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		InvaderFizz on May 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) g... Makes me wonder if one could bypass the zero-rating scheme with a custom TLS tunnel that sends SNI headers for Facebook.com to your own server.

Matthias247 on May 22, 2022 [–]

You probably can. But it would require a custom app that doesn't use the same cname for DNS resolution, SNI and then inside follow-up requests in the Host header. A web-browser would e.g. just use the same values for all of those, and then you either get charged or would end up at facebook.com.

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