diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 316b5c15..8b2078d7 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -96,7 +96,13 @@ dependencies {
   implementation 'com.kjetland:mbknor-jackson-jsonschema_2.13:1.0.39'
   implementation 'com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path:2.10.0'
   implementation 'org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5:5.5.1'
-  implementation 'io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty-http:1.3.0'
+  implementation ('io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty-http:1.3.0') {
+    // http3/quic is not functional on Alpine due to absence of glibc/ld-linux
+    // Error loading shared library ld-linux-x86-64.so.2:
+    //    No such file or directory (needed by /tmp/libnetty_quiche42_linux_x86_641323735684306068308.so)
+    exclude group: 'io.netty', module: 'netty-codec-http3'
+  }
+  implementation 'io.netty.incubator:netty-incubator-codec-native-quic:0.0.74.Final'
   implementation 'org.apache.maven:maven-artifact:3.9.11'
   implementation 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.20.0'
   // for RFC5987 parsing of content-disposition filename*