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- $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.172 2013/03/01 17:43:18 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.180 2014/05/05 09:48:36 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
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-<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.172 2013/03/01 17:43:18 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.180 2014/05/05 09:48:36 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
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<emphasis>--pre-chroot-nslookup hostname</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
- Specifies a hostname to look up before doing a chroot. On some systems, initializing the
- resolver library involves reading config files from /etc and/or loading additional shared
- libraries from /lib. On these systems, doing a hostname lookup before the chroot reduces
+ Specifies a hostname (for example www.privoxy.org) to look up before doing a chroot.
+ On some systems, initializing the resolver library involves reading config files from
+ /etc and/or loading additional shared libraries from /lib.
+ On these systems, doing a hostname lookup before the chroot reduces
the number of files that must be copied into the chroot tree.
</para>
<para>
<para>
Generally, an URL pattern has the form
- <literal><domain><port>/<path></literal>, where the
- <literal><domain></literal>, the <literal><port></literal>
+ <literal><host><port>/<path></literal>, where the
+ <literal><host></literal>, the <literal><port></literal>
and the <literal><path></literal> are optional. (This is why the special
<literal>/</literal> pattern matches all URLs). Note that the protocol
portion of the URL pattern (e.g. <literal>http://</literal>) should
<emphasis>not</emphasis> be included in the pattern. This is assumed already!
</para>
<para>
- The pattern matching syntax is different for the domain and path parts of
- the URL. The domain part uses a simple globbing type matching technique,
+ The pattern matching syntax is different for the host and path parts of
+ the URL. The host part uses a simple globbing type matching technique,
while the path part uses more flexible
<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions"><quote>Regular
Expressions</quote></ulink> (POSIX 1003.2).
</para>
<para>
The port part of a pattern is a decimal port number preceded by a colon
- (<literal>:</literal>). If the domain part contains a numerical IPv6 address,
+ (<literal>:</literal>). If the host part contains a numerical IPv6 address,
it has to be put into angle brackets
(<literal><</literal>, <literal>></literal>).
</para>
<term><literal>www.example.com/</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- is a domain-only pattern and will match any request to <literal>www.example.com</literal>,
+ is a host-only pattern and will match any request to <literal>www.example.com</literal>,
regardless of which document on that server is requested. So ALL pages in
this domain would be covered by the scope of this action. Note that a
simple <literal>example.com</literal> is different and would NOT match.
<term><literal>www.example.com</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- means exactly the same. For domain-only patterns, the trailing <literal>/</literal> may
+ means exactly the same. For host-only patterns, the trailing <literal>/</literal> may
be omitted.
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><literal>10.0.0.1/</literal></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Matches any URL with the host address <literal>10.0.0.1</literal>.
+ (Note that the real URL uses plain brackets, not angle brackets.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal><2001:db8::1>/</literal></term>
<listitem>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
-<sect3><title>The Domain Pattern</title>
+<sect3 id="host-pattern"><title>The Host Pattern</title>
<para>
- The matching of the domain part offers some flexible options: if the
- domain starts or ends with a dot, it becomes unanchored at that end.
+ The matching of the host part offers some flexible options: if the
+ host pattern starts or ends with a dot, it becomes unanchored at that end.
+ The host pattern is often referred to as domain pattern as it is usually
+ used to match domain names and not IP addresses.
For example:
</para>
</sect3>
+<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<sect3 id="negative-tag-patterns"><title>The Negative Tag Patterns</title>
+
+<para>
+ To match requests that do not have a certain tag, specify a negative tag pattern
+ by prefixing the tag pattern line with either <quote>NO-REQUEST-TAG:</quote>
+ or <quote>NO-RESPONSE-TAG:</quote> instead of <quote>TAG:</quote>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Negative tag patterns created with <quote>NO-REQUEST-TAG:</quote> are checked
+ after all client headers are scanned, the ones created with <quote>NO-RESPONSE-TAG:</quote>
+ are checked after all server headers are scanned. In both cases all the created
+ tags are considered.
+</para>
+
+
</sect2>
<!-- ~ End section ~ -->
</para>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-js-events">
- <screen>+filter{js-events} # Kill all JS event bindings and timers (Radically destructive! Only for extra nasty sites).</screen>
+ <screen>+filter{js-events} # Kill JavaScript event bindings and timers (Radically destructive! Only for extra nasty sites).</screen>
</para>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-html-annoyances">
</para>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-refresh-tags">
- <screen>+filter{refresh-tags} # Kill automatic refresh tags (for dial-on-demand setups).</screen>
+ <screen>+filter{refresh-tags} # Kill automatic refresh tags if refresh time is larger than 9 seconds.</screen>
</para>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-unsolicited-popups">
- <screen>+filter{unsolicited-popups} # Disable only unsolicited pop-up windows. Useful if your browser lacks this ability.</screen>
+ <screen>+filter{unsolicited-popups} # Disable only unsolicited pop-up windows.</screen>
</para>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-all-popups">
- <screen>+filter{all-popups} # Kill all popups in JavaScript and HTML. Useful if your browser lacks this ability.</screen>
+ <screen>+filter{all-popups} # Kill all popups in JavaScript and HTML.</screen>
</para>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-img-reorder">
<anchor id="filter-frameset-borders">
<screen>+filter{frameset-borders} # Give frames a border and make them resizable.</screen>
</para>
+ <para>
+ <anchor id="filter-iframes">
+ <screen>+filter{iframes} # Removes all detected iframes. Should only be enabled for individual sites.</screen>
+ </para>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-demoronizer">
<screen>+filter{demoronizer} # Fix MS's non-standard use of standard charsets.</screen>
example.com/stylesheet\.css
# Create a short, easy to remember nickname for a favorite site
-# (relies on the browser accept and forward invalid URLs to &my-app;)
+# (relies on the browser to accept and forward invalid URLs to &my-app;)
{ +redirect{http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html} }
a
in a syntax that imitates <ulink url="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</ulink>'s
<literal>s///</literal> operator. If you are familiar with Perl, you
will find this to be quite intuitive, and may want to look at the
- PCRS documentation for the subtle differences to Perl behaviour. Most
- notably, the non-standard option letter <literal>U</literal> is supported,
- which turns the default to ungreedy matching.
+ PCRS documentation for the subtle differences to Perl behaviour.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Most notably, the non-standard option letter <literal>U</literal> is supported,
+ which turns the default to ungreedy matching (add <literal>?</literal> to
+ quantifiers to turn them greedy again).
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ The non-standard option letter <literal>D</literal> (dynamic) allows
+ to use the variables $host, $origin (the IP address the request came from),
+ $path and $url. They will be replaced with the value they refer to before
+ the filter is executed.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Note that '$' is a bad choice for a delimiter in a dynamic filter as you
+ might end up with unintended variables if you use a variable name
+ directly after the delimiter. Variables will be resolved without
+ escaping anything, therefore you also have to be careful not to chose
+ delimiters that appear in the replacement text. For example '<' should
+ be save, while '?' will sooner or later cause conflicts with $url.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ The non-standard option letter <literal>T</literal> (trivial) prevents
+ parsing for backreferences in the substitute. Use it if you want to include
+ text like '$&' in your substitute without quoting.
</para>
<para>
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