# Session Control

### Establishing session

The session ID parameter allows you to keep the same IP address to run multiple requests. To reuse the same IP multiple times, use `sessid` parameter after `username` with randomly created alphanumeric string, for example, `sessid-abcd1234`.

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The standard session time is 10 minutes or up to 60s of inactivity (no requests). After that, a new IP address is assigned automatically. To adjust desired session time please refer to [**Session time**](#session-time).

For example, your initial query with `sessid-abcd1234` assigned proxy IP address `1.1.1.1.` As long as you keep sending new requests with the same session ID and that IP address is online and available, the system will route your queries through `1.1.1.1.` If you stop sending requests for 60 seconds or the IP address is no longer online, the system will assign a new proxy IP. Your next query with `sessid-abcd1234` will be routed through a different IP address e.g. `1.1.1.2`.

#### **Credentials list example:**

Example represents a list of credentials that establish different sessions.

```
customer-USERNAME-sessid-iqwcp:PASSWORD
customer-USERNAME-sessid-tevab:PASSWORD
customer-USERNAME-sessid-6drwn:PASSWORD
customer-USERNAME-sessid-7eh7g:PASSWORD
customer-USERNAME-sessid-z7cao:PASSWORD
```

#### Code example

In this example, we are using German IP with `sessid-abcd1234` in the username with the first request. All following requests will keep the same German IP with further queries:

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```shell
curl -x pr.oxylabs.io:7777 -U "customer-USERNAME-cc-DE-sessid-abcd1234:PASSWORD" https://ip.oxylabs.io/location
```

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{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php
$username = 'USERNAME';
$password = 'PASSWORD';
$country = 'DE';
$session = mt_rand();
$proxy = 'pr.oxylabs.io:7777';
$query = curl_init('https://ip.oxylabs.io/location');
curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://$proxy");
curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "customer-$username-cc-$country-sessid-$session:$password");
$output = curl_exec($query);
curl_close($query);
if ($output)
    echo $output;
?>
```

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{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import urllib.request
import random
username = 'USERNAME'
password = 'PASSWORD'
country = 'DE'
session = random.random()
entry = ('http://customer-%s-cc-%s-sessid-%s:%s@pr.oxylabs.io:7777' %
    (username, country, session, password))
query = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({
    'http': entry,
    'https': entry,
})
execute = urllib.request.build_opener(query)
print(execute.open('https://ip.oxylabs.io/location').read())
```

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{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
package example;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Random;
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.auth.*;
import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.*;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.*;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.BasicHttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

class Client {
    public static final String username = "USERNAME";
    public static final String password = "PASSWORD";
    public String session_id = Integer.toString(new Random().nextInt(Integer.MAX_VALUE));
    public CloseableHttpClient client;

    public Client(String country) {
        String login = "customer-"+username+(country!=null ? "-cc-"+country : "")
            +"-sessid-" + session_id;
        HttpHost entry_node = new HttpHost("pr.oxylabs.io:7777");
        CredentialsProvider credentials_provider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
        credentials_provider.setCredentials(new AuthScope(entry_node),
            new UsernamePasswordCredentials(login, password));
        client = HttpClients.custom()
            .setConnectionManager(new BasicHttpClientConnectionManager())
            .setProxy(entry_node)
            .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credentials_provider)
            .build();
    }

    public String request(String url) throws IOException {
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
        CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
        try {
            return EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
        } finally { response.close(); }
    }

    public void close() throws IOException { client.close(); }
}

public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Client client = new Client("de");
        try {
            System.out.println(client.request("https://ip.oxylabs.io/location"));
        } finally { client.close(); }
    }
}
```

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{% tab title="C#" %}

```csharp
using System;
using System.Net;

class Client : WebClient
{
    public static string username = "USERNAME";
    public static string password = "PASSWORD";
    public string session_id = new Random().Next().ToString();

    public Client(string country_iso = null)
    {
        this.Proxy = new WebProxy("pr.oxylabs.io:7777");
        var login = "customer-"+username+(country_iso != null ? "-cc-"+country_iso : "")
            +"-sessid-"+session_id;
        this.Proxy.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(login, password);
    }

    protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri address)
    {
        var request = base.GetWebRequest(address) as HttpWebRequest;
        request.ConnectionGroupName = session_id;
        return request;
    }
}

class Example
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var client = new Client("de");
        Console.WriteLine(client.DownloadString("https://ip.oxylabs.io/location"));
    }
}
```

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{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'net/https'

entry_node = 'pr.oxylabs.io'
entry_port = '7777'
username = 'USERNAME'
password = 'PASSWORD'
session_id = Random.rand(1000000)

uri = URI.parse("https://ip.oxylabs.io/location")
headers = {
    'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip'
}

proxy = Net::HTTP::Proxy(entry_node, entry_port, "#{username}-cc-DE-sessid-#{session_id}", password)
http = proxy.new(uri.host,uri.port)

if uri.scheme == 'https'
    http.use_ssl = true
    http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
end

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.path, headers)

result = http.start do |con|
    con.request(req)
end

puts result.body
```

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### Session time

The `sesstime` parameter goes together with `sessid`, and allows you to prolong the session above 10 minutes or set a particular time for it.&#x20;

{% hint style="success" %}
You can use the `sesstime` parameter to **maintain the same IP for up to 1440 minutes** (24 hours). \
However, because the residential proxy pool is dynamic, your connection may end sooner. If that happens, start a session with a new session parameter.
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="warning" %}
Session time parameter does not ensure that all your queries are finished by the end of the session. The session will expire within the time limit set, even if requests are not finished.
{% endhint %}

#### **Credentials list example:**

Example represents a list of credentials that establish different sessions with different sessions time (minutes).

```
customer-USERNAME-sessid-iqwcp-sesstime-5:PASSWORD
customer-USERNAME-sessid-tevab-sesstime-12:PASSWORD
customer-USERNAME-sessid-6drwn-sesstime-30:PASSWORD
customer-USERNAME-sessid-7eh7g-sesstime-60:PASSWORD
customer-USERNAME-sessid-z7cao-sesstime-1440:PASSWORD
```

#### Code example

We chose the same German IP as in the previous example, this time we are adding `sessid` string and `sesstime` parameter for 7 minutes:

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```shell
curl -x pr.oxylabs.io:7777 -U "customer-USERNAME-cc-DE-sessid-abcd1234-sesstime-7:PASSWORD" https://ip.oxylabs.io/location
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php
$username = 'USERNAME';
$password = 'PASSWORD';
$country = 'DE';
$session = mt_rand();
$sesstime = 7;
$proxy = 'pr.oxylabs.io:7777';
$query = curl_init('https://ip.oxylabs.io/location');
curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://$proxy");
curl_setopt($query, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "customer-$username-cc-$country-sessid-$session-sesstime-$sesstime:$password");
$output = curl_exec($query);
curl_close($query);
if ($output)
    echo $output;
?>
```

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{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import urllib.request
import random
username = 'USERNAME'
password = 'PASSWORD'
country = 'DE'
session = random.random()
sesstime = 7
entry = ('http://customer-%s-cc-%s-sessid-%s-sesstime-%d:%s@pr.oxylabs.io:7777' %
    (username, country, city, session, sesstime, password))
query = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({
    'http': entry,
    'https': entry,
})
execute = urllib.request.build_opener(query)
print(execute.open('https://ip.oxylabs.io/location').read())
```

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{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
package example;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Random;
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.auth.*;
import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.*;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.*;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.BasicHttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

class Client {
    public static final String username = "USERNAME";
    public static final String password = "PASSWORD";
    public String session_id = Integer.toString(new Random().nextInt(Integer.MAX_VALUE));
    public String sesstime = "7";
    public CloseableHttpClient client;

    public Client(String country) {
        String login = "customer-"+username+(country_iso != null ? "-cc-"+country_iso : "")+"-sessid-"+session_id+"-sesstime-" +sesstime;
        HttpHost entry_node = new HttpHost("pr.oxylabs.io:7777");
        CredentialsProvider credentials_provider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
        credentials_provider.setCredentials(new AuthScope(entry_node),
            new UsernamePasswordCredentials(login, password));
        client = HttpClients.custom()
            .setConnectionManager(new BasicHttpClientConnectionManager())
            .setProxy(entry_node)
            .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credentials_provider)
            .build();
    }

    public String request(String url) throws IOException {
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
        CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
        try {
            return EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
        } finally { response.close(); }
    }

    public void close() throws IOException { client.close(); }
}

public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Client client = new Client("de");
        try {
            System.out.println(client.request("https://ip.oxylabs.io/location"));
        } finally { client.close(); }
    }
}
```

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{% tab title="C#" %}

```csharp
using System;
using System.Net;

class Client : WebClient
{
    public static string username = "USERNAME";
    public static string password = "PASSWORD";
    public string session_id = new Random().Next().ToString();

    public Client(string country_iso = null)
    {
        this.Proxy = new WebProxy("pr.oxylabs.io:7777");
        var login = "customer-"+username+(country_iso != null ? "-cc-"+country_iso : "")
            +"-sessid-"+session_id;
        this.Proxy.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(login, password);
    }

    protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri address)
    {
        var request = base.GetWebRequest(address) as HttpWebRequest;
        request.ConnectionGroupName = session_id;
        return request;
    }
}

class Example
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var client = new Client("de");
        Console.WriteLine(client.DownloadString("https://ip.oxylabs.io/location"));
    }
}
```

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{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'net/https'

entry_node = 'pr.oxylabs.io'
entry_port = '7777'
username = 'USERNAME'
password = 'PASSWORD'
session_id = Random.rand(1000000)
sesstime = 7

uri = URI.parse("https://ip.oxylabs.io/location")
headers = {
    'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip'
}

proxy = Net::HTTP::Proxy(entry_node, entry_port, "#{username}-cc-DE-sessid-#{session_id}-sesstime-#{sesstime}", password)
http = proxy.new(uri.host,uri.port)

if uri.scheme == 'https'
    http.use_ssl = true
    http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
end

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.path, headers)

result = http.start do |con|
    con.request(req)
end

puts result.body
```

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