X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fwebserver%2Fman-page%2Fprivoxy-man-page.html;h=2358258724c4e73d4d26b5b997303e6f5cc7d4d7;hp=659c288b91d21721019e27a984b26e3c64a18dfa;hb=da330000a41e200f9c458052eb94d274396b1f07;hpb=81bc12b6013fb4a4043614934dccd3b2a51065f9 diff --git a/doc/webserver/man-page/privoxy-man-page.html b/doc/webserver/man-page/privoxy-man-page.html index 659c288b..23582587 100644 --- a/doc/webserver/man-page/privoxy-man-page.html +++ b/doc/webserver/man-page/privoxy-man-page.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
-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.
-Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm). +Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2. +
+ +Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). +Donations are welcome.
- -For Firefox, go through: Tools; +HTTP proxy in Firefox, go through: Tools; Options; General; Connection Settings; Manual Proxy Configuration. @@ -122,12 +116,12 @@ For other browsers, check the documentation. Privoxy can be configured with the various configuration files. The default configuration files are: config, -default.filter, and +default.filter, default.action and default.action. user.action should -be used for locally defined exceptions to the default rules of -default.action, and user.filter 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 +match-all.action and default.action, +and user.filter for locally defined filters. These are +well commented. On Unix and Unix-like systems, these are located in /etc/privoxy/ by default.
@@ -152,112 +146,6 @@ See the User Manual for a detailed explanation of installation, general usage, all configuration options, new features and notes on upgrading. -
- -A brief example of what a simple default.action -configuration might look like: -
-
- # 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 -- -
- -Then for a user.action, we would put local, -narrowly defined exceptions: -
-
- # 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 -- -
- -See the comments in the configuration files themselves, or the -User Manual -for full explanations of the above syntax, and other Privoxy -configuration options. -
@@ -280,7 +168,7 @@ configuration options. Various other files should be included, but may vary depending on platform and build configuration. Additional documentation should be included in the local documentation directory. - +
@@ -292,14 +180,18 @@ rotation scripts may cause a re-opening of the logfile by sending a other daemons, Privoxy does not need to be made aware of config file changes by SIGHUP -- it will detect them automatically. - +
+This is a beta version of Privoxy. Not +all features are well tested. +
+ Please see the User Manual on how to contact the developers, for feature requests, reporting problems, and other questions. - +
@@ -315,6 +207,9 @@ the Privoxy Home page. http://www.privoxy.org/faq/, the Privoxy FAQ.
+http://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/, +the Privoxy developer manual. +
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/, the Project Page for Privoxy on SourceForge. @@ -325,28 +220,7 @@ running for this to work. Shortcut: http://p.p/
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://www.squid-cache.org/, a popular -caching proxy, which is often used together with Privoxy. -
-http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/, -Polipo is a caching proxy with advanced features -like pipelining, multiplexing and caching of partial instances. In many setups -it can be used as Squid replacement. -
-https://www.torproject.org/, -Tor can help anonymize web browsing, -web publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications. -
-http://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/, -the Privoxy developer manual. - +
@@ -359,13 +233,12 @@ the Privoxy developer manual. Gerry Murphy Lee Rian Roland Rosenfeld - Jörg Strohmayer - +
@@ -376,7 +249,7 @@ Copyright (C) 2001-2009 by Privoxy Developers < +
@@ -408,22 +281,21 @@ USA