Disparity of results between proxy testing tools

[Ash (Developer)]

This message was original posted on WarriorForum and I think it will be useful here as well.

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Originally Posted by einfohound Thought this looked too good to pass up. Not too happy with the first run. Out of 240 proxies (elite & anonymous) that PG returned, when I ran them thru Scrapebox's proxy tester, only 16 came out good. Ran the same list through Elite Proxy Switcher and it showed 91 were working. Why the big differences?

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Originally Posted by styla Same issue here , not sure why tho...

Regarding the disparity of results between proxy testing tools, each software uses it's own
methods and servers for testing the proxies. To get similar results, you'd have to match the
settings as close as possible between the apps.

These are some of the differences between Proxy Testing Methods
http://bit.ly/k2xptu

As you can see from the table, the closest match in proxy testing methods is EPS and Charon.

You will see similar results, if you match the settings. Like the server where the judge is hosted,
timeouts and max connections.

So in a nutshell, host EPS's judge and the Goblins judge on the same server. Set the Goblin's
connect timeout to the same value as in EPS and set EPS's max connections value to the
same as the Goblin.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Ash