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

**URL:** <https://discuss.pomerium.com/t/whats-up-with-all-the-type-googleapis-com-calls/302>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 5, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.pomerium.com/t/whats-up-with-all-the-type-googleapis-com-calls/302 "2023-09-05T21:29:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![pschiffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@pschiffe](https://discuss.pomerium.com/u/pschiffe)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.pomerium.com/t/whats-up-with-all-the-type-googleapis-com-calls/302/1 "2023-09-05T21:29:36Z")

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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:

```auto
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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**Author:** ![denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@denis](https://discuss.pomerium.com/u/denis)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.pomerium.com/t/whats-up-with-all-the-type-googleapis-com-calls/302/2 "2023-09-06T13:54:20Z")

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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](https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/google.protobuf/#any). Protobuf uses URI notation for object types which looks like a domain name for type deduplication.

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**Author:** ![pschiffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@pschiffe](https://discuss.pomerium.com/u/pschiffe)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.pomerium.com/t/whats-up-with-all-the-type-googleapis-com-calls/302/3 "2023-09-07T13:04:31Z")

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