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Any business depends on reliable leads. Qualified leads are essential for generating sales and therefore revenue for any company. Marketing departments everywhere are busy constantly updating their databases of prospective clients that may generate future sales. Such databases normally contain all essential information about companies (location of offices, the contact information of decision-makers, etc.), including the likelihood of dealing with the prospects in the future. 

When you deal with proxies on a daily basis it is useful to have a range of tools at your disposal that will help you in testing proxies and running simple missions. One of such tools is cURL. It is an easy-to-use and intuitive command-line tool meant to help you in using proxies. With cURL you can send requests, debug and set up proxies - all from the command line.

From the articles that we post in our blog, you have already learned how normal regular proxies help our clients in their day-to-day online missions. Such proxies work wonderfully if you do not have a need for repetitive requests of a site with an anti-spam or some other type of protection system. For missions involving numerous consecutive requests sent to one web resource, you will need to engage a special type of proxy called backconnect (or rotating) proxy.

When it comes to selecting an optimal set of paid proxies for your online mission, you might face a very tricky question: whether to go for residential proxies or datacenter proxies will do the job alright? 

In the world of proxies you come across various types of servers that vary by their functionality and methods of data transfer. If we consider proxies by location, then we have residential and datacenter servers. And by the type of operation proxies can be rotating or static. But when you see HTTPS or SSL proxies you should know that here the name refers to the protocol of the proxy server. 

When it comes to buying a rare pair of one of those Adidas or Nike shoes you might have already faced the fact that the top-of-the-line sneakers are hard to buy: producers ship only limited batches that can be sold out within seconds from the renowned online stores.