Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
by duronald on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @09:17AM
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Southwest Airlines offers free IM through iMessage and WhatsApp too. Should be able to tunnel internet traffic through iMessage.
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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
by frankus on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @10:43AM
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I'm trying to recall the name of the app that does this, but one of the travel-tracking apps uses Apple's push notification system (which the network treats as "messaging") to send e.g. gate changes to subscribing devices through this "messaging only" network.
The APNS payload is a JSON blob that's limited to 4KB, with a few required pieces of information but mostly free-form, so it's definitely in the scope of e.g. a (text-only) blog post split over a few messages.