There are two addresses in a proxy setup. The gateway is the host you connect to. The exit is the address at the far end, where your request leaves for the website. With a rotating proxy the gateway stays the same and the exit changes.
To see your exit address, fetch a page that prints the visitor's IP through the proxy. Every BooProxies plan page has a test button that does this from our side and shows the address and its country.
On a rotating plan the exit changes with every new connection, so two checks a second apart show two addresses. That is the plan working as intended. If the address must stay the same between checks, use a sticky session.
Questions about exit IP
How do I find my exit IP address?
Request a page that prints the visitor's address through the proxy, for example curl -x http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@resi.proxies.boo:8080 https://api.ipify.org. The answer is your exit IP.
Why is my exit IP different each time I check?
Because the plan is rotating: each new connection leaves from a different address. Add a session to the username to hold one address while you work.
Related terms
- Backconnect proxy
- A backconnect proxy is a single gateway address that forwards your requests through a changing pool of IP addresses behind it.
- Geo-targeting
- Geo-targeting means choosing the country, state or city your proxy request leaves from, so a website shows what local visitors see there.
- Proxy checker
- A proxy checker is a tool that sends a test request through a proxy and reports whether it works, its exit IP address and its country.
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