I believe so. Thanks for the fast response!

On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 8:19:25 PM UTC+3, Carl Mastrangelo wrote:
>
> The authority is available to the channel credentials when the creds are 
> being created.   As you noticed, the authority is used to verify the 
> identity in TLS, and allows the server to route your request .   
>
> Does this answer your question?
>
> On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 2:07:08 AM UTC-7, Sander Saares wrote:
>>
>> I found a comment on GitHub saying " At least with Java, using this with 
>> TLS will require the overridden authority to still appear on your server's 
>> cert - I believe the same is true for wrapped languages (including C#), but 
>> if you plan to use this in production this should be verified." which might 
>> shed some light on it. However, there remains a conflict between "only 
>> works with Insecure" and "requires the name to be present".
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:50 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I use the HTTP2 ":authority" header for routing gRPC requests from a 
>>> nginx gateway to various gRPC servers, along the lines of 
>>> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/14900
>>>
>>> So far I have not used any credentials but I wish to do so soon. 
>>> However, I notice that in the documentation of the 
>>> DialOptions.WithAuthority() call, there is the following statement:
>>>
>>> // :authority pseudo-header. This value only works with WithInsecure 
>>> and has no 
>>> // effect if TransportCredentials are present.
>>> // WithAuthority returns a DialOption that specifies the value to be 
>>> used as the
>>>
>>> I am probably missing something obvious here but what is the relation 
>>> between the ":authority" header and the transport credentials? Is my 
>>> routing somehow incompatible with the use of proper channel credentials?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Sander
>>>
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