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<!entity copyright SYSTEM "copyright.sgml">
<!entity license SYSTEM "license.sgml">
-<!entity p-version "0.0.0">
-<!entity p-status "UNRELEASED">
-<!entity % p-not-stable "INCLUDE">
-<!entity % p-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity p-version "3.0.0">
+<!entity p-status "stable">
+<!entity % p-not-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity % p-stable "INCLUDE">
<!entity % p-text "IGNORE"> <!-- define we are not a text only doc -->
<!entity % p-doc "INCLUDE"> <!-- and we are a formal doc -->
<!entity % p-supp-userman "INCLUDE"> <!-- Include all from supported.sgml -->
This file belongs into
ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/i/ij/ijbswa/htdocs/
- $Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.24 2002/10/15 12:50:22 oes Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.25 2002/10/29 03:21:50 hal9 Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
See LICENSE.
========================================================================
NOTE: Please read developer-manual/documentation.html before touching
- anything in this, or other Privoxy documentation. You have been warned!
- Failure to abide by this rule will result in the revocation of your license
to live a peaceful existence!
+
+ Please we keep the info in this file as version independent as possible
+ so we only have to maintain one FAQ. Where significant changes are
+ made to Privoxy configuration, please note the change in such a way that
+ it makes sense to both users of older and newer versions.
========================================================================
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.24 2002/10/15 12:50:22 oes Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 1.61.2.25 2002/10/29 03:21:50 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
help you get started, we provide you with three different default action
<quote>profiles</quote> in the web based actions file editor at <ulink
url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</ulink>.
- The following table shows you, which of the most important features are
- enabled in each configuration:
+ See the <ulink url="../user-manual/actions-file.html"><citetitle>User
+ Manual</citetitle></ulink> for a list of actions, and how the default
+ profiles are set.
</para>
- <para>
-<table frame=all><title>Default Configurations</title>
-<tgroup cols=4 align=left colsep=1 rowsep=1>
-<colspec colname=c1>
-<colspec colname=c2>
-<colspec colname=c3>
-<colspec colname=c4>
-<thead>
-<row>
- <entry>Feature</entry>
- <entry>Cautious</entry>
- <entry>Intermadiate</entry>
- <entry>Radical</entry>
-</row>
-</thead>
-<!-- <tfoot> -->
-<!-- <row> -->
-<!-- <entry>f1</entry> -->
-<!-- <entry>f2</entry> -->
-<!-- <entry>f3</entry> -->
-<!-- <entry>f4</entry> -->
-<!-- </row> -->
-<!-- </tfoot> -->
-<tbody>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Ad-blocking by URL</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Ad-filtering by size</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>GIF de-animation</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Referer forging</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Cookie handling</entry>
- <entry>none</entry>
- <entry>session-only</entry>
- <entry>kill</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Pop-up killing</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Fast redirects</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>HTML taming</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>JavaScript taming</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Web-bug killing</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Fun text replacements</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Image tag reordering</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Ad-filtering by link</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-<row>
- <entry>Demoronizer</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>no</entry>
- <entry>yes</entry>
-</row>
-
-
-</tbody>
-</tgroup>
-</table>
-</para>
+
<para>
Where the defaults are likely to break some sites, exceptions for
known popular <quote>problem</quote> sites are included, but in
- general, the more aggressive your default settings are, the more
- exceptions you will have to make later. See the <ulink
- url="../user-manual/index.html">user manual</ulink> for a more
- deatiled discussion.
+ general, the more aggressive your default settings are, the more exceptions
+ you will have to make later. See the <ulink
+ url="../user-manual/index.html"><citetitle>User Manual</citetitle></ulink>
+ for a more deatiled discussion.
</para>
<para>
- It should be noted that the <quote>Radical</quote> profile is not only more
+ It should be noted that the <quote>Radical</quote> profile (formerly known
+ as the <quote>Advanced</quote> profile) is not only more
aggressive, but also includes fun and, extreme usage of most of
<application>Privoxy's</application> features. Use at your own risk!
</para>
</para>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="allow-cookies">
+<title>How can I allow permanent cookies for my trusted sites?</title>
+
+<para>
+ There are several actions that relate to cookies. The default behavior is to
+ allow only <quote>session cookies</quote>, which means the cookies only last
+ for the current browser session. This eliminates most kinds of abuse related
+ to cookies. But there may be cases where we want cookies to last.
+</para>
+<para>
+ To disable all cookie actions, so that cookies are allowed unrestricted,
+ both in and out, for <literal>example.com</literal>:
+</para>
+<para>
+ <screen>
+ { -crunch-incoming-cookies -crunch-outgoing-cookies -session-cookies-only -filter{content-cookies} }
+ .example.com</screen>
+</para>
+<para>
+ Place the above in <filename>user.action</filename>. Note some of these may
+ be off by default anyway, so this might be redundant, but there is no harm
+ being explicit in what you want to happen. <filename>user.action</filename>
+ includes an alias for this situation, called
+ <literal>allow-cookies</literal>.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
</sect1>
<!-- ~ End section ~ -->
url="http://www.multiproxy.org/anon_list.htm">multiproxy.org</ulink> and many
more through Google. A particularly interesting project is the JAP service
offered by the Technical University of Dresden (<ulink
- url="http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html">http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html</ulink>.
+ url="http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html">http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html</ulink>).
</para>
<para>
There is, however, even in the single-machine case the possibility to make the
activated the <quote><literal>fun</literal></quote> filter which
is clearly labeled <quote>Text replacements for subversive browsing
fun!</quote> or you have implicitly activated it by choosing the
- <quote>Radical</quote> profile in the web-based editor.
+ <quote>Radical</quote> profile in the web-based editor (formerly known
+ as the <application>Advanced</application> profile).
</para>
</sect2>
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<!entity p-authors SYSTEM "p-authors.sgml">
<!entity config SYSTEM "p-config.sgml">
-<!entity p-version "0.0.0">
-<!entity p-status "UNRELEASED">
+<!entity p-version "3.0.0">
+<!entity p-status "stable">
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- $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.22 2002/10/12 00:51:53 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.23 2002/10/21 02:32:01 hal9 Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
See LICENSE.
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.22 2002/10/12 00:51:53 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.123.2.23 2002/10/21 02:32:01 hal9 Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
you select them explicitly in the editor</emphasis>. It is not recommend
to edit this file.
</para>
+ <para>
+ The default profiles, and their associated actions, as pre-defined in
+ <filename>standard.action</filename> are:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <table frame=all><title>Default Configurations</title>
+ <tgroup cols=4 align=left colsep=1 rowsep=1>
+ <colspec colname=c1>
+ <colspec colname=c2>
+ <colspec colname=c3>
+ <colspec colname=c4>
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Feature</entry>
+ <entry>Cautious</entry>
+ <entry>Intermadiate</entry>
+ <entry>Radical</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <!-- <tfoot> -->
+ <!-- <row> -->
+ <!-- <entry>f1</entry> -->
+ <!-- <entry>f2</entry> -->
+ <!-- <entry>f3</entry> -->
+ <!-- <entry>f4</entry> -->
+ <!-- </row> -->
+ <!-- </tfoot> -->
+ <tbody>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Ad-blocking by URL</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Ad-filtering by size</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>GIF de-animation</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Referer forging</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Cookie handling</entry>
+ <entry>none</entry>
+ <entry>session-only</entry>
+ <entry>kill</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Pop-up killing</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Fast redirects</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>HTML taming</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>JavaScript taming</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Web-bug killing</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Fun text replacements</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Image tag reordering</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Ad-filtering by link</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry>Demoronizer</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>no</entry>
+ <entry>yes</entry>
+ </row>
+
+
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+ </para>
+
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
The list of actions files to be used are defined in the main configuration
- file, and are processed in the order they are defined. The content of these
- can all be viewed and edited from <ulink
+ file, and are processed in the order they are defined (e.g.
+ <filename>default.action</filename> is typically process before
+ <filename>user.action</filename>). The content of these can all be viewed and
+ edited from <ulink
url="http://config.privoxy.org/show-status">http://config.privoxy.org/show-status</ulink>.
</para>
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+
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