VMESS

VMess is the original protocol of the V2Ray project and encrypts and authenticates every request with the user's UUID and a negotiated cipher. Endpoints are shared as vmess:// links whose body is base64-encoded JSON carrying address, port, UUID, alter ID and transport options. It runs over TCP, WebSocket, gRPC and HTTP/2, and WebSocket variants work behind CDNs. Alter IDs were part of its anti-replay design but are deprecated and set to zero on modern servers. The VMess guide decodes the share-link format in detail.