Getting ALPN negotiation on Debian 9 (stretch) to activate HTTP2 with nginx

HTTP2 ftw

Posted by Tristan Bessoussa on June 27, 2017

TLDR: With Debian 9 (stretch), ALPN negociation is finally working out of the box thanks to a recent version of OpenSSL used.

OpenSSL> version
OpenSSL 1.1.0f  25 May 2017

# Nginx was installed using official repositories
nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.13.1

All guides on internet refers to Debian 8 (Jessie) and none of them talks about Debian 9 (stretch), so I guess that worth writing a post to let you know that everything is working nicely out of the box.

Proof http2 ALPN nginx

No more manual compilation, or using backports version of openSSL ! Happy HTTP2.