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Everything on network

Every guide, comparison and detector run we have published under network.

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HTTP/2 fingerprinting, and how the Akamai string is put together

The first frames of an HTTP/2 connection, SETTINGS, WINDOW_UPDATE, PRIORITY and the pseudo-header order, identify the client library that sent them. Here is the Akamai fingerprint format field by field, and why it is checked together with TLS rather than alone.

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How JA3 and JA4 catch a scraper before the page even loads

The TLS handshake and HTTP/2 frame order reveal what software made a request, regardless of the User-Agent header. JA3 and JA4 hash that order, which is why a copied Chrome header over a Python handshake fails before content loads.