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Anonymous or Open proxy servers are intermediate Web servers meant to hide the
real identity or IP address of the requestor. Studies found that a large number
of anonymous proxy users are generally responsible for online credit card
fraud, forums and blogs spamming or defacing any visitor editable Web sites.
More often than not they can be scammers, hackers or content thieves seeking
only to prey on you and your legitimate Web site visitors.
The simple fact is that a lot of Web masters don't want or need the traffic from
these anonymous IP address. The detection of open proxy servers is
a complicated and time-consuming process as it requires port scanning and
detection. The IP address gets re-allocated frequently and the proxy server
detection technology needs to be updated regularly. IP2Proxy™ is a simple Web
solution that simplifies anonymous proxy server detection and makes it as
simple as querying the IP address from a local database.
IP2Proxy™ detection algorithm is using a massive number of servers and ports
scanning of all IP address ranges in parallel to detect anonymous open proxy
servers which are actively in use. Then it generates a list of anonymous proxy
IP address list which is then released to the download area every 24 hours. Web
developers can automate the download process once a day from our server and
import the open proxy IP address list into their Web site using script. All IP
addresses in the latest proxy list are the recently active proxy servers on the
Internet.
If you prefer a hosted service, you can get the IP2Proxy™ XML Web Service from
FraudLabs.com
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