ss="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> checks to see if the URL matches any <a href=
          "actions-file.html#BLOCK"><span class="QUOTE">"+block"</span></a> patterns. If so, the URL is then blocked,
          and the remote web server will not be contacted. <a href="actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-IMAGE"><span class=
          "QUOTE">"+handle-as-image"</span></a> and <a href="actions-file.html#HANDLE-AS-EMPTY-DOCUMENT"><span class=
          "QUOTE">"+handle-as-empty-document"</span></a> are then checked, and if 