ng-bottom:22.442748091603054%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.24/blog/2018/delayering-istio/socket-delegation.png title="Socket delegation based connection redirection"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.24/blog/2018/delayering-istio/socket-delegation.png alt="Socket delegation protocol"></a></div><figcaption>Socket delegation based connection redirection</figcaption></figure><p>Once the application and sidecar are connected, the rest happens as usual. Sidecar would initiate a connection to upstream s