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Purpose : README for Privoxy
- $Id: readme.sgml,v 2.7 2006/09/10 15:30:46 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: readme.sgml,v 2.42 2010/11/13 13:04:39 fabiankeil Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001 - 2006 Privoxy Developers http://privoxy.org
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
========================================================================
*
* Purpose : README file to give a short intro.
*
- * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 - 2006 the SourceForge
+ * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2010 the
* Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
*
* Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
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<sect1 id="importantchanges" ><title>IMPORTANT CHANGES</title>
<para>
- BIG NEWS! September 2006, Privoxy 3.0.5 is released. This is a significant
- upgrade with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. There are
- fifteen new actions available, and several actions have enhanced
- capabilities. Multiple filter files are now supported as well. See the
- "What's New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in <citetitle>the User
- Manual</citetitle> for details and specifics.
+ November 2010, Privoxy 3.0.17 stable is released.
</para>
<para>
- There was and will not be an official 3.0.4 release. This release cycle
- was used to gather our thoughts, play with some new ideas and refine
- some old ones. It will remain a development cycle with no actual release.
- 3.0.5 is the fruit of these efforts.
+ This is mainly a bug-fix release for the previously released
+ Privoxy 3.0.16.
</para>
<para>
- NEWS! January 2004, Privoxy 3.0.3 is released. This is the another
- maintenance release of Privoxy which fixes more bugs, further refines
- the configuration and works around some known third-party problems. See the
- ChangeLog for complete details. Upgrading from 3.0.2 is recommended.
+ It contains fixes for two bugs that could cause connections to hang
+ under certain circumstances when keep-alive support was enabled,
+ until they timed out or where closed by the server.
</para>
+<para>
+ As usual, there are also a bunch of minor improvements.
+ For details please see the "ChangeLog", the "What's New" section or
+ the "Upgrader's Notes" in <citetitle>the User Manual</citetitle>.
+</para>
+
</sect1>
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<sect1 id="run"><title>RUN</title>
<para>
- privoxy [——help] [——version]
- [——no-daemon] [——pidfile PIDFILE] [——user
- USER[.GROUP]] [——chroot] [config_file]
+ privoxy [--help] [--version]
+ [--no-daemon] [--pidfile PIDFILE] [--user USER[.GROUP]] [--chroot] [--pre-chroot-nslookup
+ HOSTNAME ][config_file]
</para>
<para>
See the man page or <citetitle>User Manual</citetitle> for an explanation of each option, and
file named 'config' in the current directory (except Win32 which will look
for 'config.txt'). If no config_file is found, Privoxy will fail to start.
</para>
-<para>
- Or for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start
-</para>
-<para>
- Or Debian: /etc/init.d/privoxy start
-</para>
</sect1>
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<para>
Be sure to set your browser(s) for HTTP/HTTPS Proxy at <IP>:<Port>, or
whatever you specify in the config file under 'listen-address'. DEFAULT is
- localhost:8118. Note that Privoxy ONLY proxies HTTP (and HTTPS) traffic. Do not try it
+ 127.0.0.1:8118. Note that Privoxy ONLY proxies HTTP (and HTTPS) traffic. Do not try it
with FTP or other protocols for the simple reason it does not work.
</para>
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