From ce9e6fde7e0eae18442e229f3c1cc214b3d8bac5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hal9 <hal9@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 12:37:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Various minor changes and edits.
---
doc/source/faq.sgml | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/source/faq.sgml b/doc/source/faq.sgml
index e3a23012..e32b52df 100644
--- a/doc/source/faq.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/faq.sgml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
This file belongs into
ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
- $Id: faq.sgml,v 1.59 2002/05/15 04:03:30 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 1.60 2002/05/22 17:17:48 oes Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
See LICENSE.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.59 2002/05/15 04:03:30 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.60 2002/05/22 17:17:48 oes Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ an ad, and what is not?</title>
This does not sound very scientific.</title>
<para>
Actually, it's a black art ;-) And yes, it is always possible to have a broad
- rule accidentally block of change something by mistake. There is a good chance
+ rule accidentally block or change something by mistake. There is a good chance
you may run into such a situation at some point. It is tricky writing rules to
cover every conceivable possibility, and not occasionally get false positives.
</para>
@@ -425,8 +425,9 @@ special I have to do now?</title>
<para>
If you set up the <application>Privoxy</application> to run on
the computer you browse from (rather than your ISP's server or some
- networked computer on a LAN), the proxy will be on <quote>localhost</quote>
- (which is the special name used by every computer on the Internet to refer
+ networked computer on a LAN), the proxy will be on <literal>127.0.0.1</literal>
+ (sometimes referred to as <quote>localhost</quote>,
+ which is the special name used by every computer on the Internet to refer
to itself) and the port will be 8118 (unless you have <application>Privoxy</application>
to run on a different port with the <ulink
url="../user-manual/config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS">listen-address</ulink> config option).
@@ -790,15 +791,16 @@ with a browser? Does that not raise security issues?</title>
LAN?</title>
<para>
By default, <application>Privoxy</application> only responds to requests
- from localhost. To have it act as a server for a network, this needs to be
- changed in the<ulink url="../user-manual/config.html">main configuration
- file</ulink>. Look for the <literal><ulink
- url="../user-manual/config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS">listen-address</ulink></literal>
- option, which may be commented out with a <quote>#</quote> symbol. Make sure
- it is uncommented, and assign it the address of the LAN gateway interface,
- and port number to use. Assuming your LAN address is 192.168.1.1 and you wish
- to run <application>Privoxy</application> on port 8118, this line schould look
- like:
+ from <literal>127.0.0.1</literal> (localhost). To have it act as a server for
+ a network, this needs to be changed in the <ulink
+ url="../user-manual/config.html">main configuration file</ulink>. Look for
+ the <literal><ulink
+ url="../user-manual/config.html#LISTEN-ADDRESS">listen-address</ulink></literal>
+ option, which may be commented out with a <quote>#</quote> symbol. Make sure
+ it is uncommented, and assign it the address of the LAN gateway interface,
+ and port number to use. Assuming your LAN address is 192.168.1.1 and you
+ wish to run <application>Privoxy</application> on port 8118, this line
+ schould look like:
</para>
<para>
@@ -1443,7 +1445,7 @@ What can I do?</title>
by toggling off <application>Privoxy</application> through <ulink
url="http://config.privoxy.org/toggle">http://config.privoxy.org/toggle</ulink>,
and then shift-reloading the problem page (i.e. holding down the shift key
- while clicking reload. Alternatively, flush your browsers' disk any memory
+ while clicking reload. Alternatively, flush your browser's disk and memory
caches).
</para>
@@ -1467,7 +1469,7 @@ What can I do?</title>
</para>
<para>
Alternately, if you are comfortable with a text editor, you can accomplish
- the same thing by editing the appropriate actions file. The probably easiest
+ the 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 <literal>{ fragile }</literal> section in <filename>user.action</filename>,
which is an alias that turns off most <quote>dangerous</quote>
@@ -1575,6 +1577,9 @@ FIXME: Commented out until we have something to put here. HB 03/18/02.
Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
$Log: faq.sgml,v $
+Revision 1.60 2002/05/22 17:17:48 oes
+Proofread & added more links into u-m
+
Revision 1.59 2002/05/15 04:03:30 hal9
Fix ulink -> link markup.
--
2.49.0