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+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.41 2004/04/05 13:44:05 oes Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
See LICENSE.
Based partially on the Internet Junkbuster FAQ originally written by and
========================================================================
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!
+ this file!
+
+ Please we keep the info in this file as version independent as possible
+ so we only have to maintain one FAQ. Where significant changes are
+ made to Privoxy configuration, please note the change in such a way that
+ it makes sense to both users of older and newer versions.
========================================================================
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+ <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2004 by
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- <![%p-stable;[
Please note that this document is constantly evolving. This copy represents
- the state at the release of version &p-version;. ]]>
+ the state at the release of version &p-version;.
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 <link linkend="contact">Contact section</link> if you want to
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 or change something by mistake. There is a good chance
- you may run into such a situation at some point. It is tricky writing rules to
+ rule accidentally block or change something by mistake. You will almost surely
+ run into such situations at some point. It is tricky writing rules to
cover every conceivable possibility, and not occasionally get false positives.
</para>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3">
+<title id="configornot">Will I have to configure <application>Privoxy</application>
+ before I can use it?</title>
+<para>
+ No, not really. The default installation should give you a good starting
+ point, and block <emphasis>most</emphasis> unwanted content.
+</para>
+<para>
+ But you will certainly run into situations where there are false positives,
+ or ads not being blocked that you may not want to see. In these cases, you
+ would certainly benefit by customizing <application>Privoxy's</application>
+ configuration to more closely match your individual situation. And we would
+ encourage you to do this. This is where the real power of
+ <application>Privoxy</application> lies!
+</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>
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="email-client">
<title>Can I use <application>Privoxy</application> with my email client?</title>
<para>
- As long as there is some way to set a HTTP proxy for the client, then yes,
+ As long as there is some way to set a HTTP proxy for the client, then yes,
any application can be used, whether it is strictly speaking a
<quote>browser</quote> or not. Though this may not be the best approach for
dealing with some of the common abuses of HTML in email. See <link
- linkend="outlook">How can I configure <application>Privoxy</application> with
- <application>Outlook Express</application>?</link> below for more on this.
+ linkend="outlook">How can I configure <application>Privoxy</application>
+ with <application>Outlook Express</application>?</link> below for more on
+ this.
</para>
<para>
Be aware that HTML email presents a number of unique security and privacy
as a proxy by specifying the correct proxy address and port number
in the appropriate configuration area for the browser. See below.
You should also flush your browser's memory and disk cache to get rid of any
- cached junk items, and any stored cookies.
+ cached junk items, and remove any stored cookies.
</para>
</para>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> does not currently handle
- protocols such as FTP, SMTP, IM, IRC, ICQ, or other Internet
- protocols.
+ any other protocols such as FTP, SMTP, IM, IRC, ICQ, etc.
</para>
</sect2>
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://config.privoxy.org/">http://config.privoxy.org/</ulink>.
+ <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>.
+ <!-- Use http://p.p/ instead of http://config.privoxy.org/ here because
+ of potential redirect caching problem (see next Q). -->
This should take you to a page titled <quote>This is Privoxy..</quote> with
access to <application>Privoxy's</application> internal configuration.
If you see this, then you are good to go. If you receive a page saying
If you receive anything else (probably nothing at all), it could either
be that the browser is not set up correctly, or that
<application>Privoxy</application> is not running at all. Check the <ulink
- url="../user-manual/config.html#LOGFILE">log file</ulink>.
+ url="../user-manual/config.html#LOGFILE">log file</ulink>. For instructions
+ on starting <application>Privoxy</application> and browser configuration,
+ see the <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/startup.html">chapter
+ on starting <application>Privoxy</application></ulink> in the
+ <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/">user manual</ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="notused">
+<title>I get a <quote>Privoxy is not being used</quote> dummy page although
+<application>Privoxy</application> is running and being used.</title>
+
+<para>
+ First, make sure that Privoxy is <emphasis>really</emphasis> running and
+ being used by visiting <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink>. You
+ should see the <application>Privoxy</application> main page. If not, see
+ the <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/startup.html">chapter
+ on starting <application>Privoxy</application></ulink> in the
+ <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/">user manual</ulink>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Now if <ulink url="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</ulink> works for you, but
+ other parts of <application>Privoxy</application>'s web interface show
+ the dummy page, your browser has cached a redirection it encountered before
+ <application>Privoxy</application> was being used. You need to clear your
+ browser's cache. Note that shift-reloading the dummy page won't help, since
+ that'll only refresh the dummy page, not the redirection that lead you there.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ The procedure for clearing the cache varies from browser to browser. As an
+ example, <application>Mozilla</application> users would click
+ <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> --> <guibutton>Preferences</guibutton> -->
+ <guibutton>Advanced</guibutton> --> <guibutton>Cache</guibutton> and
+ then click both <quote><guibutton>Clear Memory Cache</guibutton></quote>
+ and <quote><guibutton>Clear Disk Cache</guibutton></quote>.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
</sect1>
</sect2>
-<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect2 renderas="sect3">
<title>There are several different <quote>actions</quote> files. What are
the differences?</title>
</sect2>
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="configfiles"> <title>What's the difference between the
-<quote>Cautious</quote>, <quote>Medium</quote> and <quote>Radical</quote> defaults?</title>
+<quote>Cautious</quote>, <quote>Medium</quote> and <quote>Adventuresome</quote> defaults?</title>
<para>
Configuring <application>Privoxy</application> is not entirely trivial. To
help you get started, we provide you with three different default action
<quote>profiles</quote> in the web based actions file editor at <ulink
url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</ulink>.
- The following table shows you, which of the most important features are
- enabled in each configuration:
+ See the <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html"><citetitle>User
+ Manual</citetitle></ulink> for a list of actions, and how the default
+ profiles are set.
</para>
- <para>
-<table frame=all><title>Default Configurations</title>
-<tgroup cols=4 align=left colsep=1 rowsep=1>
-<colspec colname=c1>
-<colspec colname=c2>
-<colspec colname=c3>
-<colspec colname=c4>
-<thead>
-<row>
- <entry>Feature</entry>
- <entry>Cautious</entry>
- <entry>Intermadiate</entry>
- <entry>Radical</entry>
-</row>
-</thead>
-<!-- <tfoot> -->
-<!-- <row> -->
-<!-- <entry>f1</entry> -->
-<!-- <entry>f2</entry> -->
-<!-- <entry>f3</entry> -->
-<!-- <entry>f4</entry> -->
-<!-- </row> -->
-<!-- </tfoot> -->
-<tbody>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Ad-blocking by URL</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Ad-filtering by size</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>GIF de-animation</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Referer forging</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Cookie handling</entry>
- <entry>none</entry>
- <entry>session-only</entry>
- <entry>kill</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Pop-up killing</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Fast redirects</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>HTML taming</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>JavaScript taming</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Web-bug killing</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Fun text replacements</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Image tag reordering</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Ad-filtering by link</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Demoronizer</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-</tbody>
-</tgroup>
-</table>
-</para>
+
<para>
Where the defaults are likely to break some sites, exceptions for
known popular <quote>problem</quote> sites are included, but in
- general, the more aggressive your default settings are, the more
-
exceptions you will have to make later. See the <ulink
- url="../user-manual/index.html">user manual</ulink> for a more
- deatiled discussion.
+ general, the more aggressive your default settings are, the more exceptions
+ you will have to make later. See the <ulink
+ url="../user-manual/index.html"><citetitle>User Manual</citetitle></ulink>
+ for a more deatiled discussion.
</para>
+
<para>
- It should be noted that the <quote>Radical</quote> profile is not only more
+ It should be noted that the <quote>Adventuresome</quote> profile (formerly known
+ as the <quote>Advanced</quote> profile) is not only more
aggressive, but also includes fun and, extreme usage of most of
<application>Privoxy's</application> features. Use at your own risk!
</para>
url="../user-manual/config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS">listen-address</ulink></literal>
option, which 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. Assuming your server's LAN address is 192.168.1.1 and you
+ and port number to use. Assuming your LAN address is 192.168.1.1 and you
wish to run <application>Privoxy</application> on port 8118, this line
should look like:
</para>
<para>
If you run <application>Privoxy</application> on a LAN with untrusted users,
- we recommend that you double-check
all <ulink
+ we recommend that you double-check
the <ulink
url="../user-manual/config.html#ACCESS-CONTROL">access control and security</ulink>
options!
</para>
</para>
</sect2>
+
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="otherproxy">
<title>How can I make <application>Privoxy</application> work with other
proxies like <application>Squid</application>?</title>
<application>Privoxy</application> just blindly proxies all requests. In the
case of <application>Outlook Express</application> (see above), OE uses
IE anyway, and there is no way for <application>Privoxy</application> to ever
- be able to distinguish between them (nor could any other proxy type
- application for that matter).
+ be able to distinguish between them (nor could any other proxy type application for
+ that matter).
</para>
<para>
For a good discussion of some of the issues involved (including privacy and
be off by default anyway, so this might be redundant, but there is no harm
being explicit in what you want to happen. <filename>user.action</filename>
includes an alias for this situation, called
- <literal>allow-cookies</literal>.
+ <literal>allow-all-cookies</literal>.
</para>
</sect2>
noticeable on slow dialup connections.
</para>
<para>
- Filtering is automatically disabled for inappropriate MIME types.
+ Filtering is automatically disabled for inappropriate MIME types. But note
+ that if the web server mis-reports the MIME type, then content that should
+ not be filtered, could be. <application>Privoxy</application> only knows how
+ to differentiate filterable content because of the MIME type as reported by
+ the server, or because of some configuration setting that enables/disables
+ filtering.
</para>
</sect2>
viewing a document (i.e. a page), and downloading a file. The same is true of
<application>Privoxy</application>. If there is a match for a <literal><ulink
url="../user-manual/actions-file.html#BLOCK">block</ulink></literal> pattern,
- it will still be blocked, and of course this is obvious. Filtering is
- potentially more of a concern since the results are not always so obvious.
+ it will still be blocked, and of course this is obvious.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Filtering is potentially more of a concern since the results are not always
+ so obvious, and the effects of filtering are there whether the file is simply
+ viewed, or downloaded. And potentially whether the content is some obnoxious
+ advertizement, or Mr. Jimmy's latest/greatest source code jewel. Of course,
+ one of these presumably is <quote>bad</quote> content that we don't want, and
+ the other is <quote>good</quote> content that we do want.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is blind to the differences, and can only
+ distinguish <quote>good from bad</quote> by the configuration parameters
+ <emphasis>we</emphasis> give it.
</para>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> knows the differences in files according
to the <quote>Document Type</quote> as reported by the webserver. If this is
reported accurately (e.g. <quote>application/zip</quote> for a zip archive),
then <application>Privoxy</application> knows to ignore these where
- appropriate. It is possible, however, that documents that are of an unknown
- type (generally assumed to be <quote>text/plain</quote>) will be filtered, as
- will those that might be incorrectly reported by the webserver. If such a
- file is a downloaded file that is intended to be saved to disk, then any
- content that might have been altered by filtering, will be saved too, for
- these (probably very rare) cases.
+ appropriate. <application>Privoxy</application> potentially can filter HTML
+ as well as plain text documents, subject to configuration parameters of
+ course. Also, documents that are of an unknown type (generally assumed to be
+ <quote>text/plain</quote>) can be filtered, as will those that might be
+ incorrectly reported by the webserver. If such a file is a downloaded file
+ that is intended to be saved to disk, then any content that might have been
+ altered by filtering, will be saved too, for these (probably rare) cases.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Note that versions later than 3.0.2 do NOT filter document types of
+ <quote>text/plain</quote>. Prior to this, <application>Privoxy</application>
+ did filter this document type.
+</para>
+<para>
+ In short, filtering is <quote>ON</quote> if a) the Document Type as reported
+ by the webserver is appropriate <emphasis>and</emphasis> b) the configuration
+ allows it (or at least does not disallow it). That's it. There is no magic
+ cookie anywhere to say this is <quote>good</quote> and this is
+ <quote>bad</quote>. It's the configuration that let's it all happen or not.
+</para>
+<para>
+ If you download text files, you probably do not want these to be filtered,
+ particularly if the content is source code, or other critical content. Source
+ code sometimes might be mistaken for Javascript (i.e. the kind that might
+ open a pop-up window). It is recommended to turn off filtering for download
+ sites (particularly if the content may be plain text files and you are using
+ version 3.0.2 or earlier) in your <filename>user.action</filename> file. And
+ also, for any site or page where making <emphasis>any</emphasis> changes at
+ all to the content is to be avoided.
</para>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> does not do FTP at all, only HTTP
- protocols.
+ protocols, so please don't even try.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="downloads2">
+<title>I just downloaded a Perl script, and <application>Privoxy</application>
+altered it! Yikes, what is wrong!</title>
+<para>
+ Please read above.
</para>
</sect2>
activated the <quote><literal>fun</literal></quote> filter which
is clearly labeled <quote>Text replacements for subversive browsing
fun!</quote> or you have implicitly activated it by choosing the
- <quote>Radical</quote> profile in the web-based editor.
+ <quote>Adventuresome</quote> profile in the web-based editor (formerly known
+ as the <application>Advanced</application> profile).
</para>
</sect2>
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> cannot act as a proxy for FTP traffic,
so do not configure your browser to use <application>Privoxy</application>
- as an FTP proxy. The same is true for any protocol other than HTTP or HTTPS.
+ as an FTP proxy. The same is true for <emphasis>any protocol other than HTTP
+ or HTTPS</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>
Most browsers understand FTP as well as HTTP. If you connect to a site, with
speak FTP, <application>Privoxy</application> does not, and cannot proxy
such traffic.
</para>
+ <para>
+ To complicate matters, some systems may have a generic <quote>proxy</quote>
+ setting, which will silently enable <emphasis>both</emphasis> HTTP and FTP
+ proxying! So it is possible to accidentally enable FTP proxying in these
+ cases. And of course, if this happens, <application>Privoxy</application>
+ will indeed cause problems since it does not know FTP.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Will <application>Privoxy</application> ever proxy FTP traffic? Unlikely.
+ There just is not much reason, and the work to make this happen is more than
+ it may seem.
+ </para>
</sect2>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
</sect2>
+<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="osximages">
+<title>In Mac OSX Panther (10.3), images often fail to load and/or I
+ experience random delays in page loading. I'm using
+ <literal>localhost</literal> as my browser's proxy setting.</title>
+ <para>
+ We believe this is due to an IPv6-related bug in OSX, but don't fully
+ understand the issue yet. In any case, changing the proxy setting to
+ <literal>127.0.0.1</literal> instead of <literal>localhost</literal>
+ works around the problem.
+ </para>
+</sect2>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="blankpage">
<title>I get a completely blank page at one site. <quote>View Source</quote>
</para>
</sect2>
-</sect1>
-<!--
-</sect1>
--->
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="nohostname">
+<title>My logs show many <quote>Unable to get my own hostname</quote> lines.
+Why?</title>
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> tries to get the hostname of the system
+ its running on from the IP address of the system interface it is bound to
+ (from the <filename>config</filename> file
+ <emphasis>listen-address</emphasis> setting). If the system cannot supply
+ this information, <application>Privoxy</application> logs this condition.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Typically, this would be considered a system configuration error. It is not a
+ fatal error to <application>Privoxy</application> however, but may result in
+ a much slower response from <application>Privoxy</application> due to DNS
+ timeouts.
+</para>
+</sect2>
-<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<!--
-FIXME: Commented out until we have something to put here. HB 03/18/02.
-<sect1 id="knownissues"><title>Known Issues</title>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="inuse">
+<title>When I try to launch <application>Privoxy</application>, I get an
+error message <quote>port 8118 is already in use</quote> (or similar wording).
+Why?</title>
<para>
- Fill me.
+ Port 8118 is <application>Privoxy's</application> default TCP
+ <quote>listening</quote> port. Typically this message would mean that there
+ is already one instance of <application>Privoxy</application> running, and
+ you are actually trying to start a second <application>Privoxy</application>
+ on the same port, which will not work. How and why this might happen varies
+ from platform to platform, but you need to check your installation and
+ start-up procedures.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="demoronizer">
+<title>
+ Pages with UTF-8 fonts are garbled.
+</title>
+<para>
+ This is caused by the <quote>demoronizer</quote> filter, which was introduced
+ in version 3.0.2, and was inappropriately turned on by default. You should
+ either upgrade <application>Privoxy</application>, or at least upgrade to the most
+ recent <filename>default.action</filename> file available from
+ <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">SourceForge</ulink>.
+ Or you can simply disable the demoronizer filter.
</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="demoronizer2">
+<title>
+ Why are binary files (such as images) corrupted when <application>Privoxy</application>
+ is used?
+</title>
+<para>
+ This may also be caused by the <quote>demoronizer</quote> filter,
+ in conjunction with a web server that is misreporting a file type. Binary
+ files are exempted from <application>Privoxy's</application> filtering
+ (unless the web server by mistake says the file is a plain text file). Either
+ upgrade <application>Privoxy</application>, or go to the most recent
+ <filename>default.action</filename> file available from <ulink
+ url="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">SourceForge</ulink>.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="demoronizer3">
+<title>
+ What is the <quote>demoronizer</quote> and why is it there?
+</title>
+<para>
+ The original demoronizer was a Perl script that cleaned up HTML pages which
+ were created with certain Microsoft products. MS has used proprietary extensions
+ to standardized font encodings (ISO 8859-1), which has caused problems for pages
+ that are viewed with non-Microsoft products (and are expecting to see a
+ standard set of fonts). The demoronizer corrected these errors so the pages
+ displayed correctly. <application>Privoxy</application> borrowed from this
+ script, introducing a filter based on the original demoronizer, which in turn could
+ correct these errors on the fly.
+</para>
+<para>
+ But this is only needed in some situations, and will cause serious problems in some
+ other situations.
+</para>
+<para>
+ If you are using Microsoft products, you do not need it. If you need to view
+ pages with UTF-8 characters (such as Cyrillic or Chinese), then it will
+ cause corruption of the fonts, and thus <emphasis>should not be on</emphasis>.
+</para>
+<para>
+ On the other hand, if you use non-Microsoft products, and you occasionally
+ notice wierd characters on pages, you might want to try it.
+</para>
+<para>
+ This filter was introduced with version 3.0.2 of <application>Privoxy</application>,
+ and was on by default in that version. It is off in all subsequent versions
+ (unless turned on by the user).
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="windowopen">
+<title>
+ Why do I keep seeing <quote>PrivoxyWindowOpen()</quote> in raw source code?
+</title>
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is attempting to disable malicious
+ Javascript in this case, with the <literal>unsolicited-popups</literal>
+ filter. <application>Privoxy</application> cannot tell very well
+ <quote>good</quote> code snippets from <quote>bad</quote> code snippets.
+</para>
+<para>
+ If you see this in HTML source, and the page displays without problems, then
+ this is good, and likely some pop-up window was disabled. If you see this
+ where it is causing a problem, such as a downloaded program source code file,
+ then you should set an exception for this site or page such that the
+ integrity of the page stays in tact by disabling all filtering.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
</sect1>
--->
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect1 id="contact"><title>Contacting the developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests</title>
©right;
<!-- end -->
+
<para>
Portions of this document are <quote>borrowed</quote> from the original
<application>Junkbuster</application> (tm) FAQ, and modified as
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$Log: faq.sgml,v $
-Revision 2.9 2002/10/29 03:22:22 hal9
-Add 3 FAQs relating to HTML in email. Other minor touch ups.
+Revision 1.61.2.41 2004/04/05 13:44:05 oes
+Fixed allow-all-cookies alias name; closes SR #929746
-Revision 2.8 2002/10/15 12:47:23 oes
-Added Microsuck faq; more detail for PHP problem
+Revision 1.61.2.40 2004/01/30 17:00:33 oes
+Added OSX Panther problem
+
+Revision 1.61.2.39 2004/01/29 22:53:08 hal9
+Minor changes for exempting docs of text/plain. Change copyright date.
+
+Revision 1.61.2.38 2003/12/10 03:39:45 hal9
+Added FAQs for: demoronizer, related problems and why its included. Also,
+port 8118 already in use questions, and PrivoxyWindowOpen() questions. All in
+troubleshooting section.
+
+Revision 1.61.2.37 2003/10/17 11:01:50 oes
+Added Q&A for "not being used" page problem
-Revision 2.7 2002/10/12 01:14:42 hal9
-Updates for demoronizer filter, Radical profile, and the srvany.exe/icon
-win32 fix.
+Revision 1.61.2.36 2003/06/26 23:49:20 hal9
+More on the filter/source code problem.
-Revision 2.6 2002/10/10 04:10:38 hal9
-s/Advanced/Radical/ for standard.action change.
+Revision 1.61.2.35 2003/06/26 13:38:08 hal9
+Add FAQ on whether configuring Privoxy is necessary or not.
-Revision 2.5 2002/09/26 05:57:14 hal9
-Conditionally exclude 'this doc is evolving' comment in intro for non release
-situations.
+Revision 1.61.2.34 2003/06/26 03:00:03 hal9
+Sorry, found another copyright date.
+
+Revision 1.61.2.33 2003/06/26 02:57:05 hal9
+Fix typo (finally!) and very minor modifications.
+
+Revision 1.61.2.32 2003/06/26 02:52:04 hal9
+Test, no changes.
+
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+Fix copyright, and a few nits.
+
+Revision 1.61.2.30 2003/06/25 01:13:52 hal9
+Add:
+
+ - FAQ on "Unable to get my own hostname"
+ - Another one on filtering effects on text files.
+
+Revision 1.61.2.29 2003/06/15 21:32:58 hal9
+Add to the 4.17 (filtering effects on downloaded files).
+
+Revision 1.61.2.28 2003/03/18 19:37:21 oes
+s/Advanced|Radical/Adventuresome/g to avoid complaints re fun filter
+
+Revision 1.61.2.27 2002/12/01 06:31:58 hal9
+Add faq on win32 error 503 due to ZoneAlarm.
+
+Revision 1.61.2.26 2002/11/17 06:41:06 hal9
+Move default profiles table from FAQ to U-M, and other minor related changes.
+Add faq on cookies.
+
+Revision 1.61.2.25 2002/10/29 03:21:50 hal9
+Add 3 Q/A's relating to HTML in email. Other minor touchups.
+
+Revision 1.61.2.24 2002/10/15 12:50:22 oes
+s/Advanced/Radical/ (stupid me)
+
+Revision 1.61.2.23 2002/10/15 12:38:56 oes
+Added Microsuck faq; more detail for PHP problem
-Revision 2.4 2002/09/26 00:14:42 hal9
-Small additions for content-cookies/SSL, LAN configuration, and FTP (non)
-support.
+Revision 1.61.2.22 2002/10/12 01:13:13 hal9
+Updates for demoronizer, more commentary on Radical profile, and update on
+the srvany.exe/icon fix.
-Revision 2.3 2002/09/13 11:50:55 oes
-Added MicroSuck topic; Updated PHP bug topic
+Revision 1.61.2.21 2002/10/10 04:09:35 hal9
+s/Advanced/Radical/ and added very brief note.
-Revision 2.2 2002/09/05 04:25:05 hal9
-Sync with 3.0 branch. No new content.
+Revision 1.61.2.20 2002/09/26 01:22:45 hal9
+Small additions for LAN setup, content-cookies/SSL, and FTP non-support.
Revision 1.61.2.19 2002/08/25 23:31:56 hal9
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