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Topic Self Hosting
Guide
How to create a proxy server: Squid, 3proxy and when to buy instead
Create your own proxy server with Squid or 3proxy: the setup, a login, SOCKS5, and the default headers that tell every site your address, tested on our server.
October 11, 2026 · 7 min read
Use case
Proxies for Agnai: Who Sends Your Requests, Local Requests, Third-Party URLs and a Self-Hosted Server
Where a proxy goes for Agnai, from its source: the server sends model requests unless Use Local Requests is on, and a self-hosted server needs two settings.
September 28, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for RisuAI: The Web Relay, the Desktop App, a Self-Hosted Server and the Reverse Proxy Field
Where a proxy goes for RisuAI: the web app relays requests through a RisuAI server, the desktop app follows the system proxy, and self-hosting splits.
September 28, 2026 · 5 min read
Explainer
Proxy Server Software: The Free Programs, Their Defaults, and the Catch
Proxy server software turns a computer into a proxy. The free programs for Windows and Linux, their default ports, and why a server of your own adds no new IP.
September 27, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
SSH SOCKS Proxy: Turn Any SSH Login Into a SOCKS5 Proxy with ssh -D
One command turns a server you can SSH into into a SOCKS5 proxy. Windows and PuTTY steps, DNS through the tunnel, and the limits we measured in a real test.
September 27, 2026 · 9 min read
Use case
Proxies for Activepieces: the filter refuses your proxy first
Activepieces has no proxy setting, and its server rejects private addresses on purpose. One variable allows yours, and the error message names it.
September 22, 2026 · 5 min read
Use case
Proxies for Huginn: the general setting beats the specific one
Huginn has an instance proxy, an opt-in proxy and a per-agent proxy. The instance one wins, and it stops an agent even saving its own.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for LobeChat: three things called proxy, two that route
In LobeChat a variable named PROXY_URL is an API base URL. The server reads the standard variables, and the desktop app has a real proxy feature.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for AnythingLLM: the setting is not called proxy
AnythingLLM has no proxy setting and says so on purpose. One lane can still be routed, through a Chromium argument list, and it belongs on the server.
September 21, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for cobalt: three settings, and what they cost you
A self-hosted cobalt instance takes HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY. What the proxy then carries, what it costs in traffic, and what it rules out.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
Use case
Proxies for ComfyUI: the variable reaches half your install
ComfyUI has no proxy setting. The usual variables route the Manager and the frontend update, and never the server's own calls. We measured both.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for deep research agents: which lane did that request take?
A research agent has several network lanes and your proxy variable reaches only some. What we found reading fifty three of them, with our own measurements.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for Jina Reader: two headers, and what auto really means
Jina Reader has two proxy headers: one uses its pool, one takes your address. And auto means a random English-speaking country.
September 20, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Langflow: a security default decides whether yours is used
Langflow builds its HTTP client one of two ways. The default one pins addresses and never consults your proxy variables, and the code says why.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for last30days: which of its lanes your setting reaches
This skill reads six sources in one run, through four different network lanes. A proxy variable reaches some of them. We read the code and measured the rest.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
Use case
Proxies for LibreChat: one variable, two resolvers
LibreChat prefers its own PROXY variable for model calls. Its web search lane resolves through a different library that never reads that variable.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Maxun: what the test button actually proves
Maxun stores your proxy encrypted, per user, and applies it to the browser. Its test button opens one harmless page, which is less than most people assume.
September 20, 2026 · 5 min read
Use case
Proxies for nanobot: the setting exists, and it switches something off
nanobot has a real proxy setting for its web tools. Setting it also replaces the transport that pins each resolved address, and that is worth knowing.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for NanoClaw: the proxy variable is already taken
In NanoClaw, HTTPS_PROXY inside the agent points at a credential gateway. Exporting your own there bypasses that gateway, and credential injection goes with it.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for PicoClaw: two fields, and the useful one is undocumented
PicoClaw documents a proxy for installing skills. The field that routes your searches and page fetches is in the code and in the interface, but not in the docs.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for PinchTab: where the setting lives when you run ten browsers
PinchTab refuses a login inside the proxy URL, refuses half a login, and refuses to launch with a broken one. Here is where the setting goes instead.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for Steel Browser: write the scheme, and read the bytes
A Steel session takes a proxyUrl, and the shape its README documents is rejected. We show the address shape that works, and what the session counts.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for TrendRadar: four lanes, and one that switches itself off
TrendRadar takes a proxy in four places. On a forked schedule the crawler's proxy is disabled on purpose, and the program prints that it is doing it.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for World Monitor: the block list belongs to your host
World Monitor keeps a list of seventeen sources that refuse its host. We asked ten of them from our own server and eight answered normally.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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