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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
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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 LlamaIndex: twenty four readers, four different answers
LlamaIndex ships 24 web readers. One takes a proxy argument and drops the login, some obey your environment variables, and some do not. Here is which.
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 · 7 min read
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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 Obscura: one flag, and three things it does not set
Obscura takes a proxy in one flag and ignores HTTP_PROXY entirely. What it covers, what it drops in silence, and what you still have to align yourself.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for Patchright: the option is unchanged, the traffic is not
Patchright inherits Playwright's proxy option untouched. What changes is everything around it: request routes, the browser cache, and one leak.
September 20, 2026 · 8 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 puppeteer-extra: the stealth plugin does not hide your address
The stealth plugin has seventeen evasions and not one touches the network. The proxy routing plugin is in the same repository, and almost nobody links it.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for pydoll: the login never reaches the command line
Pydoll takes the login out of the proxy URL before Chrome starts, then answers the challenge itself. Three address shapes defeat that, and we ran them.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for ScrapeGraphAI: the loader setting, and the word broker
ScrapeGraphAI takes a proxy in loader_kwargs, with rules it enforces by assertion. One magic value swaps your address for a free public one.
September 20, 2026 · 5 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 TradingAgents: which call is actually being refused
TradingAgents announced proxy support, and it means a custom base URL for the model. The data sources that refuse you are a separate question, source by source.
September 20, 2026 · 6 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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Proxies for ZeroClaw: three scopes, thirty services, and two refusals
ZeroClaw has the most complete proxy configuration we have read: three scopes, thirty named services, and two tools that fail closed rather than be routed.
September 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for agent-browser: one flag, and three traps
Vercel's agent-browser takes a proxy in one flag and answers the login itself. Where it reads the address in 0.38.1, and which documented form cannot work.
September 19, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for Camoufox: the proxy dict, geoip and one IP per browser
Camoufox matches timezone and locale to the proxy's IP with geoip=True, and gives each context its own proxy with NewContext. Which proxy lines keep it right, in 0.5.8.
September 19, 2026 · 10 min read
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Proxies for Chrome DevTools MCP: one flag, one condition
Chrome DevTools MCP takes a --proxyServer flag, and drops it silently when it attaches to a running Chrome. What the flag can carry, and what it cannot.
September 19, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for CrewAI: the scrape tool refuses them on purpose
CrewAI's ScrapeWebsiteTool ignores your proxy variables and raises if you pass one. Why that is deliberate, and the two routes that still work.
September 19, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Dify: a residential proxy behind its own Squid
Dify already sends its HTTP requests through its own Squid proxy. How to put a residential proxy behind it, what that reaches, and the two moves to avoid.
September 19, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies for self-hosted Firecrawl: PROXY_SERVER and what it reaches
A self-hosted Firecrawl has no stealth proxies. Where PROXY_SERVER goes, which parts use it, and the checks that break it, read in v2.11.0 and main.
September 19, 2026 · 10 min read
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