SSL Certificate

You’re going to need an SSL certificate to maintain a clean and end-to-end encrypted connection between your host and the target website while using Toolip Residential Proxies.

You can easily install the SSL certificate manually using the steps below, or by running a simple script (recommended).

If you prefer not to install the SSL certificate at this point, you can simply ignore SSL errors in your code for now.

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Download the SSL certificate

Right click on this link to “save as” the file to your hard drive.

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Using the SSL certificate in your code

If you write scraping code, in most cases, you do not need to install the SSL certificate in your environment. Simply load the SSL certificate in your code. For example, for CURL:

curl --proxy "login:password@proxy.toolip.io:31113" --cacert "path/to/ssl_toolip_certificate.cer" "http://httpbin.org/ip"

You can refer to toolip sample code examples in the dashboard for exact syntax.

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Installation of the SSL certificate

In some cases, for example when using some third party tools that don’t allow loading the certificate from your hard drive, you still need to install the SSL certificate on your computer. This takes 2 minutes - simply follow these instructions:

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How to ignore SSL errors?

In some cases you will need to install our certificate or ignore SSL errors in order to get access to specific products or features. In case you are not interested in installing our certificate, you can ignore SSL errors. Check out the following code snippets for different programming languages, the highlighted part is what needs to be added to your code in order to ignore SSL errors.

# Add -k to ignore ssl errors
curl --proxy "[LOGIN]:[PASSWORD]@[HOST]:[PORT]" -k "http://httpbin.org/ip"

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How does SSL analyzing works?

Some features require the Proxy Manager to have access to HTTPS traffic. This can be done by enabling the SSL Analyzing option on the proxy port configuration page.

Once you allow Proxy Manager to terminate the SSL you will also need to trust toolip Certificate Authority (CA).

Under the hood Proxy Manager will create a secure encrypted HTTPS connection with the target site, decrypt the traffic to log requests and run rules based on your settings and then pass the response back to your client in an encrypted HTTPS connection with a certificate signed by our CA certificate.