diff --git a/instrumentation/apache-httpclient/apache-httpclient-5.0/javaagent/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/apachehttpclient/v5_0/ApacheHttpAsyncClientTest.java b/instrumentation/apache-httpclient/apache-httpclient-5.0/javaagent/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/apachehttpclient/v5_0/ApacheHttpAsyncClientTest.java
index 3cc44f22551d..fa42813d8bac 100644
--- a/instrumentation/apache-httpclient/apache-httpclient-5.0/javaagent/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/apachehttpclient/v5_0/ApacheHttpAsyncClientTest.java
+++ b/instrumentation/apache-httpclient/apache-httpclient-5.0/javaagent/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/apachehttpclient/v5_0/ApacheHttpAsyncClientTest.java
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ abstract class AbstractTest extends AbstractApacheHttpClientTest<SimpleHttpReque
     protected void configure(HttpClientTestOptions.Builder optionsBuilder) {
       super.configure(optionsBuilder);
       optionsBuilder.spanEndsAfterBody();
+      optionsBuilder.setHttpProtocolVersion(
+          uri ->
+              Boolean.getBoolean("testLatestDeps") && uri.toString().startsWith("https")
+                  ? "2"
+                  : "1.1");
     }
 
     @Override