With an old-style proxy list you held hundreds of separate addresses and switched between them yourself. A backconnect proxy turns that around: you always connect to the same host and port, and the gateway chooses the exit address for you.
This is how rotating residential and mobile proxies work today. The gateway reads instructions from your username, such as the country or a session label, and picks an address to match. On BooProxies the residential gateway is resi.proxies.boo on port 8080, and everything else is set in the username.
Questions about backconnect proxy
Is a backconnect proxy the same as a rotating proxy?
In everyday use, yes. Backconnect describes how it is built: one gateway in front of many exits. Rotating describes what it does. Most rotating residential and mobile proxies are backconnect.
Why do I always connect to the same host?
Because the host is the gateway, not the exit. The address the website sees is chosen behind the gateway and changes; the address you type into your program never has to.
Related terms
- Rotating proxy
- A rotating proxy gives each new connection a different IP address from a pool, so no single address makes enough requests to be noticed.
- Proxy pool
- A proxy pool is the whole set of IP addresses a proxy service can send your requests through. Each request is given one address from it.
- Exit IP
- The exit IP is the address your request leaves the proxy network from. It is the address the website sees and logs as its visitor.
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