SOCKS5 proxies with username and password

Which products support SOCKS5

Private ISP is sold as HTTP(S) only. On a few plans the network has no SOCKS5 gateway; the generator then offers HTTP only, so the protocols you can pick there are always the ones your plan supports.

SOCKS5 or HTTP: which to use

An HTTP proxy understands web requests. For https:// sites it opens a tunnel with CONNECT, so it carries encrypted traffic without seeing inside it. SOCKS5 works one level lower: the proxy opens a TCP connection to whatever address your app asks for and passes the bytes both ways, so it also suits apps that don’t speak HTTP.

• Choose SOCKS5 when your app only offers SOCKS5, when it isn’t a web app (for example desktop tools routed through Proxifier), or when you want DNS lookups done at the proxy with socks5h://.
• Choose HTTP for everything else. HTTP lines work for http:// and https:// sites, every browser and HTTP library supports them, and they’re the only option in Chrome when the proxy needs a password.
• Both carry the same HTTPS traffic through the same exit IP. Pick the protocol your tool supports best; the site you visit matters far more than the protocol.

Get a SOCKS5 line

1. Open the proxy generator and choose your plan.
2. Set Protocol to SOCKS5. Where your plan uses a separate SOCKS5 port, the port in the line changes; on some plans HTTP and SOCKS5 share one port. Always copy the port from the line.
3. Set Proxy Type: Rotating for a new IP on each new connection, or Sticky to keep one IP, with a Sticky Duration and a Sticky Amount (up to 1,000 lines at a time).
4. Choose a Format. protocol://username:password@hostname:port gives you a URL such as socks5://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:SOCKS5_PORT; hostname:port:username:password suits apps with separate fields.
5. Copy the lines into your app or code.

socks5:// or socks5h://?

With socks5://, your machine looks up the site’s address and sends the IP to the proxy. With socks5h://, the proxy receives the hostname and looks it up itself, so DNS happens at the exit and nothing leaks from your network. The generator writes socks5://; in curl and Python, change the scheme to socks5h:// and leave the rest of the line as it is.

curl -x "socks5h://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:SOCKS5_PORT" https://ipinfo.io/json

# pip install "requests[socks]"
import requests

proxy = "socks5h://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:SOCKS5_PORT"
r = requests.get("https://ipinfo.io/json", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=30)
print(r.json())

More languages, with SOCKS5 examples: Node.js, Axios, Go and PHP. Scrapy’s default download handlers don’t support SOCKS proxies, so use HTTP lines with Scrapy.

SOCKS5 in apps and browsers

• Anti-detect browsers such as AdsPower, Multilogin, GoLogin and Dolphin Anty: set the proxy type to SOCKS5 and enter the host, the SOCKS5 port, the username and the password.
• Proxifier: choose SOCKS Version 5 and enable authentication.
• ZennoPoster: paste socks5://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:SOCKS5_PORT into Set proxy.
• Chrome, and tools that drive it such as Puppeteer and Selenium: Chrome can’t send a username and password to a SOCKS5 proxy. Use HTTP lines there, or SOCKS5 without a password from an IP on your Access & API allow-list, on a plan that supports login by IP.
• Firefox: its SOCKS settings have no password fields, so the same applies.

SOCKS5 at other providers

If you’re comparing providers, this is what their own documentation said when we checked on 7 November 2026:

• Oxylabs lists SOCKS5 for its residential, mobile, datacenter and ISP proxies. Residential SOCKS5 uses the entry point pr.oxylabs.io:7777 with socks5h://, and their country-specific entry points don’t work over SOCKS5, so the country goes in the username. See ZenProxy vs Oxylabs.
• Bright Data says SOCKS5 works on its datacenter, ISP and residential networks through port 22228, with DNS resolved on their side only (socks5h). Residential SOCKS5 reaches HTTPS targets only, on a set list of target ports. See ZenProxy vs Bright Data.
• ZenProxy: SOCKS5 on every product except Private ISP, with the same username, password and country targeting as HTTP lines.

Sources, checked 7 November 2026: Oxylabs: residential proxy protocols · Oxylabs: supported protocols · Bright Data: SOCKS5

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