[Privoxy-devel] bug in actions help link

[Fabian Keil]

Yossi Zahn <yossizahn at okmail.co.il> wrote:

> I think that revision 1.164 of file cgi.c 
> (http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/cgi.c?r1=1.164&r2=1.165&) 
> introduced a bugin function add_help_link().
> The function seems to check whether an absolute path is used for the 
> help files or not. In the latter case it uses Privoxy itself to serve 
> the help file (using https). This can happen both if a relative path is 
> configured or no path at all. The above mentioned revision ignores the 
> case of a relative path and only relates to a case of no path configured 
> in which the privoxy website is used for help. In a case of a relative 
> path the change to https breaks with Privoxy reporting "Error: CGI 
> request with unsupported method received: CONNECT".
> Since chrome does not allow file:// links from other domains it would 
> not help me defining an absolute file:// path for the help files.

Thanks a lot for the report.

This is fixed in CVS now (by reverting the offending commit).

Fabian
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