Articles from 2024

Using SOCKS5 proxies with Puppeteer and Playwright

Chromium does not support username and password authentication on SOCKS5 proxies. Three working setups — IP whitelisting, the HTTP port, and a local forwarder — with code for Puppeteer and Playwright, plus DNS and WebRTC leak checks.

Guides Solutions engineering 4 min read

Sticky sessions and cookie handling, now up to 30 minutes

Residential sticky sessions can now last up to 30 minutes. How sessions work at the gateway, how to pair them with cookie jars so each identity stays consistent, and what to do when a peer disappears mid-session.

Guides Solutions engineering 4 min read

5G on part of the fleet — France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands

5G-capable modems are now in service on nine carriers in four countries. What 5G changes for a proxy — throughput and latency — what it does not change, and how we handle cells that fall back to 4G.

Product Network team 4 min read