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->Privoxy 3.0.4 User Manual</TH
+>Privoxy 3.0.17 User Manual</TH
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><TD
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
NAME="WHATSNEW"
-></A
->3. What's New in this Release</H1
+>3. What's New in this Release</A
+></H1
><P
-> There are many new features in <SPAN
+> <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> 3.0.4
- :</P
+>Privoxy 3.0.16</SPAN
+> is a stable release.
+ The changes since 3.0.15 beta are:</P
><P
> <P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
-> Mulitiple <A
-HREF="filter-file.html"
->filter files</A
-> can now be specifed in <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->config</TT
->.
+> 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
->
- There are a number of new <A
-HREF="actions-file.html"
->actions</A
->:
- </P
+> 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
+> 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 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
+> The IPv6 code is enabled by default on Windows versions that support it.
+ Patch submitted by oCameLo in #2942729.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In mingw32 versions, the user.filter file is reachable through the
+ GUI, just like default.filter is. Feature request 3040263.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> 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
+> 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
+> Privoxy logs when reading an action, filter or trust file.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
><P
-> <P
+> 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
+> CGI interface improvements:
+ <P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#CONTENT-TYPE-OVERWRITE"
->content-type-overwrite</A
-></TT
->
- </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
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-CLIENT-HEADER"
->crunch-client-header</A
-></TT
->
- </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
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-IF-NONE-MATCH"
->crunch-if-none-match</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> Fix a bunch of anchors that used underscores instead of dashes.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#CRUNCH-SERVER-HEADER"
->crunch-server-header</A
-></TT
->
- </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
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#FAST-REDIRECTS"
->fast-redirects</A
-></TT
->
- </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
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#FORCE-TEXT-MODE"
->force-text-mode</A
-></TT
+> Show the 404 CGI page if cgi_send_user_manual() is called while
+ local user manual delivery is disabled.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
>
- </P
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT"
->handle-as-empty-document</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> Action file improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Enable user.filter by default. Suggested by David White in #3001830.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#HIDE-ACCEPT-LANGUAGE"
->hide-accept-language</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> Block .sitestat.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002725.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#HIDE-CONTENT-DISPOSITION"
->hide-content-disposition</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> Block .atemda.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002723.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#HIDE-IF-MODIFIED-SINCE"
->hide-if-modified-since</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> Block js.adlink.net/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002720.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#HIDE-REFERRER"
->hide-referrer</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> Block .analytics.yahoo.com/. Reported by johnd16 in #3002713.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#INSPECT-JPEGS"
->inspect-jpegs</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> Block sb.scorecardresearch.com, too. Reported by dg1727 in #2992652.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#OVERWRITE-LAST-MODIFIED"
->overwrite-last-modified</A
-></TT
->
- </P
+> Fix problems noticed on Yahoo mail and news pages.
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#REDIRECT"
->redirect</A
-></TT
+> Remove the too broad yahoo section, only keeping the
+ fast-redirects exception as discussed on ijbswa-devel@.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Don't block adesklets.sourceforge.net. Reported in #2974204.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Block chartbeat ping tracking. Reported in #2975895.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Tag CSS and image requests with cautious and medium settings, too.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><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
+> 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
+> 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
+> ijbswa-Feature Requests-3006719 - Block 160x578 Banners.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Block another omniture tracking domain
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Added a range-requests tagger.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> 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
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
-><A
-HREF="actions-file.html#TREAT-FORBIDDEN-CONNECTS-LIKE-BLOCKS"
->treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks</A
-></TT
+> Documentation improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Explicitly mention how to match all URLs.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><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
+> Slightly improve the explanation of why filtering may appear
+ slower than it is.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Grammar fixes for the ACL section.
+ </P
+></LI
+></UL
>
- </P
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Privoxy-Log-Parser improvements:
+ <P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+> Also gather statistics for blocked and redirected requests.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Provide the percentage of keep-alive offers the client accepted.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Add a --url-statistics-threshold option.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Also gather statistics for ressources, methods, and HTTP versions
+ used by the client.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Add a --host-statistics-threshold option to also gather
+ statistics about how many request where made per host.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Fix a bug in handle_loglevel_header() where a 'scan: ' got lost.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Add a --shorten-thread-ids option to replace the thread id with
+ a decimal number.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and ignore: Looks like we got the last chunk together
+ with the server headers. We better stop reading.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and ignore: Continue hack in da house.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and higlight: Rejecting connection from 10.0.0.2.
+ Maximum number of connections reached.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and highlight: Loading actions file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.action
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and highlight: Loading filter file: /usr/local/etc/privoxy/default.filter
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and highlight: Killed all-caps Host header line: HOST: bestproxydb.com
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept and highlight: Reducing expected bytes to 0. Marking
+ the server socket tainted after throwing 4 bytes away.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Accept: Merged multiple header lines to: 'X-FORWARDED-PROTO: http X-HOST: 127.0.0.1'
+ </P
></LI
></UL
>
- </P
+ </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-> <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->MS-Windows</SPAN
-> versions can now be installed and
- started as a <SPAN
-CLASS="emphasis"
-><I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->service</I
-></SPAN
->.
+> 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
+> Garbage-collect request_contains_null_bytes().
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Ditch redundant code in unload_configfile().
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Ditch LogGetURLUnderCursor() which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In write_socket(), remove the write-only variable write_len in
+ an ifdef __OS2__ block. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><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
+> Limit the scope of various variables. Spotted by cppcheck.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In add_to_iob(), turn an interestingly looking for loop into a
+ boring while loop.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><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
+> 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
-> In addition, there are various bug fixes and enhancements, including
- error pages are no longer cached, better DNS error handling, and logging
- improvements.
+> 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
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="UPGRADERSNOTE"
-></A
->3.1. Note to Upgraders</H2
+>3.1. Note to Upgraders</A
+></H2
><P
> A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier
versions of <SPAN
><UL
><LI
><P
+> The recommended way to upgrade <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+> is to backup your old
+ configuration files, install the new ones, verify that <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+>
+ is working correctly and finally merge back your changes using
+ <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>diff</SPAN
+> and maybe <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>patch</SPAN
+>.
+ </P
+><P
+> There are a number of new features in each <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+> release and
+ most of them have to be explicitly enabled in the configuration
+ files. Old configuration files obviously don't do that and due
+ to syntax changes using old configuration files with a new
+ <SPAN
+CLASS="APPLICATION"
+>Privoxy</SPAN
+> isn't always possible anyway.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
>
- Some installers may remove earlier versions completely, including
- configuration files. Save any important configuration files!
+ Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely,
+ including configuration files, therefore you should really save
+ any important configuration files!
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>
- What constitutes a <SPAN
-CLASS="QUOTE"
->"default"</SPAN
-> configuration has changed,
- and you may want to review which actions are <SPAN
-CLASS="QUOTE"
->"on"</SPAN
-> by
- default. This is primarily a matter of emphasis, but some features
- you may have been used to, may now be <SPAN
-CLASS="QUOTE"
->"off"</SPAN
-> by default.
+ On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing configuration
+ files, thinking you will want to do that yourself.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
->
- Some installers may not automatically start
- <SPAN
+>
+ <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>standard.action</TT
+> has been merged into
+ the <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>default.action</TT
+> file.
+ </P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now.
+ You can change that in the <A
+HREF="config.html#DEBUG"
+>debug section</A
+>
+ of the configuration file. You may also want to enable more verbose
+ logging until you verified that the new <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Privoxy</SPAN
-> after installation.
+> version is working
+ as expected.
</P
></LI
+><LI
+><P
+> Three other config file settings are now off by default:
+ <A
+HREF="config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE"
+>enable-remote-toggle</A
+>,
+ <A
+HREF="config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE"
+>enable-remote-http-toggle</A
+>,
+ and <A
+HREF="config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS"
+>enable-edit-actions</A
+>.
+ If you use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them, and
+ be aware of the security issues involved.
+ </P
+></LI
></UL
></P
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-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
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+>Quickstart to Using Privoxy</TD
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