ALPN and Protocol Negotiation: Why Some Clients Fall Back to the Wrong Stack

A technical guide explaining how ALPN negotiation affects whether clients use HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, or HTTP/3, why fallback happens in real deployments, and how protocol mismatches can affect reliability, performance, and trust in scraping and automation systems.

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