Newbie needs help with some basic proxy questions. Pls help.

[Sanjeev 46]

Hi guys,

I need some clarifications regarding proxies -
I specifically want answers to these question - any help would be welcome. 

1. Can public proxies be - socks5 and socks4 type apart from normal http proxies?
2. Do all private proxies - require username and password for them to work?
3. Are all private proxies socks4/5 or can they be http too?

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4. Are the following code usages correct ?

For setting public proxies -
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If http proxies -
  change proxy(#proxytocheck)

if socks4 and socks5 can be public then -       
  change proxy("socks4://{#proxytocheck}")
  change proxy("socks5://{#proxytocheck}")
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for setting private proxies -
first of all -
  set proxy credentials(#username, #Password)
then -
  change proxy($random list item(%Privateproxies))
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or

Is this the  standard format for private proxies ?
a list looking something like - PROXY : PORT  user : pw ?

In which case I would need to split the list items for use with both the above commands?

Thanks.

 

p.s - How do you guys handle all the variations in proxies in your bots? Do you have to cater to every permutation? - prvt/public/socks4 or 5/Is usrname-password -separate or part of list - in case of pvt etc?
 

[bestmacros 60]

2. yes

3. can be http

the proxy should be in ip:port format to be submitted to change proxy command (don't know about socks).

by default I personally request from customers to submit private proxies in ip:port:username:password format - this way it is very easy to extract ip,port, username and password and properly submit it in change proxy  and proxy credentials commands

[Sanjeev 46]

Hi Bestmacros .

 

Thank you for your response.