Digital Doctor
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The statement is true. I am using ProtonVPN.
Is it possible to know if an IP address is a proxy or are they just picking up that I am using a proxy because they identify my ip address as a know proxy IP (ProtonVPN) ?
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The statement is true. I am using ProtonVPN.
Is it possible to know if an IP address is a proxy or are they just picking up that I am using a proxy because they identify my ip address as a know proxy IP (ProtonVPN) ?
Digital Doctor
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MySiteGuy
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It's usually detected by the use of an HTTP header inserted into the request by the web server software using a web server tool like mod_maxminddb. It does ip address lookups from maxmind's IP database, and puts a country code in the headers, with A1 and A2 representing proxies.
Cloudflare also injects country code headers, but I'm not sure if it uses A1/A2 header values. I do know it will ID Tor exits.
developers.cloudflare.com
Cloudflare also injects country code headers, but I'm not sure if it uses A1/A2 header values. I do know it will ID Tor exits.
Cloudflare HTTP request headers · Cloudflare Fundamentals docs
Cloudflare passes all HTTP request headers to your origin web server and adds additional headers as specified below.
developers.cloudflare.com
