does gRPC support HTTP1.1?

[arcane crane]

hi guys,

I'm A software engineer.

does gRPC compitable with http1.1, if not , will it support http1.1 in the future?

thanks

Robert.

[Nicolas Noble]

grpc itself is a protocol that can be transported over basically anything, but http1.1 doesn't has the features needed. Http2 does.

However, someone wrote a gateway to translate grpc/protobuf to json over http1.1.

See https://github.com/gengo/grpc-gateway

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[Michael Lumish]

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 12:41 AM arcane crane <arcan...@gmail.com> wrote:

hi michael,

I'm a software engineer From China, now trying to use gRPC, 

and I've seen that gRPC fully support http2, 

my question is , does gRPC support HTTP1.1 or not?

Thanks a lot.

Robert

[Eric Anderson]

The gRPC protocol can be relatively easily adapted to HTTP/1.1. Almost every feature we are using in HTTP/2 is present, in some form, in HTTP/1.1 or is just a "nice to have". Bidirectional streaming is the only highly important feature I'm aware of that is not guaranteed to work in HTTP/1.1 (and we would believe many times it wouldn't work in HTTP/1.1).

However, we aren't working on HTTP/1.1 support. It would be a considerable amount of work and we wouldn't be very happy with the result, as doing an RPC would be much more expensive and long-lived streaming RPCs would be required to consume a TCP connection. It wouldn't perform or scale to our expectations. Basically, HTTP/1.1 lacks the feature of "performance" in terms of concurrency, latency, and resource usage.

If you need HTTP/1.1 we would suggest something like grpc-gateway. Or maybe, depending on your needs, a proxy that translates from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2.

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[Louis Ryan]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:20 PM, 'Eric Anderson' via grpc.io <grp...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The gRPC protocol can be relatively easily adapted to HTTP/1.1. Almost every feature we are using in HTTP/2 is present, in some form, in HTTP/1.1 or is just a "nice to have". Bidirectional streaming is the only highly important feature I'm aware of that is not guaranteed to work in HTTP/1.1 (and we would believe many times it wouldn't work in HTTP/1.1).

However, we aren't working on HTTP/1.1 support. It would be a considerable amount of work and we wouldn't be very happy with the result, as doing an RPC would be much more expensive and long-lived streaming RPCs would be required to consume a TCP connection. It wouldn't perform or scale to our expectations. Basically, HTTP/1.1 lacks the feature of "performance" in terms of concurrency, latency, and resource usage.

If you need HTTP/1.1 we would suggest something like grpc-gateway. Or maybe, depending on your needs, a proxy that translates from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2.

E.g.

https://nghttp2.org/documentation/nghttpd.1.html 

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:06 PM, arcane crane <arcan...@gmail.com> wrote:

hi guys,

I'm A software engineer.

does gRPC compitable with http1.1, if not , will it support http1.1 in the future?

thanks

Robert.

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