gRPC only support HTTP2, no matter with or without security.

> I am using a C++ server, and a C++ client and JS client,

Which JS client are you referring to? Is it Node client? Or JS from 
browser? 

JS from browser would be gRPC-web, it's wire format is different from gRPC 
over HTTP2, see more details 
at: 
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/PROTOCOL-WEB.md#protocol-differences-vs-grpc-over-http2

On Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 2:42:00 PM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:

> I am using a C++ server, and a C++ client and JS client, where I have it 
> operational both with InsecureCredentials and with Secure Credentials using 
> a self-signed cert. I read in some documentation that when you use 
> InsecureCredentials, gRPC uses HTTP1.1 instead of HTTP2, because HTTP2 
> requires SSL. However, when I try to get logs out of the server, the output 
> looks very much the same - is there any way to confirm whether traffic is 
> going over HTTP1.1 or 2?
> I have experimented with some flags like
> ```
> GRPC_VERBOSITY=debug 
> GRPC_TRACE=http,http1,http2_stream_state,secure_endpoint
> ```
> When I run with InsecureCredentials, I still see a lot of logs from 
> http2_stream_state, but I would imagine that this doesn't imply that HTTP2 
> is being used, instead it means that it is just going though the same route 
> in the code.
>
> I am trying to determine the performance difference (if any) between the 
> usage of the two protocols (if any), but I do not feel comfortable 
> reporting performance without being 100% sure which protocol it is using. 
>
> I was hopeful that I might find the answer in some of the environment 
> variable here: 
> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/environment_variables.md#grpc-environment-variables
>  
> but the logs look largely the same either way, except for some 
> secure_endpoint calls, which really just imply HTTPS and encryption are 
> being utilized, but do not clearly show which protocol is utilized.
>
> Thanks a ton!
> Keith
>

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