grpc.WithTransportCredentials(credentials.NewTLS(
			&tls.Config{
				// Always skip verifying, because without it we always get "certificate signed by unknown authority".
				// We don't set the XDSSAN for the same reason.
				InsecureSkipVerify: true,
			})),
		grpc.WithPerRPCCredentials(k8sCreds),
	}, nil

		connected = int32(offline)
		err = &url.Error{URL: urlStr, Err: err}
	}
	// The host's colon:port should be normalized. See Issue 14836.
	u.Host = removeEmptyPort(u.Host)

	// Transport is exactly same as Go default in https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#RoundTripper
	// except custom DialContext and TLSClientConfig.
	clnt := &Client{
		httpClient:               &http.Client{Transport: tr},
		url:                      u,