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[ ijbswa-Bugs-3487350 ] Unsafe uninstall deletion

SourceForge.net — 2012-05-25T04:11:14

Bugs item #3487350, was opened at 2012-02-13 09:48
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Category: windows-specific
Group: version 3.0.19
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: 4h34d ()
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Unsafe uninstall deletion

Initial Comment:
Hi,

I had issues running Privoxy out of the box on Windows 7 using the default Program Files (x86) folder. So I decided to install it in My Documents. Unfortunately, I forgot to put Privoxy as the last directoy in the installation path, so I ended up using something like C:\Users\Username\My Documents. A few minutes after, I realized the files where in the latter directory, so I ran the uninstall file and... everything is gone, no way to recover anything :( Now I just hope I haven't lost so much...

I know it was my mistake to install Privoxy in the wrong directory but still I don't think it should assume to delete the whole installation directory (at least not without checking that the directory is empty), but rather just it's internal files and directories (some kind of whitelist deleting?).

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Comment By: Lee (ler762)
Date: 2012-05-24 21:11

Message:
Yes, the current uninstall behavior is extremely poor - no checks at all,
just:
RMDir /r "$SMPROGRAMS\Privoxy"
RMDir /r "$INSTDIR"

Unfortunately, this is probably going to be one of those
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC situations.  The NSIS script language is a
real pain to figure out.

Sorry.


I doubt it - windows users want to be able to install over an existing
installation.  There was at least one person who contributed patches for
the installer to get the behavior they desired..

Lee


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Comment By: Adam Piggott (proactivesvcs)
Date: 2012-02-21 08:54

Message:
<a href="http://www.handyrecovery.com/handyrecovery-fw.exe">Handy
Recovery</a> may help you get back the deleted files. Make sure you
download it, and install, to a USB stick or drive other than C:.

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Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2012-02-13 12:05

Message:
Thanks a lot for the report. I'm sorry for your loss.

The described behavior seems surprising and non-intuitive to me, too.

I don't know what best-practices for a deinstaller on Windows are, but on
FreeBSD deinstalling a package is not supposed to remove any files or
directories unless they have been created by the package in question and
their content hasn't been modified later on.

This means that for example a modified Privoxy config file and the log file
should survive the deinstallation.

I do not know how much work implementing something similar for the Windows
packages would be, but it probably isn't trivial. Preventing the
installation into an already existing directory might be a workaround.

Lee, can you comment on this?

If the current behavior has to be kept, the installer and the documentation
should probably at least warn about it.

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[ ijbswa-Bugs-3525694 ] Disabling Privoxy viaright-click on tasktray icon hangs Pri

SourceForge.net — 2012-05-25T03:27:09

Bugs item #3525694, was opened at 2012-05-10 18:49
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Category: windows-specific
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Tim H (thubb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Disabling Privoxy via right-click on tasktray icon hangs Pri

Initial Comment:
Privoxy very occasionally fatally hangs when it is disabled via right-clicking on the tasktray icon and unchecking "Enable".
CPU time drops to zero and there is no further response to right-clicks. Any communication in progress is interrupted. The only resolution is to kill the process.

I've had this happen twice since I upgraded to 3.0.19 on 2012-04-03. I disable/enable Privoxy frequently as my filters intentionally strip features of some sites that I occasionally need to re-enable. There is no information in the Privoxy log or system event log. I use both Chrome and Seamonkey as browsers and both were in use at the time of the failure. I also had several tabs open in each browser so I don't know which site was actually being accessed at the time. Killing the process appears to keep the final log entries from being flushed to the disk since the last entry in the Privoxy log is from over 10 minutes prior to the hang.

Sorry I can't give any more information. Is there something you'd like me to do if it happens again? Would you like me to upload my config & user files?

Privoxy version 3.0.19
Windows XP Pro SP3
External router and switch in use
Avast anti-virus


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Comment By: Lee (ler762)
Date: 2012-05-24 20:27

Message:
Have you tried not having the wget background process running every 3
minutes?

I can't duplicate your problem on Vista .. tried toggling it off & on
manually more than 20 times and no problem.  Ran this script using cygwin
  -------- begin ----------
#!/bin/sh
while [ "1" == "1" ]; do
curl -q --proxy 127.0.0.1:8118 --referer http://config.privoxy.org/toggle
--silent \
       http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=disable > /dev/null
curl -q --proxy 127.0.0.1:8118 --referer http://config.privoxy.org/toggle
--silent \
       http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=enable  > /dev/null
done
------ end --------

while browsing yahoo.com - still no problem.


Here's the config I used for testing:

The following options were given in the config file:

user-manual ./doc/user-manual/
forward / .
forward 10.*.*.*/ .
forward 127.*.*.*/ .
forward 192.168.*.*/ .
confdir .
logdir c:\temp
actionsfile match-all.action
actionsfile default.action
actionsfile user.action
actionsfile blocksites.action
actionsfile malwareSites.action
actionsfile spw.action
actionsfile winhelp.action
actionsfile unblock.action
filterfile default.filter
filterfile user.filter
logfile privoxy.log
debug 1
debug 1024
debug 4096
debug 8192
listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118
toggle 1
enable-remote-toggle 1
enable-remote-http-toggle 0
enable-edit-actions 1
enforce-blocks 0
buffer-limit 4096
forwarded-connect-retries 0
accept-intercepted-requests 0
allow-cgi-request-crunching 0
split-large-forms 0
keep-alive-timeout 600
default-server-timeout 300
connection-sharing 0
socket-timeout 300
max-client-connections 256
handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok 1
log-max-lines 1000
log-font-name Courier New
log-font-size 9

Regards,
Lee


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Comment By: Tim H (thubb)
Date: 2012-05-23 00:16

Message:
'...can still reproduce the problem after setting "activity-animation 0".'

Yes, I can still reproduce it by right-clicking the tray icon and toggling
the enable state. It typically takes less than 20 right-clicks for it to
happen on my system. Note that a right-click forces the icon to update even
with activity animation off. Also note that the HTTP toggle request does
not get an "Info: Now toggled xxx." log entry while the right-click toggle
does (if that helps).

I've sent a new link to the files by email. This link is only valid until
2012-06-05.

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Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2012-05-18 08:30

Message:
https://skydrive.live.com/ doesn't work with my browser configuration so I
wasn't able to access the config files or the script used to reproduce the
problem.

Anyway, it would be useful to know if you can still reproduce the problem
after setting "activity-animation 0".

If you can't, this could indicate a race condition that should be fixable
without requiring a deeper understanding of the win32 API.

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Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2012-05-11 11:26

Message:
Thanks for the report.

If you have logging enabled, toggling Privoxy off through the taskbar is
supposed to result in a "Now toggled OFF" log message.

Do you never get those, or just not when Privoxy is hanging?

It seems unlikely to me that log messages from 10 minutes ago would be lost
on exit. A more likely explanation would be that there simply are no log
messages (either because there was no log-worthy event, or because the
problem affects logging as well).

Is the GUI log not generally in sync with the logfile on disk?

Can you reproduce the problem by running wget in a loop to toggle Privoxy
on and off through the remote toggle?
http://config.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE
This would rule out a bug in Privoxy's Windows-specific code.

While I expect this to be a bug in the Windows-specific code, it would
still be good to rule out a platform-independent bug which would be a lot
easier to debug.

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Comment By: Tim H (thubb)
Date: 2012-05-10 19:00

Message:
I also have a background process that runs every 3 minutes (to issue an
audio warning if Privoxy is disabled) and executes these commands (and
more) in a Cygwin Bash script:

http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118
wget --proxy -q -O - http://config.privoxy.org/  | ...


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[ ijbswa-Bugs-3525694 ] Disabling Privoxy viaright-click on tasktray icon hangs Pri

SourceForge.net — 2012-05-23T07:16:36

Bugs item #3525694, was opened at 2012-05-10 18:49
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Category: windows-specific
Group: None
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Tim H (thubb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Disabling Privoxy via right-click on tasktray icon hangs Pri

Initial Comment:
Privoxy very occasionally fatally hangs when it is disabled via right-clicking on the tasktray icon and unchecking "Enable".
CPU time drops to zero and there is no further response to right-clicks. Any communication in progress is interrupted. The only resolution is to kill the process.

I've had this happen twice since I upgraded to 3.0.19 on 2012-04-03. I disable/enable Privoxy frequently as my filters intentionally strip features of some sites that I occasionally need to re-enable. There is no information in the Privoxy log or system event log. I use both Chrome and Seamonkey as browsers and both were in use at the time of the failure. I also had several tabs open in each browser so I don't know which site was actually being accessed at the time. Killing the process appears to keep the final log entries from being flushed to the disk since the last entry in the Privoxy log is from over 10 minutes prior to the hang.

Sorry I can't give any more information. Is there something you'd like me to do if it happens again? Would you like me to upload my config & user files?

Privoxy version 3.0.19
Windows XP Pro SP3
External router and switch in use
Avast anti-virus


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Date: 2012-05-23 00:16

Message:
'...can still reproduce the problem after setting "activity-animation 0".'

Yes, I can still reproduce it by right-clicking the tray icon and toggling
the enable state. It typically takes less than 20 right-clicks for it to
happen on my system. Note that a right-click forces the icon to update even
with activity animation off. Also note that the HTTP toggle request does
not get an "Info: Now toggled xxx." log entry while the right-click toggle
does (if that helps).

I've sent a new link to the files by email. This link is only valid until
2012-06-05.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2012-05-18 08:30

Message:
https://skydrive.live.com/ doesn't work with my browser configuration so I
wasn't able to access the config files or the script used to reproduce the
problem.

Anyway, it would be useful to know if you can still reproduce the problem
after setting "activity-animation 0".

If you can't, this could indicate a race condition that should be fixable
without requiring a deeper understanding of the win32 API.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2012-05-11 11:26

Message:
Thanks for the report.

If you have logging enabled, toggling Privoxy off through the taskbar is
supposed to result in a "Now toggled OFF" log message.

Do you never get those, or just not when Privoxy is hanging?

It seems unlikely to me that log messages from 10 minutes ago would be lost
on exit. A more likely explanation would be that there simply are no log
messages (either because there was no log-worthy event, or because the
problem affects logging as well).

Is the GUI log not generally in sync with the logfile on disk?

Can you reproduce the problem by running wget in a loop to toggle Privoxy
on and off through the remote toggle?
http://config.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE
This would rule out a bug in Privoxy's Windows-specific code.

While I expect this to be a bug in the Windows-specific code, it would
still be good to rule out a platform-independent bug which would be a lot
easier to debug.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Tim H (thubb)
Date: 2012-05-10 19:00

Message:
I also have a background process that runs every 3 minutes (to issue an
audio warning if Privoxy is disabled) and executes these commands (and
more) in a Cygwin Bash script:

http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118
wget --proxy -q -O - http://config.privoxy.org/  | ...


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[ ijbswa-Bugs-3528195 ] not found 404 logged as 200

SourceForge.net — 2012-05-19T08:39:29

Bugs item #3528195, was opened at 2012-05-19 01:39
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Category: other
Group: version 3.0.19
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: joe (lessthan16chars)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: not found 404 logged as 200

Initial Comment:
privoxy logs response code 200 ok
when server response code is 404 not found
but browser still sees 404 not found

reproduce:
make browser use privoxy as http proxy;
request eg http://www.heise.de/gaga (which delivers 404);

result:
server sends 404, privoxy logs 200, browser retrieves 404 header
127.0.0.1 - - [19/May/2012:10:18:57 +0200] "GET http://www.heise.de/gaga HTTP/1.1" 200 12702

expected behaviour:
privoxy logs 404

privoxy-3.0.19-stable-src.tar.gz
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/privoxy --docdir=/srv/privoxy --with-user=privoxy --with-group=privoxy
privoxy config setting debug=512
running on gentoo x86_64, version 2012-05-18
mailto: joe.knall at gmx.net

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[ ijbswa-Bugs-3525694 ] Disabling Privoxy viaright-click on tasktray icon hangs Pri

SourceForge.net — 2012-05-18T15:30:11

Bugs item #3525694, was opened at 2012-05-10 18:49
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Group: None
Status: Pending
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Tim H (thubb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Disabling Privoxy via right-click on tasktray icon hangs Pri

Initial Comment:
Privoxy very occasionally fatally hangs when it is disabled via right-clicking on the tasktray icon and unchecking "Enable".
CPU time drops to zero and there is no further response to right-clicks. Any communication in progress is interrupted. The only resolution is to kill the process.

I've had this happen twice since I upgraded to 3.0.19 on 2012-04-03. I disable/enable Privoxy frequently as my filters intentionally strip features of some sites that I occasionally need to re-enable. There is no information in the Privoxy log or system event log. I use both Chrome and Seamonkey as browsers and both were in use at the time of the failure. I also had several tabs open in each browser so I don't know which site was actually being accessed at the time. Killing the process appears to keep the final log entries from being flushed to the disk since the last entry in the Privoxy log is from over 10 minutes prior to the hang.

Sorry I can't give any more information. Is there something you'd like me to do if it happens again? Would you like me to upload my config & user files?

Privoxy version 3.0.19
Windows XP Pro SP3
External router and switch in use
Avast anti-virus


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Date: 2012-05-18 08:30

Message:
https://skydrive.live.com/ doesn't work with my browser configuration so I
wasn't able to access the config files or the script used to reproduce the
problem.

Anyway, it would be useful to know if you can still reproduce the problem
after setting "activity-animation 0".

If you can't, this could indicate a race condition that should be fixable
without requiring a deeper understanding of the win32 API.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2012-05-11 11:26

Message:
Thanks for the report.

If you have logging enabled, toggling Privoxy off through the taskbar is
supposed to result in a "Now toggled OFF" log message.

Do you never get those, or just not when Privoxy is hanging?

It seems unlikely to me that log messages from 10 minutes ago would be lost
on exit. A more likely explanation would be that there simply are no log
messages (either because there was no log-worthy event, or because the
problem affects logging as well).

Is the GUI log not generally in sync with the logfile on disk?

Can you reproduce the problem by running wget in a loop to toggle Privoxy
on and off through the remote toggle?
http://config.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE
This would rule out a bug in Privoxy's Windows-specific code.

While I expect this to be a bug in the Windows-specific code, it would
still be good to rule out a platform-independent bug which would be a lot
easier to debug.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Tim H (thubb)
Date: 2012-05-10 19:00

Message:
I also have a background process that runs every 3 minutes (to issue an
audio warning if Privoxy is disabled) and executes these commands (and
more) in a Cygwin Bash script:

http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118
wget --proxy -q -O - http://config.privoxy.org/  | ...


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[ ijbswa-Bugs-3525694 ] Disabling Privoxy viaright-click on tasktray icon hangs Pri

SourceForge.net — 2012-05-11T18:26:22

Bugs item #3525694, was opened at 2012-05-10 18:49
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Category: None
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Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Tim H (thubb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Disabling Privoxy via right-click on tasktray icon hangs Pri

Initial Comment:
Privoxy very occasionally fatally hangs when it is disabled via right-clicking on the tasktray icon and unchecking "Enable".
CPU time drops to zero and there is no further response to right-clicks. Any communication in progress is interrupted. The only resolution is to kill the process.

I've had this happen twice since I upgraded to 3.0.19 on 2012-04-03. I disable/enable Privoxy frequently as my filters intentionally strip features of some sites that I occasionally need to re-enable. There is no information in the Privoxy log or system event log. I use both Chrome and Seamonkey as browsers and both were in use at the time of the failure. I also had several tabs open in each browser so I don't know which site was actually being accessed at the time. Killing the process appears to keep the final log entries from being flushed to the disk since the last entry in the Privoxy log is from over 10 minutes prior to the hang.

Sorry I can't give any more information. Is there something you'd like me to do if it happens again? Would you like me to upload my config & user files?

Privoxy version 3.0.19
Windows XP Pro SP3
External router and switch in use
Avast anti-virus


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Date: 2012-05-11 11:26

Message:
Thanks for the report.

If you have logging enabled, toggling Privoxy off through the taskbar is
supposed to result in a "Now toggled OFF" log message.

Do you never get those, or just not when Privoxy is hanging?

It seems unlikely to me that log messages from 10 minutes ago would be lost
on exit. A more likely explanation would be that there simply are no log
messages (either because there was no log-worthy event, or because the
problem affects logging as well).

Is the GUI log not generally in sync with the logfile on disk?

Can you reproduce the problem by running wget in a loop to toggle Privoxy
on and off through the remote toggle?
http://config.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE
This would rule out a bug in Privoxy's Windows-specific code.

While I expect this to be a bug in the Windows-specific code, it would
still be good to rule out a platform-independent bug which would be a lot
easier to debug.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Tim H (thubb)
Date: 2012-05-10 19:00

Message:
I also have a background process that runs every 3 minutes (to issue an
audio warning if Privoxy is disabled) and executes these commands (and
more) in a Cygwin Bash script:

http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118
wget --proxy -q -O - http://config.privoxy.org/  | ...


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[ ijbswa-Bugs-3525694 ] Disabling Privoxy viaright-click on tasktray icon hangs Pri

SourceForge.net — 2012-05-11T02:00:03

Bugs item #3525694, was opened at 2012-05-10 18:49
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Tim H (thubb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)

Initial Comment:
Privoxy very occasionally fatally hangs when it is disabled via right-clicking on the tasktray icon and unchecking "Enable".
CPU time drops to zero and there is no further response to right-clicks. Any communication in progress is interrupted. The only resolution is to kill the process.

I've had this happen twice since I upgraded to 3.0.19 on 2012-04-03. I disable/enable Privoxy frequently as my filters intentionally strip features of some sites that I occasionally need to re-enable. There is no information in the Privoxy log or system event log. I use both Chrome and Seamonkey as browsers and both were in use at the time of the failure. I also had several tabs open in each browser so I don't know which site was actually being accessed at the time. Killing the process appears to keep the final log entries from being flushed to the disk since the last entry in the Privoxy log is from over 10 minutes prior to the hang.

Sorry I can't give any more information. Is there something you'd like me to do if it happens again? Would you like me to upload my config & user files?

Privoxy version 3.0.19
Windows XP Pro SP3
External router and switch in use
Avast anti-virus


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Date: 2012-05-10 19:00

Message:
I also have a background process that runs every 3 minutes (to issue an
audio warning if Privoxy is disabled) and executes these commands (and
more) in a Cygwin Bash script:

http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118
wget --proxy -q -O - http://config.privoxy.org/  | ...


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[ ijbswa-Bugs-3525694 ] Disabling Privoxy viaright-click on tasktray icon hangs

SourceForge.net — 2012-05-11T01:49:36

Bugs item #3525694, was opened at 2012-05-10 18:49
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Tim H (thubb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Disabling Privoxy via right-click on tasktray icon hangs

Initial Comment:
Privoxy very occasionally fatally hangs when it is disabled via right-clicking on the tasktray icon and unchecking "Enable".
CPU time drops to zero and there is no further response to right-clicks. Any communication in progress is interrupted. The only resolution is to kill the process.

I've had this happen twice since I upgraded to 3.0.19 on 2012-04-03. I disable/enable Privoxy frequently as my filters intentionally strip features of some sites that I occasionally need to re-enable. There is no information in the Privoxy log or system event log. I use both Chrome and Seamonkey as browsers and both were in use at the time of the failure. I also had several tabs open in each browser so I don't know which site was actually being accessed at the time. Killing the process appears to keep the final log entries from being flushed to the disk since the last entry in the Privoxy log is from over 10 minutes prior to the hang.

Sorry I can't give any more information. Is there something you'd like me to do if it happens again? Would you like me to upload my config & user files?

Privoxy version 3.0.19
Windows XP Pro SP3
External router and switch in use
Avast anti-virus

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[ ijbswa-Bugs-3525101 ] 3.0.19 rev 1 blocked Dropbox

SourceForge.net — 2012-05-09T13:08:40

Bugs item #3525101, was opened at 2012-05-09 06:08
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Category: macosx-specific
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Submitted By: cjpragman (cjpragman)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: 3.0.19 rev 1 blocked Dropbox

Initial Comment:
Mac OSX 10.7.3, Privoxy v 3.0.19 rev 1.
After upgrading Privoxy yesterday to 3.0.19 rev 1, I noticed that dropbox was showing as not connected o the server.  Looking in Console Log, I see the following messages...

5/8/12 10:40:03.975 PM Firewall: Deny privoxy connecting from 127.0.0.1:50695 to port 8118 proto=6
5/8/12 10:40:14.493 PM Firewall: Deny privoxy connecting from 127.0.0.1:50710 to port 8118 proto=6

I had to go to the computer's firewall settings in System Preferences -> Security, and manually add /opt/local/sbin/privoxy and tell it to allow incoming connections.
Never had to do this before, but now DropBox is working again.


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[ ijbswa-Actionsfile feedback-3522341 ] Falsepositive: /.*Bugtracker

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Date: 2012-04-29 09:20

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[ ijbswa-Actionsfile feedback-3522341 ] Falsepositive

SourceForge.net — 2012-04-29T04:12:00

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Summary: False positive

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Re: Privoxy

Fabian Keil — 2012-04-28T17:20:54


Patches welcome, for details please see my previous mail.


I'm already aware of those documents, GNU and the FSF
and I don't think our documentation violates any of their
guidelines.

Mentioning proprietary software seems to be fine by the FSF
as long as it can't be misinterpreted as a recommendation.
We don't recommend any specific operating system so I don't
see the problem.

Privoxy is also already listed in the "Free Software Directory"
operated by the FSF: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Privoxy
They even link to our documentation, which looks like an
approval to me.

Are you saying you understand their guidelines better
than they do themselves?

Fabian
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Re: Privoxy

David Schmidt — 2012-04-28T12:18:46

Paolo -

While your position is interesting and perhaps admirable, it not a 
position shared by the current (and, clearly, the past) Privoxy team. 
As is the case with any free-as-in-freedom software project, you are 
free to take it and change it in any way you see fit as long as it meets 
the requirements of the GPL.  You are even free to make your own 
distribution that makes no mention of non-gnu operating systems.  If you 
find it valuable - then spend your time on it.  Asking (and especially 
demanding) someone else to do it for you will get you precisely nowhere.

- David

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Re: Privoxy

paolo del bene — 2012-04-27T23:50:06

here you can find the attachment that is in my /etc/privoxy.

sincerely i don't underatand because is necessary to have a complete manual
for all the operating systems which are in the world, when i am using a
package *.deb and is not importanto to find in my own /etc/privoxy how to
use it on solaris, os, mac os x, windows....

if i am downloading a package *.deb i need that it is explained for GNU/linux
or other GNU'S Not Unix Projects. !

you speak about segragation, i speak about Freedom ! i invite to read
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html and
https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html

i hope that can be clear for you !

awaiting your reply,

happy hacking,

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Re: Creating an iPhone distribution

Fabian Keil — 2012-04-27T18:53:20


I see. Thanks for the clarification.

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Re: Privoxy

Fabian Keil — 2012-04-27T18:53:13

Note that we don't operate apt-get mirrors.

I don't know what inclusion policies your mirror operators use.

Because Privoxy is used on non-free operating systems as well.

It's not important but as long as it doesn't cause confusion I
don't consider it a problem. Also note that there are persons who
use Privoxy on more than a single operating system. Some of them
prefer a single Privoxy manual where they can skip the parts
they don't care about.

Most parts are relevant for all operating systems Privoxy runs on.
The exceptions should already clearly name the operating systems they
target.

I think a patch that simply removes documentation for supported
operating systems would be more appropriate for downstream
distributions that package Privoxy.

To solve the "problem" upstream would require a patch that allows
to optionally skip parts of the platform-specific documentation
when regenerating it.

If you feel strongly about this, feel free to submit one.

Why is this segregation important?

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Debian GNU/Hurd aren't actually
GNU/Linux distributions.

Also note that mentioning proprietary operating systems in the
documentation isn't forbidden by the Debian Free Software
Guidelines (http://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html),
so it's not clear to me which restrictions you are referring to.

None of these distributions are explicitly mentioned in the Privoxy
documentation anyway. Deleting the documentation for other platforms
will not solve this.

Patches welcome.

Don't hold your breath.

Fabian
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Re: Creating an iPhone distribution

Ian Silvester — 2012-04-27T18:16:43


Because the SDK itself doesn't contain any such scripts. I would need to develop the makefile, and installation is controlled by dpkg or apt (Cydia uses these to handle package management).


Yes I see what you're suggesting - I could have the launchd plist call such a script, which in turn calls privoxy. Thanks Fabian!


That's heartening! I'll design with this in mind.


That's what I thought you'd say ;o) Indeed, it is not wise.


Ah, I begin to comprehend the risk. Will not follow that route.


Thanks for this update and for your insights Fabian,

Ian





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Re: Creating an iPhone distribution

Fabian Keil — 2012-04-27T17:09:31

Assuming "iOS SDK" contains proprietary "scripts used to control
compilation and installation", I'm not sure I follow.

Quoting GPLv2 §3:
| For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code
| for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition
| files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation
| of the executable.
| However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need
| not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source
| or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so
| on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless
| that component itself accompanies the executable.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Why isn't that an obstruction for distributing Privoxy binaries for iOS?

In case of Privoxy's FreeBSD port, the rc script does a config file
check before starting Privoxy. If a required file does not exists,
the default file gets copied:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/privoxy/files/privoxy.in?rev=1.7;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup;only_with_tag=HEAD

Couldn't you use a similar approach?

While the mechanism is rather simple, it works for most updates
as syntax incompatibilities are rare. AFAIK, Privoxy updates with
syntax incompatibilities currently are inconvenient on all platforms.

I don't think that would be wise.

There's a fair chance that the iPhone's default browser
configuration allows remote sites to reconfigure Privoxy
through the action file editor behind the user's back.

Correction: While it doesn't matter in case of jailbreaking, I recently
read ("Open Source Software", 2. Auflage, Jaeger/Metzger) that the legal
responsibility might actually be shared.

Re: Creating an iPhone distribution

Redback — 2012-04-26T23:26:15

Yes your quiet right about the power user, but for the average Joe blow, 
that is an issue in it self.

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Re: Creating an iPhone distribution

Ian Silvester — 2012-04-26T16:07:07

Thanks Andrew,

That's useful, though it's a shame to have to rely on a third party product. There's also Netatalk on Cydia which installs Apple's AFP protocol, allowing network drive-style browsing from Finder without a computer-side 'client' application, but obviously this solution doesn't cross platforms (and indeed iExplorer doesn't support any form of *nix).

There's a further implicit problem - how to actually inform the user of *anything* when they install something via Cydia! Each app there does have a descriptive page, but a. it is interspersed with very off-putting adverts and b. there is no common format hence it is difficult to pass on important messages to the end user. Also of course I would need to find out where such pages are hosted and generate them!

All in all, it's not very satisfactory - fine for power users (of Privoxy) who'd know how to access the filesystem and would know what they need to tweak in order to be able to open up configuration and manage upgrades successfully, but I fear a torrent of "it doesn't work" or "I upgraded and I lost all my settings!!!" support requests from non-tech iPhone users :o(

Still interested in what everyone thinks around these issues,

Ian


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Re: Privoxy

Ian Silvester — 2012-04-26T15:22:20

Hi Paolo,

As David states, it would be an onerous task to produce one manual per supported platform and would be a strange thing to do; indeed I am not aware of a _single_ piece of software that produces separate manuals per platform. The GNU license (under which Privoxy is distributed) does _not_ mandate that non-free OSes may not be supported, nor are the developers of the application rabid free software advocates, hence we will continue to list information for all supported platforms in our documentation.

Is your question more to do with the fact that you can't find information in the documentation regarding _your_ platform? If so, please be clear about which platform that is and we may be able to assist.

Kind regards,

Ian


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