HTTP / HTTPS Proxies

HTTP(S) proxies understand the request they carry, so they can inject headers, cache responses, and enforce per-request geo targeting — the default for web scraping stacks.

CONNECT tunnelling

For HTTPS the proxy issues a CONNECT and then blindly relays encrypted bytes, so it cannot read your payload — but it still sees the destination host via SNI.

Why scraping stacks default to HTTP proxies

Providers expose targeting as username parameters (country, city, session, sticky duration). That control lives in the HTTP layer, which is why most residential gateways are HTTP-first and SOCKS5-second.

Fingerprint considerations

Poorly configured HTTP proxies add Via, X-Forwarded-For, or Proxy-Connection headers that instantly reveal proxying. Every provider we rank passes an elite (anonymous) header audit.