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+<!entity p-status "stable">
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<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>
<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.
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>
</para>
<para>
Before this works the directives in the
- <literal><ulink url="config.html#TLS">TLS section</ulink></literal>
+ <literal><ulink url="config.html#HTTPS-INSPECTION-DIRECTIVES">HTTPS inspection section</ulink></literal>
of the config file have to be configured.
</para>
<para>
# 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@}}
<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