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We had nginx running as a proxy for one of the apps. It runs on RHEL 7 because that's the standard for the enterprise. The stock nginx available in nginx did not support http/2.

* There is no chance someone will approve this server to run a nginx instance someone compiled themselves

* There is no chance someone will approve this server to run anything but nginx as that's the company standard for proxy servers.

* There is no chance someone will approve this server to install software from a 3. party yum repository. (And that's even a much bigger chance than someone allowing the firewall in front of that server to allow outgoing connections to the internet, so installing form 3. party repos could even be performed)

In the end there was likely 2 ways to get http/2 support for that service: * Pay some 3.d party to make it happen and be responsible for that server. * Wait until nginx in RHEL (the epel repository, which was approved and mirrored internally) supported http/2.

We did the latter, which happened many months later.