Why Does gRPC Insist on Trailers?

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  • grpc-web

    gRPC for Web Clients

    Looking at the docs for grpc-web it explicitly states that it does not support streaming when the content type is application/grpc-web+proto. Streaming of protobufs is the reason that GRPC needs trailers so seems pretty straight forward that grpc-web doesn't solve the problem spelled out in the article at all.

  • gogoprotobuf

    [Deprecated] Protocol Buffers for Go with Gadgets (by gogo)

    That probably won't happen either, because the Google gRPC team is also quite resistant to any kind of change (that isn't driven by internal needs at Google). Projects like GoGo Protobuf had to be developed to fill gaps that the Google team refused to fill or accept PRs for.

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