From: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:30:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document forward-webserver
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Document forward-webserver
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diff --git a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
index d0fe221f..33f0a499 100644
--- a/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/user-manual.sgml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
This file belongs into
ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
- $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.195 2015/12/28 18:56:19 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.196 2015/12/28 18:56:36 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.195 2015/12/28 18:56:19 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 2.196 2015/12/28 18:56:36 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
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@@ -4178,6 +4178,32 @@ new action
for socks5 connections (with remote DNS resolution).
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <quote>forward-webserver 127.0.0.1:80</quote> to use the HTTP
+ server listening at 127.0.0.1 port 80 without adjusting the
+ request headers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This makes it more convenient to use Privoxy to make
+ existing websites available as onion services as well.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Many websites serve content with hardcoded URLs and
+ can't be easily adjusted to change the domain based
+ on the one used by the client.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Putting Privoxy between Tor and the webserver (or an stunnel
+ that forwards to the webserver) allows to rewrite headers and
+ content to make client and server happy at the same time.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Using Privoxy for webservers that are only reachable through
+ onion addresses and whose location is supposed to be secret
+ is not recommended and should not be necessary anyway.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>