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Glossary
Sticky session
A sticky session is a proxy setting that holds you on one exit address for a stated time instead of moving you each request.
How a seller holds the address
Stickiness is bought rather than configured in a browser. It arrives inside the line the seller gives you, in one of three shapes.
Which shape you got decides what you can do about it later, so it is worth reading before the purchase and not after. Sellers state it on the plan page.
A session name inside the login
Part of the user name asks the gateway for the same exit as last time, for as long as the gateway agrees to keep it.
One port per session
The gateway gives every port its own exit, so the port you dial decides the address you leave from.
A lifetime in minutes
The seller states how long an exit is held, and when that runs out the address moves whether you have finished or not.
Why a change mid-visit reads badly
A session cookie was handed to one address and comes back from another. Anything built to catch account takeovers is built to notice precisely that.
The same applies to a form opened in one country and submitted from the next one along: the mismatch shows without any fingerprint at all.
What a profile does with it
A profile points at one entry in the address library and leaves through it on every launch. Nothing in the app moves that address by itself.
The address moves when you ask: by hand, before a launch, on a clock while the window is open, or across a whole selection at once.
The country is read at launch
Checking that it held
The check on a library row asks the outside world which address answered, and it asks through the proxy itself over an encrypted connection.
Two readings a few minutes apart tell you whether the exit is still the same one. A single reading tells you only that something answered.
Often confused with
Rotating proxy
The same gateway asked for the opposite thing: a new exit as often as it will give one.
A dedicated static address
One address that is yours for the month. Nothing expires and nobody else is behind it.
A browser session
Cookies and storage live in the profile and outlive any address. Stickiness only decides where the traffic leaves.
What this does not do
- It does not make a seller hold an address. The lifetime belongs to the gateway, and all the app can do is measure what came back.
- It is not configured here. The session is chosen where you buy it, by the login or by the port, and the library keeps the line as it was pasted.
- It does not keep you signed in. A site ends a session for its own reasons, and a held address answers none of them.
- It does not survive a change you asked for. A fresh address before a launch is a broken session by design, and that is what the switch exists for.
Check it
Each claim above is one place in the code and one stand.
- A profile gets one address and the browser uses it for everything it opens
- apps/desktop/test/proxy-covers-https.js
- The exit country is asked through the proxy itself over an encrypted connection
- apps/desktop/src/lib/exitGeo.js
- The check goes the same way the profile will go
- apps/desktop/test/proxy-check-uses-bridge.js
- A change of address is refused under a window that is already open
- apps/desktop/test/proxy-rotation.js
Questions
- How long does a sticky session last?
- The seller decides, and across the market the range runs from a few minutes to a whole day. The offer you bought states which.
- Can I tell when the session dropped?
- Check the library row again and compare the address. It is measured through the proxy rather than asked of your own connection.
- Do two profiles on one sticky entry look like one?
- To a site they do. Two accounts working from the same address at the same time is one of the plainest links there is.
- Is a sticky session the same as a static proxy?
- No. A static address stays yours until you stop paying, while a sticky one is held for a while and then handed on to somebody else.
- Does an automated run need one?
- A run that signs in and then works for an hour looks like a person only while the address stays put underneath it.
See which address your profile leaves from
The free plan gives two profiles, with no time limit and no card.