'[privoxy-users] [ ijbswa-Support Requests-1946769 ] Some filters'

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Subject:    [privoxy-users] [ ijbswa-Support Requests-1946769 ] Some filters
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Date:       2008-04-19 22:58:41
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Support Requests item #1946769, was opened at 2008-04-19 10:50
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Category: filters
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Status: Closed
Priority: 4
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Submitted By: Scott (flarch)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Some filters don't work...

Initial Comment:
...and several Privoxy Utility 1.1 doesn't show documents!

I'm on a Mac Pro under Leopard 10.5.2 with Privoxy 3.0.8-2.  I use various browsers \
at times but mostly Camino 1.5.5 (technically 1.6.1pre nightlies) Others would be \
Safari 3.1 and FireFox 2.0.0.13 (Technically Bon Echo compiled for Intel Macs \
{Elfurbe})

I installed 3.0.8-2 and Privoxy Utility will start & stop the proxy, but under the \
"Configuration" tab, the menu ONLY shows the 'Config' file, excluding 'user.filter' \
and 'user.action'. The menu under the "Logs" tab is always empty, preventing me from \
examining any of them.

I have to edit the filter and action files with a text editor and authenticate with \
an admin password every time i save the files.

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I'm on Yahoo quite a lot so i have 'Site Specifics' and 'Yahoo' filters turned on for \
that domain. They rarely do anything.  It's NOT because the CSS is out of date for \
the site, necessarily.  It doesn't get that far.  The CSS isn't being inserted in the \
first place!

s@</head>@...  type of matches aren't matching anything on 99% of the pages i visit, \
nor are any possible variants i try.

I've consulted different people, REGEX documentation, the horrible, outdated Privoxy \
documentation, and used REGEX testing programs and though i create filters that seem \
as if they should work, they don't. I've noted the Yahoo filter is intended to insert \
CSS code right before the </head> tag.  After quite a lot of testing it, and creating \
several similarly structured filters to attempt to locate the problem, i've gotten \
nowhere.

In fact, i've tried creating a simple filter to add "- Privoxy" to the page title, \
and to insert comments at other points in _ANY_ web page just for testing. I've also \
tried creating some other filters of my own.

I'm no PERLRE expert but i'm no newbie, and the same is true of web page construction \
and function. I'm finding it practically impossible to create filters that actually \
find a match.

The relatively useless Privoxy URL lookup GUI page can show matches on URL's and test \
software can show matches using similar filters with large sample site texts yet in \
Privoxy they JUST * DON'T * WORK!

I'm spending more time fighting Privoxy than taking care of actual business on the \
web, regardless of which browser i use and whether it has it's own proxy settings or \
uses the OS X settings!

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> Comment By: mark miller (markm68k)
Date: 2008-04-19 15:58

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flarch,

check your "config" file and uncomment any of the following lines in order
for the Privoxy Utility to recognize the "user.action", "user.filter"  and
log files.  the results should be that they appear as follows:

actionsfile user.action      # User customizations
filterfile user.filter      # User customizations
logfile logfile.log



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Comment By: Hal Burgiss (hal9)
Date: 2008-04-19 15:39

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PS - The issue with prevent-compression is that there is a zlib compile
time option available. I don't know if any of the packages include this (I
don't think so), but definitely some are using it. So if all the filters
disable compression, it works against these users. I suspect zlib
compression will be included by default in the next release.

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Comment By: Hal Burgiss (hal9)
Date: 2008-04-19 15:14

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I am going to go ahead and close this one, and suggest you open a second
ticket on the editing thing. Its really two distinct problems. The other is
probably an OSX specific issue and probably needs to catch Mark's
attention.

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Comment By: Scott (flarch)
Date: 2008-04-19 14:55

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Oops.

Wasn't quite finished.  I still don't know why Privoxy Utility 1.1 doesn't
allow me to view or edit my documents.

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Comment By: Scott (flarch)
Date: 2008-04-19 14:52

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Aaargh!
I thought i'd tried that, or had it on!

THANKS! and pardon the gripes.


It seems a wee bit peculiar that the default filtering for Yahoo leaves
compression on so the filters can't work.  :o/

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Comment By: Hal Burgiss (hal9)
Date: 2008-04-19 11:14

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Every time the "sometimes my filters work and sometimes they don't", its
this item in the horrible documentation:
http://www.privoxy.org/faq/trouble.html#PREVENTCOMP.

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