Useful articles about proxies

Proxy credentials end up in public build logs more often than you'd think. One careless curl -v, one variable in plain sight, one password i...

When you pay for every transferred gigabyte, traffic stops being something abstract and turns into real money. One careless script that pull...

Familiar picture: short requests fly like swallows, but as soon as you start a large upload or download a hefty file through a mobile proxy,...

You’ve probably been there: the script is running, you log into a site, add an item to the cart, and then the IP changes — and suddenly the ...

Automatic proxy configuration via a PAC file is a way to teach your browser and system to decide on their own which traffic to send through ...

Picture a scenario that stumps even experienced engineers. You open a website directly in your browser and see a proud h2 in the developer p...

Imagine: two IP addresses, both formally from the same country, even from the same city. You send identical requests from them to the same s...

A proxy chain is not magic or a one-size-fits-all tool. It's an engineering routing technique that solves very specific problems and creates...

Sound familiar? REST requests through a corporate or cloud proxy fly by without a hitch, but as soon as you open a WebSocket or call a gRPC ...

Imagine this: you set up a single proxy server and visit two different websites through it. The first one cheerfully tells you: your real IP...

Picture this: you open an IP checker on your phone and it shows an IPv4 address. But when you peek at the phone's network interface settings...

Imagine you're choosing a mobile proxy and see a flashy claim: 50 Mbps speed. Sounds convincing, right? But that number tells you almost not...

Are you developing or testing a mobile app and want to know exactly what requests it sends to the server and what it gets back? This step-by...

Imagine: you open a terminal, type a package install command, and get silence or a connection error. Often the reason is that network access...

Picture this. It's Friday evening, your parser or account management system is finally live. The first few minutes go smoothly. Then things ...

Imagine this: you wrote a client that makes requests to a website, and everything works. Then suddenly errors start piling up, workers hang,...

Picture this. You've connected a proxy from the right region, checked your IP address — everything is correct, the city and country match. B...

Familiar situation: you set up a proxy, your browser opens websites, your scraper collects data, everything looks perfect. Then you start a ...