Rotating or sticky sessions: what is the difference?
Rotating gives every request a new IP; a sticky session keeps one IP while its device is online.
Checked against the product on October 16, 2026
- Rotating (the default): every request leaves from a new IP. Use it for broad crawls of many simple pages.
- Sticky: add
-session-<id>and every request with that ID leaves from the same IP. Use it for logins, carts and any flow of several steps.
A sticky session has no time limit: it keeps its IP while the exit device stays online. Add -time-<minutes> to end it sooner, and -const if you want the request to fail instead of moving to a new IP when the device goes offline.
The targeting is fixed when the session starts. To change the country or city, use a new session ID. Details are in the session docs.
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