IP whitelisting

If your traffic originates from static addresses, you can whitelist them and drop the credentials entirely. This is common on fixed scraping fleets, where distributing passwords to workers is more of a liability than a convenience.

Adding an address

1. 1Dashboard → Proxy users → select a user → Whitelist.
2. 2Add an individual address or a CIDR block up to /24.
3. 3Whitelist entries propagate to every gateway within about thirty seconds.

# once whitelisted, no -U flag is needed
curl -x res.wproxy.io:8000 https://ipinfo.io/json

# targeting still works: encode it in the username field with no password
curl -x res.wproxy.io:8000 -U "wp-acc4821-country-de:" https://ipinfo.io/json

Combining both

Whitelisting and credentials coexist. A whitelisted address may still send credentials, and it should if you need per-sub-user attribution in usage reports — otherwise traffic is attributed to the sub-user that owns the whitelist entry.