Privoxy 3.0.0 User Manual
Copyright © 2001, 2002 by
Privoxy Developers
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The User Manual gives users information on how to install, configure and use Privoxy.
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
You can find the latest version of the User Manual at http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/. Please see the Contact section on how to contact the developers.
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Features
- 2. Installation
- 2.1. Binary Packages
- 2.1.1. Red Hat, SuSE and Conectiva RPMs
- 2.1.2. Debian
- 2.1.3. Windows
- 2.1.4. Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, HP-UX
- 2.1.5. OS/2
- 2.1.6. Mac OSX
- 2.1.7. AmigaOS
- 2.1.8. Gentoo
- 2.2. Building from Source
- 2.3. Keeping your Installation Up-to-Date
- 3. Note to Upgraders
- 4. Quickstart to Using Privoxy
- 5. Starting Privoxy
- 5.1. Red Hat and Conectiva
- 5.2. Debian
- 5.3. SuSE
- 5.4. Windows
- 5.5. Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, HP-UX and others
- 5.6. OS/2
- 5.7. Mac OSX
- 5.8. AmigaOS
- 5.9. Gentoo
- 5.10. Command Line Options
- 6. Privoxy Configuration
- 7. The Main Configuration File
- 7.1. Configuration and Log File Locations
- 7.1.1. confdir
- 7.1.2. logdir
- 7.1.3. actionsfile
- 7.1.4. filterfile
- 7.1.5. logfile
- 7.1.6. jarfile
- 7.1.7. trustfile
- 7.2. Local Set-up Documentation
- 7.2.1. user-manual
- 7.2.2. trust-info-url
- 7.2.3. admin-address
- 7.2.4. proxy-info-url
- 7.3. Debugging
- 7.3.1. debug
- 7.3.2. single-threaded
- 7.4. Access Control and Security
- 7.4.1. listen-address
- 7.4.2. toggle
- 7.4.3. enable-remote-toggle
- 7.4.4. enable-edit-actions
- 7.4.5. ACLs: permit-access and deny-access
- 7.4.6. buffer-limit
- 7.5. Forwarding
- 7.5.1. forward
- 7.5.2. forward-socks4 and forward-socks4a
- 7.5.3. Advanced Forwarding Examples
- 7.6. Windows GUI Options
- 8. Actions Files
- 8.1. Finding the Right Mix
- 8.2. How to Edit
- 8.3. How Actions are Applied to URLs
- 8.4. Patterns
- 8.4.1. The Domain Pattern
- 8.4.2. The Path Pattern
- 8.5. Actions
- 8.5.1. add-header
- 8.5.2. block
- 8.5.3. crunch-incoming-cookies
- 8.5.4. crunch-outgoing-cookies
- 8.5.5. deanimate-gifs
- 8.5.6. downgrade-http-version
- 8.5.7. fast-redirects
- 8.5.8. filter
- 8.5.9. handle-as-image
- 8.5.10. hide-forwarded-for-headers
- 8.5.11. hide-from-header
- 8.5.12. hide-referrer
- 8.5.13. hide-user-agent
- 8.5.14. kill-popups
- 8.5.15. limit-connect
- 8.5.16. prevent-compression
- 8.5.17. send-vanilla-wafer
- 8.5.18. send-wafer
- 8.5.19. session-cookies-only
- 8.5.20. set-image-blocker
- 8.5.21. Summary
- 8.6. Aliases
- 8.7. Actions Files Tutorial
- 8.7.1. default.action
- 8.7.2. user.action
- 9. The Filter File
- 9.1. Filter File Tutorial
- 10. Templates
- 11. Contacting the Developers, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
- 11.1. Get Support
- 11.2. Report Bugs
- 11.3. Request New Features
- 11.4. Report Ads or Other Actions-Related Problems
- 11.5. Other
- 12. Privoxy Copyright, License and History
- 13. See Also
- 14. Appendix
- 14.1. Regular Expressions
- 14.2. Privoxy's Internal Pages
- 14.2.1. Bookmarklets
- 14.3. Chain of Events
- 14.4. Anatomy of an Action
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