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Great writeup.

I have done similar things on several long flights.

Very often, there is at least one large cloud provider or CDN (e.g. Microsoft/Azure or Amazon/AWS or Google/GCP) that is whitelisted by the in-flight Internet gateway so that it can serve static pages, and I can get access to all the sites hosted by that provider simply by using domain fronting (which the author of this post describes as "disguise domain": https://ramsayleung.github.io/en/post/2025/a_story_about_byp...)



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