Pod cannot be reached when it is deployed in an Red Hat Service Mesh without sidecar in OpenShift 4

Issue

• Not able to reach pod using ingress gateway/NodePort:

  $ curl -vv curl -vvv http://10.0.0.10:35639
  > Accept: */*
  >
  < HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
  < content-type: application/problem+json
  < content-length: 82
  <
  * Connection #1 to host 10.0.0.10 left intact
  {"title":"unsupported API name or API version","status":400,"cause":"INVALID_API"}
  

• Why can't the pod be reached when it is deployed in a Service Mesh without sidecar injection and exposed by a NodePort svc?

• How to reach a pod using NodePort svc when it is inside the Service Mesh and has no sidecar?