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Proxies for OpenHands: you are reading the wrong repository
The repo with 88,810 stars is now the OpenHands interface. The agent and its browser tool live in a separate SDK, and that tool has no proxy option.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for OpenManus: the setting is there, the reader is gone
OpenManus still ships a browser proxy block in its config. The tool that read it was deleted, and the browser now runs where your variables cannot reach.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Qwen Code: six ways in, and only one wins
Qwen Code takes a proxy from a flag, a settings entry or four environment variables. The first match wins, and it is then used for both schemes.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Roo Code: the browser you want to route is gone
Roo Code removed browser use entirely in February 2026, though the dependencies remain. The extension needs no proxy code, because the editor routes its requests.
September 22, 2026 · 6 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for Android: Which Ones Work, Checked Minutes Ago
A free proxy works in Android's Wi-Fi setting only if it opens HTTPS tunnels and needs no password. Our live count, a quick test, and where free stops.
September 21, 2026 · 5 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 NemoClaw: two proxies, only one of them yours
NemoClaw already proxies every agent request and a network policy decides what it may reach. Where your own proxy goes, and what it does with a login.
September 21, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for Agent-Reach: the setting is in the backend, not the tool
Agent-Reach has no proxy setting because it never makes the request. Its own readme says a server needs a residential line and a laptop does not.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for AutoGen: no proxy option, one parameter that saves it
AutoGen's web surfer launches its browser with two options and neither is a proxy. The constructor takes a browser context, and that is where the address goes.
September 20, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Botasaurus: a list rotates, a login starts a Node process
Botasaurus takes a proxy as a string, a function or a list. The list rotates in order, and an address with a login starts a Node helper inside Python.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Camofox: the proxy is also the location switch
Camofox takes a proxy in environment variables. Adding one also turns on location matching, and there is a ten second cap you should know about.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for career-ops: the tool does not fetch, and the big boards refused us
career-ops instructs your coding assistant to fetch job postings. Its own scripts take no proxy, and in our test the biggest job boards refused both addresses.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for CloakBrowser: three routes for one login
CloakBrowser takes a proxy in one argument, but your login can travel three different ways. Which one you get depends on your platform and your build.
September 20, 2026 · 8 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 · 8 min read
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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 Crawlee: what actually moves it to the expensive tier
Crawlee picks a proxy per session or per tier. We ran its own tier algorithm: on a blocking domain a third of requests still use the cheapest tier.
September 20, 2026 · 9 min read
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Proxies for curl_cffi: the argument, and the exception you must catch
curl_cffi takes a proxy in one argument and keeps the password out of the URL. It also decides which exception a failed proxy raises, and that one surprises.
September 20, 2026 · 6 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 · 9 min read
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Proxies for DeerFlow: one tool takes an address, the other does not
DeerFlow has no global proxy. Its page fetch tool takes one in the config file, its search tool takes none, and containers need an exclusion list.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for gallery-dl: route the metadata, skip the files
gallery-dl can give its metadata requests and its file downloads different proxies, or none at all. On a per gigabyte line that is the whole bill.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for GPT Researcher: the two scrapers that cannot use one
GPT Researcher has no proxy setting. Its static scraper gets one from the environment for free, and both of its browser scrapers cannot take one at all.
September 20, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Instaloader: no option, and why a new address rarely helps
Instaloader has no proxy setting. The environment variables work anyway, and its own rate limiter is the reason a fresh address so often changes nothing.
September 20, 2026 · 6 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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