OpenVPN Through Proxy

When using a proxy, Google Chrome warns the user about it at startup. To connect directly, you must disable proxies at system level. That is, go to "Settings" Windows, then - "Network and Internet", in the section "Proxy server" disable the corresponding item.

To hide the geckodriver.exe console in Selenium, you can use the subprocess module in Python to start the geckodriver.exe process without a console window.

Here's an example of how to do it:

import subprocess
from selenium import webdriver

# Replace 'your_url' with the URL of the webpage you want to open
subprocess.Popen(['geckodriver.exe'], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('your_url')

# Rest of your code

driver.quit()

In this example, we use the subprocess.Popen() function to start the geckodriver.exe process without a console window. The stdout and stderr parameters are set to subprocess.DEVNULL to suppress any output from the process.

After starting the geckodriver.exe process, you can create a Firefox webdriver instance and interact with the browser as usual.

Keep in mind that hiding the console window might make it harder to debug issues that arise during the execution of your Selenium script. Consider keeping the console window visible during development and testing, and hiding it only in the final production environment.

In UDP, the term "connected" has a different meaning compared to TCP. Since UDP is a connectionless protocol, there is no established connection between the sender and receiver. However, you can determine if the UDP socket is in a listening state or if it has been successfully created.

To check if a UDP socket is in a listening state, you can use the socket.SOCK_DGRAM type and the bind() method. If the socket is successfully created and bound to an address and port, it will be in a listening state and ready to receive incoming UDP packets.

Here's an example using Python:

import socket

# Create a UDP socket
server_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)

# Bind the socket to an address and port
server_address = ('localhost', 12345)
server_socket.bind(server_address)

# Check if the socket is in a listening state
print("Socket is in a listening state: ", server_socket.getsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR) == 1)

# Close the socket
server_socket.close()

In this example, the bind() method creates a UDP socket and binds it to the specified address and port. The getsockopt() method is used to retrieve the SO_REUSEADDR option, which indicates whether the socket is in a listening state. If the value is 1, the socket is in a listening state and ready to receive incoming UDP packets.

Although free proxies are popular, they are far from being flawless in their work. Many of their IP addresses are blacklisted by popular resources, and the data transfer speed and stability are very unreliable. When choosing a proxy, keep in mind that the new version of IPv6 is not supported by most websites. Note also that proxies are divided into private and public, statistical and dynamic, and support different network protocols.

There are 2 ways to do this. The first is to manually change the settings in /etc/environment, but you will definitely need root access to do that. You can also use the Network Manager utility (compatible with all common DEs). You just have to make sure beforehand that the driver for the network adapter to work properly is installed on the system.