HTTPS Proxies

An HTTPS proxy either tunnels TLS traffic with CONNECT or accepts an encrypted connection from the client to the proxy itself — two different things vendors label identically.

CONNECT tunnelling keeps TLS end-to-end between you and the target; the proxy sees only encrypted bytes. A true HTTPS proxy additionally encrypts the client-to-proxy hop, which protects credentials on untrusted networks.

For sensitive work, prefer a vendor offering TLS on the proxy connection itself, or wrap the hop in a VPN. Never send proxy credentials over a plaintext HTTP proxy on a shared network.

Any modern scraping workload should use HTTPS targets through CONNECT. Add client-to-proxy TLS when operating from untrusted networks or when compliance requires transport encryption throughout.