-Despite 12 out of 32 requests being blocked, the page looked, and seemed to
-behave perfectly "normal" (minus some ads, of course).
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-5.4. One of my favorite sites does not work with Privoxy. What can I do?
-
-First verify that it is indeed a Privoxy problem, by toggling off Privoxy
-through http://config.privoxy.org/toggle (the toggle feature may need to be
-enabled in the main config), and then shift-reloading the problem page (i.e.
-holding down the shift key while clicking reload. Alternatively, flush your
-browser's disk and memory caches).
-
-If the problem went away, we know we have a configuration related problem. Now
-go to http://config.privoxy.org/show-url-info and paste the full URL of the
-page in question into the prompt. See which actions are being applied to the
-URL, and which matches in which actions files are responsible for that. It
-might be helpful also to look at your logs for this site too, to see what else
-might be happening (note: logging may need to be enabled in the main config
-file). Many sites are complex and require a number of related pages to help
-present their content. Look at what else might be used by the page in question,
-and what of that might be required. Now, armed with this information, go to
-http://config.privoxy.org/show-status and select the appropriate actions files
-for editing.
-
-You can now either look for a section which disables the actions that you
-suspect to cause the problem and add a pattern for your site there, or make up
-a completely new section for your site. In any case, the recommended way is to
-disable only the prime suspect, reload the problem page, and only if the
-problem persists, disable more and more actions until you have identified the
-culprit. You may or may not want to turn the other actions on again. Remember
-to flush your browser's caches in between any such changes!
-
-Alternately, if you are comfortable with a text editor, you can accomplish the
-same thing by editing the appropriate actions file. Probably the easiest way to
-deal with such problems when editing by hand is to add your site to a { fragile
-} section in user.action, which is an alias that turns off most "dangerous"
-actions, but is also likely to turn off more actions then needed, and thus
-lower your privacy and protection more than necessary,
-
-Troubleshooting actions is discussed in more detail in the User Manual
-appendix, Troubleshooting: the Anatomy of an Action. There is also an actions
-tutorial with general configuration information and examples.
-
-As a last resort, you can always see if your browser has a setting that will
-bypass the proxy setting for selective sites. Modern browsers can do this.
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-5.5. After installing Privoxy, I have to log in every time I start IE. What
-gives?
-
-This is a quirk that effects the installation of Privoxy, in conjunction with
-Internet Explorer and Internet Connection Sharing on Windows 2000 and Windows
-XP. The symptoms may appear to be corrupted or invalid DUN settings, or
-passwords.
-
-When setting up an NT based Windows system with Privoxy you may find that
-things do not seem to be doing what you expect. When you set your system up you
-will probably have set up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) with Dial up
-Networking (DUN) when logged in with administrator privileges. You will
-probably have made this DUN connection available to other accounts that you may
-have set-up on your system. E.g. Mum or Dad sets up the system and makes
-accounts suitably configured for the kids.
-
-When setting up Privoxy in this environment you will have to alter the proxy
-set-up of Internet Explorer (IE) for the specific DUN connection on which you
-wish to use Privoxy. When you do this the ICS DUN set-up becomes user specific.
-In this instance you will see no difference if you change the DUN connection
-under the account used to set-up the connection. However when you do this from
-another user you will notice that the DUN connection changes to make available
-to "Me only". You will also find that you have to store the password under each
-different user!
-
-The reason for this is that each user's set-up for IE is user specific. Each
-set-up DUN connection and each LAN connection in IE store the settings for each
-user individually. As such this enforces individual configurations rather than
-common ones. Hence the first time you use a DUN connection after re-booting
-your system it may not perform as you expect, and prompt you for the password.
-Just set and save the password again and all should be OK.
-
-[Thanks to Ray Griffith for this submission.]
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-5.6. I cannot connect to any FTP sites. Privoxy is blocking me.
-
-Privoxy cannot act as a proxy for FTP traffic, so do not configure your browser
-to use Privoxy as an FTP proxy. The same is true for any protocol other than
-HTTP or HTTPS (SSL).
-
-Most browsers understand FTP as well as HTTP. If you connect to a site, with a
-URL like ftp://ftp.example.com, your browser is making an FTP connection, and
-not a HTTP connection. So while your browser may speak FTP, Privoxy does not,
-and cannot proxy such traffic.
-
-To complicate matters, some systems may have a generic "proxy" setting, which
-will enable various protocols, including both HTTP and FTP proxying! So it is
-possible to accidentally enable FTP proxying in these cases. And of course, if
-this happens, Privoxy will indeed cause problems since it does not know FTP.
-Newer version will give a sane error message if a FTP connection is attempted.
-Just disable the FTP setting and all will be well again.
-
-Will Privoxy ever proxy FTP traffic? Unlikely. There just is not much reason,
-and the work to make this happen is more than it may seem.
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-5.7. In Mac OSX, I can't configure Microsoft Internet Explorer to use Privoxy
-as the HTTP proxy.
-
-Microsoft Internet Explorer (in versions like 5.1) respects system-wide network
-settings. In order to change the HTTP proxy, open System Preferences, and click
-on the Network icon. In the settings pane that comes up, click on the Proxies
-tab. Ensure the "Web Proxy (HTTP)" checkbox is checked and enter 127.0.0.1 in
-the entry field. Enter 8118 in the Port field. The next time you start IE, it
-should reflect these values.
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-5.8. In Mac OSX, I dragged the Privoxy folder to the trash in order to
-uninstall it. Now the finder tells me I don't have sufficient privileges to
-empty the trash.
-
-Just dragging the Privoxy folder to the trash is not enough to delete it.
-Privoxy supplies an uninstall.command file that takes care of these details.
-Open the trash, drag the uninstall.command file out of the trash and
-double-click on it. You will be prompted for confirmation and the
-administration password.