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diff --git a/network/grpcurl/README b/network/grpcurl/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ea941d7dd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/grpcurl/README @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +grpcurl is a command-line tool that lets you interact with gRPC servers. +It's basically curl for gRPC servers. + +The main purpose for this tool is to invoke RPC methods on a gRPC server +from the command-line. gRPC servers use a binary encoding on the wire +(protocol buffers, or "protobufs" for short). So they are basically +impossible to interact with using regular curl (and older versions of +curl that do not support HTTP/2 are of course non-starters). This +program accepts messages using JSON encoding, which is much more +friendly for both humans and scripts. |