Is 208.87.243.23:8080 a proxy? Yes.

Port 8080: HTTP, alternate

Port 8080 is the most common proxy port on the internet. It stands in for port 80, and unlike port 80 any program can open it without administrator rights. That single detail is why so much ends up here, the deliberate and the accidental alike.

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 208.87.243.23:8080 and gives it up to 90 seconds to answer. Slow is not the same as unreachable, 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, which is how we know it spoke HTTP.

1,322 checks, 449 answered

That is 34% of the time, measured since July 31, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

It is being re-tested continuously

208.87.243.23:8080 is in the live rotation, so it is re-tested continuously rather than on a daily cycle. If it stops answering it is marked down immediately, and if it stays down for 3 days it moves into the public proxy database with its full record intact. Nothing is deleted at any point.