Is 172.202.208.14:8888 a proxy? Yes, it was.
172.202.208.14:8888 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from United States on Microsoft Corporation. Across 188 checks it answered 1% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered July 17, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
across all 188 checks
United StatesUptime & downtime
3
Days tracked
162
Checks run
99.4%
Downtime
3
Down days
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 172.202.208.14:8888
HProxy has checked 172.202.208.14:8888 188 times and it answered 1 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
4 public sources published it
172.202.208.14 appears in 4 of the public proxy sources HProxy tracks. Lists copy from each other constantly, so an address showing up in many of them says a lot about how widely it was republished and very little about whether it ever worked.
Port 8888: HTTP, alternate
Port 8888 is another common stand-in for port 80, and the default for several debugging tools. Addresses here are frequently developer tooling that somebody forgot to close off.
Every check is a real connection
HProxy does not read this address off somebody else's list and pass it on. Each check opens a real connection to 172.202.208.14:8888 and gives it up to 90 seconds to answer. Slow is not the same as dead, and plenty of working proxies take half a minute to reply. Anything that does not answer in that budget counts as a failure and is recorded as one, which is why the percentage on this page moves rather than sitting at a marketing number. The handshake is attempted across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, so a proxy is never missed because we guessed the wrong protocol.
188 checks, 1 answered
That is 1% of the time, measured since July 17, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
We are still watching for it to come back
Being archived does not stop the testing. 172.202.208.14:8888 answered before, so it is exactly the kind of address that can return, and the sweep works through the whole database and reaches every address roughly once every 24 hours. Its last check was on August 8, 2026, so the next one is due within a day of that. The moment it answers again it is promoted straight back into the live free proxy list, automatically, with no manual step.
This endpoint
The record
Everything HProxy holds on 172.202.208.14:8888, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- July 17, 2026
- Last checked
- August 8, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 188
- Times it answered
- 1
- Stopped answering
- July 17, 2026
1%
answered 1 of 188 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 24 other free proxies on Microsoft, and 935 in United States. 172.202.208.14:8888 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
How many free proxies are on Microsoft Corporation
Open proxies are not spread evenly across the internet. They cluster, because one misconfigured template, one cheap hosting reseller or one leaked image tends to produce hundreds of identical machines on the same network. HProxy tracks 939 addresses on AS8075, which is 0.16% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 55th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 24 of them are answering right now, so if this particular address is not usable, the network is a reasonable place to look for one that is.
- Answering now3%
- Answered before10%
- Never answered87%
Questions about 172.202.208.14:8888
Is 172.202.208.14:8888 a working proxy?
No, not any more. It was a working public proxy in HProxy's free pool and has since gone dark, last answering on July 17, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 172.202.208.14 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 188 checks against it and it answered 1 of them, about 1% of the time, over under a day on our list.
Where was 172.202.208.14 hosted?
United States, Microsoft Corporation (AS8075). It is a datacenter address, not a home connection.
Why keep a page for an address that no longer works?
Because "was this address ever a proxy, and when" is a real question. If you are looking at this IP in a firewall log or an abuse report, the dates and the check counts here are the answer. HProxy's public proxy IP list keeps every address it has ever tracked and carries on re-testing them, so deleting this record would throw all of that away.
How many free proxies are on Microsoft?
24 other free proxies are live on Microsoft (AS8075) in our pool right now, alongside 172.202.208.14:8888. Networks that host one open proxy usually host several, which is why the whole AS is worth browsing rather than just this address.
Are there other free proxies in United States?
Yes, 935 free proxies are exiting from United States in our pool right now, answering in 2495ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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