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➡️ What Are Sticky IPs?

Sticky IPs, also known as Sticky Sessions, allow you to maintain the same residential exit IP for a specific duration. This helps you preserve session continuity—ideal for login flows, checkout processes, or scraping tasks that depend on a consistent IP identity.

NOTE: Because some websites load ancillary domains that may timeout, you could experience more frequent rotation than you'd like. If you run into this issue, see the “Alternate Sticky Session Functionality” section below.

➡️ Enabling Sticky Sessions

✔ Step 1: Access Sticky Session Settings

1. ✔ Log in to your Rayobyte dashboard.
2. ✔ Click "Get Started" under Residential Proxies.
3. ✔ Locate Sessions Selection and click "Update".

✔ Step 2: Choose Between Soft and Hard Sticky Sessions

• Soft Sticky Sessions: Keeps the same IP as long as it’s available. If it disconnects, the system automatically rotates to a new IP to keep your request flowing.

  username123:password123-session-ABCDEFG@la.residential.rayobyte.com:8000

  NOTE: Websites that load multiple subdomains or external assets may trigger extra rotations. For more control, consider using “-hardsession”.

• Strict (Hard) Sticky Sessions: Maintains the same IP for the entire session duration, even if the connection drops. If the IP becomes unavailable, the request will return an error rather than automatically rotating to a new IP. This mode also prevents unwanted IP changes caused by ancillary requests (such as ads, analytics, or subresource calls) that may fail. Choose this option when connection stability and IP consistency are more critical than continuous connectivity.
  

  username123:password123-hardsession-ABCDEFG@la.residential.rayobyte.com:8000

✔ Step 3: Set Your Session Duration

Once you select Soft or Hard sessions, you can specify a custom duration (1–60 minutes):

username123:password123-session-ABCDEFG-duration-10@la.residential.rayobyte.com:8000

➡️ Combining Geo-Targeting & Sticky Sessions

You can combine Sticky Sessions with Geo-Targeting to request IPs from specific regions while keeping them sticky for your chosen duration.

username123:password123-country-US-region-california-city-los_angeles-session-ABCDEFG-duration-10@la.residential.rayobyte.com:8000

✔ Order Matters: Always list Geo-Targeting parameters first, followed by Sticky Session parameters.

➡️ Important Notes on Sticky Session Reliability

Because residential IPs come from real user devices, some sessions may disconnect unexpectedly if the host device goes offline or loses connectivity.

• ✔ If a disconnection occurs, detect it in your code and retry with a new session ID to receive a fresh sticky IP.
• ✔ Soft sessions will auto-rotate to maintain uptime; hard sessions will stop and require manual reconnect.
• ✔ Plan reconnection logic to gracefully recover from unexpected IP drops.

Rayobyte’s Sticky Session system provides session persistence and flexibility, but occasional interruptions can occur due to the nature of real residential networks.

➡️ Example Usage

✔ Soft Sticky Session Example

curl -x http://username:password-session-MyToken-duration-30@la.residential.rayobyte.com:8000 https://example.com

✔ Hard Sticky Session Example

curl -x http://username:password-hardsession-MyToken@la.residential.rayobyte.com:8000 https://example.com

➡️ Retrieving Your Proxy List

1. ✔ Go to the Proxy List section in your dashboard.
2. ✔ Click "Show" to view your proxies.
3. ✔ Click "Download" to save the list.

➡️ Best Practices

• ✔ Use short durations (5–15 minutes) when testing, and increase as needed.
• ✔ Use “-hardsession” for workflows where IP consistency is critical.
• ✔ Always combine Geo-Targeting first if you need location-specific sticky IPs.
• ✔ Implement reconnect logic in case of unexpected disconnections.

➡️ Need Help?

Still experiencing session interruptions or IP rotation issues? Our support team is happy to help!

✔ Submit a Support Ticket

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✔ Happy Scraping!