It simply adds grpc-web to the list of supported schemes for the exposer. grpc-web is on the TCP protocol, so the only difference in the resulting deployment is that the service exposed will have its port name prefixed by grpc-web. This is especially useful using grpc-web with istio as the envoy proxy will know to convert an http request to grpc.
What does this fork do?
It simply adds grpc-web to the list of supported schemes for the exposer. grpc-web is on the TCP protocol, so the only difference in the resulting deployment is that the service exposed will have its port name prefixed by
grpc-web. This is especially useful using grpc-web with istio as the envoy proxy will know to convert an http request to grpc.