Security & Privacy — Articles about proxies

There's a class of incidents that's better at hiding than any other. A script that's been going through a proxy to dozens of APIs for months...

When an application works through a proxy and something goes wrong, the first thing an engineer opens is the client logs. There it says some...

Picture this: yesterday your scraper through a proxy worked flawlessly, logs clean, metrics green. This morning you open the dashboard and s...

Client logs are wonderful right up until the moment they actually show you something. But one day you hit a wall: the app spits out a laconi...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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. 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 ...

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