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Since I have received so many requests to make a guide on how to make your own proxy list. Here I am today, writing this post. Be warned that it will be ALOT of information all in one post, I will try to make it as readable as possible. If you have any questions / requests - Please post in this thread, DO NOT PM ME. I receive too many PMs everyday.
Well, lets start!
Proxies: What are they?
In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server. The proxy server provides the resource by connecting to the specified server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client's request or the server's response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it would 'cache' the first request to the remote server, so it could save the information for later, and make everything as fast as possible.
A proxy server that passes all requests and replies unmodified is usually called a gateway or sometimes tunneling proxy.
A proxy server can be placed in the user's local computer or at various points between the user and the destination servers or the Internet.
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Why should we need a proxy list?
Certain applications ( Tubeincreaser / Apoc's Account Checker being 2 of the most used by users on this forum ) give you the option to load a proxy list from a text file to increase your personal security. Tube Increaser requires a proxy list as there is only so many views you can get with 1 IP ( Yours ) so we rely on this proxy list to trick YouTube that different users are viewing the videos.
But Parog, I can find proxy lists everywhere! Why should I go through the trouble of making my own?
AH! There's a lot of reasons!
Since proxies are physically located somewhere, a proxy working perfectly fine for someone, might not work perfectly for you. Think about the Internet being a web of roads, if you send your things in a car to the other end of the city, but don't want the receiver to know it was from you, you first deliver your package to another car(Proxy), and ask it to deliver to the destination. Now... If that other car is located a block away, it will get there faster than if you used a car(proxy) that was located at the other end of the world, as it would have to travel all the way there, and then go to the destination.
Proxies die, they either go offline, get removed entirely, get blacklisted by your ISP, etc etc. This happens ALOT, the bigger the proxy list is, the more changes go through it, you want to be able to run a quick scan to filter the ones not working before using the list, as the non-working ones will GREATY affect your performance.
Over 1/2 of every proxy list that Tube Increaser provides its users with are worthless. The lists are over 1/2 planetlab/codeen network proxies. If you don't believe me, throw their list into charon. You will see nothing but pl. planxx, planet, and planetlab hostnames.
Why should you remove all of these planetlab proxies? They don't give you a view on YouTube. Tube Increaser receives the HTTP 200 OK response, and thinks it generated a view. What really happened is it got the 200 OK, (which means it found and connected the site) BUT it was actually the redirect page from planetlab. Every Codeen/Planetlab proxy when being used, redirects you to their page letting you know your actions are being monitored. Then after like 10 seconds, redirects you to the page you requested. Don't believe me? Throw in a planetlab proxy into the connections tab, then go to any site. You will see the planetlab page first.
What do I need to filter proxies effectively?
A single program - Charon
Charon is (as always, in my opinion) the best overall proxy checker you can get your hands on. It's free, it does the job better than pretty much any other tool except arguably AAtools (which you have to pay for), and it runs cleanly without any extra hassle. Just go over your settings, paste in your list, and it's off and running. It does both HTTP and Socks, Internal or External Judging, and has a great filtering system. And this is how you run it:
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You don't have to install it, just unzip the folder and get to work. Click the cartoon bull and you'll see this:
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This is the main screen. On the first run, you just want to go down the list and configure all your settings at once. After this you really don't have to go in there very often if at all, except to change the Filters or check the Judges from time to time.
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Nothing much to see here, the settings should (from what I recall) be fine as default. If you have something different, reference this picture and fix it. Skipping scan options (we're just using the check function), we get:
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This is flavour country. Your own IP address should be at the top, and you'll want to select "External Judge". This lets you use a judge script outside your own box, which prevents all manner of problems and ensures a more accurate test. For threads and time-out you'll want somewhere between 15-30 generally, until you get more comfortable with what we're doing here and your own system's preferable setup. Threads is the amount of connections the checker can open at once while running through the list, and timeout is the amount of time it waits until it decides an IP is no good and the response is never coming. Retry is of course how many chances it gives an IP before it gives up and declares it Dead.
Depending on if you're running a check at that moment for HTTP, Socks, or just a hodgepodge list of both, you can deselect "Check proxies for HTTP" or "Check proxies for Socks" so as to ensure the checker won't waste any time when you already know what type the IPs you have are. Also, provided your system can run proxies on nonstandard ports (anything besides 1080 for Socks) there's no sense in not unchecking the "Limit proxies to ports" button. ( For tubeincreaser - Deselect Check Proxies for socks )
For check against, you just want a site that will always be up. I prefer google.
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The filter options are a list of IPs and wildcards that will pre-remove IPs you don't want from your list. The ones that come with Charon are solid, though they've been two solid improvements made recently that you should include:
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This is an updated Planetlab filter, just copy the text and overwrite it with what's in your file.
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This is a list of UniqueInternetServices (makers of Proxyfirewall) IPs which may show up on your lists but will not be usable by you. To add this you must create a new filter file. Just open notepad, copy all the IPs in the above post, and paste them into the notepad file. Save it as "UniqueInternetServices.ini" and place it into the filterfiles folder in your charon folder and you're good to go. Don't forget to restart Charon and select it.
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This is what was mentioned previously, about "External Judges". The Judges in question are all external scripts hosted on other people's servers, they check your IP and see if you're being properly masked by it or not. The list that comes with Charon is rather old by now, go to [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and select all of the judges labeled "AZ Environment variables 1.04". Read the post as well, it'll help.
After copying the judges, right-click the Proxy Judges window in Charon and select "Paste judges from clipboard. When that's sorted, click "Remove Duplicates" and then "Test Judges". You want to use the single most reliable and low-pinging azenv1.04 judge on the list, so find whichever one that is for you right-click it from the bottom list to the top. Just one, and Azenv1.04, remember.
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Well about now you're pretty much done. Go to the left menu, click "Check anonymity of all proxies" and go make yourself a sandwich, your part is over. When the checker is done running through the IP list you'll have your very own list of personalized, guaranteed-up proxies.
A last thing about charon, I would recommend setting its priority to "lower than normal" - I've had a few lock ups as it tried using more than my CPU could handle while leeching pages for proxies. This will prevent from using more than what the "idle Cpu usage" would be if it was not running - Leaving all other programs unaffected.
A last few things.
Now that you have Charon up, configured and running, You're going to need proxies to test! You have 2 choices here.
You can load my daily updated list and filter the proxies to only get the ones that still work! ( These are web proxies, not sock4/5 - if you want those, read below. )
My Proxy daily updated proxy list ( With tubeincreaser guide ): [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Automated Proxy Leeching ( Thanks to Apoc! )
This program checks down into links you feed it, meaning if you add a link in the forumlist.txt, that has just say... the base forum link (IE: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] ), and not specific thread links, it'll go into all the threads in that forum.
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Originally Posted by Apoc
Very nice guide Parog! Although, you still use the long-winded way of grabbing proxies.
Download the following tool: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Proxy Vampire by ProxyCollections.com)
Before you run the program, go to your C:\Program Files\Proxy Vampire\ folder, and open forumlist.txt.
Just replace all the text in the forumlist.txt file with the above.
You can of course, add new links and whatnot.
Next, open up Proxy Vampire, and click the big play button (Sideways triangle).
You can easily just leave the program running and watch as it grabs proxies from all the sites.
The bottom-left hand corner will have a small window for some simple filters. Once you're finished with the scan. (It does take quite a long time...)
Make sure you have the All filter selected, you'll see quite a few "BAD" proxies. Ignore this for now.
Click the save button, making sure "All" is selected, as well as HTTP/Socks (your choice here), and Save list to: Clipboard.
Then simply go paste your list into Charon, and start checking the proxies for real.
Proxy Vampire is a decent proxy checker, and it does work for the most part. But it has a very crappy checking system, though the leecher it uses is amazing.
Enjoy folks.
Other ways to get proxies:
This is gonna be real simple:
1) Join the forum. If you're after HTTP proxies, go to the HTTP area. If you're after Socks proxies, go to the Socks area.
2) Click every post in that area (HTTP or Socks) in the last 24 hours, and copy the IP list into your Proxy Checker.
3) Move to the next forum. Repeat.
When you've got a couple thousand pasted in or you're not getting more than a few unique IPs per post, run your checker and reap the rewards. Congratulations, you've got a proxy list of your very own to use for whatever civically-minded (I'm sure) purpose you had in mind.
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Remember to join the forums first. And don't just grab one post and think "Oh, it didn't work!". Grab all the posts in that area in each forum for the last 24 hours at least.
*Cracks fingers* There you go people! That's about it. please post here for any questions / request / concerns.
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Just replace all the text in the forumlist.txt file with the above.
You can of course, add new links and whatnot.
Next, open up Proxy Vampire, and click the big play button (Sideways triangle).
You can easily just leave the program running and watch as it grabs proxies from all the sites.
The bottom-left hand corner will have a small window for some simple filters. Once you're finished with the scan. (It does take quite a long time...)
Make sure you have the All filter selected, you'll see quite a few "BAD" proxies. Ignore this for now.
Click the save button, making sure "All" is selected, as well as HTTP/Socks (your choice here), and Save list to: Clipboard.
Then simply go paste your list into Charon, and start checking the proxies for real.
Proxy Vampire is a decent proxy checker, and it does work for the most part. But it has a very crappy checking system, though the leecher it uses is amazing.
Enjoy folks.
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Thank you Apoc, Added your post to the original post, with credits. =) It completes it very well!
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Internet rule 99: Whenever you see anyone by the name of Parog, wherever it may be, you MUST ask publicly what a Parog is. IE: "What's a Parog?" - Repeat until the internet is filled with nothing but "What's a Parog?".
I noticed many people been asking about this!
And I personally have messed - up few days ago by posting random, Un-filtered Proxies. *Thread was deleted, so No worries there*
Thanks so much!
Parog's Guide to proxies / proxylist making! 
for the great guide Parog. Will post back with comments on how it worked once the scans finish. 
