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There are also airline wifi these days that allow "free messaging" i.e. WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger traffic only. If one could create a TCP-over-WhatsApp V
by dheera 1y ago
There are also airline wifi these days that allow "free messaging" i.e. WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger traffic only.
If one could create a TCP-over-WhatsApp VPN that would be fantastic.
- arch-choot 1y agoI think that's essentially what my HTTPS proxy does; except rather than actually being over WhatsApp (i.e. using WA messages or w/ever), the SNI tricks their authorization into thinking I'm using WA, while I am connecting to my proxy.
- tgma 1y agoNo, yours would immediately break if they whitelist IPs. This one is pretty much officially sanctioned WhatsApp traffic.
- arch-choot 1y agoAh right, if they also impose IP restrictions this would not work
- Nextgrid 1y agoTCP would be too wasteful - Whatsapp already has retransmissions/etc. You'd want to proxy at a higher layer such as HTTP and just relay HTTP messages (or ideally QUIC traffic so that you take advantage of header reuse/compression, etc - but somehow disable retransmissions since you're already on a reliable link).
- jstanley 1y agoI think this is a premature optimisation. I'd rather have a straightforward TCP-over-WhatsApp proxy than some hacky thing that only works for HTTP, has to peek inside your TLS sessions, etc.
- Gigachad 1y agoYou’d get banned from WhatsApp pretty fast doing that.
- CrossVR 1y agoEven for genuine WhatsApp traffic the speed is limited so severely that loading a video or image someone sent you is nearly impossible.
- zarzavat 1y agoAirline-dependent but I have been able to browse HN over the "messaging" plan. Sometimes its just a data rate restriction, so HN works fine.
- DANmode 1y agoI don’t remember the exact verbiage, but one of the airlines hints that it’s the bandwidth-heavy “websites” (domains) they’re liable to be blocking.
- BeFlatXIII 1y agoNothing like asking some data center far below to generate AI art from 30,000 feet.