Chrome/Puppeteer has a couple of annoying issues when trying to use http/s proxies and socks proxies with the chrome browser controlled by puppeteer. The most pressing issues are the following:

1. Dynamically changing proxy servers: Once the chrome browser is started, it is not possible to change the proxy configuration any longer. A restart is required to switch proxy configuration.
2. user/pass proxy authentication: The chrome browser does not support username/password proxy authentication for socks proxies. Puppeteer supports the http proxy authentication via the page.authenticate() function, but it does not have an equivalent for socks proxies.
3. Per page proxies: Per page proxies are not supported with the chrome browser. The global proxy configuration applies to all pages and windows of a launched chrome process. It seems like the new module tries to solve this issue.

For my purposes, I don't really care about problem 3). I don't need per page proxies anyway, since the crawling software I write runs with one browser tab at the time. However, issue 1) is a mandatory requirement for me and thus needs to be solved.

The reason is, I don't want to restart the browser each time I need to change …

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In this quick blog post I outline why you probably don't want to go to Koh Phi Phi.

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The results of my Master thesis named Model based fuzzing of the WPA3 Dragonfly handshake will be quickly discussed in this blog post. No severe vulnerabilities were discovered, mostly due to the limited deployment of WPA3 hardware since it's introduction. However, a DoS vulnerability in iwd was found.

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Travel experiences during the days of the full moon party in Koh Phangan. The Jungle Experience Party is a huge scam, the Waterfall Party on Koh Phangan might be even worse.

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