XHTTP VPN: VLESS Over HTTP With REALITY

Reality hides the handshake, but after it a Reality tunnel is one long TLS connection carrying traffic both ways, and some filters judge connections by exactly that shape: how long they last, how much flows each way, how steady it is. XHTTP (formerly SplitHTTP) changes the shape. In the packet-up mode ProofKit links use, your app sends uploads as a series of separate HTTP POST requests and receives downloads on a separate response, with random padding added.

• REALITY in front. The handshake borrows the same website name as the node's Reality transport, and probes are passed through to that real site, as with Reality.
• Its own port. XHTTP listens on a separate TCP port of the exit node, 8444 by default. On a 2-hop route the entry node forwards it unopened to the exit, on a port of its own.
• Straight to the node. Your app connects to the node directly, not through a CDN: a REALITY handshake has to be answered by the node itself.
• Per-user billing. It is VLESS with your personal ID, so traffic is counted per user like Reality.

• Reality connects but stalls or gets cut after a while, and UDP is blocked, which rules out Hysteria2.
• Your network is known to flag long, steady TLS sessions.

Expect a little more overhead than Reality: many short requests cost more than one stream.

• Only ports 80 and 443 open. Some corporate and hotel networks allow nothing else, and XHTTP uses its own port. Use Reality on 443 there.
• Address blocks. Like Reality, it connects to the node's IP address. If that is blocked, use a 2-hop route or olcRTC.
• Allowlist networks. If only approved services are reachable, olcRTC is the transport built for that.

XHTTP needs an app built on Xray-core: Happ, V2RayNG (Android) or V2RayN (Windows). Apps built on sing-box cannot run it. The dashboard's list for these apps carries Reality only until you change it:

1. Connect to a node in the marketplace.
2. In the dashboard, open Subscription URL, set Your app to Happ · Hiddify · V2RayNG and Transports in subscription to All or XHTTP.
3. Copy the URL, add it as a subscription in your app and pick an entry ending in · XHTTP.

With XHTTP selected, a route whose node does not offer XHTTP keeps its Reality entry, so no route drops out of your list.

The same as Reality and Hysteria2: the node's per-GB price plus the 20% network fee, locked when you connect and paid from your TON deposit in escrow. Only olcRTC has a price of its own, from 20 November 2026. Unused balance can be withdrawn.