Making Requests

By default, Oxylabs proxies and Proxy Rotator use a basic HTTP authentication that requires you to provide a username and password. You can get your credentials by contacting your Dedicated Account Manager or our Support Team at [e-mail].

We also support authentication based on whitelisted IP addresses; see Whitelisting IPs. Depending on your authentication method, you might need to change the proxy port.

Proxy Port	Usage
60000	This port is required with proxies when login credentials are used (username and password). It is also used with Proxy Rotator with both login credentials and whitelisted IPs.
65432	Required with proxies when authorization is done via whitelisted IPs.

Code examples

If you want to use Dedicated Datacenter Proxies via username and password authentication method:

cURL

curl -x 1.2.3.4:60000 -U user1:pass1 http://ip.oxylabs.io/location

PHP

<?php
    $username = 'user1';
    $password = 'pass1';
    $proxy = '1.2.3.4:60000';
    $query = curl_init('https://ip.oxylabs.io/location');
    curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://$proxy");
    curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "$username:$password");
    $output = curl_exec($query);
    curl_close($query);
    if ($output)
        echo $output;
?>

Python

import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://ip.oxylabs.io/location',
    proxies={'http': 'http://username:password@1.2.3.4:60000',
            'https': 'http://username:password@1.2.3.4:60000'}
)
print(response.text)

C#

using System;
using System.Net;

class Example
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var proxy = new WebProxy
        {
            Address = new Uri($"http://1.2.3.4:60000"),
            BypassProxyOnLocal = false,
            UseDefaultCredentials = false,
            Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password")
        };

        var handler = new HttpClientHandler
        {
            Proxy = proxy,
        };

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler);
        var task = Task.Run(async () =>
        {
            var response = await client.GetAsync("https://ip.oxylabs.io/location");
            var content = response.Content;
            var result = await content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            return result;
        });

        task.Wait();
        Console.WriteLine(task.Result);
    }
}

If you want to use Dedicated Datacenter Proxies via Whitelisted IP authentication method:

cURL

curl -x 1.2.3.4:65432 https://ip.oxylabs.io/location 

PHP

<?php
    $proxy = '1.2.3.4:65432';
    $query = curl_init('https://ip.oxylabs.io/location');
    curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://$proxy");
    $output = curl_exec($query);
    curl_close($query);
    if ($output)
        echo $output;
?>

Python

import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://ip.oxylabs.io/location',
    proxies={'http': 'http://1.2.3.4:65432',
            'https': 'http://1.2.3.4:65432'}
)
print(response.text)

C#

using System;
using System.Net;

class Example
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var proxy = new WebProxy
        {
            Address = new Uri($"http://1.2.3.4:65432"),
            BypassProxyOnLocal = false,
            UseDefaultCredentials = false,
        };

        var handler = new HttpClientHandler
        {
            Proxy = proxy,
        };

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler);
        var task = Task.Run(async () =>
        {
            var response = await client.GetAsync("https://ip.oxylabs.io/location");
            var content = response.Content;
            var result = await content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            return result;
        });

        task.Wait();
        Console.WriteLine(task.Result);
    }
}