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><P
-> Added the config file option handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok to
- work around Firefox bug #492459, which causes Firefox to hang
- if JavaScripts are blocked in certain situations. The option is
- enabled in the default config file.
+> Fixed last-chunk-detection for responses where the content was small
+ enough to be read with the body, causing Privoxy to wait for the
+ end of the content until the server closed the connection.
+ Reported by "Karsten" in #3028326.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Added the config option default-server-timeout to control the
- assumed default server timeout. Since Privoxy no longer returns
- an error message for connection resets on reused client connections,
- assuming larger server timeout values appears to actually work
- pretty well as long as connections aren't shared.
+> Responses with status code 204 weren't properly detected as body-less
+ like RFC2616 mandates. Like the previous bug, this caused Privoxy
+ to wait for the end of the content until the server closed the connection.
+ Fixes #3022042 and #3025553, reported by a user with no visible name.
+ Most likely also fixes a bunch of other AJAX-related problem reports
+ that got closed in the past due to insufficient information and lack
+ of feedback.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Added optional support for FreeBSD's accf_http(9). Use the
- configure option --enable-accept-filter to enable it.
+> Fixed an ACL bug that made it impossible to build a blacklist.
+ Usually the ACL directives are used in a whitelist, which worked
+ as expected, but blacklisting is still useful for public proxies
+ where one only needs to deny known abusers access.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Added fancier Privoxy icons for win32. Contributed by Jeff H.
+> Added LOG_LEVEL_RECEIVED to log the not-yet-parsed data read from the
+ network. This should make debugging various parsing issues a lot easier.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> In daemon mode, fd 0, 1 and 2 are bound to /dev/null.
+> The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
+ Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Resolve localhost using whatever address family the operating
- system feels like. Previous betas would try to use IPv4 as this
- is what most users expect, but this didn't work reliable on
- GNU/Linux systems.
+> In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
+ GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> In the action lists on CGI pages, actions and their parameters are
- no longer separated with a space. The action file parser doesn't
- actually allow this and will throw an invalid syntax error if actions
- and parameters in the action files are separated. Not adding the
- spaces means copy and pasting CGI output into the action files works.
+> Added the configure option --enable-large-file-support to set a few
+ defines that are required by platforms like GNU/Linux to support files
+ larger then 2GB. Mainly interesting for users without proper logfile
+ management.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The default keep-alive timeout has been reduced to 5 seconds to work
- around hangs in clients that treat the proxy like any other host and
- stop allowing any new connections if the "maximum number of
- connections per host" is reached.
+> Logging with "debug 16" no longer stops at the first nul byte which is
+ pretty useless. Non-printable characters are replaced with their hex value
+ so the result can't span multiple lines making parsing them harder then
+ necessary.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Several webbug URLs that look like they are leading to images are now
- blocked as image instead of empty documents. Doing the latter causes
- WebKit-based clients to show a "missing image" icon which may mess up
- the layout.
+> Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Accepts quoted expiration dates even though RFC 2109 10.1.2
- doesn't seem to allow them. Reported anonymously.
+> Fixed incorrect regression test markup which caused a test in
+ 3.0.16 to fail while Privoxy itself was working correctly.
+ While Privoxy accepts hide-referer, too, the action name is actually
+ hide-referrer which is also the name used one the final results page,
+ where the test expected the alias.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Don't try to forget connections if connection sharing is disabled.
- This wasn't a real problem but caused an unnecessary log message.
- </P
+> CGI interface improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> In finish_http_response(), continue to add the 'Connection: close'
+ header if the client connection will not be kept alive.
+ Anonymously pointed out in #2987454.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The still undocumented --enable-extended-host-patterns configure
- option has a better description.
- </P
+> Apostrophes in block messages no longer cause parse errors
+ when the blocked page is viewed with JavaScript enabled.
+ Reported by dg1727 in #3062296.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Fixed an error message that would claim a write to the server
- failed when actually writing to the client failed.
- </P
+> Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Log the crunch reason before trying to write to the client.
- The log is easier to read that way.
- </P
+> Allow to keep the client connection alive after crunching the previous request.
+ Already opened server connections can be kept alive, too.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Several log messages about client connections also mention
- the socket number.
- </P
+> In cgi_show_url_info(), don't forget to prefix URLs that only contain http:// or https:// in the path.
+ Fixes #2975765 reported by Adam Piggott.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> handle-as-empty-document no longer depends on the image blocking
- code being enabled.
+> Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
+ local user manual delivery is disabled.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Privoxy-Log-Parser is roughly 40% faster in highlighting mode.
- </P
+> Action file improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> uagen, a Firefox User-Agent generator for Privoxy and Mozilla
- browsers has been imported and is available in the tarballs
- tools directory.
- </P
+> Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The scripts in the tools directory treat unknown parameters
- as fatal errors.
- </P
+> Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
+ </P
></LI
-></UL
-></P
+><LI
><P
-> If you missed the previous two beta versions, you may also be
- interested in the additional changes since 3.0.12, the
- last stable release:</P
+> Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
><P
-> <P
-></P
-><UL
+> Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
+ </P
+></LI
><LI
><P
-> Added IPv6 support. Thanks to Petr Pisar who not only provided
- the initial patch but also helped a lot with the integration.
- </P
+> Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Added client-side keep-alive support.
- </P
+> Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The connection sharing code is only used if the connection-sharing
- option is enabled.
- </P
+> Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
+ fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The latency is taken into account when evaluating whether or not to
- reuse a connection. This should significantly reduce the number of
- connections problems several users reported.
- </P
+> Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The max-client-connections option has been added to restrict
- the number of client connections below a value enforced by
- the operating system.
- </P
+> Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> If the server doesn't specify how long the connection stays alive,
- Privoxy errs on the safe side of caution and assumes it's only a second.
- </P
+> Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Setting keep-alive-timeout to 0 disables keep-alive support. Previously
- Privoxy would claim to allow persistence but not reuse the connection.
- </P
+> Don't handle view.atdmt.com as image. It's used for click-throughs
+ so users should be able to "go there anyway".
+ Reported by Adam Piggott in #2975927.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Pipelined requests are less likely to be mistaken for the request
- body of the previous request. Note that Privoxy still has no real
- pipeline support and will either serialize pipelined requests or
- drop them in which case the client has to resent them.
- </P
+> Also let the refresh-tags filter remove invalid refresh tags where
+ the 'url=' part is missing. Anonymously reported in #2986382.
+ While at it, update the description to mention the fact that only
+ refresh tags with refresh times above 9 seconds are covered.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Fixed a crash on some Windows versions when header randomization
- is enabled and the date couldn't be parsed.
- </P
+> javascript needs to be blocked with +handle-as-empty-document to
+ work around Firefox bug 492459. So move .js blockers from
+ +block{Might be a web-bug.} -handle-as-empty-document
+ to
+ +block{Might be a web-bug.} +handle-as-empty-document
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Privoxy's keep-alive timeout for the current connection is reduced
- to the one specified in the client's Keep-Alive header.
- </P
+> ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> For HTTP/1.1 requests, Privoxy implies keep-alive support by not
- setting any Connection header instead of using 'Connection: keep-alive'.
- </P
+> Block another omniture tracking domain
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> If the socket isn't reusable, Privoxy doesn't temporarily waste
- a socket slot to remember the connection.
- </P
+> Added a range-requests tagger.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> If keep-alive support is disabled but compiled in, the client's
- Keep-Alive header is removed.
+> Added two sections to get Flickr's Ajax interface working with
+ default pre-settings. If you change the configuration to block
+ cookies by default, you'll need additional exceptions.
+ Reported by Mathias Homann in #3101419 and by Patrick on ijbswa-users@
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Fixed a bug on mingw32 where downloading large files failed if
- keep-alive support was enabled.
- </P
+> Documentation improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Fixed a bug that (at least theoretically) could cause log
- timestamps to be occasionally off by about a second.
- </P
+> Consistently recommend socks5 in the Tor FAQ entry and mention
+ its advantage compared to socks4a. Reported by David in #2960129.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The configure script respects the $PATH variable when searching
- for groups and id.
- </P
+> Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
+ slower than it is.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Compressed content with extra fields couldn't be decompressed
- and would get passed to the client unfiltered. This problem
- has only be detected through statical analysis with clang as
- nobody seems to be using extra fields anyway.
+> Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> If the server resets the Connection after sending only the headers
- Privoxy forwards what it got to the client. Previously Privoxy
- would deliver an error message instead.
- </P
+> Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Error messages in case of connection timeouts use the right
- HTTP status code.
- </P
+> Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> If spawning a child to handle a request fails, the client
- gets an error message and Privoxy continues to listen for
- new requests right away.
- </P
+> Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The error messages in case of server-connection timeouts or
- prematurely closed server connections are now template-based.
- </P
+> Also gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
+ used by the client.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> If zlib support isn't compiled in, Privoxy no longer tries to
- filter compressed content unless explicitly asked to do so.
- </P
+> Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
+ statistics about how many request where made per host.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> In case of connections that are denied based on ACL directives,
- the memory used for the client IP is no longer leaked.
- </P
+> Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Fixed another small memory leak if the client request times out
- while waiting for client headers other than the request line.
- </P
+> Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
+ a decimal number.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The client socket is kept open until the server socket has
- been marked as unused. This should increase the chances that
- the still-open connection will be reused for the client's next
- request to the same destination. Note that this only matters
- if connection-sharing is enabled.
- </P
+> Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
+ with the server headers. We better stop reading.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> A TODO list has been added to the source tarballs to give potential
- volunteers a better idea of what the current goals are. Donations
- are still welcome too: http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
- </P
+> Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> In case of missing server data, no error message is send to the
- client if the request arrived on a reused connection. The client
- is then supposed to silently retry the request without bothering
- the user. This should significantly reduce the frequency of the
- "No server or forwarder data received" error message many users
- reported.
- </P
+> Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
+ Maximum number of connections reached.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> More reliable detection of prematurely closed client sockets
- with keep-alive enabled.
- </P
+> Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> FEATURE_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE is decoupled from
- FEATURE_CONNECTION_SHARING and now available on
- all platforms.
- </P
+> Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Improved handling of POST requests on reused connections.
- Should fix problems with stalled connections after submitting
- form data with some browser configurations.
- </P
+> Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Fixed various latency calculation issues.
- </P
+> Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
+ the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Allows the client to pass NTLM authentication requests to a
- forwarding proxy. This was already assumed and hinted to work
- in 3.0.13 beta but actually didn't. Now it's confirmed to work
- with IE, Firefox and Chrome.
- Thanks to Francois Botha and Wan-Teh Chang
+> Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Fixed a calculation problem if receiving the server headers
- takes more than two reads, that could cause Privoxy to terminate
- the connection prematurely. Reported by Oliver.
- </P
+> Code cleanups:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Remove the next member from the client_state struct. Only the main
+ thread needs access to all client states so give it its own struct.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Compiles again on platforms such as OpenBSD and systems
- using earlier glibc version that don't support AI_ADDRCONFIG.
- Anonymously submitted in #2872591.
- </P
+> Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> A bunch of MS VC project files and Suse and Redhat RPM spec
- files have been removed as they were no longer maintained for
- quite some time.
- </P
+> Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Overly long action lines are properly rejected with a proper
- error message. Previously they would be either rejected as
- invalid or cause a core dump through abort().
- </P
+> Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Already timed-out connections are no longer temporarily remembered.
- They weren't reused anyway, but wasted a socket slot.
- </P
+> In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
+ an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> len refers to the number of bytes actually read which might
- differ from the ones received. Adjust log messages accordingly.
- </P
+> In connect_to(), don't declare the variable 'flags' on OS/2 where
+ it isn't used. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> The optional JavaScript on the CGI page uses encodeURIComponent()
- instead of escape() which doesn't encode all characters that matter.
- Anonymously reported in #2832722.
- </P
+> Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Fix gcc45 warnings in decompress_iob().
- </P
+> In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
+ boring while loop.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Various log message improvements.
- </P
+> Code cleanup in preparation for external filters.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In listen_loop(), mention the socket on which we accepted the
+ connection, not just the source IP address.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In write_socket(), also log the socket we're writing to.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In log_error(), assert that escaped characters get logged
+ completely or not at all.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Privoxy-Regression-Test supports redirect tests.
+> In log_error(), assert that ival and sval have reasonable values.
+ There's no reason not to abort() if they don't.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Remove an incorrect cgi_error_unknown() call in a
+ cannnot-happen-situation in send_crunch_response().
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Clean up white-space in http_response definition and
+ move the crunch_reason to the beginning.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Turn http_response.reason into an enum and rename it
+ to http_response.crunch_reason.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Silence a 'gcc (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2' warning on i686 GNU/Linux.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> Privoxy-Log-Parser can gather some connection statistics.
+> GNUmakefile improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Use $(SSH) instead of ssh, so one only needs to specify a username once.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Removed references to the action feedback thingy that hasn't been
+ working for years.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Consistently use shell.sourceforge.net instead of shell.sf.net so
+ one doesn't need to check server fingerprints twice.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Removed GNUisms in the webserver and webactions targets so they
+ work with standard tar.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
+>
</P
></LI
></UL
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