[Privoxy-users] Randomizing forward proxies

[Andrew J. Caines]

Akash,
> I have a list of proxies that I want to forward the traffic to from my
> privoxy instance randomly, any idea how can I achieve this ?

I run haproxy on my "router" and distribute traffic between three
Privoxy servers. Here's the config I use which doesn't randomise, but
distributes requests for the same sties to the same proxies (balance	uri):

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defaults
	log	global
	mode	http
	option	dontlognull
         timeout connect 5s
         timeout client  1m
         timeout server  1m

frontend privoxy
	bind	10.10.2.1:8118
	option	httplog
	stats	enable
	stats	show-legends
	stats uri /status
	default_backend halprivoxy

backend halprivoxy
	balance	uri
	option	httpchk HEAD http://p.p/
	http-check expect status 200
	server	halnode1 10.10.2.91:8118 check inter 5s
	server	halnode2 10.10.2.92:8118 check inter 5s
	server	halnode3 10.10.2.93:8118 check inter 5s
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