<para>
Basic Guidelines, for all branches:
</para>
- <para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Please don't commit even
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- </para>
<!--
<para>
</para>
<para>
How do you update the webserver (i.e. the pages on privoxy.org)?
+ </para>
<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
<listitem><para>
sourceforge webserver via scp.
</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
- </para>
<para>
Finished docs should be occasionally submitted to CVS
Some common elements that you likely will use:
</para>
-<para>
<simplelist>
<member>
<emphasis><para></para></emphasis>, paragraph delimiter. Most
<emphasis><quote></quote></emphasis>, for, doh, quoting text.
</member>
</simplelist>
-</para>
<para>
Look at any of the existing docs for examples of all these and more.
<para>
Here it is:
</para>
- <para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<para>
Tags delimiting a <emphasis>block</emphasis> of text (even small
blocks) should be on their own line. Like:
+ </para>
<literallayout>
<para>
Some text goes here.
</para>
</literallayout>
+ <para>
Tags marking individual words, or few words, should be in-line:
+ </para>
<literallayout>
Just to <emphasis>emphasize</emphasis>, some text goes here.
</literallayout>
- </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Tags should be nested and step indented for block text like: (except
in-line tags)
+ </para>
<literallayout>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</literallayout>
+ <para>
This makes it easier to find the text amongst the tags ;-)
</para>
</listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- </para>
</sect2>
custom entities are listed below. See any of the main docs for examples.
</para>
- <para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
</simplelist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- </para>
<para>
There are others in various places that are defined for a specific
purpose. Read the source!
<para><emphasis>Instead of:</emphasis></para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
int msiis5hack = 0; int msIis5Hack = 0;
</programlisting>
-</para>
<para><emphasis>Instead of:</emphasis></para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
int loadsomefile(struct client_state *csp)
int loadSomeFile(struct client_state *csp)
</programlisting>
-</para>
</sect3>
(.h) extern int load_aclfile(struct client_state *csp);
(.c) int load_aclfile(struct client_state *csp)</programlisting>
- <para><emphasis>Instead of:</emphasis>
+ <para><emphasis>Instead of:</emphasis></para>
<programlisting>
(.h) extern int load_aclfile(struct client_state *); or
(.h) extern int load_aclfile();
(.c) int load_aclfile(struct client_state *csp)
</programlisting>
-</para>
</sect3>
<para><emphasis>Instead of:</emphasis></para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
#define USE_IMG_LST 1 or
#define _USE_IMAGE_LIST 1 or
#define use_image_list 1 or
#define UseImageList 1
</programlisting>
-</para>
</sect3>
<para><emphasis>Exception:</emphasis></para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
/* This is not a local include, but requires a path element. */
#include <sys/fileName.h>
</programlisting>
-</para>
<para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> Please! do not add "-I." to the Makefile
without a _very_ good reason. This duplicates the #include
<sect2 id="testing-plan"><title>Testplan for releases</title>
<para>
Explain release numbers. major, minor. developer releases. etc.
-
+ </para>
<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
<listitem><para>
Remove any existing rpm with rpm -e
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Remove any file that was left over. This includes (but is not limited to)
+ </para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>/var/log/privoxy</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>/etc/privoxy</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>/etc/init.d/privoxy</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>/usr/doc/privoxy*</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para></listitem>
+ </listitem>
<listitem><para>
Install the rpm. Any error messages?
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Start browsing. Does <application>Privoxy</application> work? Logfile written?</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove the rpm. Any error messages? All files removed?</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
-</para>
</sect2>
<!-- XXX: Document how to write test reports and where to send them -->
First you need to determine which version number the release will have.
<application>Privoxy</application> version numbers consist of three numbers,
separated by dots, like in X.Y.Z (e.g. 3.0.0), where:
+ </para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- </para>
<para>
In summary, the main CVS trunk is the development branch where new
features are being worked on for the next stable series. This should
The following <emphasis>must be done by one of the
developers</emphasis> prior to each new release.
</para>
- <para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
If action file processing has changed and is not backward-compatible,
make sure the "for-privoxy-version=x.y.z" minimum version number in
default.action.master has been updated:
+ </para>
<programlisting>
{{settings}}
#############################################################################
#MASTER# COMMENT: The minimum Privoxy version:
for-privoxy-version=3.0.11
</programlisting>
- </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="therelease">
asked for a password):
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
mkdir dist # delete or choose different name if it already exists
cd dist
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa export -r v_X_Y_Z current
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
<emphasis>Do NOT change</emphasis> a single bit, including, but not limited to
Please keep these general guidelines in mind when putting together
your package. These apply to <emphasis>all</emphasis> platforms!
</para>
- <para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- </para>
</sect3>
version into an empty directory</emphasis>. (See "Building and releasing
packages" above). Then run:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
cd current
autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
Then do:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
make tarball-dist
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply issue
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
make tarball-upload
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
Go to the displayed URL and release the file publicly on Sourceforge.
For the change log field, use the relevant section of the
<para>
Then run:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
cd current
autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
Then do
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
make <replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable>-dist
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply issue
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
make <replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable>-upload <replaceable class="parameter">rpm_packagerev</replaceable>
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
where <replaceable class="parameter">rpm_packagerev</replaceable> is the
RPM release number as determined above.
version into an empty directory</emphasis>. (See "Building and releasing
packages" above). Then get the OS/2 Setup module:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co os2setup
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
You will need a mix of development tools.
The main compilation takes place with IBM Visual Age C++.
Edit the os2build.cmd file to set the final executable filename.
For example,
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
installExeName='privoxyos2_setup_X.Y.Z.exe'
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
Next, edit the <filename>IJB.wis</filename> file so the release number matches
in the <filename>PACKAGEID</filename> section:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
PACKAGEID="Privoxy Team\Privoxy\Privoxy Package\X\Y\Z"
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
You're now ready to build. Run:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
os2build
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
You will find the WarpIN-installable executable in the
<filename>./files</filename> directory. Upload this anonymously to
<para>
Login to Sourceforge's compilefarm via ssh:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
ssh cf.sourceforge.net
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
Choose the right operating system (not the Debian one).
When logged in, <emphasis>make sure that you have freshly exported the right
version into an empty directory</emphasis>. (See "Building and releasing
packages" above). Then run:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
cd current
autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
Then run
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
gmake solaris-dist
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
which creates a gzip'ed tar archive. Sadly, you cannot use <command>make
solaris-upload</command> on the Sourceforge machine (no ncftpput). You now have
version into an empty directory</emphasis>. (See "Building and releasing
packages" above). Then get the Windows setup module:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co winsetup
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
Then you can build the package. This is fully automated, and is
controlled by <filename>winsetup/GNUmakefile</filename>.
All you need to do is:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
cd winsetup
make
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
Now you can manually rename <filename>privoxy_setup.exe</filename> to
<filename>privoxy_setup_X_Y_Z.exe</filename>, and upload it to
entry to <filename>debian/changelog</filename>, if it is not
already there, for example by running:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
debchange -v &p-version;-&p-status;-1 "New upstream version"
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
Then, run:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
This will create
<filename>../privoxy_&p-version;-&p-status;-1_i386.deb</filename>
which can be uploaded. To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply
issue
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
make debian-upload
</programlisting>
- </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="newrelease-macosx"><title>Mac OS X</title>
The OSXPackageBuilder module generates OS X installer packages
supporting all Macs running OS X 10.4 and above. Obtain it from CVS as
follows into a folder parallel to the exported privoxy source:
+ </para>
<programlisting>
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co OSXPackageBuilder
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
The module contains complete instructions on its usage in the file
<filename>OS X Package Builder HOWTO.txt</filename>.
<para>
Check out the module from CVS as follows into a folder parallel to the
exported privoxy source:
+ </para>
<programlisting>
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co osxsetup
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
Then run:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
cd osxsetup
build
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
This will run <filename>autoheader</filename>, <filename>autoconf</filename>
and <filename>configure</filename> as well as <filename>make</filename>.
package" button. If you specify ./Privoxy.pkg as the output package
name, you can then create the distributable zip file with the command:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
zip -r privoxyosx_setup_x.y.z.zip Privoxy.pkg
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
You can then upload this file directly to the Files section of the
Sourceforge project in the Macintosh (OS X) folder. Each new version
<para>
Check out the module from CVS as follows into a folder parallel to the
exported privoxy source:
+ </para>
<programlisting>
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co macsetup
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
The module contains complete instructions on its usage in its
<filename>README</filename> file. The end result will be the
to SourceForge, and go through the release steps. The upload
is done via FTP:
</para>
- <para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- </para>
<para>
Or use the <command>make</command> targets as described above.
</para>
If you have changed anything in the stable-branch documentation source
SGML files, do:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
make dok
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
That will generate <filename>doc/webserver/user-manual</filename>,
<filename>doc/webserver/developer-manual</filename>,
Next, commit any changes from the above steps to CVS. All set?
If these are docs in the stable branch, then do:
</para>
- <para>
<programlisting>
make webserver
</programlisting>
- </para>
<para>
This will do the upload to <ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/">the
webserver</ulink> (www.privoxy.org) and ensure all files and directories
versions of <application>Privoxy</application>:
</para>
-<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
that filtering does not work on compressed pages, so if you use, or want to
use, filtering, you will need to force compression off. Example:
</para>
- <para>
<screen>
{ +<link linkend="filter">filter</link>{google} +<link linkend="prevent-compression">prevent-compression</link> }
.google.</screen>
- </para>
<para>
Or if you use a number of filters, or filter many sites, you may just want
to turn off compression for all sites in
-->
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect1 id="quickstart"><title>Quickstart to Using Privoxy</title>
-<para>
+
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<literal><link linkend="set-image-blocker">set-image-blocker</link></literal>:
</para>
-<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
<para>
Advanced users will eventually want to explore &my-app;
A quick and simple step by step example:
</para>
-<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
</para>
<!-- image of editor and actions files selections -->
- <para>
<figure pgwide="0" float="0"><title>Actions Files in Use</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
- </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
<para>
This is a very crude and simple example. There might be good reasons to use a
</para>
<!-- image of Mozilla Proxy configuration -->
- <para>
<figure pgwide="0" float="0"><title>Proxy Configuration Showing
Mozilla/Netscape HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) Settings</title>
<mediaobject>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
- </para>
<para>
</para>
<!-- image of IE Proxy configuration -->
- <para>
<figure pgwide="0" float="0"><title>Proxy Configuration Showing
Internet Explorer HTTP and HTTPS (Secure) Settings</title>
<mediaobject>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
- </para>
<para>
<filename>/etc/privoxy/config</filename> as its main configuration
file.
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# /etc/init.d/privoxy start
</screen>
-</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="start-freebsd">
<para>
To start <application>Privoxy</application> manually, run:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# service privoxy onestart
</screen>
-</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="start-windows">
<para>
Example Unix startup command:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# /usr/sbin/privoxy --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config
</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Note that if you installed <application>Privoxy</application> through
a package manager, the package will probably contain a platform-specific
command-line options:
</para>
-<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
<para>
On <application>MS Windows</application> only there are two additional
principle configuration files are:
</para>
-<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
<para>
The syntax of the configuration and filter files may change between different
are three action files included with <application>Privoxy</application> with
differing purposes:
</para>
-<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The default profiles, and their associated actions, as pre-defined in
<filename>default.action</filename> are:
</para>
- <para>
<table frame=all><title>Default Configurations</title>
<tgroup cols=4 align=left colsep=1 rowsep=1>
<colspec colname=c1>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
- </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
<para>
The list of actions files to be used are defined in the main configuration
might look like:
</para>
- <para>
<screen>
{ +<literal>handle-as-image</literal> +<literal>block{Banner ads.}</literal> }
# Block these as if they were images. Send no block page.
banners.example.com
media.example.com/.*banners
.example.com/images/ads/</screen>
- </para>
<para>
You can trace this process for URL patterns and any given URL by visiting <ulink
Example:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# If the admin defined the client-specific-tag circumvent-blocks,
# and the request comes from a client that previously requested
# the previous one.
{+block{Nobody is supposed to request this.}}
example.org/blocked-example-page</screen>
-</para>
</sect3>
Actions fall into three categories:
</para>
-<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Boolean, i.e the action can only be <quote>enabled</quote> or
<quote>disabled</quote>. Syntax:
</para>
- <para>
<screen>
+<replaceable class="function">name</replaceable> # enable action <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>
-<replaceable class="function">name</replaceable> # disable action <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable></screen>
- </para>
<para>
Example: <literal>+handle-as-image</literal>
</para>
Parameterized, where some value is required in order to enable this type of action.
Syntax:
</para>
- <para>
<screen>
+<replaceable class="function">name</replaceable>{<replaceable class="parameter">param</replaceable>} # enable action and set parameter to <replaceable class="parameter">param</replaceable>,
# overwriting parameter from previous match if necessary
-<replaceable class="function">name</replaceable> # disable action. The parameter can be omitted</screen>
- </para>
<para>
Note that if the URL matches multiple positive forms of a parameterized action,
the last match wins, i.e. the params from earlier matches are simply ignored.
that can be executed for the same request repeatedly, like adding multiple
headers, or filtering through multiple filters. Syntax:
</para>
- <para>
<screen>
+<replaceable class="function">name</replaceable>{<replaceable class="parameter">param</replaceable>} # enable action and add <replaceable class="parameter">param</replaceable> to the list of parameters
-<replaceable class="function">name</replaceable>{<replaceable class="parameter">param</replaceable>} # remove the parameter <replaceable class="parameter">param</replaceable> from the list of parameters
# If it was the last one left, disable the action.
<replaceable class="parameter">-name</replaceable> # disable this action completely and remove all parameters from the list</screen>
- </para>
<para>
Examples: <literal>+add-header{X-Fun-Header: Some text}</literal> and
<literal>+filter{html-annoyances}</literal>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
<para>
If nothing is specified in any actions file, no <quote>actions</quote> are
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Add a DNT ("Do not track") header to all requests,
# event to those that already have one.
#
# header may make user-tracking easier.
{+add-header{DNT: 1}}
/</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>{+block{No nasty stuff for you.}}
# Block and replace with "blocked" page
.nasty-stuff.example.com
{+block{Layered ads.} +handle-as-empty-document}
# Block and then ignore
adserver.example.net/.*\.js$</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>+change-x-forwarded-for{block}</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>
# Hide Tor exit notation in Host and Referer Headers
{+client-header-filter{hide-tor-exit-notation}}
/
- </screen>
- </para>
+</screen>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>
# Tag every request with the User-Agent header
{+client-header-tagger{user-agent}}
TAG:^User-Agent: Ubuntu APT-HTTP/
TAG:^User-Agent: MPlayer/
</screen>
- </para>
- <para>
+
<screen>
# Tag all requests with the Range header set
{+client-header-tagger{range-requests}}
{-filter -deanimate-gifs}
TAG:^RANGE-REQUEST$
</screen>
- </para>
- <para>
+
<screen>
# Tag all requests with the client IP address
#
{+forward-override{forward-socks5 127.0.1.2:2222 .}}
TAG:^IP-ADDRESS: 10\.0\.0\.1$
</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (sections):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Check if www.example.net/ really uses valid XHTML
{ +content-type-overwrite{application/xml} }
www.example.net/
www.example.net/.*\.css$
www.example.net/.*style
</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Block the non-existent "Privacy-Violation:" client header
{ +crunch-client-header{Privacy-Violation:} }
/
</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Let the browser revalidate cached documents but don't
# allow the server to use the revalidation headers for user tracking.
{+hide-if-modified-since{-60} \
+overwrite-last-modified{randomize} \
+crunch-if-none-match}
/ </screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>+crunch-incoming-cookies</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Crunch server headers that try to prevent caching
{ +crunch-server-header{no-cache} }
/ </screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>+crunch-outgoing-cookies</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>+deanimate-gifs{last}</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>{+downgrade-http-version}
problem-host.example.com</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>+external-filter{fancy-filter}</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>
{ +fast-redirects{simple-check} }
one.example.com
{ +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} }
another.example.com/testing</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-js-annoyances">
- <screen>+filter{js-annoyances} # Get rid of particularly annoying JavaScript abuse.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{js-annoyances} # Get rid of particularly annoying JavaScript abuse.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-js-events">
- <screen>+filter{js-events} # Kill JavaScript event bindings and timers (Radically destructive! Only for extra nasty sites).</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{js-events} # Kill JavaScript event bindings and timers (Radically destructive! Only for extra nasty sites).</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-html-annoyances">
- <screen>+filter{html-annoyances} # Get rid of particularly annoying HTML abuse.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{html-annoyances} # Get rid of particularly annoying HTML abuse.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-content-cookies">
- <screen>+filter{content-cookies} # Kill cookies that come in the HTML or JS content.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{content-cookies} # Kill cookies that come in the HTML or JS content.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-refresh-tags">
- <screen>+filter{refresh-tags} # Kill automatic refresh tags if refresh time is larger than 9 seconds.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{refresh-tags} # Kill automatic refresh tags if refresh time is larger than 9 seconds.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-unsolicited-popups">
- <screen>+filter{unsolicited-popups} # Disable only unsolicited pop-up windows.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{unsolicited-popups} # Disable only unsolicited pop-up windows.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-all-popups">
- <screen>+filter{all-popups} # Kill all popups in JavaScript and HTML.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{all-popups} # Kill all popups in JavaScript and HTML.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-img-reorder">
- <screen>+filter{img-reorder} # Reorder attributes in <img> tags to make the banners-by-* filters more effective.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{img-reorder} # Reorder attributes in <img> tags to make the banners-by-* filters more effective.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-banners-by-size">
- <screen>+filter{banners-by-size} # Kill banners by size.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{banners-by-size} # Kill banners by size.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-banners-by-link">
- <screen>+filter{banners-by-link} # Kill banners by their links to known clicktrackers.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{banners-by-link} # Kill banners by their links to known clicktrackers.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-webbugs">
- <screen>+filter{webbugs} # Squish WebBugs (1x1 invisible GIFs used for user tracking).</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{webbugs} # Squish WebBugs (1x1 invisible GIFs used for user tracking).</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-tiny-textforms">
- <screen>+filter{tiny-textforms} # Extend those tiny textareas up to 40x80 and kill the hard wrap.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{tiny-textforms} # Extend those tiny textareas up to 40x80 and kill the hard wrap.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-jumping-windows">
- <screen>+filter{jumping-windows} # Prevent windows from resizing and moving themselves.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{jumping-windows} # Prevent windows from resizing and moving themselves.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-frameset-borders">
- <screen>+filter{frameset-borders} # Give frames a border and make them resizable.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{frameset-borders} # Give frames a border and make them resizable.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-iframes">
- <screen>+filter{iframes} # Removes all detected iframes. Should only be enabled for individual sites.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{iframes} # Removes all detected iframes. Should only be enabled for individual sites.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-demoronizer">
- <screen>+filter{demoronizer} # Fix MS's non-standard use of standard charsets.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{demoronizer} # Fix MS's non-standard use of standard charsets.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-shockwave-flash">
- <screen>+filter{shockwave-flash} # Kill embedded Shockwave Flash objects.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{shockwave-flash} # Kill embedded Shockwave Flash objects.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-quicktime-kioskmode">
- <screen>+filter{quicktime-kioskmode} # Make Quicktime movies saveable.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{quicktime-kioskmode} # Make Quicktime movies saveable.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-fun">
- <screen>+filter{fun} # Text replacements for subversive browsing fun!</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{fun} # Text replacements for subversive browsing fun!</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-crude-parental">
- <screen>+filter{crude-parental} # Crude parental filtering. Note that this filter doesn't work reliably.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{crude-parental} # Crude parental filtering. Note that this filter doesn't work reliably.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-ie-exploits">
- <screen>+filter{ie-exploits} # Disable some known Internet Explorer bug exploits.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{ie-exploits} # Disable some known Internet Explorer bug exploits.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-site-specifics">
- <screen>+filter{site-specifics} # Cure for site-specific problems. Don't apply generally!</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{site-specifics} # Cure for site-specific problems. Don't apply generally!</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-no-ping">
- <screen>+filter{no-ping} # Removes non-standard ping attributes in <a> and <area> tags.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{no-ping} # Removes non-standard ping attributes in <a> and <area> tags.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-google">
- <screen>+filter{google} # CSS-based block for Google text ads. Also removes a width limitation and the toolbar advertisement.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{google} # CSS-based block for Google text ads. Also removes a width limitation and the toolbar advertisement.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-yahoo">
- <screen>+filter{yahoo} # CSS-based block for Yahoo text ads. Also removes a width limitation.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{yahoo} # CSS-based block for Yahoo text ads. Also removes a width limitation.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-msn">
- <screen>+filter{msn} # CSS-based block for MSN text ads. Also removes tracking URLs and a width limitation.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{msn} # CSS-based block for MSN text ads. Also removes tracking URLs and a width limitation.</screen>
<para>
<anchor id="filter-blogspot">
- <screen>+filter{blogspot} # Cleans up some Blogspot blogs. Read the fine print before using this.</screen>
</para>
+ <screen>+filter{blogspot} # Cleans up some Blogspot blogs. Read the fine print before using this.</screen>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>
+force-text-mode
</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>
# Use an ssh tunnel for requests previously tagged as
# <quote>User-Agent: fetch libfetch/2.0</quote> and make sure
}
TAG:^User-Agent: fetch libfetch/2\.0$
</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Block all documents on example.org that end with ".js",
# but send an empty document instead of the usual HTML message.
{+block{Blocked JavaScript} +handle-as-empty-document}
example.org/.*\.js$
</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (sections):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Generic image extensions:
#
{+handle-as-image}
{+block{Nasty banners.} +handle-as-image}
nasty-banner-server.example.com/junk.cgi\?output=trash
</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Pretend to use Canadian language settings.
{+hide-accept-language{en-ca} \
+hide-user-agent{Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-CA; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060628 Firefox/1.5.0.4} \
}
/ </screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Disarm the download link in Sourceforge's patch tracker
{ -filter \
+content-type-overwrite{text/plain}\
+hide-content-disposition{block} }
.sourceforge.net/tracker/download\.php</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Let the browser revalidate but make tracking based on the time less likely.
{+hide-if-modified-since{-60} \
+overwrite-last-modified{randomize} \
+crunch-if-none-match}
/</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- <screen>+hide-from-header{block}</screen> or
+ <screen>+hide-from-header{block}</screen>
+ <para>or</para>
<screen>+hide-from-header{spam-me-senseless@sittingduck.example.com}</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- <screen>+hide-referrer{forge}</screen> or
+ <screen>+hide-referrer{forge}</screen>
+ <para>or</para>
<screen>+hide-referrer{http://www.yahoo.com/}</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>+hide-user-agent{Netscape 6.1 (X11; I; Linux 2.4.18 i686)}</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<!-- I had trouble getting the spacing to look right in my browser -->
<!-- I probably have the wrong font setup, bollocks. -->
<!-- Apparently the emphasis tag uses a proportional font no matter what -->
- <para>
<screen>+limit-connect{443} # Port 443 is OK.
+limit-connect{80,443} # Ports 80 and 443 are OK.
+limit-connect{-3, 7, 20-100, 500-} # Ports less than 3, 7, 20 to 100 and above 500 are OK.
+limit-connect{-} # All ports are OK
+limit-connect{,} # No HTTPS/SSL traffic is allowed</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usages:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- <screen>+limit-cookie-lifetime{60}
- </screen>
- </para>
+ <screen>+limit-cookie-lifetime{60}</screen>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (sections):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>
# Selectively turn off compression, and enable a filter
#
#
{ -prevent-compression }
.compusa.com/</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Let the browser revalidate without being tracked across sessions
{ +hide-if-modified-since{-60} \
+overwrite-last-modified{randomize} \
+crunch-if-none-match}
/</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usages:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen># Replace example.com's style sheet with another one
{ +redirect{http://localhost/css-replacements/example.com.css} }
example.com/stylesheet\.css
# to the local version delivered by Privoxy
{+redirect{s@^http://www@http://config@}}
www.privoxy.org/user-manual/</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>
{+server-header-filter{html-to-xml}}
example.org/xml-instance-that-is-delivered-as-html
{+server-header-filter{xml-to-html}}
example.org/instance-that-is-delivered-as-xml-but-is-not
</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage (section):</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>
# Tag every request with the content type declared by the server
{+server-header-tagger{content-type}}
# <literal><link linkend="external-filter-syntax">silly example</link></literal>.
{+external-filter{rotate-image} +force-text-mode}
TAG:^image/
- </screen>
- </para>
+</screen>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Example usage:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>
<screen>+session-cookies-only</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>
Built-in pattern:
</para>
- <para>
<screen>+set-image-blocker{pattern}</screen>
- </para>
<para>
Redirect to the BSD daemon:
</para>
- <para>
<screen>+set-image-blocker{http://www.freebsd.org/gifs/dae_up3.gif}</screen>
- </para>
<para>
Redirect to the built-in pattern for better caching:
</para>
- <para>
<screen>+set-image-blocker{http://config.privoxy.org/send-banner?type=pattern}</screen>
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
Now let's define some aliases...
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# Useful custom aliases we can use later.
#
#
c0 = +crunch-all-cookies
c1 = -crunch-all-cookies</screen>
-</para>
<para>
...and put them to use. These sections would appear in the lower part of an
up for the <quote>/</quote> pattern):
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# These sites are either very complex or very keen on
# user data and require minimal interference to work:
{-filter{all-popups} -filter{unsolicited-popups}}
.dabs.com
.overclockers.co.uk</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Aliases like <quote>shop</quote> and <quote>fragile</quote> are typically used for
multiple lines with line continuation.
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ \
+<link linkend="CHANGE-X-FORWARDED-FOR">change-x-forwarded-for{block}</link> \
}
/ # Match all URLs
</screen>
-</para>
<para>
The default behavior is now set.
that prevents older &my-app; versions from reading the file:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
##########################################################################
# Settings -- Don't change! For internal Privoxy use ONLY.
##########################################################################
{{settings}}
for-privoxy-version=3.0.11</screen>
-</para>
<para>
After that comes the (optional) alias section. We'll use the example
that also explains why and how aliases are used:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
##########################################################################
# Aliases
#
fragile = -<link linkend="BLOCK">block</link> -<link linkend="FILTER">filter</link> -crunch-all-cookies -<link linkend="FAST-REDIRECTS">fast-redirects</link> -<link linkend="HIDE-REFERER">hide-referrer</link>
shop = -crunch-all-cookies -<link linkend="FILTER-ALL-POPUPS">filter{all-popups}</link></screen>
-</para>
<para>
The first of our specialized sections is concerned with <quote>fragile</quote>
of actions explicitly:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
##########################################################################
# Exceptions for sites that'll break under the default action set:
.office.microsoft.com # surprise, surprise!
.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
mail.google.com</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Shopping sites are not as fragile, but they typically
carts or item details. Again, we'll use a pre-defined alias:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# Shopping sites:
#
.worldpay.com # for quietpc.com
.jungle.com
.scan.co.uk</screen>
-</para>
<para>
The <literal><link linkend="FAST-REDIRECTS">fast-redirects</link></literal>
breaks some sites. So disable it for popular sites where we know it misbehaves:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ -<link linkend="FAST-REDIRECTS">fast-redirects</link> }
login.yahoo.com
.altavista.com/.*(like|url|link):http
.altavista.com/trans.*urltext=http
.nytimes.com</screen>
-</para>
<para>
It is important that <application>Privoxy</application> knows which
good start:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
##########################################################################
# Images:
#
{ +<link linkend="HANDLE-AS-IMAGE">handle-as-image</link> }
/.*\.(gif|jpe?g|png|bmp|ico)$</screen>
-</para>
<para>
And then there are known banner sources. They often use scripts to
action before, it still applies and needn't be repeated:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# Known ad generators:
#
.a[0-9].yimg.com/(?:(?!/i/).)*$
bs*.gsanet.com
.qkimg.net</screen>
-</para>
<para>
One of the most important jobs of <application>Privoxy</application>
to keep the example short:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
##########################################################################
# Block these fine banners:
# Site-specific patterns (abbreviated):
#
.hitbox.com</screen>
-</para>
<para>
It's quite remarkable how many advertisers actually call their banner
with no <literal><link linkend="BLOCK">block</link></literal> action applying.
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
##########################################################################
# Save some innocent victims of the above generic block patterns:
#
www.globalintersec.com/adv # (adv = advanced)
www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/adv</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Filtering source code can have nasty side effects,
disables <emphasis>all</emphasis> filters in one fell swoop!
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# Don't filter code!
#
developer.
wiki.
.sourceforge.net</screen>
-</para>
<para>
The actual <filename>default.action</filename> is of course much more
<!-- brief sample user.action here -->
-<para>
<screen>
# My user.action file. <fred@example.com></screen>
-</para>
<para>
As <link linkend="aliases">aliases</link> are local to the actions
<filename>default.action</filename>, unless you repeat them here:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# Aliases are local to the file they are defined in.
# (Re-)define aliases for this file:
# Alias for specific file types that are text, but might have conflicting
# MIME types. We want the browser to force these to be text documents.
handle-as-text = -<link linkend="FILTER">filter</link> +-<link linkend="content-type-overwrite">content-type-overwrite{text/plain}</link> +-<link linkend="FORCE-TEXT-MODE">force-text-mode</link> -<link linkend="HIDE-CONTENT-DISPOSITION">hide-content-disposition</link></screen>
-</para>
<para>
Say you have accounts on some sites that you visit regularly, and
processing of cookies to make them only temporary.
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ allow-all-cookies }
sourceforge.net
.yahoo.com
.msdn.microsoft.com
.redhat.com</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Your bank is allergic to some filter, but you don't know which, so you disable them all:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ -<link linkend="FILTER">filter</link> }
.your-home-banking-site.com</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Some file types you may not want to filter for various reasons:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# Technical documentation is likely to contain strings that might
# erroneously get altered by the JavaScript-oriented filters:
# so that Privoxy thinks it is getting HTML and starts filtering:
#
stupid-server.example.com/</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Example of a simple <link linkend="BLOCK">block</link> action. Say you've
in default.action anyway:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ +<link linkend="BLOCK">block</link>{Nasty ads.} }
www.example.com/nasty-ads/sponsor\.gif
another.example.net/more/junk/here/</screen>
-</para>
<para>
The URLs of dynamically generated banners, especially from large banner
browser. Use cautiously.
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ +block-as-image }
.doubleclick.net
.fastclick.net
/Realmedia/ads/
ar.atwola.com/</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Now you noticed that the default configuration breaks Forbes Magazine,
that misbehave, and add those to our personalized list of troublemakers:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ fragile }
.forbes.com
webmail.example.com
.mybank.com</screen>
-</para>
<para>
You like the <quote>fun</quote> text replacements in <filename>default.filter</filename>,
update-safe config, once and for all:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ +<link linkend="filter-fun">filter{fun}</link> }
/ # For ALL sites!</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Note that the above is not really a good idea: There are exceptions
sites that you feel provide value to you:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ allow-ads }
.sourceforge.net
.slashdot.org
.osdn.net</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Note that <literal>allow-ads</literal> has been aliased to
it should I choose to.
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ handle-as-text }
/.*\.sh$</screen>
-</para>
<para>
<filename>user.action</filename> is generally the best place to define
paths and patterns:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ +<link linkend="set-image-blocker">set-image-blocker{blank}</link> }
/ # ALL sites</screen>
-</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
like this:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>FILTER: foo Replace all "foo" with "bar"</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Below that line, and up to the next header line, come the jobs that
needed:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>s/foo/bar/</screen>
-</para>
<para>
But wait! Didn't the comment say that <emphasis>all</emphasis> occurrences
we'll need to add the <literal>g</literal> option:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>s/foo/bar/g</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Our complete filter now looks like this:
</para>
-<para>
+
<screen>FILTER: foo Replace all "foo" with "bar"
s/foo/bar/g</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Let's look at some real filters for more interesting examples. Here you see
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
FILTER: js-annoyances Get rid of particularly annoying JavaScript abuse
# Get rid of JavaScript referrer tracking. Test page: http://www.randomoddness.com/untitled.htm
#
s|(<script.*)document\.referrer(.*</script>)|$1"Not Your Business!"$2|Usg</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Following the header line and a comment, you see the job. Note that it uses
this time only point out the constructs of special interest:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# The status bar is for displaying link targets, not pointless blahblah
#
s/window\.status\s*=\s*(['"]).*?\1/dUmMy=1/ig</screen>
-</para>
<para>
<literal>\s</literal> stands for whitespace characters (space, tab, newline,
you move your mouse over links.
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# Kill OnUnload popups. Yummy. Test: http://www.zdnet.com/zdsubs/yahoo/tree/yfs.html
#
s/(<body [^>]*)onunload(.*>)/$1never$2/iU</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Including the
The last example is from the fun department:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
FILTER: fun Fun text replacements
# Spice the daily news:
#
s/microsoft(?!\.com)/MicroSuck/ig</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Note the <literal>(?!\.com)</literal> part (a so-called negative lookahead)
still replacing the word everywhere else.
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
# Buzzword Bingo (example for extended regex syntax)
#
| unrivalled \
*<font color="red"><b>BINGO!</b></font> \
*igx</screen>
-</para>
<para>
The <literal>x</literal> option in this job turns on extended syntax, and allows for
<para>
The purpose of this filter is to get rid of particularly annoying JavaScript abuse.
To that end, it
+ </para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- </para>
<para>
Use with caution. This is an aggressive filter, and can break sites that
rely heavily on JavaScript.
&my-app; will temporary store the content to filter in the
<literal><link linkend="temporary-directory">temporary-directory</link></literal>.
</para>
-<para>
+
<screen>
EXTERNAL-FILTER: cat Pointless example filter that doesn't actually modify the content
/bin/cat
EXTERNAL-FILTER: citation-needed Adds a "[citation needed]" tag to an image. The coordinates may need adjustment.
/usr/local/bin/convert - -pointsize 16 -fill white -annotate +17+418 "[citation needed]" -
</screen>
-</para>
<warning>
<para>
is in an alpha or beta development stage:
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<screen>
<!-- @if-unstable-start -->
... beta warning HTML code goes here ...
<!-- if-unstable-end@ --></screen>
-</para>
<para>
If the "unstable" symbol is set, everything in between and including
will disappear, leaving nothing but an empty comment:
</para>
-<para>
<screen><!-- --></screen>
-</para>
<para>
There's also an if-then-else construct and an <literal>#include</literal>
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect2 id="license"><title>License</title>
-<para>
+
<screen><![ RCDATA [ &GPLv2; ]]></screen>
-</para>
</sect2>
<!-- ~ End section ~ -->
and then some examples:
</para>
-<para><simplelist>
+<simplelist>
<member>
<emphasis>.</emphasis> - Matches any single character, e.g. <quote>a</quote>,
<quote>A</quote>, <quote>4</quote>, <quote>:</quote>, or <quote>@</quote>.
</member>
-</simplelist></para>
+</simplelist>
-<para><simplelist>
+<simplelist>
<member>
<emphasis>?</emphasis> - The preceding character or expression is matched ZERO or ONE
times. Either/or.
</member>
-</simplelist></para>
+</simplelist>
-<para><simplelist>
+<simplelist>
<member>
<emphasis>+</emphasis> - The preceding character or expression is matched ONE or MORE
times.
</member>
-</simplelist></para>
+</simplelist>
-<para><simplelist>
+<simplelist>
<member>
<emphasis>*</emphasis> - The preceding character or expression is matched ZERO or MORE
times.
</member>
-</simplelist></para>
+</simplelist>
-<para><simplelist>
+<simplelist>
<member>
<emphasis>\</emphasis> - The <quote>escape</quote> character denotes that
the following character should be taken literally. This is used where one of the
sure the period is recognized only as a period (and not expanded to its
meta-character meaning of any single character).
</member>
-</simplelist></para>
+</simplelist>
-<para><simplelist>
+<simplelist>
<member>
<emphasis>[ ]</emphasis> - Characters enclosed in brackets will be matched if
any of the enclosed characters are encountered. For instance, <quote>[0-9]</quote>
matches any numeric digit (zero through nine). As an example, we can combine
this with <quote>+</quote> to match any digit one of more times: <quote>[0-9]+</quote>.
</member>
-</simplelist></para>
+</simplelist>
-<para><simplelist>
+<simplelist>
<member>
<emphasis>( )</emphasis> - parentheses are used to group a sub-expression,
or multiple sub-expressions.
</member>
-</simplelist></para>
+</simplelist>
-<para><simplelist>
+<simplelist>
<member>
<emphasis>|</emphasis> - The <quote>bar</quote> character works like an
<quote>or</quote> conditional statement. A match is successful if the
and would match either <quote>this example</quote> or <quote>that
example</quote>, and nothing else.
</member>
-</simplelist></para>
+</simplelist>
<para>
These are just some of the ones you are likely to use when matching URLs with
necessary either.
</para>
-<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
</sect2>
page is requested by your browser:
</para>
-<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
+
<para>
NOTE: This is somewhat of a simplistic overview of what happens with each URL
request. For the sake of brevity and simplicity, we have focused on
configuration may vary):
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
Matches for http://www.google.com:
In file: user.action <guibutton>[ View ]</guibutton> <guibutton>[ Edit ]</guibutton>
(no matches in this file)
</screen>
-</para>
<para>
This is telling us how we have defined our
to <quote>google.com</quote>:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
Final results:
-server-header-filter{html-to-xml}
-session-cookies-only
+set-image-blocker {pattern} </screen>
-</para>
<para>
Notice the only difference here to the previous listing, is to
Now another example, <quote>ad.doubleclick.net</quote>:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ +block{Domains starts with "ad"} }
ad*.
{ +block{Doubleclick banner server} +handle-as-image }
.[a-vx-z]*.doubleclick.net
</screen>
-</para>
<para>
We'll just show the interesting part here - the explicit matches. It is
This one is giving us problems. We are getting a blank page. Hmmm ...
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
Matches for http://www.example.net/adsl/HOWTO/:
{ +block{Path contains "ads".} +handle-as-image }
/ads
</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Ooops, the <quote>/adsl/</quote> is matching <quote>/ads</quote> in our
wins). There are various ways to handle such exceptions. Example:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ -block }
/adsl
</screen>
-</para>
<para>
Now the page displays ;-)
we did with:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ +block{Path starts with "ads".} +handle-as-image }
/ads
</screen>
-</para>
<para>
That actually was very helpful and pointed us quickly to where the problem
<link linkend="FILTER"><quote>+filter</quote></link>:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ shop }
.quietpc.com
.scan.co.uk
.forbes.com
</screen>
-</para>
<para>
<quote><literal>{ shop }</literal></quote> is an <quote>alias</quote> that expands to
Or you could do your own exception to negate filtering:
</para>
-<para>
<screen>
{ -filter }
# Disable ALL filter actions for sites in this section
developer.ibm.com
localhost
</screen>
-</para>
<para>
This would turn off all filtering for these sites. This is best
actions that are the most likely to cause trouble. This can be used as a
last resort for problem sites.
</para>
-<para>
+
<screen>
{ fragile }
# Handle with care: easy to break
mail.google.
mybank.example.com</screen>
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<para>
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