Privoxy Main Configuration Closed
For Microsoft Windows, right click on the "P" icon in the Start Bar, and select Edit->Main Configuration. For other operating systems edit the "config" file. Replace the entire contents of that file by cutting and pasting the information below:
- Sample Configuration File for Privoxy v3.0.6
- $Id: config,v 1.56 2006/11/14 01:54:36 hal9 Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Privoxy Developers http://privoxy.org
-
- #
- Table of Contents #
- #
- I. INTRODUCTION #
- II. FORMAT OF THE CONFIGURATION FILE #
- #
- 1. LOCAL SET-UP DOCUMENTATION #
- 2. CONFIGURATION AND LOG FILE LOCATIONS #
- 3. DEBUGGING #
- 4. ACCESS CONTROL AND SECURITY #
- 5. FORWARDING #
- 6. WINDOWS GUI OPTIONS #
- #
- I. INTRODUCTION
- ===============
- This file holds the Privoxy configuration. If you modify this file,
- you will need to send a couple of requests (of any kind) to the
- proxy before any changes take effect.
- When starting Privoxy on Unix systems, give the name of this file as
- an argument. On Windows systems, Privoxy will look for this file
- with the name 'config.txt' in the same directory where Privoxy
- is installed.
- II. FORMAT OF THE CONFIGURATION FILE
- ====================================
- Configuration lines consist of an initial keyword followed by a
- list of values, all separated by whitespace (any number of spaces
- or tabs). For example,
- actionsfile default.action
- Indicates that the actionsfile is named 'default.action'.
- The '#' indicates a comment. Any part of a line following a '#'
- is ignored, except if the '#' is preceded by a '\'.
- Thus, by placing a # at the start of an existing configuration line,
- you can make it a comment and it will be treated as if it weren't
- there. This is called "commenting out" an option and can be useful.
- Note that commenting out and option and leaving it at its default
- are two completely different things! Most options behave very
- differently when unset. See the the "Effect if unset" explanation
- in each option's description for details.
- Long lines can be continued on the next line by using a `\' as the
- last character.
- 1. LOCAL SET-UP DOCUMENTATION
- =============================
- If you intend to operate Privoxy for more users than just yourself,
- it might be a good idea to let them know how to reach you, what
- you block and why you do that, your policies, etc.
- 1.1. user-manual
- ================
- Specifies:
- Location of the Privoxy User Manual.
- Type of value:
- A fully qualified URI
- Default value:
- Unset
- Effect if unset:
- http://www.privoxy.org/version/user-manual/ will be used,
- where version is the Privoxy version.
- Notes:
- The User Manual URI is the single best source of information on
- Privoxy, and is used for help links from some of the internal
- CGI pages. The manual itself is normally packaged with the
- binary distributions, so you probably want to set this to
- a locally installed copy. For multi-user setups, you could
- provide a copy on a local webserver for all your users and use
- the corresponding URL here.
- Examples:
- The best all purpose solution is simply to put the full local
- PATH to where the User Manual is located:
- user-manual /usr/share/doc/privoxy/user-manual
- The User Manual is then available to anyone with
- access to the proxy, by following the built-in URL:
- http://config.privoxy.org/user-manual/ (or the shortcut:
- http://p.p/user-manual/).
- If the documentation is not on the local system, it can be
- accessed from a remote server, as:
- user-manual http://example.com/privoxy/user-manual/
- WARNING!!!
- If set, this option should be the first option in the config
- file, because it is used while the config file is being read.
- user-manual http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/
- 1.2. trust-info-url
- ===================
- Specifies:
- A URL to be displayed in the error page that users will see if
- access to an untrusted page is denied.
- Type of value:
- URL
- Default value:
- Two example URL are provided
- Effect if unset:
- No links are displayed on the "untrusted" error page.
- Notes:
- The value of this option only matters if the experimental trust
- mechanism has been activated. (See trustfile above.)
- If you use the trust mechanism, it is a good idea to write
- up some on-line documentation about your trust policy and to
- specify the URL(s) here. Use multiple times for multiple URLs.
- The URL(s) should be added to the trustfile as well, so users
- don't end up locked out from the information on why they were
- locked out in the first place!
- hareidi
trust-info-url http://www.hareidi.org/en/index.php/Why_we_block trust-info-url http://www.hareidi.org/en/index.php/what_we_allow
- 1.3. admin-address
- ==================
- Specifies:
- An email address to reach the proxy administrator.
- Type of value:
- Email address
- Default value:
- Unset
- Effect if unset:
- No email address is displayed on error pages and the CGI user
- interface.
- Notes:
- If both admin-address and proxy-info-url are unset, the whole
- "Local Privoxy Support" box on all generated pages will not
- be shown.
- hareidi
admin-address webmaster@hareidi.org
- 1.4. proxy-info-url
- ===================
- Specifies:
- A URL to documentation about the local Privoxy setup,
- configuration or policies.
- Type of value:
- URL
- Default value:
- Unset
- Effect if unset:
- No link to local documentation is displayed on error pages and
- the CGI user interface.
- Notes:
- If both admin-address and proxy-info-url are unset, the whole
- "Local Privoxy Support" box on all generated pages will not
- be shown.
- This URL shouldn't be blocked ;-)
- hareidi
proxy-info-url http://www.hareidi.org/en/index.php/Proxy Service
- 2. CONFIGURATION AND LOG FILE LOCATIONS
- =======================================
- Privoxy can (and normally does) use a number of other files for
- additional configuration, help and logging. This section of the
- configuration file tells Privoxy where to find those other files.
- The user running Privoxy, must have read permission for all
- configuration files, and write permission to any files that would
- be modified, such as log files and actions files.
- 2.1. confdir
- ============
- Specifies:
- The directory where the other configuration files are located
- Type of value:
- Path name
- Default value:
- /etc/privoxy (Unix) or Privoxy installation dir (Windows)
- Effect if unset:
- Mandatory
- Notes:
- No trailing "/", please
- When development goes modular and multi-user, the blocker,
- filter, and per-user config will be stored in subdirectories of
- "confdir". For now, the configuration directory structure is
- flat, except for confdir/templates, where the HTML templates
- for CGI output reside (e.g. Privoxy's 404 error page).
confdir .
- 2.2. logdir
- ===========
- Specifies:
- The directory where all logging takes place (i.e. where logfile
- and jarfile are located)
- Type of value:
- Path name
- Default value:
- /var/log/privoxy (Unix) or Privoxy installation dir (Windows)
- Effect if unset:
- Mandatory
- Notes:
- No trailing "/", please
logdir .
- 2.3. actionsfile
- ================
- Specifies:
- The actions file(s) to use
- Type of value:
- File name, relative to confdir, without the .action suffix
- Default values:
- standard # Internal purposes, no editing recommended
- default # Main actions file
- user # User customizations
- Effect if unset:
- No actions are taken at all. Simple neutral proxying.
- Notes:
- Multiple actionsfile lines are permitted, and are in fact
- recommended!
- The default values include standard.action, which is used
- for internal purposes and should be loaded, default.action,
- which is the "main" actions file maintained by the developers,
- and user.action, where you can make your personal additions.
- Actions files are where all the per site and per URL
- configuration is done for ad blocking, cookie management,
- privacy considerations, etc. There is no point in using Privoxy
- without at least one actions file.
actionsfile standard # Internal purpose, recommended actionsfile default # Main actions file actionsfile user # User customizations
- 2.4. filterfile
- ===============
- Specifies:
- The filter file(s) to use
- Type of value:
- File name, relative to confdir
- Default value:
- default.filter (Unix) or default.filter.txt (Windows)
- Effect if unset:
- No textual content filtering takes place, i.e. all +filter{name}
- actions in the actions files are turned neutral.
- Notes:
- Multiple filterfile lines are permitted.
- The filter files contain content modification rules that use
- regular expressions. These rules permit powerful changes on
- the content of Web pages, and optionally the headers as well,
- e.g., you could disable your favorite JavaScript annoyances,
- re-write the actual displayed text, or just have some fun
- playing buzzword bingo with web pages.
- The +filter{name} actions rely on the relevant filter (name)
- to be defined in a filter file!
- A pre-defined filter file called default.filter that contains a
- number of useful filters for common problems is included in the
- distribution. See the section on the filter action for a list.
- It is recommended to place any locally adapted filters into a
- separate file, such as user.filter.
filterfile default.filter
- filterfile user.filter # User customizations
- 2.5. logfile
- ============
- Specifies:
- The log file to use
- Type of value:
- File name, relative to logdir
- Default value:
- logfile (Unix) or privoxy.log (Windows)
- Effect if unset:
- No log file is used, all log messages go to the console (STDERR).
- Notes:
- The logfile is where all logging and error messages are
- written. The level of detail and number of messages are set with
- the debug option (see below). The logfile can be useful for
- tracking down a problem with Privoxy (e.g., it's not blocking
- an ad you think it should block) but in most cases you probably
- will never look at it.
- Your logfile will grow indefinitely, and you will probably
- want to periodically remove it. On Unix systems, you can do
- this with a cron job (see "man cron"). For Red Hat, a logrotate
- script has been included.
- On SuSE Linux systems, you can place a line like
- "/var/log/privoxy.* +1024k 644 nobody.nogroup" in /etc/logfiles,
- with the effect that cron.daily will automatically archive,
- gzip, and empty the log, when it exceeds 1M size.
- Any log files must be writable by whatever user Privoxy is
- being run as (default on UNIX, user id is "privoxy").
logfile privoxy.log
- 2.6. jarfile
- ============
- Specifies:
- The file to store intercepted cookies in
- Type of value:
- File name, relative to logdir
- Default value:
- Unset (commented out). When activated: jarfile (Unix) or
- privoxy.jar (Windows)
- Effect if unset:
- Intercepted cookies are not stored in a dedicated log file.
- Notes:
- The jarfile may grow to ridiculous sizes over time.
- If debug 8 (show header parsing) is enabled, cookies are written
- to the logfile with the rest of the headers.
- jarfile jar.log
- 2.7. trustfile
- ==============
- Specifies:
- The trust file to use
- Type of value:
- File name, relative to confdir
- Default value:
- Unset (commented out). When activated: trust (Unix) or trust.txt
- (Windows)
- Effect if unset:
- The entire trust mechanism is turned off.
- Notes:
- The trust mechanism is an experimental feature for building
- white-lists and should be used with care. It is NOT recommended
- for the casual user.
- If you specify a trust file, Privoxy will only allow access to
- sites that are specified in the trustfile. Sites can be listed
- in one of two ways:
- Prepending a ~ character limits access to this site only (and
- any sub-paths within this site), e.g. ~www.example.com.
- Or, you can designate sites as trusted referrers, by prepending
- the name with a + character. The effect is that access to
- untrusted sites will be granted -- but only if a link from this
- trusted referrer was used. The link target will then be added
- to the "trustfile" so that future, direct accesses will be
- granted. Sites added via this mechanism do not become trusted
- referrers themselves (i.e. they are added with a ~ designation).
- If you use the + operator in the trust file, it may grow
- considerably over time.
- It is recommended that Privoxy be compiled with the
- --disable-force, --disable-toggle and --disable-editor options,
- if this feature is to be used.
- Possible applications include limiting Internet access for
- children.
- hareidi
trustfile trust.txt
- 3. DEBUGGING
- ============
- These options are mainly useful when tracing a problem. Note that
- you might also want to invoke Privoxy with the --no-daemon command
- line option when debugging.
- 3.1. debug
- ==========
- Specifies:
- Key values that determine what information gets logged to
- the logfile.
- Type of value:
- Integer values
- Default value:
- 12289 (i.e.: URLs plus informational and warning messages)
- Effect if unset:
- Nothing gets logged.
- Notes:
- The available debug levels are:
- debug 1 # show each GET/POST/CONNECT request
- debug 2 # show each connection status
- debug 4 # show I/O status
- debug 8 # show header parsing
- debug 16 # log all data into the logfile
- debug 32 # debug force feature
- debug 64 # debug regular expression filter
- debug 128 # debug fast redirects
- debug 256 # debug GIF de-animation
- debug 512 # Common Log Format
- debug 1024 # debug kill pop-ups
- debug 2048 # CGI user interface
- debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings.
- debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors
- To select multiple debug levels, you can either add them or
- use multiple debug lines.
- A debug level of 1 is informative because it will show you each
- request as it happens. 1, 4096 and 8192 are highly recommended
- so that you will notice when things go wrong. The other levels
- are probably only of interest if you are hunting down a specific
- problem. They can produce a hell of an output (especially 16).
- The reporting of fatal errors (i.e. ones which crash Privoxy)
- is always on and cannot be disabled.
- If you want to use CLF (Common Log Format), you should set
- "debug 512" ONLY and not enable anything else.
debug 32 # debug force feature debug 512 # Common Log Format debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings debug 8192 # Errors - *we highly recommended enabling this*
- 3.2. single-threaded
- ====================
- Specifies:
- Whether to run only one server thread
- Type of value:
- None
- Default value:
- Unset
- Effect if unset:
- Multi-threaded (or, where unavailable: forked) operation,
- i.e. the ability to serve multiple requests simultaneously.
- Notes:
- This option is only there for debug purposes and you should
- never need to use it. It will drastically reduce performance.
- single-threaded
- 4. ACCESS CONTROL AND SECURITY
- ==============================
- This section of the config file controls the security-relevant
- aspects of Privoxy's configuration.
- 4.1. listen-address
- ===================
- Specifies:
- The IP address and TCP port on which Privoxy will listen for
- client requests.
- Type of value:
- [IP-Address]:Port
- Default value:
- 127.0.0.1:8118
- Effect if unset:
- Bind to 127.0.0.1 (localhost), port 8118. This is suitable and
- recommended for home users who run Privoxy on the same machine
- as their browser.
- Notes:
- You will need to configure your browser(s) to this proxy address
- and port.
- If you already have another service running on port 8118, or
- if you want to serve requests from other machines (e.g. on your
- local network) as well, you will need to override the default.
- If you leave out the IP address, Privoxy will bind to all
- interfaces (addresses) on your machine and may become reachable
- from the Internet. In that case, consider using access control
- lists (ACL's, see below), and/or a firewall.
- If you open Privoxy to untrusted users, you will also want
- to turn off the enable-edit-actions and enable-remote-toggle
- options!
- Example:
- Suppose you are running Privoxy on a machine which has the
- address 192.168.0.1 on your local private network (192.168.0.0)
- and has another outside connection with a different address. You
- want it to serve requests from inside only:
- listen-address 192.168.0.1:8118
- hareidi
listen-address :8080
- 4.2. toggle
- ===========
- Specifies:
- Initial state of "toggle" status
- Type of value:
- 1 or 0
- Default value:
- 1
- Effect if unset:
- Act as if toggled on
- Notes:
- If set to 0, Privoxy will start in "toggled off" mode,
- i.e. behave like a normal, content-neutral proxy where all ad
- blocking, filtering, etc are disabled. See enable-remote-toggle
- below. This is not really useful anymore, since toggling is
- much easier via the web interface than via editing the conf file.
- The windows version will only display the toggle icon in the
- system tray if this option is present.
toggle 1
- 4.3. enable-remote-toggle
- =========================
- Specifies:
- Whether or not the web-based toggle feature may be used
- Type of value:
- 0 or 1
- Default value:
- 1
- Effect if unset:
- The web-based toggle feature is disabled.
- Notes:
- When toggled off, Privoxy acts like a normal, content-neutral
- proxy, i.e. it acts as if none of the actions applied to
- any URL.
- For the time being, access to the toggle feature can not be
- controlled separately by "ACLs" or HTTP authentication, so that
- everybody who can access Privoxy (see "ACLs" and listen-address
- above) can toggle it for all users. So this option is not
- recommended for multi-user environments with untrusted users.
- Note that you must have compiled Privoxy with support for this
- feature, otherwise this option has no effect.
- hareidi
enable-remote-toggle 0
- 4.4. enable-remote-http-toggle
- ==============================
- Specifies:
- Whether or not Privoxy recognizes special HTTP headers to change
- its behaviour.
- Type of value:
- 0 or 1
- Default value:
- 1
- Effect if unset:
- Privoxy ignores special HTTP headers.
- Notes:
- When toggled on, the client can change Privoxy's behaviour by
- setting special HTTP headers. Currently the only supported
- special header is "X-Filter: No", to disable filtering for
- the ongoing request, even if it is enabled in one of the
- action files.
- If you are using Privoxy in a multi-user environment or with
- untrustworthy clients and want to enforce filtering, you will
- have to disable this option, otherwise you can ignore it.
enable-remote-http-toggle 1
- 4.5. enable-edit-actions
- ========================
- Specifies:
- Whether or not the web-based actions file editor may be used
- Type of value:
- 0 or 1
- Default value:
- 1
- Effect if unset:
- The web-based actions file editor is disabled.
- Notes:
- For the time being, access to the editor can not be controlled
- separately by "ACLs" or HTTP authentication, so that everybody
- who can access Privoxy (see "ACLs" and listen-address above)
- can modify its configuration for all users. So this option is
- not recommended for multi-user environments with untrusted users.
- Note that you must have compiled Privoxy with support for this
- feature, otherwise this option has no effect.
enable-edit-actions 1
- 4.6. ACLs: permit-access and deny-access
- ========================================
- Specifies:
- Who can access what.
- Type of value:
- src_addr[/src_masklen] [dst_addr[/dst_masklen]]
- Where src_addr and dst_addr are IP addresses in dotted decimal
- notation or valid DNS names, and src_masklen and dst_masklen are
- subnet masks in CIDR notation, i.e. integer values from 2 to 30
- representing the length (in bits) of the network address. The
- masks and the whole destination part are optional.
- Default value:
- Unset
- Effect if unset:
- Don't restrict access further than implied by listen-address
- Notes:
- Access controls are included at the request of ISPs and systems
- administrators, and are not usually needed by individual
- users. For a typical home user, it will normally suffice to
- ensure that Privoxy only listens on the localhost (127.0.0.1)
- or internal (home) network address by means of the listen-address
- option.
- Please see the warnings in the FAQ that this proxy is not
- intended to be a substitute for a firewall or to encourage
- anyone to defer addressing basic security weaknesses.
- Multiple ACL lines are OK. If any ACLs are specified, then
- the Privoxy talks only to IP addresses that match at least one
- permit-access line and don't match any subsequent deny-access
- line. In other words, the last match wins, with the default
- being deny-access.
- If Privoxy is using a forwarder (see forward below) for a
- particular destination URL, the dst_addr that is examined is
- the address of the forwarder and NOT the address of the ultimate
- target. This is necessary because it may be impossible for the
- local Privoxy to determine the IP address of the ultimate target
- (that's often what gateways are used for).
- You should prefer using IP addresses over DNS names, because
- the address lookups take time. All DNS names must resolve! You
- can not use domain patterns like "*.org" or partial domain
- names. If a DNS name resolves to multiple IP addresses, only
- the first one is used.
- Denying access to particular sites by ACL may have undesired
- side effects if the site in question is hosted on a machine
- which also hosts other sites.
- Examples:
- Explicitly define the default behavior if no ACL and
- listen-address are set: "localhost" is OK. The absence of a
- dst_addr implies that all destination addresses are OK:
- permit-access localhost
- Allow any host on the same class C subnet as www.privoxy.org
- access to nothing but www.example.com:
- permit-access www.privoxy.org/24 www.example.com/32
- Allow access from any host on the 26-bit subnet 192.168.45.64
- to anywhere, with the exception that 192.168.45.73 may not
- access www.dirty-stuff.example.com:
- permit-access 192.168.45.64/26
- deny-access 192.168.45.73 www.dirty-stuff.example.com
- hareidi
permit-access 192.168.0.1/24 permit-access 127.0.0.1
- 4.7. buffer-limit
- =================
- Specifies:
- Maximum size of the buffer for content filtering.
- Type of value:
- Size in Kbytes
- Default value:
- 4096
- Effect if unset:
- Use a 4MB (4096 KB) limit.
- Notes:
- For content filtering, i.e. the +filter and +deanimate-gif
- actions, it is necessary that Privoxy buffers the entire document
- body. This can be potentially dangerous, since a server could
- just keep sending data indefinitely and wait for your RAM to
- exhaust -- with nasty consequences. Hence this option.
- When a document buffer size reaches the buffer-limit, it is
- flushed to the client unfiltered and no further attempt to filter
- the rest of the document is made. Remember that there may be
- multiple threads running, which might require up to buffer-limit
- Kbytes each, unless you have enabled "single-threaded" above.
buffer-limit 4096
- 5. FORWARDING
- =============
- This feature allows routing of HTTP requests through a chain
- of multiple proxies. It can be used to better protect privacy
- and confidentiality when accessing specific domains by routing
- requests to those domains through an anonymous public proxy.
- Or to use a caching proxy to speed up browsing. Or chaining to
- a parent proxy may be necessary because the machine that Privoxy
- runs on has no direct Internet access.
- Also specified here are SOCKS proxies. Privoxy supports the SOCKS
- 4 and SOCKS 4A protocols.
- 5.1. forward
- ============
- Specifies:
- To which parent HTTP proxy specific requests should be routed.
- Type of value:
- target_pattern http_parent[:port]
- where target_pattern is a URL pattern that specifies to which
- requests (i.e. URLs) this forward rule shall apply. Use /
- to denote "all URLs". http_parent[:port] is the DNS name or
- IP address of the parent HTTP proxy through which the requests
- should be forwarded, optionally followed by its listening port
- (default: 8080). Use a single dot (.) to denote "no forwarding".
- Default value:
- Unset
- Effect if unset:
- Don't use parent HTTP proxies.
- Notes:
- If http_parent is ".", then requests are not forwarded to
- another HTTP proxy but are made directly to the web servers.
- Multiple lines are OK, they are checked in sequence, and the
- last match wins.
- Examples:
- Everything goes to an example anonymizing proxy, except SSL on
- port 443 (which it doesn't handle):
- forward / anon-proxy.example.org:8080
- forward :443 .
- Everything goes to our example ISP's caching proxy, except for
- requests to that ISP's sites:
- forward / caching-proxy.example-isp.net:8000
- forward .example-isp.net .
- 5.2. forward-socks4 and forward-socks4a
- =======================================
- Specifies:
- Through which SOCKS proxy (and to which parent HTTP proxy)
- specific requests should be routed.
- Type of value:
- target_pattern socks_proxy[:port] http_parent[:port]
- where target_pattern is a URL pattern that specifies to which
- requests (i.e. URLs) this forward rule shall apply. Use / to
- denote "all URLs". http_parent and socks_proxy are IP addresses
- in dotted decimal notation or valid DNS names (http_parent may
- be "." to denote "no HTTP forwarding"), and the optional port
- parameters are TCP ports, i.e. integer values from 1 to 64535
- Default value:
- Unset
- Effect if unset:
- Don't use SOCKS proxies.
- Notes:
- Multiple lines are OK, they are checked in sequence, and the
- last match wins.
- The difference between forward-socks4 and forward-socks4a
- is that in the SOCKS 4A protocol, the DNS resolution of the
- target hostname happens on the SOCKS server, while in SOCKS 4
- it happens locally.
- If http_parent is ".", then requests are not forwarded to another
- HTTP proxy but are made (HTTP-wise) directly to the web servers,
- albeit through a SOCKS proxy.
- Examples:
- From the company example.com, direct connections are made to all
- "internal" domains, but everything outbound goes through their
- ISP's proxy by way of example.com's corporate SOCKS 4A gateway
- to the Internet.
- forward-socks4a / socks-gw.example.com:1080 www-cache.example-isp.net:8080
- forward .example.com .
- A rule that uses a SOCKS 4 gateway for all destinations but no
- HTTP parent looks like this:
- forward-socks4 / socks-gw.example.com:1080 .
- To chain Privoxy and Tor, both running on the same system,
- you should use the rule:
- forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
- The public Tor network can't be used to reach your local network,
- therefore it's a good idea to make some exceptions:
- forward 192.168.*.*/ .
- forward 10.*.*.*/ .
- forward 127.*.*.*/ .
- Unencrypted connections to systems in these address ranges will
- be as (un)secure as the local network is, but the alternative is
- that you can't reach the network at all.
- If you also want to be able to reach servers in your local
- network by using their names, you will need additional
- exceptions that look like this:
- forward localhost/ .
- 5.3. forwarded-connect-retries
- ==============================
- Specifies:
- How often Privoxy retries if a forwarded connection request
- fails.
- Type of value:
- Number of retries.
- Default value:
- 0
- Effect if unset:
- Forwarded connections are treated like direct connections and
- no retry attempts are made.
- Notes:
- forwarded-connect-retries is mainly interesting for socks4a
- connections, where Privoxy can't detect why the connections
- failed. The connection might have failed because of a DNS timeout
- in which case a retry makes sense, but it might also have failed
- because the server doesn't exist or isn't reachable. In this
- case the retry will just delay the appearance of Privoxy's
- error message.
- Only use this option, if you are getting many forwarding related
- error messages, that go away when you try again manually. Start
- with a small value and check Privoxy's logfile from time to time,
- to see how many retries are usually needed.
- Examples:
- forwarded-connect-retries 1
forwarded-connect-retries 0
- 6. WINDOWS GUI OPTIONS
- ======================
- Privoxy has a number of options specific to the Windows GUI
- interface:
- If "activity-animation" is set to 1, the Privoxy icon will animate
- when "Privoxy" is active. To turn off, set to 0.
- activity-animation 1
- If "log-messages" is set to 1, Privoxy will log messages to the
- console window:
- log-messages 1
- If "log-buffer-size" is set to 1, the size of the log buffer,
- i.e. the amount of memory used for the log messages displayed in
- the console window, will be limited to "log-max-lines" (see below).
- Warning: Setting this to 0 will result in the buffer to grow
- infinitely and eat up all your memory!
- log-buffer-size 1
- log-max-lines is the maximum number of lines held in the log
- buffer. See above.
- log-max-lines 200
- If "log-highlight-messages" is set to 1, Privoxy will highlight
- portions of the log messages with a bold-faced font:
- log-highlight-messages 1
- The font used in the console window:
- log-font-name Comic Sans MS
- Font size used in the console window:
- log-font-size 8
- "show-on-task-bar" controls whether or not Privoxy will appear as
- a button on the Task bar when minimized:
- show-on-task-bar 0
- If "close-button-minimizes" is set to 1, the Windows close button
- will minimize Privoxy instead of closing the program (close with
- the exit option on the File menu).
- close-button-minimizes 1
- The "hide-console" option is specific to the MS-Win console version
- of Privoxy. If this option is used, Privoxy will disconnect from
- and hide the command console.
- hide-console