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<!entity config SYSTEM "p-config.sgml">
<!entity changelog SYSTEM "changelog.sgml">
-<!entity p-version "3.0.29">
+<!entity p-version "3.0.30">
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Purpose : user manual
- Copyright (C) 2001-2020 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2021 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
========================================================================
<subscript>
<!-- Completely the wrong markup, but very little is allowed -->
<!-- in this part of an article. FIXME -->
- <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2020 by
+ <link linkend="copyright">Copyright</link> &my-copy; 2001-2021 by
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy Developers</ulink>
</subscript>
</pubdate>
<para>
In addition to the core
features of ad blocking and
- <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie">cookie</ulink> management,
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie">cookie</ulink> management,
<application>Privoxy</application> provides many supplemental
features<![%p-not-stable;[, some of them currently under development]]>,
that give the end-user more control, more privacy and more freedom:
<listitem>
<para>
Set your browser to use <application>Privoxy</application> as HTTP and
- HTTPS (SSL) <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server">proxy</ulink>
+ HTTPS (SSL) <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server">proxy</ulink>
by setting the proxy configuration for address of
<literal>127.0.0.1</literal> and port <literal>8118</literal>.
<emphasis>DO NOT</emphasis> activate proxying for <literal>FTP</literal> or
<para>
Flush your browser's disk and memory caches, to remove any cached ad images.
If using <application>Privoxy</application> to manage
- <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie">cookies</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie">cookies</ulink>,
you should remove any currently stored cookies too.
</para>
</listitem>
Before launching <application>Privoxy</application> for the first time, you
will want to configure your browser(s) to use
<application>Privoxy</application> as a HTTP and HTTPS (SSL)
- <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server">proxy</ulink>. The default is
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server">proxy</ulink>. The default is
127.0.0.1 (or localhost) for the proxy address, and port 8118 (earlier versions
used port 8000). This is the one configuration step <emphasis>that must be done
</emphasis>!
<!-- image of Mozilla Proxy configuration -->
<figure pgwide="0" float="0"><title>Proxy Configuration Showing
- Mozilla/Netscape HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) Settings</title>
+ Mozilla Firefox HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) Settings</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="proxy_setup.jpg" format="jpg">
</imageobject>
<textobject>
- <phrase>[ Screenshot of Mozilla Proxy Configuration ]</phrase>
+ <phrase>[ Screenshot of Mozilla Firefox Proxy Configuration ]</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
</para>
<literallayout>
- <guibutton>Tools</guibutton> -> <guibutton>Options</guibutton> -> <guibutton>Advanced</guibutton> -> <guibutton>Network</guibutton> -><guibutton>Connection</guibutton> -> <guibutton>Settings</guibutton>
+ <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> -> <guibutton>Preferences</guibutton> -> <guibutton>Network Settings</guibutton> -> <guibutton>Settings</guibutton>
</literallayout>
<para>
<para>
After doing this, flush your browser's disk and memory caches to force a
re-reading of all pages and to get rid of any ads that may be cached. Remove
- any <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie">cookies</ulink>,
+ any <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_cookie">cookies</ulink>,
if you want <application>Privoxy</application> to manage that. You are now
ready to start enjoying the benefits of using
<application>Privoxy</application>!
The default profiles, and their associated actions, as pre-defined in
<filename>default.action</filename> are:
</para>
- <table frame=all><title>Default Configurations</title>
+ <table frame=all id="default-configurations"><title>Default Configurations</title>
<tgroup cols=4 align=left colsep=1 rowsep=1>
<colspec colname=c1>
<colspec colname=c2>
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
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions"><quote>Regular
Expressions</quote></ulink> (POSIX 1003.2).
</para>
<para>
themselves. These work similarly to shell globbing type wild-cards:
<quote>*</quote> represents zero or more arbitrary characters (this is
equivalent to the
- <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions"><quote>Regular
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions"><quote>Regular
Expression</quote></ulink> based syntax of <quote>.*</quote>),
<quote>?</quote> represents any single character (this is equivalent to the
regular expression syntax of a simple <quote>.</quote>), and you can define
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> uses <quote>modern</quote> POSIX 1003.2
- <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions"><quote>Regular
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions"><quote>Regular
Expressions</quote></ulink> for matching the path portion (after the slash),
and is thus more flexible.
</para>
one. This can be used to rewrite the request destination behind the client's
back, for example to specify a Tor exit relay for certain requests.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Note that to change the destination host for
+ <link linkend="HTTPS-INSPECTION">https-inspected</link>
+ requests a protocol and host has to be added to the URI.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <link linkend="HTTPS-INSPECTION">https inspection</link>
+ is enabled, the protocol can be downgraded from https to http
+ but upgrading a request from http to https is currently not
+ supported.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ After detecting a rewrite, &my-app; does not update the actions
+ used for the request based on the new host.
+ </para>
<para>
Please refer to the <link linkend="filter-file">filter file chapter</link>
to learn which client-header filters are available by default, and how to
</variablelist>
</sect3>
+<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="client-body-filter">
+<title>client-body-filter</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Typical use:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Rewrite or remove client request body.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ All request bodies to which this action applies are filtered on-the-fly through
+ the specified regular expression based substitutions.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type:</term>
+ <!-- boolean, parameterized, Multi-value -->
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Multi-value.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Parameter:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The name of a client-body filter, as defined in one of the
+ <link linkend="filter-file">filter files</link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Notes:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Please refer to the <link linkend="filter-file">filter file chapter</link>
+ to learn how to create your own client-body filters.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The distribution <filename>default.filter</filename> file contains a selection of
+ client-body filters for example purposes.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The amount of data that can be filtered is limited by the
+ <literal><link linkend="buffer-limit">buffer-limit</link></literal>
+ option in the main <link linkend="config">config file</link>. The
+ default is 4096 KB (4 Megs). Once this limit is exceeded, the whole
+ request body is passed through unfiltered.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Example usage (section):</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <screen>
+# Remove "test" everywhere in the request body
+{+client-body-filter{remove-test}}
+/
+</screen>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+</sect3>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="client-header-tagger">
<para>
<quote>Rolling your own</quote>
filters requires a knowledge of
- <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions"><quote>Regular
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions"><quote>Regular
Expressions</quote></ulink> and
- <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html"><quote>HTML</quote></ulink>.
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html"><quote>HTML</quote></ulink>.
This is very powerful feature, and potentially very intrusive.
Filters should be used with caution, and where an equivalent
<quote>action</quote> is not available.
</para>
<para>
- The amount of data that can be filtered is limited to the
+ The amount of data that can be filtered is limited by the
<literal><link linkend="buffer-limit">buffer-limit</link></literal>
option in the main <link linkend="config">config file</link>. The
default is 4096 KB (4 Megs). Once this limit is exceeded, the buffered
<anchor id="filter-no-ping">
</para>
<screen>+filter{no-ping} # Removes non-standard ping attributes in <a> and <area> tags.</screen>
+ <para>
+ <anchor id="filter-github">
+ </para>
+ <screen>+filter{github} # Removes the annoying "Sign-Up" banner and the Cookie disclaimer.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-google">
</para>
<anchor id="filter-blogspot">
</para>
<screen>+filter{blogspot} # Cleans up some Blogspot blogs. Read the fine print before using this.</screen>
+ <para>
+ <anchor id="filter-sourceforge">
+ </para>
+ <screen>+filter{sourceforge} # Reduces the amount of ads for proprietary software on SourceForge.</screen>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
More information on known user-agent strings can be found at
<ulink url="http://www.user-agents.org/">http://www.user-agents.org/</ulink>
and
- <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent</ulink>.
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent</ulink>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <screen>+hide-user-agent{Netscape 6.1 (X11; I; Linux 2.4.18 i686)}</screen>
+ <screen>+hide-user-agent{Mozilla/5.0 (X11; ElectroBSD i386; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0}</screen>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
# Redirect Destination = https://www.illumos.org/issues/4974
i[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*/
+# Redirect requests for the old Tor Hidden Service of the Privoxy website to the new one
+{+redirect{s@^http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/@http://l3tczdiiwoo63iwxty4lhs6p7eaxop5micbn7vbliydgv63x5zrrrfyd.onion/@}}
+jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/
+
# Redirect remote requests for this manual
# to the local version delivered by Privoxy
{+redirect{s@^http://www@http://config@}}
</sect3>
+<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="suppress-tag">
+<title>suppress-tag</title>
+
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Typical use:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Suppress client or server tag.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Effect:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Server or client tags to which this action applies are not added to the request,
+ thus making all actions that are specific to these request tags inactive.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Type:</term>
+ <!-- boolean, parameterized, Multi-value -->
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Multi-value.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Parameter:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The result tag of a server-header or client-header tagger, as defined in one of the
+ <link linkend="filter-file">filter files</link>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Example usage (section):</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <screen>
+# Suppress tag produced by range-requests client-header tagger for requests coming from address 10.0.0.1
+{+suppress-tag{RANGE-REQUEST}}
+TAG:^IP-ADDRESS: 10\.0\.0\.1$
+</screen>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+</variablelist>
+</sect3>
+
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect3 renderas="sect4" id="session-cookies-only">
<title>session-cookies-only</title>
</para>
<para>
- &my-app; supports three different pcrs-based filter actions:
+ &my-app; supports four different pcrs-based filter actions:
<literal><link linkend="filter">filter</link></literal> to
rewrite the content that is send to the client,
<literal><link linkend="client-header-filter">client-header-filter</link></literal>
- to rewrite headers that are send by the client, and
+ to rewrite headers that are send by the client,
<literal><link linkend="server-header-filter">server-header-filter</link></literal>
- to rewrite headers that are send by the server.
+ to rewrite headers that are send by the server, and
+ <literal><link linkend="client-body-filter">client-body-filter</link></literal>
+ to rewrite client request body.
</para>
<para>
filter file is organized in sections, which are called <emphasis>filters</emphasis>
here. Each filter consists of a heading line, that starts with one of the
<emphasis>keywords</emphasis> <literal>FILTER:</literal>,
- <literal>CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER:</literal> or <literal>SERVER-HEADER-FILTER:</literal>
+ <literal>CLIENT-HEADER-FILTER:</literal>, <literal>SERVER-HEADER-FILTER:</literal> or
+ <literal>CLIENT-BODY-FILTER:</literal>
followed by the filter's <emphasis>name</emphasis>, and a short (one line)
<emphasis>description</emphasis> of what it does. Below that line
come the <emphasis>jobs</emphasis>, i.e. lines that define the actual
<para>
If you are new to
- <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions"><quote>Regular
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions"><quote>Regular
Expressions</quote></ulink>, you might want to take a look at
the <link linkend="regex">Appendix on regular expressions</link>, and
see the <ulink url="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html">Perl
projects / privoxy.git / blobdiff