y-connections.svg alt="Gateway network connections"></a></div><figcaption>Gateway network connections</figcaption></figure><ol><li><p>The inbound request, initiated by some client such as <code>curl</code> or a web browser. This is often called the &ldquo;downstream&rdquo; connection.</p></li><li><p>The outbound request, initiated by the gateway to some backend. This is often called the &ldquo;upstream&rdquo; connection.</p></li></ol><p>Both of these connections have independent TLS configurations.</p><p>No