diff --git a/.github/scripts/compile.sh b/.github/scripts/compile.sh
index ae1ff3e33..cb7e041df 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/compile.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/compile.sh
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ do_build () {
     -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
     -DRUNTIME_CHECK="${runtime_check}" \
     -DCMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION=ON \
-    -DProton_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON -DUSE_LIBWEBSOCKETS=ON -DUSE_LIBNGHTTP2=ON \
+    -DProton_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON \
     -DProton_DIR="$WORKING/proton_install${suffix}/usr/lib64/cmake/Proton" \
     -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
     -DVERSION="${VERSION}" \
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yaml b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
index 178ed19a0..a758c1b5f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install Linux build dependencies
         run: |
-          sudo apt update; sudo apt install -y python3-qpid-proton libpython3-dev ninja-build
+          sudo apt update; sudo apt install -y python3-qpid-proton libpython3-dev ninja-build libwebsockets-dev libnghttp2-dev
 
       - name: Install qpid-proton
         run: |
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index afea9cc81..9062ceb2d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ find_package(Python 3.6.8 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Interpreter Development)
 find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
 find_package(Proton 0.37.0 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core Proactor Tls)
 message(STATUS "Found Proton: ${Proton_LIBRARIES} (found version \"${Proton_VERSION}\")" )
+
+# http2 support
+find_package(libnghttp2 1.33.0 REQUIRED)
+# Web Sockets
+find_package(LibWebSockets 4.0.1 REQUIRED)
+
 ##
 ## Optional dependencies
 ##
@@ -122,15 +128,6 @@ message(STATUS "Found Proton: ${Proton_LIBRARIES} (found version \"${Proton_VERS
 # google benchmark tests are disabled by default
 OPTION(BUILD_BENCHMARKS "Enable building and running benchmarks with Google Benchmark" OFF)
 
-# http2 support is optional
-find_package(libnghttp2 1.33.0)
-CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(USE_LIBNGHTTP2 "Use libnghttp2 for HTTP/2 support" ON
-                         "libnghttp2_FOUND" OFF)
-
-# Web Sockets
-find_package(LibWebSockets 3.0.1)
-CMAKE_DEPENDENT_OPTION(USE_LIBWEBSOCKETS "Use libwebsockets for WebSocket support" ON
-                         "LIBWEBSOCKETS_FOUND" OFF)
 
 if (NOT DEFINED DISPATCH_TEST_TIMEOUT)
     set(DISPATCH_TEST_TIMEOUT "600")
@@ -141,10 +138,6 @@ include (CTest)
 set(PYTHON_TEST_COMMAND "-m" "unittest" "-v" "\${py_test_module}"
     CACHE STRING "Command used to run tests implemented in Python unittest; \${py_test_module} will be replaced with test module name.")
 
-set (SO_VERSION_MAJOR 2)
-set (SO_VERSION_MINOR 0)
-set (SO_VERSION "${SO_VERSION_MAJOR}.${SO_VERSION_MINOR}")
-
 if (NOT DEFINED LIB_SUFFIX)
     get_property(LIB64 GLOBAL PROPERTY FIND_LIBRARY_USE_LIB64_PATHS)
     if ("${LIB64}" STREQUAL "TRUE" AND ${CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P} STREQUAL "8")
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 28e3e9d54..c385a880b 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -356,10 +356,3 @@ The version of skupper-router being used can be obtained running `skrouterd --ve
 The `libbenchmark` library is required by the benchmarks.
 
 |===
-
-==== Optional dependencies
-
-The following CMake options can be used to force-enable (or force-disable) the use of optional dependencies:
-
-- `-DUSE_LIBNGHTTP2`, for the libnghttp2 library, needed by the http2 protocol adaptor
-- `-DUSE_LIBWEBSOCKETS`, for the libwebsockets library, needed to configure `http: yes` listeners
diff --git a/packaging/skupper-router.spec.rpkg b/packaging/skupper-router.spec.rpkg
index 0b11682ae..6613fbdaf 100644
--- a/packaging/skupper-router.spec.rpkg
+++ b/packaging/skupper-router.spec.rpkg
@@ -106,8 +106,6 @@ cd %{_builddir}/qpid-proton-%{proton_vendored_version}
 cd %{_builddir}/skupper-router
 %cmake \
     -DVERSION="%{version} (upstream rpm build)" \
-    -DUSE_LIBWEBSOCKETS=ON \
-    -DUSE_LIBNGHTTP2=ON \
     -DPython_EXECUTABLE=%{python3} \
     -DProton_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON \
     -DCMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION=ON \
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 838996ea9..a55525aef 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ set(qpid_dispatch_SOURCES
   adaptors/http1/http1_client.c
   adaptors/http1/http1_server.c
   adaptors/http1/http1_request_info.c
+  adaptors/http2/http2_adaptor.c
   adaptors/tcp_adaptor.c
   adaptors/test_adaptor.c
   alloc.c
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ set(qpid_dispatch_SOURCES
   entity_cache.c
   failoverlist.c
   hash.c
+  http-libwebsockets.c
   iterator.c
   log.c
   message.c
@@ -133,38 +135,25 @@ set(qpid_dispatch_SOURCES
   )
 
 set(qpid_dispatch_INCLUDES
+  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
   ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
   ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/router_core
-  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
+  ${LIBWEBSOCKETS_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+  ${NGHTTP2_INCLUDE_DIRS}
   )
 
 set(qpid_dispatch_LIBRARIES
-  ${Proton_Proactor_LIBRARIES}
+  ${CMAKE_DL_LIBS}
+  ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT}
+  ${LIBWEBSOCKETS_LIBRARIES}
+  ${NGHTTP2_LIBRARIES}
   ${Proton_Core_LIBRARIES}
+  ${Proton_Proactor_LIBRARIES}
   ${Proton_Tls_LIBRARIES}
-  ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT}
-  ${rt_lib}
-  ${CMAKE_DL_LIBS}
   ${Python_LIBRARIES}
+  ${rt_lib}
   )
 
-# USE_LIBWEBSOCKETS is true only if LIBWEBSOCKETS_FOUND
-if(USE_LIBWEBSOCKETS)
-  list(APPEND qpid_dispatch_SOURCES http-libwebsockets.c)
-  list(APPEND qpid_dispatch_INCLUDES ${LIBWEBSOCKETS_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-  list(APPEND qpid_dispatch_LIBRARIES ${LIBWEBSOCKETS_LIBRARIES})
-else(USE_LIBWEBSOCKETS)
-  list(APPEND qpid_dispatch_SOURCES http-none.c)
-endif(USE_LIBWEBSOCKETS)
-
-if(USE_LIBNGHTTP2)
-  list(APPEND qpid_dispatch_SOURCES adaptors/http2/http2_adaptor.c)
-  list(APPEND qpid_dispatch_INCLUDES ${NGHTTP2_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-  list(APPEND qpid_dispatch_LIBRARIES ${NGHTTP2_LIBRARIES})
-else(USE_LIBNGHTTP2)
-  list(APPEND qpid_dispatch_SOURCES adaptors/http2/http2_adaptor_none.c)
-endif(USE_LIBNGHTTP2)
-
 if ((DEFINED ASAN_LIBRARY) OR (DEFINED UBSAN_LIBRARY) OR (DEFINED TSAN_LIBRARY))
   set(USING_SANITIZERS TRUE)
 endif()
diff --git a/src/adaptors/http2/http2_adaptor_none.c b/src/adaptors/http2/http2_adaptor_none.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 49c152e30..000000000
--- a/src/adaptors/http2/http2_adaptor_none.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-#include "adaptors/http_common.h"
-
-//
-// Empty implementation of management related http2 functions.
-// The nghttp2 library was not found, so no http2 functionality provided.
-//
-
-/**
- * Configure listener.
- */
-qd_http_listener_t *qd_http2_configure_listener(qd_dispatch_t *qd, const qd_http_bridge_config_t *config, qd_entity_t *entity)
-{
-    qd_log_source_t  *log_source = qd_log_source(QD_HTTP_LOG_SOURCE);
-    char *port = qd_entity_get_string(entity, "port");
-    qd_log(log_source, QD_LOG_ERROR, "HTTP2 adaptor not activated due to missing nghttp2 library. Cannot open listener on port %s", port);
-    free(port);
-    return 0;
-}
-
-/**
- * Delete listener via Management request
- * Empty implementation.
- */
-void qd_http2_delete_listener(qd_dispatch_t *qd, qd_http_listener_t *li)
-{
-    qd_log_source_t  *log_source = qd_log_source(QD_HTTP_LOG_SOURCE);
-    qd_log(log_source, QD_LOG_ERROR, "HTTP2 adaptor not activated due to missing nghttp2 library. Cannot delete listeners");
-}
-
-
-/**
- * Configure connector
- */
-qd_http_connector_t *qd_http2_configure_connector(qd_dispatch_t *qd, const qd_http_bridge_config_t *config, qd_entity_t *entity)
-{
-    qd_log_source_t  *log_source = qd_log_source(QD_HTTP_LOG_SOURCE);
-    char *port = qd_entity_get_string(entity, "port");
-    qd_log(log_source, QD_LOG_ERROR, "HTTP2 adaptor not activated due to missing nghttp2 library. Cannot open connector to port %s", port);
-    free(port);
-    return 0;
-}
-
-
-/**
- * Delete connector via Management request
- * Empty implementation.
- */
-void qd_http2_delete_connector(qd_dispatch_t *qd, qd_http_connector_t *connector)
-{
-    qd_log_source_t  *log_source = qd_log_source(QD_HTTP_LOG_SOURCE);
-    qd_log(log_source, QD_LOG_ERROR, "HTTP2 adaptor not activated due to missing nghttp2 library. Cannot delete connectors");
-
-}
diff --git a/src/http-libwebsockets.c b/src/http-libwebsockets.c
index bcbc1f283..6bc24a873 100644
--- a/src/http-libwebsockets.c
+++ b/src/http-libwebsockets.c
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@
 #include <inttypes.h>
 #include <libwebsockets.h>
 
-#if LWS_LIBRARY_VERSION_MAJOR > 3 || (LWS_LIBRARY_VERSION_MAJOR == 3 && LWS_LIBRARY_VERSION_MINOR >= 2)
-#define QD_HAVE_MODERN_LIBWEBSOCKETS 1
-#endif
-
 static const char *CIPHER_LIST = "ALL:aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH"; /* Default */
 static const char *IGNORED = "ignore-this-log-message";
 
@@ -380,18 +376,12 @@ static void listener_start(qd_lws_listener_t *hl, qd_http_server_t *hs) {
 
         info.options |=
             LWS_SERVER_OPTION_DO_SSL_GLOBAL_INIT |
-#ifdef QD_HAVE_MODERN_LIBWEBSOCKETS
             (config->ssl_required ? 0 : LWS_SERVER_OPTION_ALLOW_NON_SSL_ON_SSL_PORT | LWS_SERVER_OPTION_ALLOW_HTTP_ON_HTTPS_LISTENER) |
-#else
-            (config->ssl_required ? 0 : LWS_SERVER_OPTION_ALLOW_NON_SSL_ON_SSL_PORT) |
-#endif
             ((config->requireAuthentication && info.ssl_ca_filepath) ? LWS_SERVER_OPTION_REQUIRE_VALID_OPENSSL_CLIENT_CERT : 0);
     }
     info.vhost_name = hl->listener->config.host_port;
-#ifdef QD_HAVE_MODERN_LIBWEBSOCKETS
     info.finalize = finalize_http;
     info.finalize_arg = hl;
-#endif
     hl->vhost = lws_create_vhost(hs->context, &info);
     if (!hl->vhost) {
         qd_log(hs->log, QD_LOG_NOTICE, "Error listening for HTTP on %s", config->host_port);
@@ -437,19 +427,6 @@ static void listener_close(qd_lws_listener_t *hl, qd_http_server_t *hs) {
 static int callback_http(struct lws *wsi, enum lws_callback_reasons reason,
                          void *user, void *in, size_t len)
 {
-    /*
-     * Modern LibWebSockets uses the .finalize callback on lws_context for cleanup
-     */
-#ifndef QD_HAVE_MODERN_LIBWEBSOCKETS
-    switch (reason) {
-    case LWS_CALLBACK_PROTOCOL_DESTROY:
-        finalize_http(NULL, wsi_listener(wsi));
-        break;
-    default:
-        break;
-    }
-#endif
-
     /* Do default HTTP handling for all the cases we don't care about. */
     return lws_callback_http_dummy(wsi, reason, user, in, len);
 }
diff --git a/src/http-none.c b/src/http-none.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 15af50e0f..000000000
--- a/src/http-none.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-#include "http.h"
-
-#include "qpid/dispatch/log.h"
-
-struct qd_dispatch_t;
-
-/* No HTTP implementation available. */
-
-qd_http_server_t *qd_http_server(struct qd_server_t *s, qd_log_source_t *log)
-{
-    qd_log(log, QD_LOG_WARNING, "HTTP support is not available");
-    return 0;
-}
-
-void qd_http_server_free(qd_http_server_t *h) {}
-
-void* qd_http_server_run(void* qd_http_server) { return 0; }
-
-void qd_http_server_stop(qd_http_server_t *h) {}
-
-qd_lws_listener_t *qd_http_server_listen(qd_http_server_t *s, struct qd_listener_t *li) { return 0; }
-
-void qd_lws_listener_close(qd_lws_listener_t *hl) {}
-
-
-
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index 52d54df7a..bd97acf9e 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -102,13 +102,9 @@ foreach(py_test_module
   add_test(${py_test_module} ${TEST_WRAP} ${CONFIGURED_PYTHON_TEST_COMMAND})
 endforeach()
 
-if(USE_LIBWEBSOCKETS)
-  set(SYSTEM_TESTS_HTTP system_tests_http system_tests_websockets)
-endif()
+set(SYSTEM_TESTS_HTTP system_tests_http system_tests_websockets)
 
-if(USE_LIBNGHTTP2)
-  set(SYSTEM_TESTS_HTTP2 system_tests_http2 system_tests_grpc system_tests_http2_tls)
-endif(USE_LIBNGHTTP2)
+set(SYSTEM_TESTS_HTTP2 system_tests_http2 system_tests_grpc system_tests_http2_tls)
 
 if(DEFINED ENV{SKUPPER_SYSTEM_TEST_SKIP_POLICY})
   #nothing to do
diff --git a/tests/system_tests_http.py b/tests/system_tests_http.py
index 7c259ca42..685b2f55c 100644
--- a/tests/system_tests_http.py
+++ b/tests/system_tests_http.py
@@ -315,13 +315,10 @@ def address():
         self.assert_get("https://localhost:%s" % r.ports[0])
         # requireSsl=false Allows simple-ssl HTTP
 
-        # DISPATCH-1513: libwebsockets versions 3.2.0 introduces a new flag called
+        # DISPATCH-1513: libwebsockets version 3.2.0 introduced a new flag called
         # LWS_SERVER_OPTION_ALLOW_HTTP_ON_HTTPS_LISTENER
         # The new flag allows (as the flag says) HTTP over HTTPS listeners.
-        # Since this flag is not available before lws 3.2.0 we need
-        # to selectively disable this check
-        if skupper_router_site.LIBWEBSOCKETS_VERSION >= (3, 2, 0):
-            self.assert_get("http://localhost:%s" % r.ports[0])
+        self.assert_get("http://localhost:%s" % r.ports[0])
 
         self.assert_get("https://localhost:%s" % r.ports[1])
         # requireSsl=True does not allow simple-ssl HTTP