Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in proxy support

Using Proxies in reqwest with Rust in 2024

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Jan 9, 2024

Proxies are intermediaries that forward along your requests. Reqwest has first-class proxy support for routing requests through proxies. Proxy authentication, custom proxy rules, and bypassing proxies for certain domains are also covered. Advanced proxy usage techniques such as capturing traffic and using asynchronous proxies are discussed. Proxies API is recommended as a managed API service for proxy functionality.

Do I need urllib3?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

Python's urllib3 module provides connection pooling, asynchronous requests, and TLS encryption for better performance in HTTP requests.

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