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Check a proxy works
Returns the address we saw the request come from, and nothing else. Sent through one of your proxies, the address that comes back is that proxy’s exit address. That makes this a working test rather than a claim: if the request arrives at all, the proxy carries traffic, and the address it reports is the one your targets will see. Sent directly, it reports your own address. Free, and it stores nothing — it does not appear in List checks. To find out what that address is worth to a fraud system, pass it to Check an IP address.

Response

string
The address the request arrived from. unknown in the rare case the address cannot be read at all.

Example

Through a proxy — the useful form. -x gives cURL the proxy to route through, and the address in the answer is the proxy’s, not yours.
The Python example uses the SDK’s own proxy check, which reads the credentials off the order, sends this request through the proxy and times it. A proxy that does not answer comes back as ok=False with the reason in error, because a dead proxy is a result rather than a failed call. Sent directly, with no -x, the same endpoint reports the address you are calling from:

Errors

Nothing here is billable and no free-check allowance is spent. The allowance described in Get check quota applies to the paid reputation check only.