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Re: Curl (or server) offers HTTP/2 but falls back to HTTP/1.1

From: Richard W.M. Jones via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:24:35 +0100

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 11:12:35AM +0200, Stefan Eissing wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> you see the ALPN handling in curl's log output. Specifically:
>
> >> * Connected to gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se (2001:6b0:19::137) port 443 (#0)
> >> * ALPN: offers h2,http/1.1
>
> This means that curl offers the server to talk 'h2' (preferred) or 'http/1.1'. This is as it is supposed to be. Then:

Oh I see. The phrasing is ambiguous though, perhaps the debug message
could be:

  * ALPN: client offers h2,http/1.1

> >> * ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
>
> which means the server selected 'http/1.1' from the list of protocols offered by curl. Which is a choice by the server alone.
>
> If you wonder if your local curl can do HTTP/2 properly, just run
>
> > curl -v https://curl.se -o /dev/null
>
> and you should see the line:
>
> * ALPN: server accepted h2

Yes, that works, thanks.

Rich.

> Hope this helps,
> Stefan
>
> > Am 28.07.2023 um 10:15 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 08:47:45AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones via curl-library wrote:
> >> curl-8.1.2-1.fc39.x86_64
> >
> > This is how this version of curl was compiled, if that matters:
> >
> > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/curl/8.1.2/1.fc39/data/logs/x86_64/build.log
> >
> > (search down a bit for the ./configure line)
> >
> > I have this version of libnghttp2:
> >
> > libnghttp2-1.55.0-1.fc39.x86_64
> >
> >> I'm trying to force HTTP/2 to a particular server in my program (to
> >> test multiplexing). For some reason the server always falls back to
> >> HTTP/1.1, even when I use CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_0 or
> >> CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_PRIOR_KNOWLEDGE.
> >>
> >> Actually it happens at the command line too, see below.
> >>
> >> Why is this?
> >>
> >> $ curl -v -I --http2 https://gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se/images/cloud/bookworm/daily/latest/debian-12-backports-generic-amd64-daily.qcow2
> >> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
> >> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
> >> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Trying [2001:6b0:19::137]:443...
> >> * Connected to gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se (2001:6b0:19::137) port 443 (#0)
> >> * ALPN: offers h2,http/1.1
> >> } [5 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
> >> } [512 bytes data]
> >> * CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> >> * CApath: none
> >> { [5 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
> >> { [122 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
> >> { [21 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
> >> { [4564 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
> >> { [264 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
> >> { [36 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
> >> } [1 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
> >> } [36 bytes data]
> >> * SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
> >> * ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
> >
> > I read about ALPN, which seems incredibly complicated and confusing.
> > I wonder if curl could print some more debugging about why a
> > particular protocol was selected?
> >
> > Rich.
> >
> >> * Server certificate:
> >> * subject: CN=ftp.acc.umu.se
> >> * start date: Jul 11 21:18:48 2023 GMT
> >> * expire date: Oct 9 21:18:47 2023 GMT
> >> * subjectAltName: host "gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se" matched cert's "gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se"
> >> * issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
> >> * SSL certificate verify ok.
> >> * using HTTP/1.1
> >> } [5 bytes data]
> >>> HEAD /images/cloud/bookworm/daily/latest/debian-12-backports-generic-amd64-daily.qcow2 HTTP/1.1
> >>> Host: gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se
> >>> User-Agent: curl/8.1.2
> >>> Accept: */*
> >>>
> >> { [5 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
> >> { [249 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
> >> { [249 bytes data]
> >> * old SSL session ID is stale, removing
> >> { [5 bytes data]
> >> < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >> < Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:34:29 GMT
> >> < Server: Apache/2.4.55 (Unix)
> >> < Last-Modified: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:16:27 GMT
> >> < Content-Length: 378874880
> >> < Accept-Ranges: bytes
> >> < Age: 357
> >> <
> >> 0 361M 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
> >> * Connection #0 to host gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se left intact
> >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:34:29 GMT
> >> Server: Apache/2.4.55 (Unix)
> >> Last-Modified: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:16:27 GMT
> >> Content-Length: 378874880
> >> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> >> Age: 357
> >>
> >>
> >> Rich.
> >>
> >> --
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> >
> >> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
> >> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
> >> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Trying [2001:6b0:19::137]:443...
> >> * Connected to gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se (2001:6b0:19::137) port 443 (#0)
> >> * ALPN: offers h2,http/1.1
> >> } [5 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
> >> } [512 bytes data]
> >> * CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> >> * CApath: none
> >> { [5 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
> >> { [122 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
> >> { [21 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
> >> { [4564 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
> >> { [264 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
> >> { [36 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
> >> } [1 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
> >> } [36 bytes data]
> >> * SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
> >> * ALPN: server accepted http/1.1
> >> * Server certificate:
> >> * subject: CN=ftp.acc.umu.se
> >> * start date: Jul 11 21:18:48 2023 GMT
> >> * expire date: Oct 9 21:18:47 2023 GMT
> >> * subjectAltName: host "gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se" matched cert's "gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se"
> >> * issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
> >> * SSL certificate verify ok.
> >> * using HTTP/1.1
> >> } [5 bytes data]
> >>> HEAD /images/cloud/bookworm/daily/latest/debian-12-backports-generic-amd64-daily.qcow2 HTTP/1.1
> >>> Host: gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se
> >>> User-Agent: curl/8.1.2
> >>> Accept: */*
> >>>
> >> { [5 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
> >> { [249 bytes data]
> >> * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
> >> { [249 bytes data]
> >> * old SSL session ID is stale, removing
> >> { [5 bytes data]
> >> < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >> < Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:34:29 GMT
> >> < Server: Apache/2.4.55 (Unix)
> >> < Last-Modified: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:16:27 GMT
> >> < Content-Length: 378874880
> >> < Accept-Ranges: bytes
> >> < Age: 357
> >> <
> >> 0 361M 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
> >> * Connection #0 to host gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se left intact
> >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:34:29 GMT
> >> Server: Apache/2.4.55 (Unix)
> >> Last-Modified: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:16:27 GMT
> >> Content-Length: 378874880
> >> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> >> Age: 357
> >>
> >
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