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title: ALPN
slug: Glossary/ALPN
page-type: glossary-definition

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Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) is a {{Glossary("TLS")}} extension (defined in RFC 7301) for identifying what application-layer protocol is negotiating the encrypted connection, without requiring additional round trips to do so.

Protocol	Identification sequence
{{Glossary("HTTP", "HTTP/1.1")}}	0x68 0x74 0x74 0x70 0x2F 0x31 0x2E 0x31 ("http/1.1")
{{Glossary("HTTP 2", "HTTP/2")}}	0x68 0x32 ("h2")
HTTP/2 over cleartext {{Glossary("TCP")}}	0x68 0x32 0x63 ("h2c")
{{Glossary("HTTP 3", "HTTP/3")}}	0x68 0x33 ("h3")

See also

• IANA registered ALPN identifiers