[Privoxy-users] How can I define filters and actions to block all responses which is larger than 5MB?

[Fabian Keil]

Wen Yue <miles.wy.1 at gmail.com> wrote on 2021-03-26:

> As the title says, how can I define such filters and actions?
> 
> Maybe the really hard part is how to describe 'larger than 5MB' using
> pure regular expression.
> I tried to tag out all responses larger than 5MB using a pair of filter
> and server-header-tagger action, but the regular expression in the
> filter definition is awkward.

Note that the tagging approach is not only awkward but also
fails if the response is chunk-encoded in which cases there
is no Content-Length header to use.
 
> Is there any better way?

Unfortunately there currently isn't.

You're not the first one interested in this so I've added:

| Add a directive to reject responses whose size is above a certain limit.

to the TODO list (not yet pushed to git master).

By the way, I got a request for approval from Mailman for
another message from you but did not see it in the queue
when I approved the message I'm replying to now.

Did you instruct Mailman to delete it?

If not, please send it again.

Fabian
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