Custom Sticky Sessions

Sticky Proxies

Smartproxy sticky sessions allow a proxy IP address to persist for up to 24hours (1440 minutes) before it's rotated to a different IP address.

• The default sticky session time is 10minutes.

Dashboard Proxy List Generation

To generate an endpoint list, navigate to the Dashboard → Proxy setup section.

• On the Proxy setup page, you can select between 1, 10, 30, or 60-minute sessions from a drop-down menu or specify a custom duration of up to 24hours.

Custom Session Duration

You can use the sessionduration parameter together with the proxy username or a whitelisted IP to extend the length of a session up to 24hours (1440 minutes).

• The sessionduration parameter accepts any integer (minute) value between 1 and 1440.
• A 1440-minute duration is the longest possible proxy session.

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Premature rotation

The longer the session you have, the more chances there are that the IP will rotate before your specified time due to the residential device at the end going offline.

Multiple Concurrent Sticky Sessions

Adding the session variable to the proxy username or using a whitelisted IP will allow the proxy IP address to persist for multiple requests.

Different session parameter values are used to differentiate between active sessions and behave just like the different sticky proxy ports with our country endpoints.

session-1

session-2

Examples

Username

A cURL example using a 90-minute long sessionduration parameter used with a proxy username and session ID to allow the IP address to persist for multiple requests:

curl -U 'user-SPusername-session-example1-sessionduration-90:password' -x gate.smartproxy.com:7000 ip.smartproxy.com

Whitelisted IP

A cURL example using a 90-minute long sessionduration parameter used with a Whitelisted IP and session ID to allow the IP address to persist for multiple requests:

curl -x https://session-example1-sessionduration-90.gate.smartproxy.com:7000 https://ip.smartproxy.com

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Check out the backconnect guide for a more in-depth review of how to use a sticky session with sessionduration and session parameters.