Privoxy shows 404 at times

Inxsible · 2012-06-22 15:40:01

I have recently started using privoxy on my machines. At times when I boot my machine, privoxy simply gives me the 404 page for any web address. Restarting privoxy at that time doesn't help at all.

I could stop privoxy and then change the proxy settings in firefox or chromium and use the internet but thats annoying on top of not being able to use privoxy.

So what can I look at in order to make sure privoxy always works. I have my net-profiles in my DAEMONS array before privoxy.

 DAEMONS = (syslog-ng net-profiles rpcbind..... @privoxy ...)

I would post my entire DAEMONS, but I am currently at work. But I am sure I start my network before privoxy.

Bonus question : I also installed privoxy-blocklist for ad-blocking. But i still see some ads on certain pages unless I also have AdBlock plus enabled. I was under the impression that privoxy-blocklist is better than Ad-block because it avoids downloading the ad rather than simply blocking the view (as ad-block does). Am I doing something wrong in this?

x33a · 2012-06-25 17:48:42

Inxsible wrote:

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Bonus question : I also installed privoxy-blocklist for ad-blocking. But i still see some ads on certain pages unless I also have AdBlock plus enabled. I was under the impression that privoxy-blocklist is better than Ad-block because it avoids downloading the ad rather than simply blocking the view (as ad-block does). Am I doing something wrong in this?

Adblock plus avoids downloading the ads too.

Inxsible · 2012-06-27 17:53:18

so then, the privoxy-blocklist is not of much use compared to Ad-block?

any other tips on what I should be looking at for the "404 at times" issue?

litemotiv · 2012-06-27 17:55:06

x33a wrote:

Adblock plus avoids downloading the ads too.

It doesn't, at least not on Chrom(e|ium).

R00KIE · 2012-06-27 19:43:54

Nothing better than a few hosts files together with privoxy and dnsmasq to redirect the baddies to 0.0.0.0

x33a · 2012-06-28 00:58:52

litemotiv wrote:

x33a wrote:
Adblock plus avoids downloading the ads too.
It doesn't, at least not on Chrom(e|ium).

I was referring to the firefox version. chromium version is crap compared to the firefox one.

@ Inxsible, take a look here (you might have seen it already)

http://www.privoxy.org/faq/trouble.html

Also, just my personal view. I tried privoxy a few years back, but didn't use it even for a day. It has its pros though (mainly system wide blocking). But adblock plus gives much easier way to block new ads/elements, you can easily disable abp temporarily in case of problems with the website, and it requires very little technical knowledge.

Inxsible · 2012-06-28 02:03:38

x33a, I had in fact seen that page. Only thing mentioned about 404 was to add www in the beginning to see if it helps. It hasn't yet. But I will keep trying. If it gets to be too much of a hassle then I might remove privoxy as well.

Strike0 · 2012-06-29 20:44:16

Admittedly I have not tried another adblocker for ages, but that's because I really do like privoxy. Have been using it for ages really and only ever had problems with timeouts when using it in a proxy chain. Do you chain it with something?

The only two config options I use are:

hostname    one.proxy.net

and

listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118

(of course)

Try setting a hostname if you have not already. Perhaps that helps those 404's. It is only used in http-headers for the get-requests I think.

One other very neat feature is:

enable-remote-toggle     1

Setting that to 1 lets you dis-/enable privoxy via the browser on-the-fly (set the option; restart privoxy and visit http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?mini=y&set=enable or http://config.privoxy.org/toggle?set=enable for the big menu).

brebs · 2012-06-30 06:00:18

Inxsible wrote:

At times when I boot my machine, privoxy simply gives me the 404 page for any web address. Restarting privoxy at that time doesn't help at all.

Your DNS is screwed.

I run privoxy, and BIND for DNS, and don't have a problem with privoxy 404-ing.

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#1 2012-06-22 15:40:01

Privoxy shows 404 at times

#2 2012-06-25 17:48:42

Re: Privoxy shows 404 at times

#3 2012-06-27 17:53:18

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#4 2012-06-27 17:55:06

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#5 2012-06-27 19:43:54

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#6 2012-06-28 00:58:52

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