If you came looking for httpserver.nu, stop here: the address has no server behind it and has not served a page since May 2018.
What sat at this address
The Internet Archive's first working copy of httpserver.nu is from January 2016 and it holds 11 days of captures in total.
It ran on PHProxy, the script behind most free web proxies of that era.
The listing that carried it, on the free proxy directory workingproxysites.com, is 12 years old, and the directory counted 322 clicks on it.
When it went quiet
The last capture that returned a page at all is from 15 May 2018.
By 15 May 2018 the same address answered with something else: the capture from that day is titled "The domain name httpserver.nu is for sale | Undeveloped".
What the name does today
We checked httpserver.nu on 10 September 2026 from our own server. The lookup fails outright. Without an address there is nothing to connect to, whatever a directory still says about it.
What we would use
Skip the name-hunting. The free proxy list we publish is re-verified every few minutes and shows exactly when each address last answered, and the checker will test an address from an old bookmark before you rely on it.
The honest caveat stays: a free proxy is shared and short lived, and anything behind a login tends to break part way through.
Where the record runs out
There is no account of who ran it or why they stopped. Small sites like this one leave dates behind, not explanations, and we would rather say so than fill the gap.
Treat the check as one sample: taken on one day, from one network. Anything refusing data centre traffic looks identical to something switched off. Due for a recheck by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for httpserver.nu, first capture 29 July 2014, most recent capture 15 May 2018. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for httpserver.nu, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=450, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of httpserver.nu and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
