Glossary

IP allow-list authentication

Authenticating by the address you connect from instead of a username and password.

Useful where a client cannot send proxy credentials. It ties access to your own source addresses, so cloud workloads with changing egress addresses need care.

Further reading: Authentication guide.

Related terms

  • HTTP CONNECT
    The method an HTTP proxy uses to open a tunnel for HTTPS traffic.
  • SOCKS5
    A proxy protocol that relays TCP connections, and optionally UDP, without interpreting HTTP.

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