SOCKS5 proxies

What is a SOCKS5 proxy?Copy Anchor Link

A SOCKS5 proxy sits between your application and the internet and relays TCP connections. Unlike an HTTP proxy, it does not read or rewrite HTTP requests, so it works with any protocol your application speaks. With the socks5h scheme, the proxy also resolves domain names, so your own DNS server never sees which sites you visit.

SOCKS5 vs HTTP proxiesCopy Anchor Link

Which proxy types support SOCKS5?Copy Anchor Link

Every FuseProxy proxy type supports HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5:

How to use a SOCKS5 proxyCopy Anchor Link

With curl, the socks5h scheme resolves DNS on the proxy:

curl -x "socks5h://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT" https://api.ipify.org

In Python with requests (install requests[socks] first):

import requests

proxy = "socks5h://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT"
response = requests.get("https://api.ipify.org", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=30)
print(response.text)

Your dashboard shows the host, port and credentials for each plan. See the authentication docs to use an IP allowlist instead of a password.