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-.TH "PRIVOXY" "1" "15 January 2009" "Privoxy 3.0.11 UNRELEASED" ""
+.TH "PRIVOXY" "1" "26 August 2011" "Privoxy 3.0.18 UNRELEASED" ""
.SH NAME
privoxy \- Privacy Enhancing Proxy
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
If the \fIconfigfile\fR is not specified on the command line,
\fBPrivoxy\fR will look for a file named
-\fIconfig\fR in the current directory . If no
+\fIconfig\fR in the current directory. If no
\fIconfigfile\fR is found, \fBPrivoxy\fR will
fail to start.
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
-Privoxy is a non-caching
-web proxy
-with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy,
-modifying web page data, managing HTTP
-cookies,
-controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious
-Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be
-customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for
-both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
+Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities
+for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling
+access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a
+flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes.
+It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
.PP
-Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
+Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
+.PP
+Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
+.PP
+Helping hands and donations are welcome:
+.TP 0.2i
+\(bu
+http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#PARTICIPATE
+.TP 0.2i
+\(bu
+http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
.SH "INSTALLATION AND USAGE"
.PP
Browsers can either be individually configured to use
filter to build an intercepting proxy
(see \fIconfig\fR). The default setting is for
localhost, on port 8118 (configurable in the main config file). To set the
-HTTP proxy in Netscape and Mozilla, go through: \fBEdit\fR;
-\fBPreferences\fR; \fBAdvanced\fR;
-\fBProxies\fR; \fBManual Proxy Configuration\fR;
-\fBView\fR.
-.PP
-For Firefox, go through: \fBTools\fR;
+HTTP proxy in Firefox, go through: \fBTools\fR;
\fBOptions\fR; \fBGeneral\fR;
\fBConnection Settings\fR;
\fBManual Proxy Configuration\fR.
.PP
\fBPrivoxy\fR can be configured with the various configuration
files. The default configuration files are: \fIconfig\fR,
-\fIdefault.filter\fR, and
+\fIdefault.filter\fR, \fIdefault.action\fR and
\fIdefault.action\fR. \fIuser.action\fR should
-be used for locally defined exceptions to the default rules of
-\fIdefault.action\fR, and \fIuser.filter\fR for
-locally defined filters. These are well commented. On Unix
-and Unix-like systems, these are located in
+be used for locally defined exceptions to the default rules in
+\fImatch-all.action\fR and \fIdefault.action\fR,
+and \fIuser.filter\fR for locally defined filters. These are
+well commented. On Unix and Unix-like systems, these are located in
\fI/etc/privoxy/\fR by default.
.PP
\fBPrivoxy\fR uses the concept of \fBactions\fR
See the \fIUser Manual\fR for a detailed
explanation of installation, general usage, all configuration options, new
features and notes on upgrading.
-.SH "SAMPLE CONFIGURATION"
-.PP
-A brief example of what a simple \fIdefault.action\fR
-configuration might look like:
-
-.nf
- # Define a few useful custom aliases for later use
- {{alias}}
-
- # Useful aliases that combine more than one action
- +crunch-cookies = +crunch-incoming-cookies +crunch-outgoing-cookies
- \-crunch-cookies = \-crunch-incoming-cookies \-crunch-outgoing-cookies
- +block-as-image = +block +handle-as-image
-
- # Fragile sites should have the minimum changes
- fragile = \-block \-deanimate-gifs \-fast-redirects \-filter \\
- \-hide-referer \-prevent-cookies
-
- ## Turn some actions on ################################
- ## NOTE: Actions are off by default, unless explictily turned on
- ## otherwise with the '+' operator.
-
-{ \\
-+change-x-forwarded-for{block} \\
-+deanimate-gifs{last} \\
-+filter{refresh-tags} \\
-+filter{img-reorder} \\
-+filter{banners-by-size} \\
-+filter{webbugs} \\
-+filter{jumping-windows} \\
-+filter{ie-exploits} \\
-+hide-from-header{block} \\
-+hide-referrer{conditional-block} \\
-+session-cookies-only \\
-+set-image-blocker{pattern} \\
-}
-/ # '/' Match *all* URL patterns
-
-
- # Block all URLs that match these patterns
- { +block }
- ad.
- ad[sv].
- .*ads.
- banner?.
- /.*count(er)?\\.(pl|cgi|exe|dll|asp|php[34]?)
- .hitbox.com
- media./.*(ads|banner)
-
- # Block, and treat these URL patterns as if they were 'images'.
- # We would expect these to be ads.
- { +block-as-image }
- .ad.doubleclick.net
- .a[0-9].yimg.com/(?:(?!/i/).)*$
- ad.*.doubleclick.net
-
- # Make exceptions for these harmless ones that would be
- # caught by our +block patterns just above.
- { \-block }
- adsl.
- adobe.
- advice.
- .*downloads.
- # uploads or downloads
- /.*loads
-.fi
-.PP
-Then for a \fIuser.action\fR, we would put local,
-narrowly defined exceptions:
-
-.nf
- # Re-define aliases as needed here
- {{alias}}
-
- # Useful aliases
- \-crunch-cookies = \-crunch-incoming-cookies \-crunch-outgoing-cookies
-
- # Set personal exceptions to the policies in default.action #######
-
- # Sites where we want persistent cookies, so allow *all* cookies
- { \-crunch-cookies \-session-cookies-only }
- .redhat.com
- .sun.com
- .msdn.microsoft.com
-
- # These sites break easily. Use our "fragile" alias here.
- { fragile }
- .forbes.com
- mybank.example.com
-
- # Replace example.com's style sheet with one of my choosing
- { +redirect{http://localhost/css-replacements/example.com.css} }
- .example.com/stylesheet.css
-.fi
-.PP
-See the comments in the configuration files themselves, or the
-\fIUser Manual\fR
-for full explanations of the above syntax, and other \fBPrivoxy\fR
-configuration options.
.SH "FILES"
.nf
\fI/usr/sbin/privoxy\fR
\fI/etc/privoxy/config\fR
+ \fI/etc/privoxy/match-all.action\fR
\fI/etc/privoxy/default.action\fR
\fI/etc/privoxy/user.action\fR
\fI/etc/privoxy/default.filter\fR
automatically.
.SH "NOTES"
.PP
-This is a UNRELEASED version of \fBPrivoxy\fR. Not
+This is a UNRELEASED version of \fBPrivoxy\fR. Not
all features are well tested.
.PP
Please see the \fIUser Manual\fR on how to contact the
http://www.privoxy.org/faq/,
the \fBPrivoxy\fR FAQ.
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/,
+http://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/,
+the \fBPrivoxy\fR developer manual.
+
+https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/,
the Project Page for \fBPrivoxy\fR on
SourceForge.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=460288, to submit ``misses'' and other
configuration related suggestions to the developers.
-
-http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/cookies.html,
-an explanation how cookies are used to track web users.
-
-http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html,
-the original Internet Junkbuster.
-
-http://privacy.net/, a useful site
-to check what information about you is leaked while you browse the web.
-
-http://www.squid-cache.org/, a popular
-caching proxy, which is often used together with \fBPrivoxy\fR.
-
-http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/,
-\fBPolipo\fR is a caching proxy with advanced features
-like pipelining, multiplexing and caching of partial instances. In many setups
-it can be used as \fBSquid\fR replacement.
-
-https://www.torproject.org/,
-\fBTor\fR can help anonymize web browsing,
-web publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications.
-
-http://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/,
-the \fBPrivoxy\fR developer manual.
.SH "DEVELOPMENT TEAM"
.nf
Fabian Keil, lead developer
David Schmidt, developer
-
+
Hal Burgiss
Mark Miller
Gerry Murphy
Lee Rian
Roland Rosenfeld
- J\[:o]rg Strohmayer
.fi
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.SS "COPYRIGHT"
.PP
-Copyright (C) 2001-2009 by Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
+Copyright (C) 2001-2011 by Privoxy Developers <ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
.PP
Some source code is based on code Copyright (C) 1997 by Anonymous Coders
and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the \fIGNU General Public
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