ProxyCap proxy setup

Protocols

SOCKS5 (recommended), HTTPS and HTTP, with username and password

UDP

Yes, over SOCKS5 only

Where the setting is

ProxyCap's configuration window: the proxies list and the rules list

Works with

Residential and mobile proxies

Before you start

• ProxyCap installed and licensed. Its developer has replaced it with NetDetour (proxycap.com now forwards there) and keeps fixing ProxyCap "for the time being". ProxyCap's help pages are offline, so the steps below describe each place in plain words.
• Your proxy login and password from the Residential or Mobile page of the dashboard.
• Traffic on the product you use: a login without traffic is refused.

Add the proxy

1. Open ProxyCap's configuration window from its icon in the system tray.
2. In the proxies list, add a new proxy of type SOCKS5 with host gate.aeonproxy.com and port 7001.
3. Turn on authentication and enter your login (with keys, for example LOGIN-cc-gb-sid-cap01-ttl-30) and your password.
4. Run ProxyCap's built-in proxy check on the new entry before you go on.
5. In the rules list, add a rule: choose the programs, send them through the new proxy, and turn on remote name resolution so DNS lookups happen at the exit. For programs with calls, games or QUIC, let the rule cover UDP as well as TCP.
6. Apply the settings and restart programs that were already open, so their new connections follow the rule.

Port 7000 also works: define it with the HTTPS type, which tunnels any connection through an HTTP proxy. The plain HTTP type carries only unencrypted web pages, and neither of them carries UDP.

Check the proxy

The built-in check should pass with your login. Then open /ip-checker in a browser covered by the rule: the IP and country should be the exit's. If the rule covers UDP, the WebRTC test should show the exit IP too, since ProxyCap sends UDP over SOCKS5 and port 7001 relays it (UDP ASSOCIATE).

Rotating or sticky

ProxyCap opens a separate connection to the gateway for every TCP connection and UDP association. With a rotating login they all get different IPs, so a voice app could send its call from one IP and its sign-in from another. Use a sticky login for anything interactive:

LOGIN-cc-gb-sid-cap01-ttl-30

TCP connections and UDP associations with the key cap01 then use one sticky session for 30 minutes (60 at most). After that the key gets a new IP in the same country. A rotating login suits a scraper that makes one request per connection.

Moving to NetDetour

NetDetour (Windows only) accepts eligible ProxyCap license keys and has a tool that converts ProxyCap settings. Its proxy setup is close: double-click the tray icon, Proxifying Settings, pick the type, Add, enter the name, host, port and credentials. The Rules tab has Quick Add Program, and Resolve names remotely sits in the DNS settings.

If it does not work