Examples of Proxy Requests

The snippets in this section uses the basic authentication to connect to Geoproxies.

Curl

curl provides the capability to specify a proxy to connect through with the -x flag

Python

• Using the requests library

import requests

AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN = '24f2f5b3-1867-42ac-994c-57140022fb46'
PROXY_ARGUMENTS = 'session=XYZ|wiretap'

geoproxies_url = 'http://%s:%s@proxy.geoproxies.com:1080' % (AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN, PROXY_ARGUMENTS)

r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/ip', proxies=geoproxies_url)

print(r.text)

Node

• Using the request module

var AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN = '24f2f5b3-1867-42ac-994c-57140022fb46';
var PROXY_ARGUMENTS = 'session=XYZ|wiretap';

var proxy = `http://${AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN}:{PROXY_ARGUMENTS}@proxy.geoproxies.com:1080/`;

require('request')({
    url: 'http://httpbin.org/ip',
    method: 'GET',
    proxy: proxy,
}, function(err,httpResponse,body) {
    console.info(err, body);
});

PHP

• Using the inbuilt curl extension

$AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN = '24f2f5b3-1867-42ac-994c-57140022fb46';
$PROXY_ARGUMENTS = 'session=XYZ|wiretap';

$ch = curl_init("http://httpbin.org/ip");

$options = [
  CURLOPT_PROXY => "http://proxy.geoproxies.com:1080",
  CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD => "{$AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN}:{$PROXY_ARGUMENTS}"
];

curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
$curl_result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

print($curl_result);

Firefox

Firefox allows you to modify its proxy settings. You can find it via the menu Preferences ‣ Advanced ‣ Network ‣ Connection ‣ Settings. Choose Manual proxy configuration, and then fill in the HTTP Proxy textfield to proxy.geoproxies.com and its Port to 1080.