Detect protocols based on request header

[utrack]

Issue Type:

• Bug report
• Feature request

Right now we need separate routers on different ports to process requests of different protocols.
Maybe we could run a single proxy for multiple routers if declared port for one overlaps with the other, and detect the protocol type based on a header of a request?

i.e.

- label: http-incoming
  protocol: http
  interpreter:
    kind: io.l5d.namerd
    dst: /#/io.l5d.k8s/linkerd/thrift/namerd
    namespace: incoming
  servers:
  - port: 4141
    ip: 0.0.0.0

- label: h2-incoming
  protocol: h2
  interpreter:
    kind: io.l5d.namerd
    dst: /#/io.l5d.k8s/linkerd/thrift/namerd
    namespace: incoming
  servers:
  - port: 4141
    ip: 0.0.0.0

Proxy on port 4141 should accept HTTP and H2 requests, detecting a protocol based on headers.
It definitely can be done, see https://github.com/soheilhy/cmux

[adleong]

This is very cool. We actually already do this in Conduit (soon to become Linkerd 2.0). Adding this functionality to Linkerd, unfortunately, would be a large amount of work.