This is something that users
- will notice right off the bat. The <quote>blocklist</quote> file does
- not exist any more. This is replaced by <quote>actions</quote>
- files, such as <filename>ijb.actions</filename>. This is where most of
- the per site configuration is now.
-
+ <para>
+ Please see the <link linkend="copyright">History section</link> for more
+ information on the history of <application>Junkbuster</application> and
+ <application>Privoxy</application>.
</para>
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3 id="features"><title>What are some of the new features?</title>
-<!--
- The section is in both user-manual and faq. Please keep in sync!!!
--->
-<para>
- <itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Integrated browser based configuration and control utility (<ulink
- url="http://i.j.b">http://i.j.b</ulink>). Browser-based tracing of rule
- and filter effects.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-<!--
- <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>
-
- <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>
+</sect2>
- <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>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="whyprivoxy">Why <quote>Privoxy</quote>? Why a name change at all?</title>
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is the
+ <quote><emphasis>Privacy Enhancing Proxy</emphasis></quote>.
+</para>
+<para>
+ There are potential legal complications from the continued use of the
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> name, which is a registered trademark of
+ <ulink url="http://junkbusters.com">Junkbusters Corporation</ulink>.
+ And thus they <quote>own</quote> the rights to the name.
+ (There are, however, no objections from Junkbusters Corporation to the
+ <application>Privoxy</application> project itself, and they, in fact, still
+ share our ideals and goals.)
+</para>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Improved cookie management features (e.g. session based cookies).
- </para>
-</listitem>
+<para>
+ The developers also believed that there are so many changes from the original
+ code, that it was time to make a clean break from the past and make
+ a name in their own right<![%p-not-stable;[, especially now with the pending
+ release of version 3.0]]>.
+</para>
+</sect2>
- <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>
+<sect2 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
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> left off. All the old features remain.
+ The new <application>Privoxy</application> still blocks ads and banners,
+ still manages cookies, and still helps protect your privacy. But, these are
+ all enhanced, and many new features have been added, all in the same vein.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The configuration has changed significantly as well. This is something that
+ users will notice right off the bat if you are upgrading from
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> 2.0.x. The <quote>blocklist</quote>
+ file does 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>
+</sect2>
- </itemizedlist>
-</para>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="features"><title>What are some of the new features?</title>
+<!-- Include newfeatures.sgml: -->
+ &newfeatures;
+<!-- end include -->
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
-<sect3 id="proxymoron"><title>How does <application>Junkbuster</application>
- work? What is a <quote>proxy</quote>?</title>
+<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>Junkbuster</application>,
+ When you connect to a web site with <application>Privoxy</application>,
you are really connecting to your locally running version of
- <application>Junkbuster</application>. <application>Junkbuster</application>
+ <application>Privoxy</application>. <application>Privoxy</application>
intercepts your requests for the web page, and relays that to the
<quote>real</quote> web site. The web site sends the HTTP data stream
- back to <application>Junkbuster</application>, where
- <application>Junkbuster</application> can work its magic before it
+ back to <application>Privoxy</application>, where
+ <application>Privoxy</application> can work its magic before it
relays this data back to your web browser.
-
</para>
<para>
- Since <application>Junkbuster</application> sits between you and the
+ Since <application>Privoxy</application> sits between you and the
WWW, it is in a position to intercept and completely manage all web traffic and
HTTP content before it gets to your browser.
- <application>Junkbuster</application> uses various programming methods to do
+ <application>Privoxy</application> uses various programming methods to do
this, all of which is under your control via the various configuration
- files.
+ files and options.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ There are many kinds of proxies. <application>Privoxy</application> best
+ fits the <quote>filtering proxy</quote> category.
</para>
-</sect3>
-<sect3 id="browsers2"><title>My browser does the same things as
-Junkbuster. Why should I use Junkbuster at all?</title>
+</sect2>
+
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="knows">How does <application>Privoxy</application> know what is
+an ad, and what is not?</title>
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> processes all the raw content of every
+ web page. So it reads everything on each page. It then compares this to the
+ rules as set up in the configuration files, and looks for any matches to
+ these rules. <application>Privoxy</application> makes heavy use of
+ <quote>regular expressions</quote>. (If you are not familiar with regular
+ expressions, it is explained briefly in <ulink
+ url="../user-manual/appendix.html">the user manual</ulink>.) Regular
+ expressions facilitate matching of one text string against another, using
+ wildcards to build complex patterns. So <application>Privoxy</application>
+ will typically look for URLs and other content that match certain key words
+ and expressions as defined in the configuration files. For instance a URL
+ that contains <quote>/banners</quote>, has a high probability of containing
+ ad banners, and thus would be a prime candidate to have a matching rule.
+</para>
+<para>
+ So <application>Privoxy</application> will look for these kinds of obvious
+ looking culprits. And also, will use lists of known organizations that
+ specialize in ads. Again, using complex patterns to match as many potential
+ combinations as possible since there tend to be many, many variations used by
+ advertisers, and new ones are being introduced all the time.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="mistakes">Can <application>Privoxy</application> make mistakes?
+This does not sound very scientific.</title>
+<para>
+ Actually, it's a black art ;-) And yes, it is always possible to have a broad rule
+ accidentally block something by mistake. There is a good chance you may run
+ into such a situation at some point. It is tricky writing rules to cover
+ every conceivable possibility, and not occasionally get false positives.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ But this should not be a big concern since the
+ <application>Privoxy</application> configuration is very flexible, and
+ includes tools to help identify these types of situations so they can be
+ addressed as needed, allowing you to customize your installation.
+ (<link linkend="badsite">See the Troubleshooting section below</link>.)
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+<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>
Modern browsers do indeed have <emphasis>some</emphasis> of the same
- functionality as <application>Junkbuster</application>. Maybe this is
- adequate for you. But <application>Junkbuster</application> is much more
- verstatile and flexible, and can do some things that browsers just can't.
+ functionality as <application>Privoxy</application>. Maybe this is
+ adequate for you. But <application>Privoxy</application> is much more
+ versatile and powerful, and can do a number of things that browsers just can't.
</para>
<para>
In addition, a proxy is good choice if you use multiple browsers, or
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>Junkbuster</application> is licensed under the
- GNU General Public License (GPL). It is free to use, copy,
- modify or distribute as you wish.
- </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. Please see the Copyright section for more
+ information on the license and copyright.
+
+ </para>
<para>
- There is no warranty of any kind, expressed, implied or otherwise. That is something
- that would cost real money ;-) There is no registration either.
- <application>Junkbuster</application> really is <emphasis>free</emphasis>
+ There is no warranty of any kind, expressed, implied or otherwise. That is
+ something that would cost real money ;-) There is no registration either.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> really is <emphasis>free</emphasis>
in every respect!
</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="jointeam"><title>I would like to help you, what do I do?</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>
</sect3>
+<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="../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>
+</sect3>
</sect2>
+</sect1>
+
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect2 id="installation"><title>Installation</title>
-<sect3 id="newinstall"><title>Can I install the new
- <application>Junkbuster</application> over the old one?</title>
+<sect1 label="2" id="installation"><title>Installation</title>
+
+<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 like a web server
+ does.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="whichos">
+<title>Which operating systems are supported?</title>
+<!--
+Include supported.sgml here:
+-->
+&supported;
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="newinstall"><title>Can I install
+ <application>Privoxy</application> over <application>Junkbuster</application>?</title>
<para>
- We recommend you uninstall
the old <application>Junkbuster</application>
+ We recommend you uninstall <application>Junkbuster</application>
first to minimize conflicts and confusion. You may want to
- save your old configuration files for future reference.
+ save your old configuration files for future reference. The configuration
+ is substantially changed.
</para>
<para>
- See the user-manual for platform specific installation instructions.
-
+ See the <ulink
+ url="../user-manual/index.html">user-manual</ulink> for
+ platform specific installation instructions.
</para>
-
-</sect3>
+ <para>
+ Note: Some installers may automatically uninstall
+ <application>Junkbuster</application>, if present!
+ </para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="firststep">I just installed <application>Privoxy</application>. Is there anything
+special I have to do now?</title>
+
+<para>
+ All browsers must be told to use <application>Privoxy</application>
+ as a proxy by specifying the correct proxy address and port number
+ in the appropriate configuration area for the browser. See below.
+ Also, you should flush your browser's memory and disk cache to get rid of any
+ cached items.
+
+</para>
-<sect3 id="localhost"><title>What is the proxy address of Junkbuster?</title>
+</sect2>
+
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="localhost"><title>What is the proxy address of <application>Privoxy</application>?</title>
<para>
- If you set up the <application>Junkbuster</application> to run on
+ If you set up the <application>Privoxy</application> to run on
the computer you browse from (rather than your ISP's server or some
networked computer on a LAN), the proxy will be on <quote>localhost</quote>
(which is the special name used by every computer on the Internet to refer
- to itself) and the port will be 8118 (unless you have told the Internet
- Junkbuster to run on a different port with the
+ to itself) and the port will be 8118 (unless you have <application>Privoxy</application> to run on a different port with the
<emphasis>listen-address</emphasis> config option).
</para>
<para>
- So you when configuring your browser's proxy settings you typically enter
+ When configuring your browser's proxy settings you typically enter
the word <quote>localhost</quote> in the boxes next to <quote>HTTP</quote>
and <quote>Secure</quote> (HTTPS) and then the number <quote>8118</quote>
- for <quote>port</quote>.
+ for <quote>port</quote>. This tells your browser to send all web
+ requests to <application>Privoxy</application> instead of directly to the
+ Internet.
</para>
<para>
- <application>Junkbuster</application> can also be used to proxy for
+ <application>Privoxy</application> can also be used to proxy for
a Local Area Network. In this case, your would enter either the IP
- address of the LAN host where <application>Junkbuster</application>
+ address of the LAN host where <application>Privoxy</application>
is running, or the equivalent hostname. Port assignment would be
same as above.
</para>
<para>
- <application>Junkbuster</application> does not currently handle
+ <application>Privoxy</application> does not currently handle
protocols such as FTP, SMTP, IM, IRC, ICQ, or other Internet
protocols.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
+
+<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>
+ Did you configure your browser to use <application>Privoxy</application>
+ as a proxy? It does not sound like it. See above. You might also try flushing
+ the browser's caches to force a full re-reading of pages. You can verify
+ that <application>Privoxy</application> is running, and your browser
+ is correctly configured by entering the special URL:
+ <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>. This should give you
+ a banner that says <quote>This is Privoxy</quote> and
+ access to <application>Privoxy's</application> internal configuration.
+ If you see this, then you are good to go. If not, the browser or
+ <application>Privoxy</application> are not set up correctly.
+
+</para>
</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>
- No. These will not work. You will need to re-enter your old
- data into the new configuration structure.
+ 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>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="actionsfile">What is an <quote>actions</quote> file?</title>
+
+<para>
+ <quote>actions</quote> files are where various actions that
+ <application>Privoxy</application> might take, are configured.
+ Typically, you would define a set of default actions that apply
+ to all URLs, then add exceptions to these defaults.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Actions can be defined on a per site basis, or for groups of sites. Actions
+ can also be grouped together and then applied to one or more sites. There
+ are many possible actions that might apply to any given site. As an example,
+ if we are blocking cookies as one of our default
+ <application>actions</application>, but need to accept cookies from a given
+ site, we would define this in our <quote>actions</quote> file.
+
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> comes with several default
+ <application>actions</application> files, with varying degrees
+ of filtering and blocking, as starting points for your own
+ configuration (see below).
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="actionss">
+<title>The <quote>actions</quote> concept confuses me. Please list
+some of these <quote>actions</quote>.</title>
+<para>
+ These are all explained in the
+ <ulink url="../user-manual/configuration.html#ACTIONSFILE">user-manual</ulink>.
+ Please refer to that.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="actconfig">How are actions files configured? What is the easiest
+way to do this?</title>
-<sect3 id="yahoo"><title>How can I make my Yahoo account work?</title>
+<para>
+ The easiest way to do this, is to access <application>Privoxy</application>
+ with your web browser at <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>,
+ and then select
+ "<ulink url="http://config.privoxy.org">Edit the actions list</ulink>"
+ from the selection list. You can also do this by editing the appropriate
+ file with a text editor.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Please see the
+ <ulink
+ url="../user-manual/configuration.html#ACTIONSFILE">user-manual</ulink> for a
+ detailed explanation of these and other configuration files, and their
+ various options and syntax.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+
+<!--
+FIXME: Commenting these out until we have some data there. HB 03/17/02.
+
+<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
-ijb-intermediate.action, ijb-basic.action, etc.?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="configfiles"> <title>What are the differences between
+intermediate.action, basic.action, etc.?</title>
<para>
-Configuring the Internet Junkbuster is not easy. To help you get started, we
-provide you with three different default configurations. The following table
-shows you, which features are enabled in each configuration.
+Configuring <application>Privoxy</application> is not easy. To help you get
+started, we provide you with three different default configurations. The
+following table shows you, which features are enabled in each configuration.
</para>
<para>
<table frame=all><title>Default Configurations</title>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Feature</entry>
- <entry>ijb.action</entry>
- <entry>ijb-basic.action</entry>
- <entry>ijb-intermediate.action</entry>
- <entry>ijb-advanced.action</entry>
+ <entry>default.action</entry>
+ <entry>basic.action</entry>
+ <entry>intermediate.action</entry>
+ <entry>advanced.action</entry>
</row>
</thead>
</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
-regular user, while the whole /etc/junkbuster hierarchy belongs to the user
-"junkbuster", with only 644 perms.
+regular user, while the whole <filename>/etc/privoxy</filename> hierarchy
+belongs to the user <quote>privoxy</quote>, with only 644 permissions.
</para>
<para>
-When you use the browser-based editor, JunkBuster itself is writing to the
-config files. Because JunkBuster is running as the user "junkbuster", it can
+When you use the browser-based editor, <application>Privoxy</application>
+itself is writing to the config files. Because
+<application>Privoxy</application> is running as the user <quote>privoxy</quote>, it can
update the config files.
</para>
<para>
-If you don't like this, setting "enable-edit-actions 0" in the config file
-will disable the browser-based editor. If you're that paranoid, you should
-also consider setting "enable-remote-toggle 0" to prevent browser-based
-enabling/disabling of JunkBuster.
+If you don't like this, setting <quote>enable-edit-actions 0</quote> in the
+config file will disable the browser-based editor. If you're that paranoid,
+you should also consider setting <quote>enable-remote-toggle 0</quote> to prevent
+browser-based enabling/disabling of <application>Privoxy</application>.
</para>
<para>
-Note that normally only local users can connect to JunkBuster, so this is not
-(normally) a security problem.
+Note that normally only local users can connect to
+<application>Privoxy</application>, so this is not (normally) a security
+problem.
</para>
-</sect3>
+</sect2>
+
+
+<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
+ web page content. By <quote>filtering</quote> we mean it can modify, remove,
+ or change <emphasis>anything</emphasis> on the page, including HTML tags, and
+ JavaScript. Regular expressions are used to accomplish this, and operate
+ on a line by line basis. This is potentially a very powerful feature, but
+ requires some expertise.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ If you are familiar with regular expressions, and HTML, you can look at
+ the provided <filename>default.filter</filename> with a text editor and see
+ some of things it can be used for.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Presently, there is no GUI editor option for this part of the configuration,
+ but you can disable/enable various sections of the included default
+ file with the <quote>Actions List Editor</quote> from your browser.
+</para>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="lanconfig">How can I set up <application>Privoxy</application> to act as a proxy for my
+ LAN?</title>
+<para>
+ By default, <application>Privoxy</application> only responds to requests
+ from localhost. To have it act as a server for a network, this needs to be
+ changed in the main config file where the <application>Privoxy</application>
+ configuration is located. In that file is a <quote>listen-address</quote>
+ option. It may be commented out with a <quote>#</quote> symbol. Make sure
+ it is uncommented, and assign it the address of the LAN gateway interface,
+ and port number to use:
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ <screen>
+ listen-address 192.168.1.1:8118
+ </screen>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Save the file, and restart <application>Privoxy</application>. Configure
+ all browsers on the network then to use this address and port number.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+<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
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is stopping. You have the choice <!-- of
+ the --> <!-- <application>Privoxy</application> logo, --> of a checkerboard
+ pattern, a transparent 1x1 GIF image (aka <quote>blank</quote>), or a custom
+ URL of your choice. Note that to fit this category, the URL must match both
+ the <quote>+image</quote> and <quote>+block</quote> actions.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ If you want to see nothing, then change the <quote>+image-blocker</quote>
+ action to <quote>+image-blocker{blank}</quote>. This can be done from the
+ <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, 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, but there are some limits and risks to this (see below).
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+<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
+ for anyone new to <application>Privoxy</application> so that they can
+ see if their favorite pages are displaying correctly, and
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is not inadvertently removing something
+ important.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<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>
+ These are URLs that match something in one of
+ <application>Privoxy's</application> block actions (+block). It is meant
+ to be a warning so that you know something has been blocked and an easy way
+ 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 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>
+ 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>
+ 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>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<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>
+ There is not enough space to fit the entire page. Try right clicking on the
+ visible, red portion, and select <quote>Show Frame</quote>, or equivalent.
+ 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>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="srvany">
+<title>Can <application>Privoxy</application> run as a service
+on Win2K/NT?</title>
+<para>
+ Yes, it can run as a system service using <command>srvany.exe</command>.
+ The only catch is that this will effectively disable the
+ <application>Privoxy</application> icon in the taskbar. You can have
+ one or the other, but not both at this time :(
+</para>
+<para>
+ There is a pending feature request for this functionality. See
+ thread: <ulink
+ url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=485617&group_id=11118</ulink>,
+ for details, and a sample configuration.
+
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="otherproxy">
+<title>How can I make <application>Privoxy</application> work with other
+proxies like <application>Squid</application>?</title>
+<para>
+ This can be done. See the <ulink
+ url="../user-manual/configuration.html#FORWARDING">user manual</ulink>,
+ which describes how to do this.
+
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect2 id="misc"><title>Misc</title>
+<sect1 label="4"id="misc"><title>Miscellaneous</title>
+
+<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>
+ It should not slow you down any in real terms, and may actually help
+ speed things up since ads, banners and other junk are not being displayed.
+ The actual processing time required by <application>Privoxy</application>
+ itself for each page, is relatively small in the overall scheme of things,
+ and happens very quickly. This is typically more than offset by time saved
+ not downloading and rendering ad images.
+</para>
-<sect3 id="loadingtimes"><title>I noticed considerable
-delays in page requests compared to the old IJB. What's wrong?</title>
+<para>
+ <quote>Filtering</quote> via the <filename>filterfile</filename>
+ mechanism may cause a perceived slowdown, since the entire page is buffered
+ before displaying. See below.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+
+<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
-page requests compared to the old IJB. Loading pages with large contents
+page requests compared to the old Junkbuster. Loading pages with large contents
seemed to take forever, then suddenly delivering all the content at once.
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para>
To modify the content of a page (i.e. make frames resizeable again, etc.) and
-not just replace ads, the Internet Junkbuster needs to download the entire
-page first, do its content magic and then send the page to the browser.
+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://i.j.b/"?</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="configurl"><title>What is the "http://p.p/"?</title>
<para>
-Since JunkBuster sits between your web browser and the Internet, it can be
+Since <application>Privoxy</application> sits between your web browser and the Internet, it can be
programmed to handle certain pages specially.
</para>
<para>
-With recent versions of JunkBuster (version 2.9.x), you can get some
-information about JunkBuster and change some settings by going to
-http://i.j.b/ or, equivalently, http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/
-(Note that i.j.b is far easier to type but may not work in some
-configurations).
+With recent versions of <application>Privoxy</application> (version 2.9.x), you can get some
+information about <application>Privoxy</application> and change some settings by going to
+<ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink> or, equivalently, <ulink url="http://config.privoxy.org/">http://config.privoxy.org/</ulink>
+(Note that p.p is far easier to type but may not work in some
+configurations. With the name change to <application>Privoxy</application>,
+this is changed from the previous http://i.j.b/ or earlier 2.9.x versions).
</para>
<para>
-These pages are *not* forwarded to a server on the internet - instead they are
-handled by a special web server which is built in to JunkBuster.
+These pages are <emphasis>not</emphasis> forwarded to a server on the Internet
+- instead they are handled by a special web server which is built in to
+<application>Privoxy</application>.
</para>
<para>
-If you are not running JunkBuster, then http://i.j.b/ will fail, and
-http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net/config/ will return a web page telling you
-you're not running JunkBuster.
+If you are not running <application>Privoxy</application>, then <ulink
+url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink> will fail, and <ulink
+url="http://config.privoxy.org/">http://config.privoxy.org/</ulink> will
+return a web page telling you you're not running
+<application>Privoxy</application>.
</para>
<para>
If you have version 2.0.2, then the equivalent is
http://example.com/show-proxy-args (but you get far less information, and you
-should really consider upgrading to 2.9.x).
+should really consider upgrading to &p-version;).
</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>
-<sect3 id="proxy-chaining"><title>How do I chain Junkbuster with other proxies
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="proxy-chaining"><title>How do I chain <application>Privoxy</application> with other proxies
(e.g. squid)?</title>
<para>
Fillme.
</para>
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3 id="jointeam"><title>I would like to help you, what do I do?</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. 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>
-</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 version, there will again be
- blocklists that you can update automatically.
+ No. The format of the blocklists has changed significantly in versions
+ 2.9.x and later. <![%p-not-stable;[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 Junkbuster or any other software, since
+ 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.
</para>
<para>
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 the Junkbuster determines (with the help of the blocklist) that a URL -->
+<!-- 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. The Junkbuster uses the imagefile for that purpose. -->
+<!-- image or not. <application>Privoxy</application> uses the imagefile for that purpose. -->
<!-- </para> -->
-<!-- </sect3> -->
+<!-- </sect2> -->
+
+<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
+ are an expert on Internet security it would be safest to assume that
+ everything you do on the Web can be traced back to you.
+</para>
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> can remove various information about you,
+ and allows <emphasis>you</emphasis> more freedom to decide which sites
+ you can trust, and what details you want to reveal. But it's still possible
+ that web sites can find out who you are. Here's one way this can happen.
+</para>
+<para>
+ A few browsers disclose the user's email address in certain situations, such
+ as when transferring a file by FTP. <application>Privoxy</application>
+ does not filter FTP. If you need this feature, or are concerned about the
+ mail handler of your browser disclosing your email address, you might
+ consider products such as <application>NSClean</application>.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Browsers available only as binaries could use non-standard headers to give
+ out any information they can have access to: see the manufacturer's license
+ agreement. It's impossible to anticipate and prevent every breach of privacy
+ that might occur. The professionally paranoid prefer browsers available as
+ source code, because anticipating their behavior is easier. Trust the source,
+ Luke!
+</para>
</sect2>
-</sect1>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="sitebreak">Might some things break because header information is
+being altered?</title>
-<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect1 id="knownissues"><title>Known Issues</title>
<para>
- Fillme.
+ Definitely. More and more sites use HTTP header content to decide what to
+ display and how to display it. There is many ways that this can be handled,
+ so having hard and fast rules, is tricky.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ <quote>USER AGENT</quote> in particular is often used in this way to identify
+ the browser, and adjust content accordingly. Changing this now is not
+ recommended, since so many sites do look for this. You may get undesirable
+ results by changing this.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ For instance, different browsers use different encodings of Russian and Czech
+ characters, certain web servers convert pages on-the-fly according to the
+ User Agent header. Giving a <quote>User Agent</quote> with the wrong
+ operating system or browser manufacturer causes some sites in these languages
+ to be garbled; Surfers to Eastern European sites should change it to
+ something closer. And then some page access counters work by looking at the
+ <quote>REFERER</quote> header; they may fail or break if unavailable. The
+ weather maps of Intellicast have been blocked by their server when no
+ <quote>REFERER</quote> or cookie is provided, is another example. There are
+ many, many other ways things can go wrong when trying to fool a web server.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ If you have problems with a site, you will have to adjust your configuration
+ accordingly. Cookies are probably the most likely adjustment that may
+ be required, but by no means the only one.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="caching">Can <application>Privoxy</application> act as a <quote>caching</quote> proxy to
+speed up web browsing?</title>
+<para>
+ No, it does not have this ability at all. You want something like
+ <ulink url="http://www.squid-cache.org/">Squid</ulink> for this. And, yes,
+ before you ask, <application>Privoxy</application> can co-exist
+ with other kinds of proxies like <application>Squid</application>.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<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>
+</sect2>
+
+
+<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>
+
+<para>
+ This is not a font problem. The logo is an image that is created by
+ <application>Privoxy</application> on the fly. So as to not waste
+ memory, the image is rather small. The blockiness comes when the
+ image is scaled to fill a largish area. There is not much to be done
+ about this, other than to use one of the other
+ <quote>imageblock</quote> directives: <emphasis>pattern</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>blank</emphasis>, or a URL of your choosing.
+</para>
+<para>
+Given the above problem, we have decided to remove the logo option entirely
+[as of v2.9.13].
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="wasted">I have large empty spaces now where ads used to be.
+Why?</title>
+<para>
+ It would be easy enough to just eliminate this space altogether, rather than
+ fill it with blank space. But, this would create problems with many pages
+ that use the overall size of the ad to help organize the page layout and
+ position the various components of the page where they were intended to be.
+ It is best left this way.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<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
+ between your browser and the secure site, and are meant to be reliably
+ <emphasis>secure</emphasis> and private. This means that all cookies and HTTP
+ header information are also encrypted from the time they leave your browser,
+ to the site, and vice versa. <application>Privoxy</application> does not
+ try to unencrypt this information, so it just passes through as is.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> can still catch images and ads that
+ are embedded in the SSL stream though.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+<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>
+ There are no known exploits that might effect
+ <application>Privoxy</application>. On Unix-like systems,
+ <application>Privoxy</application> can run as a non-privileged
+ user, which is how we recommend it be run. Also, by default
+ <application>Privoxy</application> only listens to requests
+ from <quote>localhost</quote>. The server aspect of
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is not itself directly exposed to the
+ Internet in this configuration. If you want to have
+ <application>Privoxy</application> serve as a LAN proxy, this will have to
+ be opened up to allow for LAN requests. In this case, we'd recommend
+ you specify only the LAN gateway address, e.g. 192.168.1.1, in the main
+ <application>Privoxy</application> config file. All LAN hosts can then use
+ this as their proxy address in the browser proxy configuration. In this way,
+ <application>Privoxy</application> will not listen on any external ports.
+ Of course, a firewall is always good too. Better safe than sorry.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<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
+ browser by using the special URL: <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>
+ and select "Toggle Privoxy on or off" from that page.
+
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="seealso">
+<title>Where can I find more information about <application>Privoxy</application>
+and related issues?</title>
+<!-- Include seealso.sgml boilerplate: -->
+ &seealso;
+<!-- end boilerplate -->
+
+<!--
+<para>
+ Please see the
+ <ulink url="../user-manual/seealso.html">user-manual</ulink> for
+ others references.
+</para>
+-->
+</sect2>
+
</sect1>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect1 id="contact"><title>Contact the developers</title>
-<para>Please see the user manual for information on how to contact the developers.
+
+<sect1 label="5" id="trouble">
+<title>Troubleshooting</title>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="refused">I just upgraded and am getting <quote>connection refused</quote>
+with every web page?</title>
+<para>
+ Either <application>Privoxy</application> is not running, or your
+ browser is configured for a different port than what
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is using.
</para>
+
+<para>
+ The old <application>Privoxy</application> (and also
+ <application>Junkbuster</application>) used port 8000 by
+ default. This has been changed to port 8118 now, due to a conflict
+ with NAS (Network Audio Service), which uses port 8000. If you haven't,
+ you need to change your browser to the new port number, or alternately
+ change <application>Privoxy's</application> <quote>listen-address</quote>
+ setting in the <filename>config</filename> file used to start
+ <application>Privoxy</application>.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="flushit">I just added a new rule, but the steenkin ad is
+still getting through. How?</title>
+<para>
+ If the ad had been displayed before you added its URL, it will probably be
+ held in the browser's cache for some time, so it will be displayed without
+ the need for any request to the server, and <application>Privoxy</application>
+ will not be in the picture. The best thing to do is try flushing the browser's
+ caches. And then try again.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ If this doesn't help, you probably have an error in the rule you
+ applied. Try pasting the full URL of the offending ad into <ulink
+ url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info">http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info</ulink>
+ and see if any actions match your new rule.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="badsite">One of my favorite sites does not work with <application>Privoxy</application>.
+What can I do?</title>
+
+<para>
+ First verify that it is indeed a <application>Privoxy</application> problem,
+ by disabling <application>Privoxy</application> filtering and blocking.
+ Go to <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink> and click on
+ <quote>Toggle Privoxy On or Off</quote>, then disable it. Now try that
+ page again. It's probably a good idea to flush the browser cache as well.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ If still a problem, go to <quote>Show which actions apply to a URL and
+ why</quote> from <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink> and paste
+ the full URL of the page in question into the prompt. See which actions are
+ 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. 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>
+
+<para>
+ Alternately, if you are comfortable with a text editor, you can accomplish
+ the same thing by editing the appropriate <quote>actions</quote> file.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<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
+ page in the <ulink url="../user-manual/contact.html">user-manual</ulink> for
+ details.
+
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="time">What time is it?</title>
+<para>
+ Time for you to go!
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
</sect1>
+<!--
+</sect1>
+-->
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect1 id="copyright"><title>Copyright and History</title>
-<para>Please see the user manual for information on Copyright and History.
+<!--
+FIXME: Commented out until we have something to put here. HB 03/18/02.
+<sect1 id="knownissues"><title>Known Issues</title>
+<para>
+ Fillme.
</para>
</sect1>
+-->
+
+ <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+ <sect1 id="contact"><title>Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</title>
+<!-- Include contacting.sgml -->
+ &contacting;
+<!-- end contacting -->
+ </sect1>
+
+ <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+ <sect1 id="copyright"><title>Copyright and History</title>
+
+<sect2><title>Copyright</title>
+<!-- Include copyright.sgml -->
+ ©right;
+<!-- end -->
+</sect2>
+<sect2><title>History</title>
+<!-- Include history.sgml -->
+ &history;
+<!-- end -->
+</sect2>
+
+ </sect1>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<!--
<sect1 id="seealso"><title>See also</title>
-<para>Please see the user manual for information on references.
-</para>
+-->
+<!-- Include seealso.sgml -->
+<!--
+ &see;
+-->
+<!-- end -->
+<!--
</sect1>
+-->
<!-- hhmts end -->
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+Revision 1.44 2002/04/07 21:24:29 hal9
+Touch up on name change.
+
+Revision 1.43 2002/04/04 21:59:53 hal9
+Added NT/W2K service/icon situation.
+
+Revision 1.42 2002/04/04 18:46:47 swa
+consistent look. reuse of copyright, history et. al.
+
+Revision 1.41 2002/04/04 06:48:37 hal9
+Structural changes to allow for conditional inclusion/exclusion of content
+based on entity toggles, e.g. 'entity % p-not-stable "INCLUDE"'. And
+definition of internal entities, e.g. 'entity p-version "2.9.13"' that will
+eventually be set by Makefile.
+More boilerplate text for use across multiple docs.
+
+Revision 1.40 2002/04/03 04:22:03 hal9
+Fixed several typos.
+
+Revision 1.39 2002/04/03 03:53:03 hal9
+Revert some changes, and then make some news, to layout, and appearance.
+
+Revision 1.38 2002/04/02 03:49:10 hal9
+Major changes to doc structure and layout. Sections are not automatically
+numbered now. TOC is on page by itself.
+
+Revision 1.37 2002/04/01 16:24:07 hal9
+-Rework of supported Q/A.
+-Set up entities to include boilerplate text.
+
+Revision 1.36 2002/03/31 23:18:47 hal9
+More on dealing with BLOCKED.
+
+Revision 1.35 2002/03/30 04:14:19 hal9
+Fix privoxy.org/config links.
+
+Revision 1.34 2002/03/29 04:35:56 hal9
+Touch ups.
+
+Revision 1.33 2002/03/29 01:31:48 hal9
+Several new Q/A's and other touch ups.
+
+Revision 1.32 2002/03/27 00:57:03 hal9
+Touch ups for name change.
+
+Revision 1.31 2002/03/26 22:29:55 swa
+we have a new homepage!
+
+Revision 1.30 2002/03/25 16:39:22 hal9
+A few new sections. Made all links relative to user-manual.
+
+Revision 1.29 2002/03/25 05:23:57 hal9
+Moved section, and touch ups.
+
+Revision 1.28 2002/03/25 04:27:33 hal9
+New section related to name change.
+
+Revision 1.25 2002/03/24 16:08:08 swa
+we are too lazy to make a block-built
+privoxy logo. hence removed the option.
+
+Revision 1.24 2002/03/24 15:46:20 swa
+name change related issue.
+
+Revision 1.23 2002/03/24 12:33:01 swa
+more additions.
+
+Revision 1.22 2002/03/24 11:51:00 swa
+name change. changed filenames.
+
+Revision 1.21 2002/03/24 11:01:06 swa
+name change
+
+Revision 1.20 2002/03/23 15:13:11 swa
+renamed every reference to the old name with foobar.
+fixed "application foobar application" tag, fixed
+"the foobar" with "foobar". left junkbustser in cvs
+comments and remarks to history untouched.
+
+Revision 1.19 2002/03/21 17:01:54 hal9
+Some touch ups.
+
+Revision 1.18 2002/03/18 16:40:31 hal9
+More additions.
+
+Revision 1.17 2002/03/18 03:53:53 hal9
+Some new additions.
+
+Revision 1.16 2002/03/17 21:32:56 hal9
+A few more additions.
+
+Revision 1.15 2002/03/17 07:25:59 hal9
+Correcting some of my typos, and some additions.
+
+Revision 1.14 2002/03/17 02:39:13 hal9
+A little more added ...
+
+Revision 1.13 2002/03/17 00:22:20 hal9
+Adding new stuff, and trying to incorporate stuff from old faq.
+
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