Quote:
Originally Posted by nrapallo
the HTTP request sent by the ebook reader was logged as:
Code:
http://register.ebooksystem.net/form/redirect.asp?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki%2Emobileread%2Ecom%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page&pubid=None%3Aebook%3Aguid-237ceaa3f5cb49b281ca33724a38bc5b
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Reading the privoxy documentation and config files, I have noticed a "rule" or action that could possibly handle that HTTP register.ebooksystem.net request and "fast-direct" just the tail URL (http%3A%2F%2Fwiki%2Emobileread%2Ecom%2Fwiki%2FMai n_Page).
This is the description in the "default.action" file that is giving me hope to get this to work:
Code:
# +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url}
# +fast-redirects{simple-check}
# Many sites, like yahoo.com, don't just link to other sites.
# Instead, they will link to some script on their own server,
# giving the destination as a parameter, which will then redirect
# you to the final target.
#
# URLs resulting from this scheme typically look like:
# http://some.place/some_script?http://some.where-else
#
# Sometimes, there are even multiple consecutive redirects encoded
# in the URL. These redirections via scripts make your web browsing
# more traceable, since the server from which you follow such a link
# can see where you go to. Apart from that, valuable bandwidth and
# time is wasted, while your browser asks the server for one redirect
# after the other. Plus, it feeds the advertisers.
#
# The +fast-redirects{check-decoded-url} option enables interception of
# these requests by Privoxy, who will cut off all but the last valid URL
# in the request and send a local redirect back to your browser without
# contacting the intermediate sites. NOTE: Syntax change as of v.3.0.4.
I don't have my hardware reader with me to test it right now, but will do so soon and report my findings here.
It seems privoxy is a very sophisticated program with abilities that need to be looked at more closely...