How does proxy in botasaurus work? And how is it different from selenium wire?

[nikth0]

Same as the title, how does proxy in botasaurus work? And how is it different from selenium wire?

[Chetan11-dev]

1. Chrome supports regular proxies like 192.3.3.1:4000, but it does not natively support authenticated proxies that require a username and password.

2. To overcome this limitation, you can create an intermediate local host server that acts as a proxy for Chrome. This server will run on your local machine and listen on a specific port, such as 127.0.0.1:50000.

3. When you configure Chrome to use the local host server as its proxy (127.0.0.1:50000), Chrome will send all its requests to this intermediate server.

4. The local host server will then forward these requests to the authenticated proxy server, handling the authentication process by providing the necessary credentials (username and password) to the authenticated proxy.

5. The authenticated proxy server will process the request and send the response back to the local host server.

6. Finally, the local host server will relay the response back to Chrome, completing the request-response cycle.

By using this setup, Chrome can indirectly work with authenticated proxies through the intermediate local host server, which handles the authentication process on behalf of Chrome.