Faster way to book your IRCTC Tatkal Tickets through Proxy Servers
I bet, none of the other servers in the whole internet will be this much slow as IRCTC’s website at the peak timing. Indian government should award the person who successfully able to book tatkal tickets from IRCTC website within the time frame of 10AM to 11AM. Its too much of hassle for Indians to book tatkal tickets online as they end up with Internal server error or connection timeout errors. I will suggest you some tips to improve the speed to book your next tatkal ticket from IRCTC.
First of all lets talk why IRCTC sleeps at peak time : Service from Indian Government. low performance servers, No maintenance. Server is not able to handle more than 10k inbounds in 5 minutes as stated by government authority.
You will find some websites suggest to use autofill browsers plugins, no doubt, it will help in increasing speed of your booking. But what if the website doesn’t opens? You can only use this trick if you get rid of Internal server error or connection timeout errors.
The best method to speed up the process is by sensible use of Proxy servers. Follow these steps just 15 minutes before the IRCTC tatkal booking opening.
- Get your IRCTC account ready.
- Get your browser fill with autofill form plugins (I wont suggest that, and if you want, google it you will find the method)
- Hunt for the faster Proxy server. Your proxy server should be Delhi Based. There are too many free proxy servers available. you just need to Google away. or here is the list.
- Configure that proxy server in your browser. See below for the steps to set the proxy server in your Firefox browser.
- Surf faster IRCTC.
Note : You need to choose faster proxy server so you must tryout different IPs and check your download speed through that proxy IP. I suggest you to perform all these steps prior an hour.
How to set the proxy IP in your Firefox Browser.
- Step 1: Get one Delhi based Open Proxy IP from the link i stated above.
- Step 2: Open Firefox
- Step 3: Tools > Option.
- Step 4: Go to Advance tab, click on Settings button on Connections option.
- Step 5: Check the Manual Proxy Configuration radio button.
- Step 6: Enter your Proxy IP and port in HTTP Proxy field.
- Step 7: Click Ok and Exit the Settings window.
- Step 8: check your download speed from the same browser.
- Step 9: if download speed is not satisfying, Goto Step 1 and hunt for another proxy IP until you find the faster one.
After all these work, surf IRCTC and you will get faster response. Do let me know if you need further help.
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Tried it. but couldn’t see any difference out of it.
You need to choose the proxy server IP which is nearby the location of IRCTC server, i.e Delhi.
Choose the faster one from the list of Delhi based proxy servers.
You can google it you will find many sites which will give you the list of Open proxy IPs.
Rahul,
Did it occur to you? how insecure using a proxy is. A proxy can capture all fields, take snapshots, even redirect to fake websites.
I hope you will update your post with a disclaimer at the top, so layman has some idea about the ramifications of using a proxy.
Thanks,
premji
How can one be sure that proxy server cannot read the bank details and other user id and password details?
All the payment procedure is carried out through Secure SSL channel of the payment gateway. Even though you are using open proxy.
No dude.. thru proxy, payments are not secure. it may be thru SSL channel, it is not 100% secure.
Moreover, i tried it. Somewhat success but i was really worried of my payments. I am not going to use it for second time ( for obv reasons). but, the article is good and geeky.
I think, nothing to do with proxy, if server is busy, simply it would take time to process your request and send u response.
what if someone creates a tunnel for the ssl or fake the ssl itself…..you won’t whether ssl is between irctc and user or between proxy and user. In the lator case proxy will be able to decrypt the channel and capture all data and then forward the request to irctc server???
everyone plz dont use proxy. your payment details will b captured and hacked.
what if someone creates a tunnel for the ssl or fake the ssl itself…..you won’t know whether ssl is between irctc and user or between proxy and user. In the lator case proxy will be able to decrypt the channel and capture all data and then forward the request to irctc server???
everyone plz dont use proxy. your payment details will b captured and hacked.
i try so many time but not do that
i”ll try it out but as i think irctc servers r not in delhi they r in nearby nasik or pune m nt sure bt i hear it from someone
All u do when u configure proxy is that u try to enter irctc network from different network which could be less congested. irctc is hosted with railtel which has limited internet upstream providers. The morning hours like 8:00 or 10:00 is lean period from internet provider perspective and hence is not much useful when u opt for proxy method.
REMEMBER: if you have internet from good ISP, it hardly matters whether u use proxy method or not. I am not listing the ISPs name having better reachability as it may change based on ircts mgmt decision. But you can easily find out from BGP tools available onnline.
i dont know abt proxy server how it ….i will do … help me
Can any one mail me the Delhi IRCTC Proxy IP and port in HTTP Proxy .
E Sa ko Ke se Open Kare 10am Ko To Kulta Hi nahi Hai
better use Opera turbo mode in Opera browser (i know its not popular browser for PC)
It uses Opera proxy which is very very safe (compare to local proxy)
they have good servers to serve proxy, so ticket booking get helped. (tried and tested)
But if IRCTC servers are overloaded, no one can help.
Hello I think railway department should close the online booking or make the site better because it is not possible to book online tatkal ticket and also not easy to book nor mal tickets by irctc. It is very big hussalling for the people