Proxy Montana

A proxy is responsible for forwarding traffic. Technically, it just copies the traffic and sends it to the Internet, but it also replaces various metadata (the type of equipment from which the request is sent, the port number, the IP address, and so on). Or it can be simply called a "mediator" in the computer network.

To work with browser extensions in Selenium, you can follow these steps:

from selenium import webdriver

# Set the path to the ChromeDriver executable
chrome_driver_path = "path/to/chromedriver"

# Set the extension ID
extension_id = "your-extension-id"

# Create a ChromeOptions object
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

# Add the extension ID to the ChromeOptions
chrome_options.add_extension(f"path/to/your-extension-folder/{extension_id}")

# Launch the browser with the extension
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chrome_driver_path, options=chrome_options)

# Your Selenium code goes here

# Close the browser
driver.quit()

Replace path/to/chromedriver, your-extension-id, and path/to/your-extension-folder with the appropriate values for your setup.

By following these steps, you can work with browser extensions in Selenium and automate interactions with the extensions in your test scripts.

A proxy server is a kind of "mediator" between your equipment and a remote server (or the whole Internet). It can be used, for example, to swap your real IP address for another one, to bypass blocking. Proxies can also be actively used to intercept traffic (e.g. when testing created web applications).

In Key Collector settings, the user can specify parameters of the proxy server through which the program will connect to the network. In the application window, first select "Settings", then go to the "Network" tab and check "Use proxy". Its parameters can be set either manually or through a configuration file.

It is a proxy that everyone can connect to. That is, it handles absolutely all requests without interacting with the traffic in any way, without monitoring its packets.