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Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
See LICENSE.
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noticeable on slow dialup connections.
</para>
<para>
- Filtering is automatically disabled for inappropriate MIME types.
+ Filtering is automatically disabled for inappropriate MIME types. But note
+ that if the web server mis-reports the MIME type, then content that should
+ not be filtered, could be. <application>Privoxy</application> only knows how
+ to differentiate filterable content because of the MIME type as reported by
+ the server, or because of some configuration setting that enables/disables
+ filtering.
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</sect2>
<quote>text/plain</quote>) will be filtered, as will those that might be
incorrectly reported by the webserver. If such a file is a downloaded file
that is intended to be saved to disk, then any content that might have been
- altered by filtering, will be saved too, for these (probably very rare)
- cases.
+ altered by filtering, will be saved too, for these (probably rare) cases.
</para>
<para>
If you download text files, you probably do not want these to be filtered,
</para>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="downloads2">
+<title>I just downloaded a Perl script, and <application>Privoxy</application>
+altered it! What is wrong!</title>
+<para>
+ Read above very carefully.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="seealso">
<title>Where can I find more information about <application>Privoxy</application>
</para>
</sect2>
+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="nohostname">
+<title>My logs show many <quote>Unable to get my own hostname</quote> lines.
+Why?</title>
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> tries to get the hostname of the system
+ its running on from the IP address of the system interface it is bound to
+ (from the <filename>config</filename> file
+ <emphasis>listen-address</emphasis> setting). If the system cannot supply
+ this information, <application>Privoxy</application> logs this condition.
+</para>
+<para>
+ Typically, this would be considered a system configuration error. It is not a
+ fatal error to <application>Privoxy</application> however, and you may choose
+ to ignore it if you want.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+
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