+same thing by editing the appropriate actions file. Probably the easiest way to
+deal with such problems when editing by hand is to add your site to a { fragile
+} section in user.action, which is an alias that turns off most "dangerous"
+actions, but is also likely to turn off more actions then needed, and thus
+lower your privacy and protection more than necessary,
+
+Troubleshooting actions is discussed in more detail in the user-manual appendix
+. There is also an actions tutorial.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+5.4. After installing Privoxy, I have to log in every time I start IE. What
+gives?
+
+This is a quirk that effects the installation of Privoxy, in conjunction with
+Internet Explorer and Internet Connection Sharing on Windows 2000 and Windows
+XP. The symptoms may appear to be corrupted or invalid DUN settings, or
+passwords.
+
+When setting up an NT based Windows system with Privoxy you may find that
+things do not seem to be doing what you expect. When you set your system up you
+will probably have set up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) with Dial up
+Networking (DUN) when logged in with administrator privileges. You will
+probably have made this DUN connection available to other accounts that you may
+have set-up on your system. E.g. Mum or Dad sets up the system and makes
+accounts suitably configured for the kids.
+
+When setting up Privoxy in this environment you will have to alter the proxy
+set-up of Internet Explorer (IE) for the specific DUN connection on which you
+wish to use Privoxy. When you do this the ICS DUN set-up becomes user specific.
+In this instance you will see no difference if you change the DUN connection
+under the account used to set-up the connection. However when you do this from
+another user you will notice that the DUN connection changes to make available
+to "Me only". You will also find that you have to store the password under each
+different user!
+
+The reason for this is that each user's set-up for IE is user specific. Each
+set-up DUN connection and each LAN connection in IE store the settings for each
+user individually. As such this enforces individual configurations rather than
+common ones. Hence the first time you use a DUN connection after re-booting
+your system it may not perform as you expect, and prompt you for the password.
+Just set and save the password again and all should be OK.
+
+[Thanks to Ray Griffith for this submission.]
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+5.5. I cannot connect to any FTP sites. Privoxy seems to be blocking me.
+
+Privoxy cannot act as a proxy for FTP traffic, so do not configure your browser
+to use Privoxy as an FTP proxy. The same is true for any protocol other than
+HTTP or HTTPS.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+5.6. In Mac OSX, I can't configure Microsoft Internet Explorer to use Privoxy
+as the HTTP proxy.
+
+Microsoft Internet Explorer (in versions like 5.1) respects system-wide network
+settings. In order to change the HTTP proxy, open System Preferences, and click
+on the Network icon. In the settings pane that comes up, click on the Proxies
+tab. Ensure the "Web Proxy (HTTP)" checkbox is checked and enter 127.0.0.1 in
+the entry field. Enter 8118 in the Port field. The next time you start IE, it
+should reflect these values.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+5.7. In Mac OSX, I dragged the Privoxy folder to the trash in order to
+uninstall it. Now the finder tells me I don't have sufficient privileges to
+empty the trash.
+
+Just dragging the Privoxy folder to the trash is not enough to delete it.
+Privoxy supplies an uninstall.command file that takes care of these details.
+Open the trash, drag the uninstall.command file out of the trash and
+double-click on it. You will be prompted for confirmation and the
+administration password.
+
+The trash may still appear full after this command; emptying the trash from the
+desktop should make it appear empty again.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+5.8. I get a completely blank page at one site. "View Source" shows only:
+<html><body></body></html>.
+
+This is often the result of a webserver using PHP that mishandles the request
+Privoxy sends to not compress the content (a PHP bug).
+
+In a default configuration, Privoxy requests all data be sent "uncompressed".
+This is required for the page filtering and other magic to work. In some rare
+cases, the browser and webserver miscommunicate and the result is a totally
+blank page. The suggested work around is to selectively turn off this feature
+for sites that exhibit such behavior. Example section for user.action:
+
+ # Make exceptions for ill-behaved sites:
+ #
+ {-prevent-compression}
+ .example.com