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What Is IP Whitelisting for Proxies?

IP whitelisting lets you use a proxy without a password: you register your own IP with the provider, and the proxy accepts any connection that comes from it.

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The short answer

With IP whitelisting, you tell the proxy provider "my server's IP is 203.0.113.10". From then on, the proxy accepts connections from that IP with no username or password. Anything else is refused.

Pros and cons

  • Good for: tools and browsers that cannot send proxy passwords, and servers with fixed IPs.
  • Bad for: home connections and laptops whose IP changes, and teams working from many places. Then username and password authentication is simpler.

Never whitelist a shared IP, such as office Wi-Fi in a co-working space, or everyone on it can spend your bandwidth.

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Also known as

IP allowlisting, IP authorization, IP authentication, authorized IPs.

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