[Privoxy-users] HTTP status code for blocked pages

[Ian Silvester]

Hi Jamie, 

On the off-chance that you're running macOS, an updated package is currently in testing and should be released in the next month. 

Cheers, 

Ian

On Sat, 31 Jul 2021, at 06:09, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Jamie <lists.privoxy.org at jimbobmcgee.com> wrote on 2021-07-30:
> 
> > Is there any way to alter the HTTP status code returned by Privoxy when
> > a page is blocked?  The "normal" action is to present a response page
> > with a "Go there anyway" link, but that page isn't being shown for me in
> > Firefox -- instead it shows the default Firefox error page "The proxy
> > server is refusing connections".  As such, I can't click through.
> > 
> > If I examine the network traffic, I can see the "403 Request blocked by
> > Privoxy" response, so I'm fairly certain I'm getting to Privoxy.  I
> > think it's because of the 403 status code.  If I'm reading Firefox's
> > Bugzilla 493699 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493699,
> > closed WONTFIX), Firefox does not show the custom content for
> > non-successful proxy responses.
> > 
> > While 403 is probably the right status code, I'd like to alter this to
> > something 2xx (maybe 202 or 203) to bypass this behaviour.  I appreciate
> > that this change might not be for everyone, so I am hoping for a config
> > value somewhere.
> > 
> > I'm running an older release at the moment (and am constrained by my
> > OS's packaging), so I'm happy if the answer is "has been fixed/provided
> > in vX" but, if it hasn't been considered, is there any mileage in a
> > config/override setting?
> 
> There currently I no option to change the status code for the
> "Blocked" page and I think having such an option would not solve
> your problem anyway.
> 
> I suspect you're only seeing the issue for HTTPS requests with
> https-inspection disabled.
> 
> https-inspection has been added in Privoxy 3.0.29 and allows
> Privoxy to send the "Blocked" page encrypted in which case
> it appears to the client as if it was sent by a server.
> 
> Fabian
> 
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