X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=931b4579ab9d17604ef8585b9322641b242e6fcf;hp=01de648ccb340cb435050bf5c5ed3dd5c100b22b;hb=a54cb7d58d243d60158fe414d205d658e9e1a7a2;hpb=8e4df943033730148132985ef0d9a06edd0df692 diff --git a/README b/README index 01de648c..931b4579 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * * Purpose : README file to give a short intro. * - * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2007 the SourceForge + * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the SourceForge * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ * * Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written @@ -32,51 +32,59 @@ * *********************************************************************/ -This README is included with Privoxy 3.0.7. See http://www.privoxy.org/ for +This README is included with Privoxy 3.0.12. See http://www.privoxy.org/ for more information. The current code maturity level is "stable". -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. +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. -Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm). +Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2. -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. IMPORTANT CHANGES -December 2007, Privoxy 3.0.7 stable is released. This is a significant upgrade -with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. See the "ChangeLog", +March 2009, Privoxy 3.0.12 is released. + +This is primarily a bug fix release. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New" +section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for details. + +February 2009, Privoxy 3.0.11 is released. + +As usual there are changes that effect the configuration. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for -details and specifics. There are changes related to configuration, so anyone -upgrading and keeping their old configuration should read ahead first. +details and specifics. -NEWS! November 2006, Privoxy 3.0.6 stable is released. This is a significant -upgrade with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. +This is a stable release, and marks a departure for Privoxy development. -There was and will not be an official 3.0.4 release. This release cycle was -used to gather our thoughts, play with some new ideas and refine some old ones. -It will remain a development cycle with no actual release. 3.0.5 is the fruit -of these efforts. +Previously, odd numbered releases were considered beta versions and were only +released at the end of the development cycle when the code was already believed +to be stable. Usually it was, so the stable release contained pretty much the +same code, but got a higher version number. In the future we intend to release +several snapshots between stable releases. There will probably still be about +two stable releases per year, but hopefully about six snapshots instead of the +two betas we have now. The intentions is to make testing without CVS access +easier. -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. INSTALL See the INSTALL file in this directory, for installing from raw source, and the User Manual, for all other installation types. -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. RUN -privoxy [——help] [——version] [——no-daemon] [——pidfile PIDFILE] [——user USER -[.GROUP]] [——chroot] [config_file] +privoxy [--help] [--version] [--no-daemon] [--pidfile PIDFILE] [--user USER +[.GROUP]] [--chroot] [--pre-chroot-nslookup HOSTNAME ][config_file] See the man page or User Manual for an explanation of each option, and other configuration and usage issues. @@ -87,9 +95,9 @@ file named 'config' in the current directory (except Win32 which will look for Or for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start -Or Debian: /etc/init.d/privoxy start +Or Debian and Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/privoxy start -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. CONFIGURATION @@ -111,7 +119,7 @@ try it with FTP or other protocols for the simple reason it does not work. The actions list can be configured via the web interface accessed via http:// p.p/, as well other options. -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. DOCUMENTATION @@ -126,7 +134,7 @@ Included documentation may vary according to platform and packager. All documentation is posted on http://www.privoxy.org, in case you don't have it, or can't find it. -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. CONTACTING THE DEVELOPERS, BUG REPORTING AND FEATURE REQUESTS @@ -134,7 +142,7 @@ We value your feedback. In fact, we rely on it to improve Privoxy and its configuration. However, please note the following hints, so we can provide you with the best support: -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.1. Get Support @@ -144,6 +152,9 @@ http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=211118 All users are of course welcome to discuss their issues on the users mailing list, where the developers also hang around. +Please don't sent private support requests to individual Privoxy developers, +either use the mailing lists or the support trackers. + Note that the Privoxy mailing lists are moderated. Posts from unsubscribed addresses have to be accepted manually by a moderator. This may cause a delay of several days and if you use a subject that doesn't clearly mention Privoxy @@ -154,19 +165,19 @@ with a proper subject. Additionally you should make it clear that you want to get CC'd. Otherwise some responses will be directed to the mailing list only, and you won't see them. -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.2. Reporting Problems "Problems" for our purposes, come in two forms: - • Configuration issues, such as ads that slip through, or sites that don't + * Configuration issues, such as ads that slip through, or sites that don't function properly due to one Privoxy "action" or another being turned "on". - • "Bugs" in the programming code that makes up Privoxy, such as that might + * "Bugs" in the programming code that makes up Privoxy, such as that might cause a crash. -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.2.1. Reporting Ads or Other Configuration Problems @@ -179,7 +190,7 @@ New, improved default.action files may occasionally be made available based on your feedback. These will be announced on the ijbswa-announce list and available from our the files section of our project page. -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.2.2. Reporting Bugs @@ -207,30 +218,30 @@ your bug still exists. Please be sure to provide the following information: - • The exact Privoxy version you are using (if you got the source from CVS, + * The exact Privoxy version you are using (if you got the source from CVS, please also provide the source code revisions as shown in http:// config.privoxy.org/show-version). - • The operating system and versions you run Privoxy on, (e.g. Windows XP + * The operating system and versions you run Privoxy on, (e.g. Windows XP SP2), if you are using a Unix flavor, sending the output of "uname -a" should do, in case of GNU/Linux, please also name the distribution. - • The name, platform, and version of the browser you were using (e.g. + * The name, platform, and version of the browser you were using (e.g. Internet Explorer v5.5 for Mac). - • The URL where the problem occurred, or some way for us to duplicate the + * The URL where the problem occurred, or some way for us to duplicate the problem (e.g. http://somesite.example.com/?somethingelse=123). - • Whether your version of Privoxy is one supplied by the Privoxy developers + * Whether your version of Privoxy is one supplied by the Privoxy developers via SourceForge, or if you got your copy somewhere else. - • Whether you are using Privoxy in tandem with another proxy such as Tor. If + * Whether you are using Privoxy in tandem with another proxy such as Tor. If so, please temporary disable the other proxy to see if the symptoms change. - • Whether you are using a personal firewall product. If so, does Privoxy work + * Whether you are using a personal firewall product. If so, does Privoxy work without it? - • Any other pertinent information to help identify the problem such as config + * Any other pertinent information to help identify the problem such as config or log file excerpts (yes, you should have log file entries for each action taken). @@ -246,7 +257,7 @@ automatically get a mail when someone responds to your request. The appendix of the Privoxy User Manual also has helpful information on understanding actions, and action debugging. -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.3. Request New Features @@ -254,7 +265,7 @@ You are welcome to submit ideas on new features or other proposals for improvement through our feature request tracker at http://sourceforge.net/ tracker/?atid=361118&group_id=11118. -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.4. Other