What's up with all the type.googleapis.com calls?

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Hello,

on my self-hosted pomerium instance I see a lot of requests going to the type.googleapis.com domain, such as:

type.googleapis.com/session.Session
type.googleapis.com/user.User
type.googleapis.com/user.ServiceAccount

I’m not using Google IdP. What’s the reason behind these requests? Is it documented somewhere? Can they be disabled? What data is being sent to Google?

Thanks.

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Hello,

These are not calls to google servers, but rather are type URLs for internal objects, which are wrapped into Protobuf Any message. Protobuf uses URI notation for object types which looks like a domain name for type deduplication.

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Thank you Denis for your answer, got it. Have a nice day.