WhatsApp is likely to launch a Web client in the near future

According to the Dutch technology blog Androidworld.nl, Facebook's mobile messaging application WhatsApp is likely to launch a desktop client in the near future.

WhatsApp is one of the most popular mobile messaging applications in the world. A notable feature of this application is the use of smartphone SIM cards to authenticate user identities, so applications have been insisting on only mobile versions. But earlier this week, Pavel Durov, founder of another mobile Messaging application Telegram, said in an interview that WhatsApp was trying to dig out the company's Web application developers. It is doubtful that WhatsApp may be developing a Web client. Androidworld.nl also found that the word "WhatsApp Web" appeared in the code for the Android WhatsApp 2.11.471, which is not the latest version. In addition, there are snippets of code such as login and logout from the computer, and Web session state and latest activity tracking.

Of course, given that WhatsApp users ' authentication is done through a SIM card rather than a Facebook account, how can users log on to a Web client? The WHATSAPI team's claim is that the open standard OAuth with user resource authorization. Users log in using the WhatsApp account via OAuth when the Web client logs in. The Web client then sends a request to the mobile client (the user's cell phone), so that the Web client can login successfully as long as the user accepts the request on the phone. Users can access this address, but need to have a Google account to log in.

But androidworld.nl found that WhatsApp might have another form of sending a Web client request. The blog notes that although the previous WhatsApp has always had two-dimensional code scanning function, but recently WhatsApp's two-dimensional code has been enlarged. After the expansion of two-dimensional code obviously can be more convenient for mobile phone scanning. Then we think about the micro-letter web version of the login mode, not by scanning a representative authentication request of the two-dimensional code to complete the login?