Proxy glossary
The words on a proxy price page, in plain English, with the part that affects your bill.
- Bandwidth metering
- Charging by the amount of data that crosses the proxy, usually per GB.
- CONNECT tunnel
- The HTTP method a client uses to ask a proxy to open a raw connection to an HTTPS site.
- Datacenter proxy
- A proxy whose IP address belongs to a hosting company rather than a consumer internet provider.
- Dedicated proxy
- An IP address used by one customer only while it is rented.
- Geo-targeting
- Choosing the country, region or city your proxy address appears to be in.
- HTTP 407
- The status code for “proxy authentication required”: the proxy rejected your credentials.
- HTTP 429
- The status code for “too many requests”: you hit a rate limit.
- HTTP proxy
- A proxy that understands web requests and forwards them, including HTTPS through a CONNECT tunnel.
- IP whitelisting
- Authorising a proxy by the IP address you connect from instead of by a username and password.
- ISP proxy
- A static proxy address registered to a consumer internet provider but hosted on datacenter-grade hardware.
- Proxy authentication
- How a proxy decides that a request is allowed: usually a username and password, or an allowlisted source IP.
- Proxy pool
- The set of addresses a rotating service draws from.
- Rate limit
- A cap a site puts on how many requests one address may send in a period.
- Residential proxy
- A proxy that forwards your requests through an IP address belonging to a household internet connection.
- Rotating proxy
- A proxy service that gives you a different exit IP across requests from a pool of addresses.
- Shared proxy
- An IP address rented to more than one customer at the same time.
- SOCKS5
- A proxy protocol that forwards raw TCP connections without interpreting the traffic.
- Static proxy
- A proxy that uses the same IP address for as long as you rent it.
- Success rate
- The share of your requests that return the page you wanted rather than an error or a block.
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