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Asked: 2026-05-11T16:13:40+00:00

I know what a proxy is, and the basics of how they work. What

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I know what a proxy is, and the basics of how they work.

What I was wondering is, what is different in a request that goes through a proxy?

I know when I configure Firefox I simply configure the proxy in a dialog. When I program in python I can use an environment variable.

If I am programming in an environment that doesn’t already have support for a proxy, how do I connect through a proxy? Is there an extra header added to requests? Is the protocol slightly different?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The protocol is slightly different. Where a direct connection to example.com would say:

    GET /index.html HTTP/1.1

    a connection through a proxy would say:

    GET http://example.com/index.html HTTP/1.1
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