[ ijbswa-Actionsfile feedback-3413827 ] Hotmail does not work

Actionsfile feedback item #3413827, was opened at 2011-09-25 12:11
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Category: filter: other problem
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: db (david-bo)
>Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Hotmail does not work

Initial Comment:
In a Hotmail inbox clicking a mail does not open/load it when privoxy is enabled. Disabling privoxy and reloading the page fixes this. I can't be the only one seeing this problem!?

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>Comment By: Ian Silvester (diem)
Date: 2012-12-18 18:24

Message:
Having reviewed default.action.master I changed my mind and went ahead with
the commit.

Ian

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Comment By: Ian Silvester (diem)
Date: 2012-12-18 17:45

Message:
Hi Fabian,

Your recent actions file commits prompted me to go looking for the status
of this one, and following your last comment I've now tested it more
narrowly and the result is that Hotmail will work if .wlxrs.com is merely
added to -block. Given the importance of the actions files I'd rather leave
it to you to make the appropriate modifications.

Cheers,

Ian

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Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2012-07-13 12:56

Message:
Usually we try to prevent Privoxy from breaking too many sites in its
default configuration and make exceptions for "important" sites as long as
the side effects are acceptable.

For example -filter, -fast-redirect and -block are generally not a problem
but we should be careful with broad cookie exceptions.

If someone could test which of the option Ian mentioned are actually
required for .wlxrs.com for Hotmail to work with Privoxy's default
configuration we could evaluate which of them we could add to
default.action.

If we come to the conclusion that we can't add all of the exceptions we
could still improve things by document them somewhere where Hotmail users
can easily find them (like the FAQ).

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Comment By: Ian Silvester (diem)
Date: 2012-01-27 07:41

Message:
This is not a bug per se. Hotmail's functionality depends upon Javascript
code sourced from the domain wlxrs.com, which gets blocked by Privoxy's
default rules.

To re-enable Hotmail you should add an item to your user.actions file that
allows this domain through. In my config I have:

.wlxrs.com (note the preceding . is important) is set -block,
-crunch-incoming-cookies, -crunch-outgoing-cookies, -fast-redirects,
-filter, -hide-referrer, -prevent-compression

No doubt this is overkill - it would probably work with fewer -parameters;
I leave it to you to experiment.

Ian

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Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil)
Date: 2011-09-26 10:12

Message:
Thanks for the report.

i don't have  a Hotmail account, so a logfile that shows the problem would
be really useful:
http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/contact.html#CONTACT-BUGS

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