I'm newbie of grpc and have played with simple grpc clients of java, go, and python. I know basic http and https but not familiar with protocal details. So this question may be rediculous to you but I didn't find any explaination online.
I know grpc has insecure(go: grpc.WithInsecure(), python: grpc.insecure_channel, java: usePlaintext()) and secure mode(TLS). and grpc is based on httpv2, and http has security mode(https).
So what if use insecure grpc with https? Is the overall data transfer safe?
And what if use TLS grpc with https? Is there performance overhead(becuase I think the messages are encrypted twice)?
Thank you for any answer, any exsiting webpages explaining such topic that will be best!
Insecure implies http. And TLS implies https. So there's no way "to use insecure grpc with https", as at that point it is then http.
There is no double-encryption. The gRPC security mode is the same as the HTTP security mode.
Using gRPC over TLS is highly recommended if you gRPC server is serving requests coming from outside(external network). For example you're creating front end app in javascript serving user requests. Your javascript app make call to your gRPC server for APIs your server provide. Your javascript communicate to your gRPC server through stub created in javascript end. At the end of your gRPC server, you need to set tls mechanism to secure communication between your javascript app and your gRPC server(because requests coming from outside).
gRPC somehow mostly used for internal services communication inside internal network in microservice architecture. You don't need to set tls for internal network usage since requests coming from your own environment from within your watch.
If you want to apply something like "gRPC over HTTPS", then you need something like gateway to map your http call to your gRPC server. Check this out.
You need to compile your proto file as gateway service definitions as well using provided tools. Now you can create your normal http server with tls enabled through something like http.ListenAndServeTLS(...). Dont forget to register your grpc server to the http server using the service definitions compiled from the proto file. With this all your requests to are encrypted with tls to your http server like normal rest apis do, but get proxied to gRPC server you defined. There's no need to enable tls at your gRPC server since it has been enabled in your http server.
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I'm trying to connect to a grpc-service from a Java client. The problem is that this service is currently supporting only grpc-web over http1.1, this is because of a limitation of supporting http2 in Azure App service where the service is deployed.
The grpc-java client liberary from io.grpc only supports grpc over http2 protocol, which maskes sense, and unfortenatly is not working for me.
I managed to consume a service using HTTP client from apache and okhttp3 but this works for unary calls and it didn't work for a server-side streaming service.
Is any one aware of a grpc-web java client liberary that I could use or a work arround using convenienal Http for reading grpc-web server-side streaming service.
If I understand your question correctly, you want a Java client for gRPC-Web so that your client can talk HTTP/1.1 through a gRPC-Web proxy (e.g. Envoy gRPC-Web) because you're unable to talk HTTP/2 directly to your service because of the Azure networking limitation?
In theory this should be possible. The JavaScript implementation is because, in-browser, there's no alternative except JSON transcoding. The JavaScript implementation does implement server-side streaming, which is another requirement and confirms that this should be possible over HTTP/1.1.
However, in a quick search I found no other (i.e non-JavaScript) client implementations of gRPC-Web.
Having a grpc client and server and they are exchanging messages in grpc unary mode. I want to log all the messages the client sends to the server without changing a single line of code in both client or server. I came across to Nginx with its new graceful grpc support. Is it possible to route grpc messages from client to server via Nginx while sending a copy of them to a remote logging service? If No, please let me know if there are any other tools out there that do the same stuff.
I've seen that some app developed in Go run without tls enabled from the app, rather enabled in its proxy server(nginx). The requests coming to the app is encrypted at the nginx side only. So the Go http server is served using only http.ListenAndServe.
While using gRPC, I've seen the gRPC server served without tls enabled, and the client dial with insecure mode enabled.
I assumed all of this because you only need enable tls only if you serve requests coming from outside(external networks). If you use http and grpc for internal services communication within internal network in microservices architecture, you don't need enable tls at all since it only adds overhead. Is this true?
How is tls properly applied in Golang development for http and gRPC server?
I have a HTTP service running on a server that is to be used by my android application. I am thinking about various way to so that clients can send data to server in a secure manner. One common way is to use HTTPS protocol and have an load-balancer or a proxy that do the SSL termination.
Instead, I am thinking of using wiregaurd as a secure medium for communication. So I will first install wiregarud client as a part of my android application and send all the traffic through this wiregarud channel to the server which is being served from an http endpoint.
Which of the two approaches are better in terms of security and speed?
I have an application running behind a Load Balancer in Google Cloud Platform.
When I use the HTTPS protocol in the backend, I'm able to connect with WebSockets and all WebSocket connections work fine. However, when I change the backend protocol to HTTP/2, I'm unable to connect from the application, and it returns a response of 502 Bad Gateway.
Can I use WebSockets with HTTP/2, or do I need to perform some configuration in order to use WebSockets with an HTTP2 backend?
As others have commented, WebSockets are not supported in HTTP/2 and this is the reason why you receive the 5XX error.
Having said that, the WebSocket functionality is achievable (and improved) with HTTP/2 ref.
If you have existing code working with WebSocket it might not be great to rewrite both backend and frontend.
However, if you are developing a new asynchronous service, it is a good idea to take a look at the HTTP/2 + Server Sent Event (SSE) scheme.