How to set up a proxy: manual and software methods

Often Internet users have a desire to hide their IP-address. This raises the question: "How to configure the proxy?". This can be done "manually", i.e. Independently configure the proxy server in your browser or use special Proxy programs that can independently find a working proxy server and integrate it into your browser.

If we stop on the first method, then there is a possibility of encountering a number of problems that complicate the work when searching for proxy lists and verifying their operability. Many proxies are non-working.

The second way to solve the problem of "how to configure a proxy" for a beginner is much easier, but you should take into account that some programs are paid and they are, most often, in English.

Manual Proxy Configuration

To configure the proxy manually, you need to go through three steps:

• Find proxy lists (lists of proxy servers on sites);

• Integrate them into the browser (configure the proxy on your browser);

• Check proxy for operability (using special sites).

In the network, open access is laid out proxy lists, which can easily be found by the search engine, requesting the search for free proxy lists or "free proxy".

The offered list does not always contain only working proxy servers, so the site with the list found always offers a function for their verification, helping to weed out "dead", but this is also not a 100% guarantee.

Checking such servers on the site is completed by creating a table with the results of the check.

Analyzing it allows you to stop your choice on a suitable proxy server. When viewing the table, you should pay attention to whether the proxy hides the username and IP. If not, then discard this option.

Now we need to install a proxy server in our browser. There are differences in the configuration of proxy servers for different browsers.

Configuring Proxy Servers in Internet Explorer

Choose the first worker from the list of proxies.

1. After opening Internet Explorer, go to the "Browser property" through the "Tools" panel (at the top).

2. Go to the "Connections" tab and select our (in this case "internet"), go to the "Settings".

3. In the new window, select "Use a proxy server for this connection" by checking the box. After that, the "Port" and "Address" fields are activated. From the selected proxy, the last 4 digits are inserted in the "Port", and all the rest, respectively, in the "Address".

Configure proxy servers in Mozilla FireFox

1. Open Mozilla FireFox and go to the "Tools" (the top panel), select the "Settings ..." tab.

2. Then select the "Network" tab and click "Configure ...".

3. After the "Connection settings" window opens, tick the box "Manual setting of the Proxy service". Clicking will activate the "HTTP Proxy" field and the "Port" field. We put from the selected proxy «HTTP and« Port ».

All changes have been completed, including the "Do not use a proxy for:" column by default.

After clicking "OK", the proxy setting will be completed.

Configure proxy servers in Opera

1. Open Opera, go through the "Tools" panel in the "Settings ...".

2. Then go to "Advanced", after which the menu will appear on the left, where you need to select the "Network" section and click "Proxy servers ..." in it

3. In the new window "Proxy servers" tick off "HTTP" and write "HTTP" and "Port".

Checking the health of the selected proxy server

After the proxy configuration in the selected browser is completed, we save the change and go to any site for checking the location and IP-addresses.

• If the page is not loaded, then the proxy is non-working. Configure the next proxy from the proxy list.

• If the page displays your city, then something is wrong or the proxy is "dead".

• If the page displays not your city, then, with the task, how to configure the proxy, you have handled perfectly.

• To disable the proxy, you need to remove the check mark in the settings of the selected browser about selecting a proxy server.

Programs for accessing the proxy server

Programs for anonymous surfing are developed on the Internet. The most popular programs for the "How to configure a proxy" task are Mask Surf, Proxyassistant, ProxySwitcherStandard. Their use makes it much easier to find a list of proxy lists, reduces the time spent checking and integrating the found proxy into the browser.