The username used for proxy requests to your zones allows you to pass various parameters to affect how that request is handled. For example you may specify a country, IP (for reserved datacenter zones with dedicated IP pools) or session ID.

To view live code samples and experiment with different zone parameters, select a zone on the integrations page of the dashboard.

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Making a request

The following basic rules apply to all proxy requests you make to your zones.

1

Proxy address

The entry point for all proxy requests to Bytio is proxy.bytio.com on port 8080 (to connect to the proxy over HTTP) or port 8443 (to connect to the proxy over HTTPS).

2

Username

Your proxy username should be in the form zone-ZONEID. For example, for a zone with ID ABCDEF, your proxy username would be zone-ABCDEF. You can view zone IDs on the zones page of the dashboard, or via the Bytio API.

3

Password

Your API key is your proxy password. You can view or reset your API key on the profile page of the dashboard.

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Example

For a zone with ID ABCDEF, the zone request username would be:

zone-ABCDEF

A full curl command to run a request against the Bytio IP-checking endpoint would be:

curl \
 --proxy http://proxy.bytio.com:8080 \
 --proxy-user zone-ABCDEF:YOUR-API-KEY \
 --verbose \
 "https://ip.bytio.com"

Zone IDs can be found on the zones page of the dashboard, or via the Bytio API.

Your API key, which is used for your proxy password, can be found on the profile page of the dashboard.

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Parameters

Additional parameters can be specified in the zone username, delimited with hyphens. For example, to route requests through a proxy IP in the United States, for a zone with ID ABCDEF, the zone request username would be:

zone-ABCDEF-country-us

You can specify multiple parameters in your username - all delimited with hyphens. For example, to route requests through a proxy IP in the United States, with session ID mysession1, for a zone with ID ABCDEF, the zone request username would be:

zone-ABCDEF-country-us-session-mysession1

A full list of zone username parameters is shown below.

ParameterDescription
countryThe country code of the country in which the IP or mobile device used to service the request should exist. For more information, see countries.

For example: zone-ABCDEF-country-us
sessionThe session ID to use if a persistent session is required. For more information, see sessions. A session ID can be any alphanumeric string up to 50 characters long.

For example: zone-ABCDEF-session-mysession1
ipWhen using a Reserved datacenter zone, with an IP pool, use the ip parameter to specify the exact proxy IP to route requests through. For more information, see reserved IPs.

For example, to route the request through proxy IP 162.19.50.13 the zone username would be: zone-ABCDEF-ip-162.19.50.13

To view live code samples and experiment with different zone parameters, select a zone on the integrations page of the dashboard.

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