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<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="WHATSNEW" id="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this
Release</a></h1>
<p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.19</span> is a stable release.
The changes since 3.0.18 stable are:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Prevent a segmentation fault when de-chunking buffered
content. It could be triggered by malicious web servers if
Privoxy was configured to filter the content and running on a
platform where SIZE_T_MAX isn't larger than UINT_MAX, which
probably includes most 32-bit systems. On those platforms, all
Privoxy versions before 3.0.19 appear to be affected. To be on
the safe side, this bug should be presumed to allow code
execution as proving that it doesn't seems unrealistic.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Do not expect a response from the SOCKS4/4A server until it
got something to respond to. This regression was introduced in
3.0.18 and prevented the SOCKS4/4A negotiation from working.
Reported by qqqqqw in #3459781.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>General improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fix an off-by-one in an error message about connect
failures.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Use a GNUMakefile variable for the webserver root directory
and update the path. Sourceforge changed it which broke various
web-related targets.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Update the CODE_STATUS description.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The following changes were made between 3.0.17 and 3.0.18:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>If a generated redirect URL contains characters RFC 3986
doesn't permit, they are (re)encoded. Not doing this makes
Privoxy versions from 3.0.5 to 3.0.17 susceptible to HTTP
response splitting (CWE-113) attacks if the
+fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action is used.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix a logic bug that could cause Privoxy to reuse a server
socket after it got tainted by a server-header-tagger-induced
block that was triggered before the whole server response had
been read. If keep-alive was enabled and the request following
the blocked one was to the same host and using the same
forwarding settings, Privoxy would send it on the tainted server
socket. While the server would simply treat it as a pipelined
request, Privoxy would later on fail to properly parse the
server's response as it would try to parse the unread data from
the first response as server headers for the second one.
Regression introduced in 3.0.17.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>When implying keep-alive in client_connection(), remember that
the client didn't. Fixes a regression introduced in 3.0.13 that
would cause Privoxy to wait for additional client requests after
receiving a HTTP/1.1 request with "Connection: close" set and
connection sharing enabled. With clients which terminates the
client connection after detecting that the whole body has been
received it doesn't really matter, but with clients that don't
the connection would be kept open until it timed out.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix a subtle race condition between
prepare_csp_for_next_request() and sweep(). A thread preparing
itself for the next client request could briefly appear to be
inactive. If all other threads were already using more recent
files, the thread could get its files swept away under its feet.
So far this has only been reproduced while stress testing in
valgrind while touching action files in a loop. It's unlikely to
have caused any actual problems in the real world.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Disable filters if SDCH compression is used unless filtering
is forced. If SDCH was combined with a supported compression
algorithm, Privoxy previously could try to decompress it and
ditch the Content-Encoding header even though the SDCH
compression wasn't dealt with. Reported by zebul666 in
#3225863.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Make a copy of the --user value and only mess with that when
splitting user and group. On some operating systems modifying the
value directly is reflected in the output of ps and friends and
can be misleading. Reported by zepard in #3292710.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If forwarded-connect-retries is set, only retry if Privoxy is
actually forwarding the request. Previously direct connections
would be retried as well.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed a small memory leak when retrying connections with IPv6
support enabled.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Remove an incorrect assertion in
compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list() It could be triggered by a pcrs
job with an invalid pcre pattern (for example one that contains a
lone quantifier).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If the --user argument user[.group] contains a dot, always
bail out if no group has been specified. Previously the intended,
but undocumented (and apparently untested), behaviour was to try
interpreting the whole argument as user name, but the detection
was flawed and checked for '0' instead of '\0', thus merely
preventing group names beginning with a zero.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In html_code_map[], use a numeric character reference instead
of ' which wasn't standardized before XHTML 1.0.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix an invalid free when compiled with
FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION and shut down through
http://config.privoxy.org/die</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In get_actions(), fix the "temporary" backwards compatibility
hack to accept block actions without reason. It also covered
other actions that should be rejected as invalid. Reported by
Billy Crook.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>General improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Privoxy can (re)compress buffered content before delivering it
to the client. Disabled by default as most users wouldn't benefit
from it.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} action checks URL
segments separately. If there are other parameters behind the
redirect URL, this makes it unnecessary to cut them off by
additionally using a +redirect{} pcrs command. Initial patch
submitted by Jamie Zawinski in #3429848.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>When loading action sections, verify that the referenced
filters exist. Currently missing filters only result in an error
message, but eventually the severity will be upgraded to
fatal.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Allow to bind to multiple separate addresses. Patch set
submitted by Petr Pisar in #3354485.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Set socket_error to errno if connecting fails in
rfc2553_connect_to(). Previously rejected direct connections
could be incorrectly reported as DNS issues if Privoxy was
compiled with IPv6 support.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Adjust url_code_map[] so spaces are replaced with %20 instead
of '+' While '+' can be used by client's submitting form data,
this is not actually what Privoxy is using the lookups for. This
is more of a cosmetic issue and doesn't fix any known
problems.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>When compiled without FEATURE_FAST_REDIRECTS, do not silently
ignore +fast-redirect{} directives</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added a workaround for GNU libc's strptime() reporting
negative year values when the parsed year is only specified with
two digits. On affected systems cookies with such a date would
not be turned into session cookies by the +session-cookies-only
action. Reported by Vaeinoe in #3403560</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed bind failures with certain GNU libc versions if no
non-loopback IP address has been configured on the system. This
is mainly an issue if the system is using DHCP and Privoxy is
started before the network is completely configured. Reported by
Raphael Marichez in #3349356. Additional insight from Petr
Pisar.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Privoxy log messages now use the ISO 8601 date format
%Y-%m-%d. It's only slightly longer than the old format, but
contains the full date including the year and allows sorting by
date (when grepping in multiple log files) without hassle.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In get_last_url(), do not bother trying to decode URLs that do
not contain at least one '%' sign. It reduces the log noise and a
number of unnecessary memory allocations.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In case of SOCKS5 failures, dump the socks response in the log
message.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Simplify the signal setup in main().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Streamline socks5_connect() slightly.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In socks5_connect(), require a complete socks response from
the server. Previously Privoxy didn't care how much data the
server response contained as long as the first two bytes
contained the expected values. While at it, shrink the buffer
size so Privoxy can't read more than a whole socks response.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In chat(), do not bother to generate a client request in case
of direct CONNECT requests. It will not be used anyway.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Reduce server_last_modified()'s stack size.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Shorten get_http_time() by using strftime().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Constify the known_http_methods pointers in
unknown_method().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Constify the time_formats pointers in parse_header_time().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Constify the formerly_valid_actions pointers in
action_used_to_be_valid().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Introduce a GNUMakefile MAN_PAGE variable that defaults to
privoxy.1. The Debian package uses section 8 for the man page and
this should simplify the patch.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Deduplicate the INADDR_NONE definition for Solaris by moving
it to jbsockets.h</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In block_url(), ditch the obsolete workaround for ancient
Netscape versions that supposedly couldn't properly deal with
status code 403.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Remove a useless NULL pointer check in load_trustfile().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Remove two useless NULL pointer checks in
load_one_re_filterfile().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Change url_code_map[] from an array of pointers to an array of
arrays It removes an unnecessary layer of indirection and on
64bit system reduces the size of the binary a bit.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix various typos. Fixes taken from Debian's 29_typos.dpatch
by Roland Rosenfeld.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add a dok-tidy GNUMakefile target to clean up the messy HTML
generated by the other dok targets.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>GNUisms in the GNUMakefile have been removed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Change the HTTP version in static responses to 1.1</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Synced config.sub and config.guess with upstream
2011-11-11/386c7218162c145f5f9e1ff7f558a3fbb66c37c5.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add a dedicated function to parse the values of toggles.
Reduces duplicated code in load_config() and provides better
error handling. Invalid or missing toggle values are now a fatal
error instead of being silently ignored.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Terminate HTML lines in static error messages with \n instead
of \r\n.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Simplify cgi_error_unknown() a bit.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In LogPutString(), don't bother looking at pszText when not
actually logging anything.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Change ssplit()'s fourth parameter from int to size_t. Fixes a
clang complaint.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add a warning that the statistics currently can't be trusted.
Mention Privoxy-Log-Parser's --statistics option as an
alternative for the time being.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In rfc2553_connect_to(), start setting cgi->error_message
on error.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Change the expected status code returned for http://p.p/die
depending on whether or not FEATURE_GRACEFUL_TERMINATION is
available.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In cgi_die(), mark the client connection for closing. If the
client will fetch the style sheet through another connection it
gets the main thread out of the accept() state and should thus
trigger the actual shutdown.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add a proper CGI message for cgi_die().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Don't enforce a logical line length limit in
read_config_line().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Slightly refactor server_last_modified() to remove useless
gmtime*() calls.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In get_content_type(), also recognize '.jpeg' as JPEG
extension.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add '.png' to the list of recognized file extensions in
get_content_type().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In block_url(), consistently use the block reason "Request
blocked by Privoxy" In two places the reason was "Request for
blocked URL" which hides the fact that the request got blocked by
Privoxy and isn't necessarily correct as the block may be due to
tags.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In listen_loop(), reload the configuration files after
accepting a new connection instead of before. Previously the
first connection that arrived after a configuration change would
still be handled with the old configuration.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In chat()'s receive-data loop, skip a client socket check if
the socket will be written to right away anyway. This can
increase the transfer speed for unfiltered content on fast
network connections.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The socket timeout is used for SOCKS negotiations as well
which previously couldn't timeout.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Don't keep the client connection alive if any configuration
file changed since the time the connection came in. This is
closer to Privoxy's behaviour before keep-alive support for
client connection has been added and also less confusing in
general.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Treat all Content-Type header values containing the pattern
'script' as a sign of text. Reported by pribog in #3134970.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Action file improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Moved the site-specific block pattern section below the one
for the generic patterns so for requests that are matched in
both, the block reason for the domain is shown which is usually
more useful than showing the one for the generic pattern.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Remove -prevent-compression from the fragile alias. It's no
longer used anywhere by default and isn't known to break stuff
anyway.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add a (disabled) section to block various Facebook tracking
URLs. Reported by Dan Stahlke in #3421764.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add a (disabled) section to rewrite and redirect
click-tracking URLs used on news.google.com. Reported by Dan
Stahlke in #3421755.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Unblock linuxcounter.net/. Reported by Dan Stahlke in
#3422612.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Block 'www91.intel.com/' which is used by Omniture. Reported
by Adam Piggott in #3167370.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Disable the handle-as-empty-doc-returns-ok option and mark it
as deprecated. Reminded by tceverling in #2790091.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add ".ivwbox.de/" to the "Cross-site user tracking" section.
Reported by Nettozahler in #3172525.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Unblock and fast-redirect ".awin1.com/.*=http://". Reported by
Adam Piggott in #3170921.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Block "b.collective-media.net/".</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Widen the Debian popcon exception to "qa.debian.org/popcon".
Seen in Debian's 05_default_action.dpatch by Roland
Rosenfeld.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Block ".gemius.pl/" which only seems to be used for user
tracking. Reported by johnd16 in #3002731. Additional input from
Lee and movax.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Disable banners-by-size filters for '.thinkgeek.com/'. The
filter only seems to catch pictures of the inventory.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Block requests for 'go.idmnet.bbelements.com/please/showit/'.
Reported by kacperdominik in #3372959.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Unblock adainitiative.org/.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add a fast-redirects exception for
'.googleusercontent.com/.*=cache'.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add a fast-redirects exception for
webcache.googleusercontent.com/.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Unblock http://adassier.wordpress.com/ and
http://adassier.files.wordpress.com/.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Filter file improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Let the yahoo filter hide '.ads'.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Let the msn filter hide overlay ads for Facebook 'likes' in
search results and elements with the id 's_notf_div'. They only
seem to be used to advertise site 'enhancements'.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Let the js-events filter additionally disarm setInterval().
Suggested by dg1727 in #3423775.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Documentation improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Clarify the effect of compiling Privoxy with zlib support.
Suggested by dg1727 in #3423782.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Point out that the SourceForge messaging system works like a
black hole and should thus not be used to contact individual
developers.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Mention some of the problems one can experience when not
explicitly configuring an IP addresses as listen address.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Explicitly mention that hostnames can be used instead of IP
addresses for the listen-address, that only the first address
returned will be used and what happens if the address is invalid.
Requested by Calestyo in #3302213.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Log message improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>If only the server connection is kept alive, do not pretend to
wait for a new client request.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Remove a superfluous log message in forget_connection().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In chat(), properly report missing server responses as such
instead of calling them empty.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In forwarded_connect(), fix a log message nobody should ever
see.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix a log message in socks5_connect(), a failed write
operation was logged as failed read operation.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Let load_one_actions_file() properly complain about a missing
'{' at the beginning of the file. Simply stating that a line is
invalid isn't particularly helpful.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Do not claim to listen on a socket until Privoxy actually
does. Patch submitted by Petr Pisar #3354485</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Prevent a duplicated LOG_LEVEL_CLF message when sending out
the "no-server-data" response.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Also log the client socket when dropping a connection.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Include the destination host in the 'Request ... marked for
blocking. limit-connect{...} doesn't allow CONNECT ...' message
Patch submitted by Saperski in #3296250.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Prevent a duplicated log message if none of the resolved IP
addresses were reachable.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In connect_to(), do not pretend to retry if
forwarded-connect-retries is zero or unset.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>When a specified user or group can't be found, put the name in
single-quotes when logging it.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In rfc2553_connect_to(), explain getnameinfo() errors
better.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Remove a useless log message in chat().</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>When retrying to connect, also log the maximum number of
connection attempts.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Rephrase a log message in compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list().
Divide the error code and its meaning with a colon. Call the pcrs
job dynamic and not the filter. Filters may contain dynamic and
non-dynamic pcrs jobs at the same time. Only mention the name of
the filter or tagger, but don't claim it's a filter when it could
be a tagger.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In a fatal error message in load_one_actions_file(), cover
both URL and TAG patterns.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In pcrs_strerror(), properly report unknown positive error
code values as such. Previously they were handled like 0 (no
error).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In compile_dynamic_pcrs_job_list(), also log the actual error
code as pcrs_strerror() doesn't handle all errors reported by
pcre.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Don't bother trying to continue chatting if the client didn't
ask for it. Reduces log noise a bit.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Make two fatal error message in load_one_actions_file() more
descriptive.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In cgi_send_user_manual(), log when rejecting a file name due
to '/' or '..'.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In load_file(), log a message if opening a file failed. The
CGI error message alone isn't too helpful.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In connection_destination_matches(), improve two log messages
to help understand why the destinations don't match.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Rephrase a log message in serve(). Client request arrival
should be differentiated from closed client connections now.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In serve(), log if a client connection isn't reused due to a
configuration file change.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Let mark_server_socket_tainted() always mark the server socket
tainted, just don't talk about it in cases where it has no
effect. It doesn't change Privoxy's behaviour, but makes
understanding the log file easier.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>configure:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Added a --disable-ipv6-support switch for platforms where
support is detected but doesn't actually work.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Do not check for the existence of strerror() and memmove()
twice</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Remove a useless test for setpgrp(2). Privoxy doesn't need it
and it can cause problems when cross-compiling.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Rename the --disable-acl-files switch to
--disable-acl-support. Since about 2001, ACL directives are
specified in the standard config file.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Update the URL of the 'Removing outdated PCRE version after
the next stable release' posting. The old URL stopped working
after one of SF's recent site "optimizations". Reported by Han
Liu.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Added --shuffle-tests option to increase the chances of
detection race conditions.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added a --local-test-file option that allows to use
Privoxy-Regression-Test without Privoxy.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added tests for missing socks4 and socks4a forwarders.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The --privoxy-address option now works with IPv6 addresses
containing brackets, too.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Perform limited sanity checks for parameters that are supposed
to have numerical values.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Added a --sleep-time option to specify a number of seconds to
sleep between tests, defaults to 0.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Disable the range-requests tagger for tests that break if it's
enabled.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Log messages use the ISO 8601 date format %Y-%m-%d.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix spelling in two error messages.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In the --help output, include a list of supported tests and
their default levels.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Adjust the tests to properly deal with FEATURE_TOGGLE being
disabled.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Privoxy-Log-Parser:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Perform limited sanity checks for command line parameters that
are supposed to have numerical values.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Implement a --unbreak-lines-only option to try to revert MUA
breakage.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Accept and highlight: Added header: Content-Encoding:
deflate</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Accept and highlight: Compressed content from 29258 to 8630
bytes.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Accept and highlight: Client request arrived in time on socket
21.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Highlight: Didn't receive data in time: a.fsdn.com:443</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Accept log messages with ISO 8601 time stamps, too.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>uagen:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Bump generated Firefox version to 8.0.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Only randomize the release date if the new
--randomize-release-date option is enabled. Firefox versions
after 4 use a fixed date string without meaning.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="SECT2">
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="UPGRADERSNOTE" id="UPGRADERSNOTE">3.1. Note
to Upgraders</a></h2>
<p>A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier
versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The recommended way to upgrade <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to backup your old configuration
files, install the new ones, verify that <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is working correctly and finally merge
back your changes using <span class="APPLICATION">diff</span> and
maybe <span class="APPLICATION">patch</span>.</p>
<p>There are a number of new features in each <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release and most of them have to be
explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration
files obviously don't do that and due to syntax changes using old
configuration files with a new <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't always possible anyway.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely,
including configuration files, therefore you should really save any
important configuration files!</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing
configuration files, thinking you will want to do that
yourself.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt class="FILENAME">standard.action</tt> has been merged into
the <tt class="FILENAME">default.action</tt> file.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now.
You can change that in the <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug
section</a> of the configuration file. You may also want to enable
more verbose logging until you verified that the new <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version is working as expected.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Three other config file settings are now off by default:
<a href="config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>,
<a href=
"config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>,
and <a href=
"config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>. If you
use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them, and be
aware of the security issues involved.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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