HTTP Proxy
A proxy server that handles HTTP and HTTPS traffic. The default type used by browsers and most scraping tools.
An HTTP proxy is a proxy server that speaks the HTTP protocol natively. When a client makes a plain HTTP request through it, the proxy receives the full request, forwards it to the destination, and returns the response. For HTTPS, the client first sends an HTTP CONNECT request, the proxy opens a TCP tunnel to the destination, and the client and destination negotiate TLS through that tunnel — the proxy passes encrypted bytes back and forth without seeing the contents.
HTTP proxies are the most common type because they integrate cleanly with browsers, HTTP clients, and scraping libraries. Configuration is a single host:port plus optional credentials. Anything that uses HTTP can use an HTTP proxy without code changes.
They handle modern web traffic well, including HTTPS, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 (over QUIC) where supported. For non-HTTP traffic (SSH, BitTorrent, custom TCP protocols), use a SOCKS proxy instead.
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