Purpose : Used with other docs and files only.
- $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.25 2007/12/14 19:16:37 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.36 2009/01/23 14:06:07 fabiankeil Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
========================================================================
Sample Configuration File for Privoxy v&p-version;
</title>
<para>
- $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.25 2007/12/14 19:16:37 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: p-config.sgml,v 2.36 2009/01/23 14:06:07 fabiankeil Exp $
</para>
<para>
-Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
+Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
The directory where all logging takes place
- (i.e. where <filename>logfile</filename> and
- <filename>jarfile</filename> are located).
+ (i.e. where the <filename>logfile</filename> is located).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem>
<simplelist>
<member>
- <msgtext><literallayout> standard.action # Internal purposes, no editing recommended</literallayout></msgtext>
+ <msgtext><literallayout> match-all.action # Actions that are applied to all sites and maybe overruled later on.</literallayout></msgtext>
</member>
<member>
- <msgtext><literallayout> default.action # Main actions file</literallayout></msgtext>
+ <msgtext><literallayout> default.action # Main actions file</literallayout></msgtext>
</member>
<member>
- <msgtext><literallayout> user.action # User customizations</literallayout></msgtext>
+ <msgtext><literallayout> user.action # User customizations</literallayout></msgtext>
</member>
</simplelist>
</listitem>
Multiple <literal>actionsfile</literal> lines are permitted, and are in fact recommended!
</para>
<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
+ The default values are <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>
<!-- 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 match-all.action # Actions that are applied to all sites and maybe overruled later on.</literallayout>]]>
<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@actionsfile default.action # Main actions file</literallayout>]]>
<!--
XXX: Like user.filter, user.action should probably be commented out
</sect3>
-<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="jarfile"><title>jarfile</title>
-
-<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Specifies:</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The file to store intercepted cookies in
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Type of value:</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>File name, relative to <literal>logdir</literal></para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Default value:</term>
- <listitem>
- <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>
- Intercepted cookies are not stored in a dedicated log file.
- </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
- 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>@@#jarfile jarfile</literallayout>]]>
-</sect3>
-
-
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="trustfile"><title>trustfile</title>
<variablelist>
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>
- 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 written to the network into the logfile
- debug 32 # debug force feature
- 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 2048 # CGI user interface
- debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings.
- debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors
+ debug 1 # Log the destination for each request &my-app; let through. See also debug 1024.
+ debug 2 # show each connection status
+ debug 4 # show I/O status
+ debug 8 # show header parsing
+ debug 16 # log all data written to the network into the logfile
+ debug 32 # debug force feature
+ debug 64 # debug regular expression filters
+ debug 128 # debug redirects
+ debug 256 # debug GIF de-animation
+ debug 512 # Common Log Format
+ debug 1024 # Log the destination for requests &my-app; didn't let through, and the reason why.
+ debug 2048 # CGI user interface
+ debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings.
+ debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
</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>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 1 # Log the destination for each request &my-app; let through.</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 1024 # Log the destination for requests &my-app; didn't let through, and the reason why.</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings</literallayout>]]>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@#single-threaded</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
+<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="hostname"><title>hostname</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Specifies:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The hostname shown on the CGI pages.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type of value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Text</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Default value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Unset</emphasis></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect if unset:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The hostname provided by the operating system is used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Notes:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ 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>@@#hostname hostname.example.org</literallayout>]]>
+</sect3>
+
</sect2>
<!-- ~ End section ~ -->
<!-- ~~~~~ 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">
<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
<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@split-large-forms 0</literallayout>]]>
</sect3>
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="keep-alive-timeout"><title>keep-alive-timeout</title>
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Specifies:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Number of seconds after which an open connection will no longer be reused.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type of value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <replaceable>Time in seconds.</replaceable>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Default value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>None</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect if unset:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Connections are not reused.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Notes:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option has no effect if <application>Privoxy</application>
+ has been compiled without keep-alive support.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Examples:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ keep-alive-timeout 300
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@keep-alive-timeout 300</literallayout>]]>
+</sect3>
+
+
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="socket-timeout"><title>socket-timeout</title>
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Specifies:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Number of seconds after which a socket times out if
+ no data is received.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type of value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <replaceable>Time in seconds.</replaceable>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Default value:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>None</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect if unset:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A default value of 180 seconds is used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Examples:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ socket-timeout 180
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+<![%config-file;[<literallayout>@@socket-timeout 180</literallayout>]]>
+</sect3>
+
+
</sect2>
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