Charity Engine's Proxy Service is used just like a standard HTTP proxy. It is accessed by configuring the system or application proxy settings to route requests through it:
Host: charityengine.services Port: 20000
Once requests are fulfilled by Charity Engine computers, the responses are returned as though the request was made directly. Try a simple example using curl:
$ curl -v -k -x charityengine.services:20000 -A "Mozilla/5.0 ..." --proxy-user "(authenticator):" "https://www.example.com"
This will send an HTTPS request to example.com through the Charity Engine Proxy using a Mozilla/5.0 user-agent. When the request is complete, it will return the contents of the page at the given URL.
Use an appropriate user-agent string and replace (authenticator) with a valid Charity Engine authenticator. If you still need one, contact us to get started!
Better Performance
It is recommended that requests be submitted to the proxy in parallel. A single slow request could take 20 seconds, but in the meantime, hundreds of other requests could be sent, processed, and returned in parallel.
Additional HTTP headers can be sent to use proxy service configuration options. For example, add --header "X-Proxy-Country: US" (including quotes) to only use nodes from the United States. For details on this and more capabilities, examples, and troubleshooting, see the Distributed Proxy Service documentation.