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WhatsApp test

This test is designed to examine the reachability of both WhatsApp’s app and the WhatsApp web version within a tested network.

OONI’s WhatsApp test attempts to perform an HTTP GET request, TCP connection and DNS lookup to WhatsApp’s endpoints, registration service and web version over the vantage point of the user. Based on this methodology, WhatsApp’s app is likely blocked if any of the following apply:

  • TCP connections to WhatsApp’s endpoints fail;

  • TCP connections to WhatsApp’s registration service fail;

  • DNS lookups resolve to IP addresses that are not allocated to WhatsApp;

  • HTTP requests to WhatsApp’s registration service do not send back a response to OONI’s servers.

WhatsApp’s web interface is likely blocked if any of the following apply:

  • TCP connections to web.whatsapp.com fail;

  • DNS lookup illustrates that a different IP addresses has been allocated to web.whatsapp.com;

  • HTTP requests to web.whatsapp.com do not send back a consistent response to OONI’s servers.

Read the WhatsApp test specification.