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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
.\"
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng .
-.TH "PRIVOXY" "1" "24 April 2002" "Privoxy 2.9.14 beta" ""
+.TH "PRIVOXY" "1" "05 May 2002" "Privoxy 2.9.15 beta" ""
.SH NAME
privoxy \- Privacy Enhancing Proxy
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -82,11 +82,14 @@ For other browsers, check the documentation.
.PP
\fBPrivoxy\fR can be configured with the various configuration
files. The default configuration files are: \fIconfig\fR,
-\fIdefault.action\fR, and
-\fIdefault.filter\fR. These are well commented. On Unix and
-Unix-like systems, these are located in \fI/etc/privoxy/\fR by
-default. On Windows, OS/2 and AmigaOS, these files are in the same directory
-as the \fBPrivoxy\fR executable.
+\fIdefault.filter\fR, and
+\fIdefault.action\fR. \fIuser.action\fR should
+be used for locally defined exceptions to the default rules of
+\fIdefault.action\fR These are all well commented. On Unix
+and Unix-like systems, these are located in
+\fI/etc/privoxy/\fR by default. On Windows, OS/2 and AmigaOS,
+these files are in the same directory as the \fBPrivoxy\fR
+executable.
.PP
The name and number of configuration files has changed from previous
versions, and is subject to change as development progresses. In fact, the
@@ -101,99 +104,86 @@ the same page. In addition, \fBPrivoxy\fR can be toggled on/off.
This is an internal page.
.SH "SAMPLE CONFIGURATION"
.PP
-A brief example of what a \fIdefault.action\fR configuration
-might look like:
+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}}
- # Don't accept cookies
- +no-cookies = +no-cookies-set +no-cookies-read
-
- # Do accept cookies
- -no-cookies = -no-cookies-set -no-cookies-read
-
- # Treat these blocked URLs as images.
- +imageblock = +block +image
+ # Useful aliases
+ +prevent-cookies = +prevent-setting-cookies +prevent-reading-cookies
+ -prevent-cookies = -prevent-setting-cookies -prevent-reading-cookies
+ +imageblock = +block +handle-as-image
- # Define page filters we want to use.
- myfilters = +filter{html-annoyances} +filter{js-annoyances}\\
- +filter{no-popups} +filter{webbugs}
+ # Fragile sites should have the minimum changes
+ fragile = -block -deanimate-gifs -fast-redirects -filter \\
+ -hide-referer -prevent-cookies -kill-popups
- ## Default Policies (actions) ############################
+ ## Turn some actions on ################################
{ \\
- -block \\
- -downgrade \\
- +fast-redirects \\
- myfilters \\
- +no-compression \\
- +hide-forwarded \\
- +hide-from{block} \\
- +hide-referer{forge} \\
- -hide-user-agent \\
- -image \\
- +image-blocker{blank} \\
- +no-cookies-keep \\
- -no-cookies-read \\
- -no-cookies-set \\
- +no-popups \\
- -vanilla-wafer \\
- -wafer \\
+ -add-header \\
+ -block \\
+ +deanimate-gifs{last} \\
+ -downgrade-http-version \\
+ -fast-redirects \\
+ +filter{html-annoyances} \\
+ +filter{js-annoyances} \\
+ +filter{content-cookies} \\
+ +filter{webbugs} \\
+ +filter{banners-by-size} \\
+ +hide-forwarded-for-headers \\
+ +hide-from-header{block} \\
+ +hide-referrer{forge} \\
+ -hide-user-agent \\
+ -handle-as-image \\
+ +set-image-blocker{pattern} \\
+ -limit-connect \\
+ +prevent-compression \\
+ +session-cookies-only \\
+ +prevent-reading-cookies \\
+ +prevent-setting-cookies \\
+ -kill-popups \\
}
- /
+ / # Match all URLs
+
+ # Block, and treat these URL patterns as if they were 'images'.
+ {+imageblock}
+ .ad.doubleclick.net
+ .a[0-9].yimg.com/(?:(?!/i/).)*$
+ ad.*.doubleclick.net
- # Now set exceptions to the above defined policies #######
+ # Block any URLs that match these patterns
+ {+block}
+ ad*.
+ .*ads.
+ banner?.
+ /.*count(er)?\\.(pl|cgi|exe|dll|asp|php[34]?)
+ /(?:.*/)?(publicite|werbung|rekla(ma|me|am)|maino(kset|nta|s)?)/
+ .hitbox.com
+
+ # Make exceptions for these harmless ones that would be
+ # caught by +block above.
+ {-block}
+ adsl.
+ advice.
+ .*downloads.
+.fi
+.PP
+Then for a \fIuser.action\fR, we would put local,
+narrowly defined exceptions:
+
+.nf
+ # Set personal exceptions to the policies in default.action #######
# Sites where we want persistant cookies
- {-no-cookies -no-cookies-keep}
+ {-prevent-reading-cookies -prevent-setting-cookies -session-cookies-only}
.redhat.com
.sun.com
- .yahoo.com
.msdn.microsoft.com
-
- # This site requires cookies AND 'fast-redirects' on
- {-no-cookies -no-cookies-keep -fast-redirects}
- .nytimes.com
-
- # Add custom headers, and turn off filtering of page source
- {+add-header{X-Privacy: Yes please} #-add-header{*} \\
- +add-header{X-User-Tracking: No thanks!} -filter}
- privacy.net
-
- # Block, and treat these URLs as 'images'.
- {+imageblock}
- .ad.preferences.com/image.*
- .ads.web.aol.com
- .ad-adex3.flycast.com
- .ad.doubleclick.net
- .ln.doubleclick.net
- .ad.de.doubleclick.net
- /.*/count\\.cgi\\?.*df=
- 194.221.183.22[1-7]
- a196.g.akamai.net/7/196/2670/000[12]/images.gmx.net/i4/images/.*/
-
- # Block any URLs that match these patterns
- {+block}
- /.*/(.*[-_.])?ads?[0-9]?(/|[-_.].*|\\.(gif|jpe?g))
- /.*/(plain|live|rotate)[-_.]?ads?/
- /.*/(sponsor)s?[0-9]?/
- /.*/ad(server|stream|juggler)\\.(cgi|pl|dll|exe)
- /.*/adbanners/
- /.*/adv((er)?ts?|ertis(ing|ements?))?/
- /.*/banners?/
- /.*/popupads/
- /.*/advert[0-9]+\\.jpg
- /ad_images/
- /.*/ads/
- /images/.*/.*_anim\\.gif
- /rotations/
- /.*(ms)?backoff(ice)?.*\\.(gif|jpe?g)
- 195.63.104.*/(inbox|log|meld|folderlu|folderru|log(in|out)[lmr]u|)
- .images.nytimes.com
- .images.yahoo.com/adv/
- /.*cnnstore\\.gif
+
+ {-block -fast-redirects}
+ .forbes.com
.fi
.PP
See the comments in the configuration files themselves, or the
@@ -252,8 +242,7 @@ http://p.p/, access
http://config.privoxy.org
may work in some situations where the first does not.
-http://p.p/
-to submit ``misses'' to the developers.
+http://p.p/ to submit ``misses'' to the developers.
http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/cookies.html
@@ -281,6 +270,15 @@ http://www.squid-cache.org/
Sarantis Paskalis
.fi
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
+.SS "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
+the terms of the \fIGNU Free
+Documentation License\fR, Version 1.1 or any later version
+published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no
+Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license can be
+found http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html.
+.SS "LICENSE"
.PP
\fBPrivoxy\fR is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public