Country Targeting and Sticky Sessions
In this guide, you’ll learn how to configure country targeting and use sticky sessions with Unlimited Residential Proxies.
Country Targeting
You can configure country targeting from Unlimited Residential Proxies → Proxy Configuration in the Geonode dashboard.
The available options include:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Country Targeting | Any by default or a specific country |
| Gateway | United States |
US Gateway Only
Unlimited Residential currently supports the US gateway only. Other gateways are not yet available for this product.
Country Targeting
You can use Any as the default country targeting option or select a specific country.
Sticky Sessions
Sticky sessions keep the same IP for a period of time when enabled.
You can view and manage active sessions under Active Sticky Sessions in the dashboard.
Releasing a session frees the IP so that the next use of the same session ID gets a new IP.
Enable a Sticky Session
To create a sticky session, append -session-{sessionname} to your username.
This works with both HTTP and SOCKS5 connections.
Format
USERNAME-session-{sessionname}Use a unique session name when creating multiple sessions in parallel.
Session Names
The session ID should be unique in order to create multiple sessions in parallel. If the same session ID is used, the same existing sticky session will be used.
HTTP
curl -x http://USERNAME-session-test123:PASSWORD@residential-unlimited-us-01-proxy.geonode.io:13003 https://ipinfo.ioSOCKS5
curl --proxy socks5://USERNAME-session-test123:PASSWORD@residential-unlimited-us-01-proxy.geonode.io:13003 https://ipinfo.ioGet a New IP
You can get a new IP by changing the session name.
For example, change:
session-test123to:
session-test456You can also release sessions from the Active Sticky Sessions section in the dashboard. This assigns a new IP automatically.