FAQ

All GSA Tools can use so called CONNECT-Proxies. Those proxies are usually anonymous and work perfectly. Other tools do not understand this type of proxy and use it as a normal WEB-Proxy. Sometimes the proxy does not work here or it reacts differently (no longer anonymous, blocked by google, requires authorization…). If you want to rule out this problem, you need to uncheck the testing for CONNECT proxies in options->filter.

Tools like ScrapeBox can not handle CONNECT proxies and so you will see different results when using them in that software.

There was something strange that I discovered when building the tool. When the program searches for new sources, it could happen that it found proxies who are on port 80 but only seem to work for bing.com. You see them in your list with that TAG and the anonymous level been gray it it could not check that.

I have checked that closely and really was not able to test that proxy successfully against anything else but bing. Sometimes I was able to access facebook.com or ebay.com with it. Even Twitter.com sometimes but thats it. Those proxies are only useful if you want to get access to those sites.

So what type is that I asked myself and opened that IP directly in browser. This is what you get:

Invalid URL
The requested URL "[no URL]", is invalid.

Reference #9.5c957441.1464336353.8984bf0 

Having a look at the header showed:

HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 208
Expires: Fri, 27 May 2016 07:54:48 GMT
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 07:54:48 GMT
Connection: close

OK so Server: AkamaiGHost. This is strange as I never heard anything about this. I searched for information about it and YES! Wikipedia had something for me. And the last sentence on this should get you worried:

The National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have reportedly used Facebook's Akamai content delivery network (CDN) to collect information on Facebook users. Akamai has been accused of blocking access to web sites for visitors using Tor.

You better not use those sites for anything other than bing scraping. I would never use that for facebook and you should also stay away from that. To not use them in export files, just uncheck UNKNOWN as anonymous level and you rule them out.

Well yes, thats possible. However keep in mind that proxies are still public and might be banned quickly. To get just proxies being able to be used for E-Mail Verification do the following:

1. On Main GUI click: Settings
2. Click on Automatic Search
3. Right click on the listing with the Test Scripts and click Check None
4. On that same listing find the test scenario called Email Verification (gmail.com) and check it.

Now you will see the program searching for proxies and testing it only for email verification usage. The proxies can later be exported to a file and e.g. imported to GSA Email Verifier (if you still own it).

Open Regedit.exe and go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE → SYSTEM → CurrentControlSet → services → Tcpip → Parameters

and change settings…
TcpTimedWaitDelay - 30 (decimal)
MaxUserPort - 65534 (decimal)