This article provides an example of using a proxy to make an HTTP request with the Rust programming language.

Rust Code

In this example, we use the Residential proxy below:

resi.ipv6.plainproxies.com:8080:customer:product--resi6--pass--nicepass

This proxy is split into four parts separated by colons. We first save the proxy as a string variable, then split it into four parts at each colon and then add it, with authentication, to our proxy dictionary.

use reqwest;  
  
#[tokio::main]  
async fn main() {  
    let proxy_string = "resi.ipv6.plainproxies.com:8080:customer:product--resi6--pass--nicepass".to_string();  
    let split_proxy: Vec<&str> = proxy_string.split(":").collect();  
  
    match &split_proxy[..] {  
        [ip, port, user, pass] => {  
            let uri = format!("{}:{}", ip, port);  
            let http = reqwest::Proxy::http(&uri).unwrap().basic_auth(user, pass);  
            let https = reqwest::Proxy::https(&uri).unwrap().basic_auth(user, pass);  
  
            let client = reqwest::Client::builder()  
                .proxy(http)  
                .proxy(https)  
                .build()  
                .unwrap();  
  
            let res = client.get("http://ip-api.com/json").send().await.unwrap();  
        }  
  
        _ => panic!(),  
    };  
}

This requires tokio as an async driver and reqwest as a http client.

reqwest = "0.11.12"

tokio = { version = "1.12.2", features = ["full"] }

Updated on: 20/02/2025