protocol-detection-experimental>Intelligent protocol detection (experimental)</h2><p>To take advantage of Istio&rsquo;s routing features, service ports must use a special port naming format to explicitly declare the protocol. This requirement can cause problems for users that do not name their ports when they add their applications to the mesh. Starting with 1.3, the protocol for outbound traffic is automatically detected as HTTP or TCP when the ports are not named according to Istio&rsquo;s conventions. We