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Thanks for your reply @alyssawilk ! I have described the current design in some detail as we have some crucial changes in envoy core in order to make this work....

Hi @alyssawilk @wbpcode @mattklein123! I just wanted to follow up on the above design proposal detailing where we had to make envoy core changes to get reverse connections to work!...

@alyssawilk thanks for the suggestion! We were looking into this and it might be possible, we'll be trying it out internally and reaching out when we have changes! @agrawroh I'm...

@alyssawilk, on digging deeper, we find that the http connection pool's [base implementation](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/blob/e8da3a53d9d5d68c907413442416cc20f3f4b9ce/source/common/http/conn_pool_base.h#L49) calls the dispatcher (via Host) to create a [CreateConnectionData](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/blob/e8da3a53d9d5d68c907413442416cc20f3f4b9ce/source/common/http/conn_pool_base.h#L121) object that wraps over the connection object and...

That should work, thank you!

Thanks a lot @alyssawaik, we attended an Envoy meeting wherein Greg suggested something on the same lines. I am currently exploring this option!