Purpose : Used with other docs and files only.
- $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.8 2006/09/06 02:17:53 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.29 2008/03/26 18:07:18 fabiankeil Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
========================================================================
Sample Configuration File for Privoxy v&p-version;
</title>
<para>
- $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.8 2006/09/06 02:17:53 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.29 2008/03/26 18:07:18 fabiankeil Exp $
</para>
<para>
-Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Privoxy Developers http://privoxy.org
+Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
</para>
<para>
I. INTRODUCTION #
II. FORMAT OF THE CONFIGURATION FILE #
#
- 1. CONFIGURATION AND LOG FILE LOCATIONS #
- 2. LOCAL SET-UP DOCUMENTATION #
+ 1. LOCAL SET-UP DOCUMENTATION #
+ 2. CONFIGURATION AND LOG FILE LOCATIONS #
3. DEBUGGING #
4. ACCESS CONTROL AND SECURITY #
5. FORWARDING #
=============== <!-- fuck this madness --></literallayout>
<para>
- This file holds the Privoxy configuration. If you modify this
- file, you will need to send a couple of requests (of any kind) to the proxy
- before any changes take effect.
+ This file holds Privoxy's main configuration. Privoxy detects
+ configuration changes automatically, so you don't have to restart it
+ unless you want to load a different configuration file.
</para>
<para>
- When starting Privoxy on Unix systems, give the name of this
- file as an argument. On Windows systems, Privoxy will look for
- this file with the name 'config.txt' in the same directory where
- Privoxy is installed.
+ The configuration will be reloaded with the first request after the
+ change was done, this request itself will still use the old configuration,
+ though. In other words: it takes two requests before you see the result of
+ your changes. Requests that are dropped due to ACL don't trigger reloads.
+</para>
+<para>
+ When starting Privoxy on Unix systems, give the location of this
+ file as last argument. On Windows systems, Privoxy will look for
+ this file with the name 'config.txt' in the current working directory
+ of the Privoxy process.
</para>
<para>
<para>
Thus, by placing a # at the start of an existing configuration line,
you can make it a comment and it will be treated as if it weren't there.
- This is called "commenting out" an option and can be useful.
+ This is called "commenting out" an option and can be useful. Removing
+ the # again is called "uncommenting".
</para>
<para>
- Note that commenting out and option and leaving it at its default
+ Note that commenting out an option and leaving it at its default
are two completely different things! Most options behave very
- differently when unset. See the the "Effect if unset" explanation
+ differently when unset. See the "Effect if unset" explanation
in each option's description for details.
</para>
<para>
<!-- The following is common to both outputs (mostly) -->
<!-- ************************************************ -->
-<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect2 id="conf-log-loc">
-<title>Configuration and Log File Locations</title>
-<para>
- <application>Privoxy</application> can (and normally does) use a number of
- other files for additional configuration, help and logging.
- This section of the configuration file tells <application>Privoxy</application>
- where to find those other files.
-</para>
+<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<sect2 id="local-set-up">
+<title>Local Set-up Documentation</title>
-<para>
- The user running <application>Privoxy</application>, must have read
- permission for all configuration files, and write permission to any files
- that would be modified, such as log files and actions files.
-</para>
+ If you intend to operate <application>Privoxy</application> for more users
+ than just yourself, it might be a good idea to let them know how to reach
+ you, what you block and why you do that, your policies, etc.
+ </para>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="confdir"><title>confdir</title>
-
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="user-manual"><title>user-manual</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>The directory where the other configuration files are located</para>
+ <para>
+ Location of the <application>Privoxy</application> User Manual.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Path name</para>
+ <para>A fully qualified URI</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>/etc/privoxy (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> <application>Privoxy</application> installation dir (Windows) </para>
+ <para><emphasis>Unset</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Mandatory</emphasis></para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/">http://www.privoxy.org/<replaceable class="parameter">version</replaceable>/user-manual/</ulink>
+ will be used, where <replaceable class="parameter">version</replaceable> is the <application>Privoxy</application> version.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
+ <para>
+ The User Manual URI is the single best source of information on
+ <application>Privoxy</application>, and is used for help links from some
+ of the internal CGI pages. The manual itself is normally packaged with the
+ binary distributions, so you probably want to set this to a locally
+ installed copy.
+ </para>
<para>
- No trailing <quote><literal>/</literal></quote>, please
+ Examples:
</para>
+ <!--
+ <para>
+ Unix, in local filesystem (may not work with all browsers):
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <screen> user-manual file:///usr/share/doc/privoxy-&p-version;/user-manual/</screen>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Windows, in local filesystem, <emphasis>must</emphasis> use forward slash notation:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <screen> user-manual file:/c:/some-dir/privoxy-&p-version;/user-manual/</screen>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Windows, UNC notation (with forward slashes):
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <screen> user-manual file://///some-server/some-path/privoxy-&p-version;/user-manual/</screen>
+ </para>
+ -->
+ <para>
+ The best all purpose solution is simply to put the full local
+ <literal>PATH</literal> to where the <citetitle>User Manual</citetitle> is
+ located:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <screen> user-manual /usr/share/doc/privoxy/user-manual</screen>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The User Manual is then available to anyone with access to
+ <application>Privoxy</application>, by following the built-in URL:
+ <literal>http://config.privoxy.org/user-manual/</literal>
+ (or the shortcut: <literal>http://p.p/user-manual/</literal>).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the documentation is not on the local system, it can be accessed
+ from a remote server, as:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <screen> user-manual http://example.com/privoxy/user-manual/</screen>
+ </para>
+ <![%user-man;[
+ <!-- this gets hammered in conversion to config. Text repeated below. -->
+ <warning>
<para>
- When development goes modular and multi-user, the blocker, filter, and
- per-user config will be stored in subdirectories of <quote>confdir</quote>.
- For now, the configuration directory structure is flat, except for
- <filename>confdir/templates</filename>, where the HTML templates for CGI
- output reside (e.g. <application>Privoxy's</application> 404 error page).
+ If set, this option should be <emphasis>the first option in the config
+ file</emphasis>, because it is used while the config file is being read
+ on start-up.
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </warning>
+ ]]>
+
+ <![%config-file;[
+ <!-- alternate -->
+ <para>
+ WARNING!!!
+ </para>
+ <blockquote>
+ <para>
+ If set, this option should be the first option in the config
+ file, because it is used while the config file is being read.
+ </para>
+ </blockquote>
+ ]]>
+
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@confdir .</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#user-manual http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="logdir"><title>logdir</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="trust-info-url"><title>trust-info-url</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The directory where all logging takes place (i.e. where <filename>logfile</filename> and
- <filename>jarfile</filename> are located)
+ A URL to be displayed in the error page that users will see if access to an untrusted page is denied.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Path name</para>
+ <para>URL</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>/var/log/privoxy (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> <application>Privoxy</application> installation dir (Windows) </para>
+ <para>Two example URLs are provided</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Mandatory</emphasis></para>
+ <para>
+ No links are displayed on the "untrusted" error page.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- No trailing <quote><literal>/</literal></quote>, please
+ The value of this option only matters if the experimental trust mechanism has been
+ activated. (See <link linkend="trustfile"><emphasis>trustfile</emphasis></link> below.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you use the trust mechanism, it is a good idea to write up some on-line
+ documentation about your trust policy and to specify the URL(s) here.
+ Use multiple times for multiple URLs.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The URL(s) should be added to the trustfile as well, so users don't end up
+ locked out from the information on why they were locked out in the first place!
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@logdir .</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@trust-info-url http://www.example.com/why_we_block.html</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@trust-info-url http://www.example.com/what_we_allow.html</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="actionsfile"><title>
-actionsfile
-</title>
-<anchor id="default.action">
-<anchor id="standard.action">
-<anchor id="user.action">
-<!-- Note: slightly modified this section 04/28/02, hal. See NOTE. -->
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="admin-address"><title>admin-address</title>
+
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The <link linkend="actions-file">actions file(s)</link> to use
+ An email address to reach the <application>Privoxy</application> administrator.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>File name, relative to <literal>confdir</literal>, without the <literal>.action</literal> suffix</para>
+ <para>Email address</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Default values:</term>
+ <term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <msgtext><literallayout> standard # Internal purposes, no editing recommended</literallayout></msgtext>
- </member>
- <member>
- <msgtext><literallayout> default # Main actions file</literallayout></msgtext>
- </member>
- <member>
- <msgtext><literallayout> user # User customizations</literallayout></msgtext>
- </member>
- </simplelist>
+ <para><emphasis>Unset</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- No actions are taken at all. Simple neutral proxying.
+ No email address is displayed on error pages and the CGI user interface.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Multiple <literal>actionsfile</literal> lines are permitted, and are in fact recommended!
- </para>
- <para>
- The default values include standard.action, which is used for internal
- purposes and should be loaded, default.action, which is the
- <quote>main</quote> actions file maintained by the developers, and
- <filename>user.action</filename>, where you can make your personal additions.
- </para>
- <para>
- Actions files are where all the per site and per URL configuration is done for
- ad blocking, cookie management, privacy considerations, etc.
- There is no point in using <application>Privoxy</application> without at
- least one actions file.
- </para>
+ If both <literal>admin-address</literal> and <literal>proxy-info-url</literal>
+ are unset, the whole "Local Privoxy Support" box on all generated pages will
+ not be shown.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<!-- NOTE: alternate markup to make a simpler list doesn't work due to -->
-<!-- html -> text conversion, blah -->
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@actionsfile standard # Internal purpose, recommended</literallayout>]]>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@actionsfile default # Main actions file</literallayout>]]>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@actionsfile user # User customizations</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#admin-address privoxy-admin@example.com</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="filterfile"><title>filterfile</title>
-<anchor id="default.filter">
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="proxy-info-url"><title>proxy-info-url</title>
+
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The <link linkend="filter-file">filter file(s)</link> to use
+ A URL to documentation about the local <application>Privoxy</application> setup,
+ configuration or policies.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>File name, relative to <literal>confdir</literal></para>
+ <para>URL</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>default.filter (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> default.filter.txt (Windows)</para>
+ <para><emphasis>Unset</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- No textual content filtering takes place, i.e. all
- <literal>+<link linkend="filter">filter</link>{<replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>}</literal>
- actions in the actions files are turned neutral.
+ No link to local documentation is displayed on error pages and the CGI user interface.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Multiple <literal>filterfile</literal> lines are permitted.
- </para>
- <para>
- The <link linkend="filter-file">filter files</link> contain content modification
- rules that use <link linkend="regex">regular expressions</link>. These rules permit
- powerful changes on the content of Web pages, and optionally the headers
- as well, e.g., you could disable your favorite JavaScript annoyances,
- re-write the actual displayed text, or just have some fun
- playing buzzword bingo with web pages.
- </para>
- <para>
- The
- <literal>+<link linkend="filter">filter</link>{<replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>}</literal>
- actions rely on the relevant filter (<replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>)
- to be defined in a filter file!
- </para>
- <para>
- A pre-defined filter file called <filename>default.filter</filename> that contains
- a number of useful filters for common problems is included in the distribution.
- See the section on the <literal><link linkend="filter">filter</link></literal>
- action for a list.
- </para>
+ If both <literal>admin-address</literal> and <literal>proxy-info-url</literal>
+ are unset, the whole "Local Privoxy Support" box on all generated pages will
+ not be shown.
+ </para>
<para>
- It is recommended to place any locally adapted filters into a separate
- file, such as <filename>user.filter</filename>.
- </para>
+ This URL shouldn't be blocked ;-)
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@filterfile default.filter</literallayout>]]>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#filterfile user.filter # User customizations</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#proxy-info-url http://www.example.com/proxy-service.html</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
+</sect2>
+<!-- ~ End section ~ -->
+
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="logfile"><title>logfile</title>
+
+<sect2 id="conf-log-loc">
+<title>Configuration and Log File Locations</title>
+
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> can (and normally does) use a number of
+ other files for additional configuration, help and logging.
+ This section of the configuration file tells <application>Privoxy</application>
+ where to find those other files.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ The user running <application>Privoxy</application>, must have read
+ permission for all configuration files, and write permission to any files
+ that would be modified, such as log files and actions files.
+</para>
+
+
+<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="confdir"><title>confdir</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- The log file to use
- </para>
+ <para>The directory where the other configuration files are located.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>File name, relative to <literal>logdir</literal></para>
+ <para>Path name</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>logfile (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> privoxy.log (Windows)</para>
+ <para>/etc/privoxy (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> <application>Privoxy</application> installation dir (Windows) </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- No log file is used, all log messages go to the console (<literal>STDERR</literal>).
- </para>
+ <para><emphasis>Mandatory</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
- <!--
- removed per bug report 688728 02/20/03 HB
-
- <para>
- The windows version will additionally log to the console.
- </para>
- -->
- <para>
- The logfile is where all logging and error messages are written. The level
- of detail and number of messages are set with the <literal>debug</literal>
- option (see below). The logfile can be useful for tracking down a problem with
- <application>Privoxy</application> (e.g., it's not blocking an ad you
- think it should block) but in most cases you probably will never look at it.
- </para>
- <para>
- Your logfile will grow indefinitely, and you will probably want to
- periodically remove it. On Unix systems, you can do this with a cron job
- (see <quote>man cron</quote>). For Red Hat, a <command>logrotate</command>
- script has been included.
- </para>
<para>
- On SuSE Linux systems, you can place a line like <quote>/var/log/privoxy.*
- +1024k 644 nobody.nogroup</quote> in <filename>/etc/logfiles</filename>, with
- the effect that cron.daily will automatically archive, gzip, and empty the
- log, when it exceeds 1M size.
+ No trailing <quote><literal>/</literal></quote>, please.
</para>
+ <!--
+ This is really outdated and not likely to happen. HB 09/20/06
<para>
- Any log files must be writable by whatever user <application>Privoxy</application>
- is being run as (default on UNIX, user id is <quote>privoxy</quote>).
+ When development goes modular and multi-user, the blocker, filter, and
+ per-user config will be stored in subdirectories of <quote>confdir</quote>.
+ For now, the configuration directory structure is flat, except for
+ <filename>confdir/templates</filename>, where the HTML templates for CGI
+ output reside (e.g. <application>Privoxy's</application> 404 error page).
</para>
+ -->
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@logfile logfile</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@confdir .</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
-
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jarfile"><title>jarfile</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="templdir"><title>templdir</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- The file to store intercepted cookies in
- </para>
+ <para>An alternative directory where the templates are loaded from.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>File name, relative to <literal>logdir</literal></para>
+ <para>Path name</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Unset (commented out). When activated: jarfile (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> privoxy.jar (Windows)</para>
+ <para>unset</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- Intercepted cookies are not stored in a dedicated log file.
- </para>
+ <para>The templates are assumed to be located in confdir/template.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The jarfile may grow to ridiculous sizes over time.
- </para>
- <para>
- If debug 8 (show header parsing) is enabled, cookies are
- written to the logfile with the rest of the headers.
+ <application>Privoxy's</application> original templates are usually
+ overwritten with each update. Use this option to relocate customized
+ templates that should be kept. As template variables might change
+ between updates, you shouldn't expect templates to work with
+ <application>Privoxy</application> releases other than the one
+ they were part of, though.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#jarfile jarfile</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#templdir .</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="trustfile"><title>trustfile</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="logdir"><title>logdir</title>
+
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The trust file to use
+ The directory where all logging takes place
+ (i.e. where <filename>logfile</filename> and
+ <filename>jarfile</filename> are located).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>File name, relative to <literal>confdir</literal></para>
+ <para>Path name</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Unset (commented out)</emphasis>. When activated: trust (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> trust.txt (Windows)</para>
+ <para>/var/log/privoxy (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> <application>Privoxy</application> installation dir (Windows) </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- The entire trust mechanism is turned off.
- </para>
+ <para><emphasis>Mandatory</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The trust mechanism is an experimental feature for building white-lists and should
- be used with care. It is <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> recommended for the casual user.
+ No trailing <quote><literal>/</literal></quote>, please.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@logdir .</literallayout>]]>
+</sect3>
+
+
+<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="actionsfile"><title>
+actionsfile
+</title>
+<anchor id="default.action">
+<anchor id="standard.action">
+<anchor id="user.action">
+<!-- Note: slightly modified this section 04/28/02, hal. See NOTE. -->
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Specifies:</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- If you specify a trust file, <application>Privoxy</application> will only allow
- access to sites that are specified in the trustfile. Sites can be listed
- in one of two ways:
+ The <link linkend="actions-file">actions file(s)</link> to use
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type of value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Complete file name, relative to <literal>confdir</literal></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Default values:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <simplelist>
+ <member>
+ <msgtext><literallayout> standard.action # Internal purposes, no editing recommended</literallayout></msgtext>
+ </member>
+ <member>
+ <msgtext><literallayout> default.action # Main actions file</literallayout></msgtext>
+ </member>
+ <member>
+ <msgtext><literallayout> user.action # User customizations</literallayout></msgtext>
+ </member>
+ </simplelist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect if unset:</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- Prepending a <literal>~</literal> character limits access to this site
- only (and any sub-paths within this site), e.g.
- <literal>~www.example.com</literal>.
+ No actions are taken at all. More or less neutral proxying.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Notes:</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- Or, you can designate sites as <emphasis>trusted referrers</emphasis>, by
- prepending the name with a <literal>+</literal> character. The effect is that
- access to untrusted sites will be granted -- but only if a link from this
- trusted referrer was used. The link target will then be added to the
- <quote>trustfile</quote> so that future, direct accesses will be granted.
- Sites added via this mechanism do not become trusted referrers themselves
- (i.e. they are added with a <literal>~</literal> designation).
+ Multiple <literal>actionsfile</literal> lines are permitted, and are in fact recommended!
</para>
- <para>
- If you use the <literal>+</literal> operator in the trust file, it may grow
- considerably over time.
+ <para>
+ The default values include <filename>standard.action</filename>, which is used
+ for internal purposes and should be loaded, <filename>default.action</filename>,
+ which is the <quote>main</quote> actions file maintained by the developers, and
+ <filename>user.action</filename>, where you can make your personal additions.
</para>
- <para>
- It is recommended that <application>Privoxy</application> be compiled with
- the <literal>--disable-force</literal>, <literal>--disable-toggle</literal> and
- <literal> --disable-editor</literal> options, if this feature is to be
- used.
+ <para>
+ Actions files contain all the per site and per URL configuration for
+ ad blocking, cookie management, privacy considerations, etc.
+ There is no point in using <application>Privoxy</application> without at
+ least one actions file.
</para>
<para>
- Possible applications include limiting Internet access for children.
+ Note that since Privoxy 3.0.7, the complete filename, including the <quote>.action</quote>
+ extension has to be specified. The syntax change was necessary to be consistent
+ with the other file options and to allow previously forbidden characters.
</para>
-
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#trustfile trust</literallayout>]]>
+<!-- NOTE: alternate markup to make a simpler list doesn't work due to -->
+<!-- html -> text conversion, blah -->
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@actionsfile standard.action # Internal purpose, recommended</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@actionsfile default.action # Main actions file</literallayout>]]>
+<!--
+ XXX: Like user.filter, user.action should probably be commented out
+ by default as not all packages install it into the default directory.
+ fk 2007-11-07
+-->
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@actionsfile user.action # User customizations</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
-</sect2>
-
-<!-- ~ End section ~ -->
-
-
-<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect2 id="local-set-up">
-<title>Local Set-up Documentation</title>
-
- <para>
- If you intend to operate <application>Privoxy</application> for more users
- than just yourself, it might be a good idea to let them know how to reach
- you, what you block and why you do that, your policies, etc.
- </para>
-
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="user-manual"><title>user-manual</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="filterfile"><title>filterfile</title>
+<anchor id="default.filter">
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Location of the <application>Privoxy</application> User Manual.
+ The <link linkend="filter-file">filter file(s)</link> to use
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>A fully qualified URI</para>
+ <para>File name, relative to <literal>confdir</literal></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Unset</emphasis></para>
+ <para>default.filter (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> default.filter.txt (Windows)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- <ulink url="http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/">http://www.privoxy.org/<replaceable class="parameter">version</replaceable>/user-manual/</ulink>
- will be used, where <replaceable class="parameter">version</replaceable> is the <application>Privoxy</application> version.
+ No textual content filtering takes place, i.e. all
+ <literal>+<link linkend="filter">filter</link>{<replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>}</literal>
+ actions in the actions files are turned neutral.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- The User Manual URI is used for help links from some of the internal CGI pages.
- The manual itself is normally packaged with the binary distributions, so you probably want
- to set this to a locally installed copy. For multi-user setups, you could provide a copy on
- a local webserver for all your users and use the corresponding URL here.
+ <para>
+ Multiple <literal>filterfile</literal> lines are permitted.
</para>
<para>
- Examples:
+ The <link linkend="filter-file">filter files</link> contain content modification
+ rules that use <link linkend="regex">regular expressions</link>. These rules permit
+ powerful changes on the content of Web pages, and optionally the headers
+ as well, e.g., you could try to disable your favorite JavaScript annoyances,
+ re-write the actual displayed text, or just have some fun
+ playing buzzword bingo with web pages.
</para>
- <para>
- Unix, in local filesystem:
- </para>
- <para>
- <screen> user-manual file:///usr/share/doc/privoxy-&p-version;/user-manual/</screen>
- </para>
- <para>
- Windows, in local filesystem, <emphasis>must</emphasis> use forward slash notation:
- </para>
- <para>
- <screen> user-manual file:/c:/some-dir/privoxy-&p-version;/user-manual/</screen>
- </para>
- <para>
- Windows, UNC notation (with forward slashes):
- </para>
- <para>
- <screen> user-manual file://///some-server/some-path/privoxy-&p-version;/user-manual/</screen>
- </para>
- <para>
- Any platform, on local webserver (called <quote>local-webserver</quote>):
- </para>
- <para>
- <screen> user-manual http://local-webserver/privoxy-user-manual/</screen>
- </para>
- <![%user-man;[
- <!-- this gets hammered in conversion to config. Text repeated below. -->
- <warning>
<para>
- If set, this option should be <emphasis>the first option in the config
- file</emphasis>, because it is used while the config file is being read.
+ The
+ <literal>+<link linkend="filter">filter</link>{<replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>}</literal>
+ actions rely on the relevant filter (<replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>)
+ to be defined in a filter file!
</para>
- </warning>
- ]]>
-
- <![%config-file;[
- <!-- alternate -->
<para>
- WARNING!!!
+ A pre-defined filter file called <filename>default.filter</filename> that contains
+ a number of useful filters for common problems is included in the distribution.
+ See the section on the <literal><link linkend="filter">filter</link></literal>
+ action for a list.
</para>
- <blockquote>
- <para>
- If set, this option should be the first option in the config
- file, because it is used while the config file is being read.
- </para>
- </blockquote>
- ]]>
-
- </listitem>
+ <para>
+ It is recommended to place any locally adapted filters into a separate
+ file, such as <filename>user.filter</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#user-manual http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@filterfile default.filter</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#filterfile user.filter # User customizations</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="trust-info-url"><title>trust-info-url</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="logfile"><title>logfile</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- A URL to be displayed in the error page that users will see if access to an untrusted page is denied.
+ The log file to use
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>URL</para>
+ <para>File name, relative to <literal>logdir</literal></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Two example URL are provided</para>
+ <para><emphasis>Unset (commented out)</emphasis>. When activated: logfile (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> privoxy.log (Windows).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- No links are displayed on the "untrusted" error page.
+ No logfile is written.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The value of this option only matters if the experimental trust mechanism has been
- activated. (See <link linkend="trustfile"><emphasis>trustfile</emphasis></link> above.)
+ The logfile is where all logging and error messages are written. The level
+ of detail and number of messages are set with the <literal>debug</literal>
+ option (see below). The logfile can be useful for tracking down a problem with
+ <application>Privoxy</application> (e.g., it's not blocking an ad you
+ think it should block) and it can help you to monitor what your browser
+ is doing.
</para>
<para>
- If you use the trust mechanism, it is a good idea to write up some on-line
- documentation about your trust policy and to specify the URL(s) here.
- Use multiple times for multiple URLs.
+ Depending on the debug options below, the logfile may be a privacy risk
+ if third parties can get access to it. As most users will never look
+ at it, <application>Privoxy</application> 3.0.7 and later only log fatal
+ errors by default.
</para>
<para>
- The URL(s) should be added to the trustfile as well, so users don't end up
- locked out from the information on why they were locked out in the first place!
+ For most troubleshooting purposes, you will have to change that,
+ please refer to the debugging section for details.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Your logfile will grow indefinitely, and you will probably want to
+ periodically remove it. On Unix systems, you can do this with a cron job
+ (see <quote>man cron</quote>). For Red Hat based Linux distributions, a
+ <command>logrotate</command> script has been included.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Any log files must be writable by whatever user <application>Privoxy</application>
+ is being run as (on Unix, default user id is <quote>privoxy</quote>).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@trust-info-url http://www.example.com/why_we_block.html</literallayout>]]>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@trust-info-url http://www.example.com/what_we_allow.html</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@logfile logfile</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="admin-address"><title>admin-address</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jarfile"><title>jarfile</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- An email address to reach the proxy administrator.
+ The file to store intercepted cookies in
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Email address</para>
+ <para>File name, relative to <literal>logdir</literal></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Unset</emphasis></para>
+ <para><emphasis>Unset (commented out)</emphasis>. When activated: jarfile (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> privoxy.jar (Windows).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- No email address is displayed on error pages and the CGI user interface.
+ Intercepted cookies are not stored in a dedicated log file.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- If both <literal>admin-address</literal> and <literal>proxy-info-url</literal>
- are unset, the whole "Local Privoxy Support" box on all generated pages will
- not be shown.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ The jarfile may grow to ridiculous sizes over time.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If debug 8 (show header parsing) is enabled, cookies are
+ also written to the logfile with the rest of the headers.
+ Therefore this option isn't very useful and may be removed
+ in future releases. Please report to the developers if you
+ are still using it.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#admin-address privoxy-admin@example.com</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#jarfile jarfile</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="proxy-info-url"><title>proxy-info-url</title>
-
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="trustfile"><title>trustfile</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- A URL to documentation about the local <application>Privoxy</application> setup,
- configuration or policies.
+ The name of the trust file to use
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>URL</para>
+ <para>File name, relative to <literal>confdir</literal></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Unset</emphasis></para>
+ <para><emphasis>Unset (commented out)</emphasis>. When activated: trust (Unix) <emphasis>or</emphasis> trust.txt (Windows)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- No link to local documentation is displayed on error pages and the CGI user interface.
+ The entire trust mechanism is disabled.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- If both <literal>admin-address</literal> and <literal>proxy-info-url</literal>
- are unset, the whole "Local Privoxy Support" box on all generated pages will
- not be shown.
- </para>
+ The trust mechanism is an experimental feature for building white-lists and should
+ be used with care. It is <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> recommended for the casual user.
+ </para>
<para>
- This URL shouldn't be blocked ;-)
- </para>
+ If you specify a trust file, <application>Privoxy</application> will only allow
+ access to sites that are specified in the trustfile. Sites can be listed
+ in one of two ways:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Prepending a <literal>~</literal> character limits access to this site
+ only (and any sub-paths within this site), e.g.
+ <literal>~www.example.com</literal> allows access to
+ <literal>~www.example.com/features/news.html</literal>, etc.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Or, you can designate sites as <emphasis>trusted referrers</emphasis>, by
+ prepending the name with a <literal>+</literal> character. The effect is that
+ access to untrusted sites will be granted -- but only if a link from this
+ trusted referrer was used to get there. The link target will then be added
+ to the <quote>trustfile</quote> so that future, direct accesses will be
+ granted. Sites added via this mechanism do not become trusted referrers
+ themselves (i.e. they are added with a <literal>~</literal> designation).
+ There is a limit of 512 such entries, after which new entries will not be
+ made.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you use the <literal>+</literal> operator in the trust file, it may grow
+ considerably over time.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ It is recommended that <application>Privoxy</application> be compiled with
+ the <literal>--disable-force</literal>, <literal>--disable-toggle</literal> and
+ <literal> --disable-editor</literal> options, if this feature is to be
+ used.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Possible applications include limiting Internet access for children.
+ </para>
+
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#proxy-info-url http://www.example.com/proxy-service.html</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#trustfile trust</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
-
</sect2>
+
<!-- ~ End section ~ -->
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Key values that determine what information gets logged to the
- <link linkend="logfile"><emphasis>logfile</emphasis></link>.
+ Key values that determine what information gets logged.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>12289 (i.e.: URLs plus informational and warning messages)</para>
+ <para>0 (i.e.: only fatal errors (that cause Privoxy to exit) are logged)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Nothing gets logged.
+ Default value is used (see above).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
- debug 1 # show each GET/POST/CONNECT request
+ debug 1 # log each request destination (and the crunch reason if &my-app; intercepted the request)
debug 2 # show each connection status
debug 4 # show I/O status
debug 8 # show header parsing
- debug 16 # log all data into the logfile
+ debug 16 # log all data written to the network into the logfile
debug 32 # debug force feature
- debug 64 # debug regular expression filter
- debug 128 # debug fast redirects
+ debug 64 # debug regular expression filters
+ debug 128 # debug redirects
debug 256 # debug GIF de-animation
debug 512 # Common Log Format
- debug 1024 # debug kill pop-ups
+ debug 1024 # Unused
debug 2048 # CGI user interface
debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings.
debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors
</para>
<para>
A debug level of 1 is informative because it will show you each request
- as it happens. <emphasis>1, 4096 and 8192 are highly recommended</emphasis>
- so that you will notice when things go wrong. The other levels are probably
- only of interest if you are hunting down a specific problem. They can produce
- a hell of an output (especially 16).
+ as it happens. <emphasis>1, 4096 and 8192 are recommended</emphasis>
+ so that you will notice when things go wrong. The other levels are
+ probably only of interest if you are hunting down a specific problem.
+ They can produce a hell of an output (especially 16).
<!-- LOL -->
</para>
<para>
- The reporting of <emphasis>fatal</emphasis> errors (i.e. ones which crash
- <application>Privoxy</application>) is always on and cannot be disabled.
+ &my-app; used to ship with the debug levels recommended above enabled by
+ default, but due to privacy concerns 3.0.7 and later are configured to
+ only log fatal errors.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you are used to the more verbose settings, simply enable the debug lines
+ below again.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you want to use pure CLF (Common Log Format), you should set <quote>debug
+ 512</quote> <emphasis>ONLY</emphasis> and not enable anything else.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> has a hard-coded limit for the
+ length of log messages. If it's reached, messages are logged truncated
+ and marked with <quote>... [too long, truncated]</quote>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Please don't file any support requests without trying to reproduce
+ the problem with increased debug level first. Once you read the log
+ messages, you may even be able to solve the problem on your own.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 1 # log each request destination (and the crunch reason if &my-app; intercepted the request)</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors</literallayout>]]>
+</sect3>
+
+
+<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="single-threaded"><title>single-threaded</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Specifies:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Whether to run only one server thread.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type of value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>None</emphasis></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Default value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Unset</emphasis></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect if unset:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Multi-threaded (or, where unavailable: forked) operation, i.e. the ability to
+ serve multiple requests simultaneously.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Notes:</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- If you want to use CLF (Common Log Format), you should set <quote>debug
- 512</quote> <emphasis>ONLY</emphasis> and not enable anything else.
+ This option is only there for debugging purposes.
+ <emphasis>It will drastically reduce performance.</emphasis>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@debug 1 # show each GET/POST/CONNECT request</literallayout>]]>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings</literallayout>]]>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@debug 8192 # Errors - *we highly recommended enabling this*</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#single-threaded</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
-
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="single-threaded"><title>single-threaded</title>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="hostname"><title>hostname</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Whether to run only one server thread
+ The hostname shown on the CGI pages.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Type of value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>None</emphasis></para>
+ <para>Text</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Multi-threaded (or, where unavailable: forked) operation, i.e. the ability to
- serve multiple requests simultaneously.
+ The hostname provided by the operating system is used.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- This option is only there for debug purposes and you should never
- need to use it. <emphasis>It will drastically reduce performance.</emphasis>
+ On some misconfigured systems resolving the hostname fails or
+ takes too much time and slows Privoxy down. Setting a fixed hostname
+ works around the problem.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In other circumstances it might be desirable to show a hostname
+ other than the one returned by the operating system. For example
+ if the system has several different hostnames and you don't want
+ to use the first one.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that Privoxy does not validate the specified hostname value.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#single-threaded</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#hostname hostname.example.org</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</para>
<para>
If you open <application>Privoxy</application> to untrusted users, you will
- also want to turn off the <literal><link
+ also want to make sure that the following actions are disabled: <literal><link
linkend="enable-edit-actions">enable-edit-actions</link></literal> and
<literal><link linkend="enable-remote-toggle">enable-remote-toggle</link></literal>
- options!
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem>
<para>
If set to 0, <application>Privoxy</application> will start in
- <quote>toggled off</quote> mode, i.e. behave like a normal, content-neutral
- proxy where all ad blocking, filtering, etc are disabled. See
- <literal>enable-remote-toggle</literal> below. This is not really useful
+ <quote>toggled off</quote> mode, i.e. mostly behave like a normal,
+ content-neutral proxy with both ad blocking and content filtering
+ disabled. See <literal>enable-remote-toggle</literal> below.
+<!--
+ This is not really useful
anymore, since toggling is much easier via <ulink
url="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle">the web interface</ulink> than via
editing the <filename>conf</filename> file.
+
+ Remote toggling is now disabled by default. fk 2007-11-07)
+-->
</para>
<para>
The windows version will only display the toggle icon in the system tray
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>1</para>
+ <para>0</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- When toggled off, <application>Privoxy</application> acts like a normal,
- content-neutral proxy, i.e. it acts as if none of the actions applied to
- any URL.
+ When toggled off, <application>Privoxy</application> mostly acts like a normal,
+ content-neutral proxy, i.e. doesn't block ads or filter content.
</para>
<para>
- For the time being, access to the toggle feature can <emphasis>not</emphasis> be
+ Access to the toggle feature can <emphasis>not</emphasis> be
controlled separately by <quote>ACLs</quote> or HTTP authentication,
so that everybody who can access <application>Privoxy</application> (see
<quote>ACLs</quote> and <literal>listen-address</literal> above) can
toggle it for all users. So this option is <emphasis>not recommended</emphasis>
for multi-user environments with untrusted users.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Note that malicious client side code (e.g Java) is also
+ capable of using this option.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ As a lot of <application>Privoxy</application> users don't read
+ documentation, this feature is disabled by default.
+ </para>
<para>
Note that you must have compiled <application>Privoxy</application> with
support for this feature, otherwise this option has no effect.
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@enable-remote-toggle 1</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@enable-remote-toggle 0</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>1</para>
+ <para>0</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
the ongoing request, even if it is enabled in one of the action files.
</para>
<para>
- If you are using <application>Privoxy</application> in a
- multi-user environment or with untrustworthy clients and want to
- enforce filtering, you will have to disable this option,
- otherwise you can ignore it.
+ This feature is disabled by default. If you are using
+ <application>Privoxy</application> in a environment with trusted clients,
+ you may enable this feature at your discretion. Note that malicious client
+ side code (e.g Java) is also capable of using this feature.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This option will be removed in future releases as it has been obsoleted
+ by the more general header taggers.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@enable-remote-http-toggle 1</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@enable-remote-http-toggle 0</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
<varlistentry>
<term>Default value:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>1</para>
+ <para>0</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Notes:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- For the time being, access to the editor can <emphasis>not</emphasis> be
+ Access to the editor can <emphasis>not</emphasis> be
controlled separately by <quote>ACLs</quote> or HTTP authentication,
so that everybody who can access <application>Privoxy</application> (see
<quote>ACLs</quote> and <literal>listen-address</literal> above) can
- modify its configuration for all users. So this option is <emphasis>not
- recommended</emphasis> for multi-user environments with untrusted users.
+ modify its configuration for all users.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This option is <emphasis>not recommended</emphasis> for environments
+ with untrusted users and as a lot of <application>Privoxy</application>
+ users don't read documentation, this feature is disabled by default.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that malicious client side code (e.g Java) is also
+ capable of using the actions editor and you shouldn't enable
+ this options unless you understand the consequences and are
+ sure your browser is configured correctly.
</para>
<para>
Note that you must have compiled <application>Privoxy</application> with
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@enable-edit-actions 1</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@enable-edit-actions 0</literallayout>]]>
+</sect3>
+
+
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="enforce-blocks"><title>enforce-blocks</title>
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Specifies:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Whether the user is allowed to ignore blocks and can <quote>go there anyway</quote>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type of value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <replaceable>0 or 1</replaceable>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Default value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>0</emphasis></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect if unset:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Blocks are not enforced.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Notes:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is mainly used to block and filter
+ requests as a service to the user, for example to block ads and other
+ junk that clogs the pipes. <application>Privoxy's</application> configuration
+ isn't perfect and sometimes innocent pages are blocked. In this situation it
+ makes sense to allow the user to enforce the request and have
+ <application>Privoxy</application> ignore the block.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In the default configuration <application>Privoxy's</application>
+ <quote>Blocked</quote> page contains a <quote>go there anyway</quote>
+ link to adds a special string (the force prefix) to the request URL.
+ If that link is used, <application>Privoxy</application> will
+ detect the force prefix, remove it again and let the request pass.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Of course <application>Privoxy</application> can also be used to enforce
+ a network policy. In that case the user obviously should not be able to
+ bypass any blocks, and that's what the <quote>enforce-blocks</quote>
+ option is for. If it's enabled, <application>Privoxy</application> hides
+ the <quote>go there anyway</quote> link. If the user adds the force
+ prefix by hand, it will not be accepted and the circumvention attempt
+ is logged.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Examples:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ enforce-blocks 1
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@enforce-blocks 0</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="acls"><title>
ACLs: permit-access and deny-access</title>
option.
</para>
<para>
- Please see the warnings in the FAQ that this proxy is not intended to be a substitute
- for a firewall or to encourage anyone to defer addressing basic security
- weaknesses.
+ Please see the warnings in the FAQ that <application>Privoxy</application>
+ is not intended to be a substitute for a firewall or to encourage anyone
+ to defer addressing basic security weaknesses.
</para>
<para>
Multiple ACL lines are OK.
- If any ACLs are specified, then the <application>Privoxy</application>
- talks only to IP addresses that match at least one <literal>permit-access</literal> line
+ If any ACLs are specified, <application>Privoxy</application> only talks
+ to IP addresses that match at least one <literal>permit-access</literal> line
and don't match any subsequent <literal>deny-access</literal> line. In other words, the
last match wins, with the default being <literal>deny-access</literal>.
</para>
</para>
<para>
Denying access to particular sites by ACL may have undesired side effects
- if the site in question is hosted on a machine which also hosts other sites.
+ if the site in question is hosted on a machine which also hosts other sites
+ (most sites are).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</para>
<para>
Allow any host on the same class C subnet as www.privoxy.org access to
- nothing but www.example.com:
+ nothing but www.example.com (or other domains hosted on the same system):
</para>
<para>
<screen>
</para>
<para>
Allow access from any host on the 26-bit subnet 192.168.45.64 to anywhere,
- with the exception that 192.168.45.73 may not access www.dirty-stuff.example.com:
+ with the exception that 192.168.45.73 may not access the IP address behind
+ www.dirty-stuff.example.com:
</para>
<para>
<screen>
<para>
This feature allows routing of HTTP requests through a chain of
multiple proxies.
- It can be used to better protect privacy and confidentiality when
- accessing specific domains by routing requests to those domains
- through an anonymous public proxy (see e.g. <ulink
- url="http://www.multiproxy.org/anon_list.htm">http://www.multiproxy.org/anon_list.htm</ulink>)
- Or to use a caching proxy to speed up browsing. Or chaining to a parent
- proxy may be necessary because the machine that <application>Privoxy</application>
- runs on has no direct Internet access.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Forwarding can be used to chain Privoxy with a caching proxy to speed
+ up browsing. Using a parent proxy may also be necessary if the machine
+ that <application>Privoxy</application> runs on has no direct Internet access.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Note that parent proxies can severely decrease your privacy level.
+ For example a parent proxy could add your IP address to the request
+ headers and if it's a caching proxy it may add the <quote>Etag</quote>
+ header to revalidation requests again, even though you configured Privoxy
+ to remove it. It may also ignore Privoxy's header time randomization and use the
+ original values which could be used by the server as cookie replacement
+ to track your steps between visits.
</para>
<para>
<term>Examples:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Everything goes to an example anonymizing proxy, except SSL on port 443 (which it doesn't handle):
+ Everything goes to an example parent proxy, except SSL on port 443 (which it doesn't handle):
</para>
<para>
<screen>
- forward / anon-proxy.example.org:8080
+ forward / parent-proxy.example.org:8080
forward :443 .
</screen>
</para>
</para>
<para>
<screen>
- forward / caching-proxy.example-isp.net:8000
- forward .example-isp.net .
+ forward / caching-proxy.isp.example.net:8000
+ forward .isp.example.net .
</screen>
</para>
</listitem>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="socks"><title>
-forward-socks4 and forward-socks4a</title>
+forward-socks4, forward-socks4a and forward-socks5</title>
<anchor id="forward-socks4">
<anchor id="forward-socks4a">
<term>Specifies:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Through which SOCKS proxy (and to which parent HTTP proxy) specific requests should be routed.
+ Through which SOCKS proxy (and optionally to which parent HTTP proxy) specific requests should be routed.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable>[:<replaceable class="parameter">port</replaceable>]
</para>
<para>
- where <replaceable class="parameter">target_pattern</replaceable> is a <link linkend="af-patterns">URL pattern</link>
- that specifies to which requests (i.e. URLs) this forward rule shall apply. Use <literal>/</literal> to
- denote <quote>all URLs</quote>.
- <replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable> and <replaceable class="parameter">socks_proxy</replaceable>
- are IP addresses in dotted decimal notation or valid DNS names (<replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable>
+ where <replaceable class="parameter">target_pattern</replaceable> is a
+ <link linkend="af-patterns">URL pattern</link> that specifies to which
+ requests (i.e. URLs) this forward rule shall apply. Use <literal>/</literal> to
+ denote <quote>all URLs</quote>. <replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable>
+ and <replaceable class="parameter">socks_proxy</replaceable>
+ are IP addresses in dotted decimal notation or valid DNS names
+ (<replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable>
may be <quote>.</quote> to denote <quote>no HTTP forwarding</quote>), and the optional
- <replaceable class="parameter">port</replaceable> parameters are TCP ports, i.e. integer values from 1 to 64535
+ <replaceable class="parameter">port</replaceable> parameters are TCP ports,
+ i.e. integer values from 1 to 65535
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
is that in the SOCKS 4A protocol, the DNS resolution of the target hostname happens on the SOCKS
server, while in SOCKS 4 it happens locally.
</para>
+ <para>
+ With <literal>forward-socks5</literal> the DNS resolution will happen on the remote server as well.
+ </para>
<para>
If <replaceable class="parameter">http_parent</replaceable> is <quote>.</quote>, then requests are not
forwarded to another HTTP proxy but are made (HTTP-wise) directly to the web servers, albeit through
</para>
<para>
<screen>
- forward-socks4a / socks-gw.example.com:1080 www-cache.example-isp.net:8080
+ forward-socks4a / socks-gw.example.com:1080 www-cache.isp.example.net:8080
forward .example.com .
</screen>
</para>
</para>
<para>
- To chain Privoxy and Tor, both running on the same system, you should use
- the rule:
+ To chain Privoxy and Tor, both running on the same system, you would use
+ something like:
</para>
<para>
<screen>
- forward-socks4 / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
+ forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
</screen>
</para>
<para>
- The public <application>Tor</application> network can't be used to reach your local network,
- therefore it's a good idea to make some exceptions:
+ The public <application>Tor</application> network can't be used to
+ reach your local network, if you need to access local servers you
+ therefore might want to make some exceptions:
</para>
<para>
<screen>
<para>
Unencrypted connections to systems in these address ranges will
be as (un)secure as the local network is, but the alternative is that you
- can't reach the network at all.
+ can't reach the local network through <application>Privoxy</application>
+ at all. Of course this may actually be desired and there is no reason
+ to make these exceptions if you aren't sure you need them.
</para>
<para>
If you also want to be able to reach servers in your local network by
</para>
<para>
- Assume that host-a has a PPP connection to isp-a.net. And host-b has a PPP connection to
- isp-b.
net. Both run <application>Privoxy</application>. Their forwarding
+ Assume that host-a has a PPP connection to isp-a.example.net. And host-b has a PPP connection to
+ isp-b.
example.org. Both run <application>Privoxy</application>. Their forwarding
configuration can look like this:
</para>
<para>
<screen>
forward / .
- forward .isp-b.net host-b:8118
+ forward .isp-b.example.net host-b:8118
</screen>
</para>
<para>
<screen>
forward / .
- forward .isp-a.net host-a:8118
+ forward .isp-a.example.org host-a:8118
</screen>
</para>
<para>
If you intend to chain <application>Privoxy</application> and
- <application>squid</application> locally, then chain as
+ <application>squid</application> locally, then chaining as
<literal>browser -> squid -> privoxy</literal> is the recommended way.
</para>
</para>
<para>
- You could just as well decide to only forward requests for Windows executables through
- a virus-scanning parent proxy, say, on <literal>antivir.example.com</literal>, port 8010:
+ You could just as well decide to only forward requests you suspect
+ of leading to Windows executables through a virus-scanning parent proxy,
+ say, on <literal>antivir.example.com</literal>, port 8010:
</para>
<para>
<term>Effect if unset:</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Forwarded connections are treated like direct connections and no retry attempts are made.
+ Connections forwarded through other proxies are treated like direct connections and no retry attempts are made.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem>
<para>
<replaceable class="parameter">forwarded-connect-retries</replaceable> is mainly interesting
- for socks4a connections, where Privoxy can't detect why the connections failed.
+ for socks4a connections, where <application>Privoxy</application> can't detect why the connections failed.
The connection might have failed because of a DNS timeout in which case a retry makes sense,
but it might also have failed because the server doesn't exist or isn't reachable. In this
case the retry will just delay the appearance of Privoxy's error message.
</para>
<para>
- Only use this option, if you are getting many forwarding related error messages,
+ Note that in the context of this option, <quote>forwarded connections</quote> includes all connections
+ that Privoxy forwards through other proxies. This option is not limited to the HTTP CONNECT method.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Only use this option, if you are getting lots of forwarding-related error messages
that go away when you try again manually. Start with a small value and check Privoxy's
logfile from time to time, to see how many retries are usually needed.
</para>
<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@forwarded-connect-retries 0</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="accept-intercepted-requests"><title>accept-intercepted-requests</title>
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Specifies:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Whether intercepted requests should be treated as valid.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type of value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <replaceable>0 or 1</replaceable>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Default value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>0</emphasis></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect if unset:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Only proxy requests are accepted, intercepted requests are treated as invalid.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Notes:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If you don't trust your clients and want to force them
+ to use <application>Privoxy</application>, enable this
+ option and configure your packet filter to redirect outgoing
+ HTTP connections into <application>Privoxy</application>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Make sure that <application>Privoxy's</application> own requests
+ aren't redirected as well. Additionally take care that
+ <application>Privoxy</application> can't intentionally connect
+ to itself, otherwise you could run into redirection loops if
+ <application>Privoxy's</application> listening port is reachable
+ by the outside or an attacker has access to the pages you visit.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Examples:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ accept-intercepted-requests 1
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@accept-intercepted-requests 0</literallayout>]]>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="allow-cgi-request-crunching"><title>allow-cgi-request-crunching</title>
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Specifies:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Whether requests to <application>Privoxy's</application> CGI pages can be blocked or redirected.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type of value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <replaceable>0 or 1</replaceable>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Default value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>0</emphasis></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect if unset:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> ignores block and redirect actions for its CGI pages.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Notes:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ By default <application>Privoxy</application> ignores block or redirect actions
+ for its CGI pages. Intercepting these requests can be useful in multi-user
+ setups to implement fine-grained access control, but it can also render the complete
+ web interface useless and make debugging problems painful if done without care.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Don't enable this option unless you're sure that you really need it.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Examples:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ allow-cgi-request-crunching 1
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@allow-cgi-request-crunching 0</literallayout>]]>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="split-large-forms"><title>split-large-forms</title>
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Specifies:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Whether the CGI interface should stay compatible with broken HTTP clients.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type of value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <replaceable>0 or 1</replaceable>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Default value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>0</emphasis></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect if unset:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The CGI form generate long GET URLs.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Notes:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <application>Privoxy's</application> CGI forms can lead to
+ rather long URLs. This isn't a problem as far as the HTTP
+ standard is concerned, but it can confuse clients with arbitrary
+ URL length limitations.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Enabling split-large-forms causes <application>Privoxy</application>
+ to divide big forms into smaller ones to keep the URL length down.
+ It makes editing a lot less convenient and you can no longer
+ submit all changes at once, but at least it works around this
+ browser bug.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you don't notice any editing problems, there is no reason
+ to enable this option, but if one of the submit buttons appears
+ to be broken, you should give it a try.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Examples:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ split-large-forms 1
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@split-large-forms 0</literallayout>]]>
+</sect3>
+
</sect2>
<!-- ~ End section ~ -->
<para>
The <quote>hide-console</quote> option is specific to the MS-Win console
version of <application>Privoxy</application>. If this option is used,
- <application>Privoxy</application> will disconnect from and hide the
+ <application>Privoxy</application> will disconnect from and hide the
command console.
</para>
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