[Privoxy-users] external-filter example

[U.Mutlu]

Update: sorry, had forgotten to build with "--enable-external-filters".
After rebuilding and reinstalling it now starts ok,
but the external-filter does not get invoked :-(
How to fix that?


U.Mutlu wrote on 07/22/2020 07:03 PM:
> Hi,
> as a newbie to privoxy I've built the developer version (v3.0.29) with
> ./configure --with-mbedtls and installed it. It works.
>
> I'm now trying to create an external-filter for experimenting. I did these steps:
>
> config:
> temporary-directory ./myTmp
> (and even created that dir manually in the config-dir and set the ownership
> appropriately)
>
> user.action:
> myfilters   = +filter{html-annoyances} +filter{js-annoyances}
> +filter{all-popups}\
>                +filter{webbugs} +filter{banners-by-size}\
>                +external-filter{myTee}
>
> user.filter:
> EXTERNAL-FILTER: myTee MY TEE TEST
> /usr/bin/tee /tmp/myTee_Test.txt
>
> But privoxy won't start, writes this error to log:
> 2020-07-22 18:26:29.533 7f6ca8cfe700 Fatal error: can't load actions file
> '/usr/local/etc/privoxy/user.action': invalid alias line (64): myfilters =
> +filter{html-annoyances} +filter{js-annoyances} +filter{all-popups}
> +filter{webbugs} +filter{banners-by-size}              +external-filter{myTee}
>
> What's the reason, and how to fix it? Thx.
>
> Btw, is the word "myfilters" in the config files a hardcoded special word or
> is it just a user-defined one?