diff --git a/src/util/normalizeurlopts.ts b/src/util/normalizeurlopts.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..252477848
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util/normalizeurlopts.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { Options as NormalizeUrlOptions } from "normalize-url";
+
+// URL normalization options for consistent URL handling across the crawler
+// Query parameters are sorted alphabetically by the normalize-url library
+export const normalizeUrlOpts: NormalizeUrlOptions = {
+  defaultProtocol: "https",
+  stripAuthentication: false,
+  stripTextFragment: false,
+  stripWWW: false,
+  stripHash: false,
+  removeTrailingSlash: false,
+  removeSingleSlash: false,
+  removeExplicitPort: false,
+  sortQueryParameters: true,
+  removePath: false,
+};
diff --git a/src/util/seeds.ts b/src/util/seeds.ts
index a06ac807d..a8f82b769 100644
--- a/src/util/seeds.ts
+++ b/src/util/seeds.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import { MAX_DEPTH } from "./constants.js";
 import { collectOnlineSeedFile } from "./file_reader.js";
 import { logger } from "./logger.js";
 import { type CrawlerArgs } from "./argParser.js";
+import normalizeUrlLib from "normalize-url";
+import { normalizeUrlOpts } from "./normalizeurlopts.js";
 
 type ScopeType =
   | "prefix"
@@ -63,7 +65,8 @@ export class ScopedSeed {
     parsedUrl.username = "";
     parsedUrl.password = "";
 
-    this.url = parsedUrl.href;
+    // Normalize URL with sorted query parameters for consistent matching
+    this.url = normalizeUrlLib(parsedUrl.href, normalizeUrlOpts);
     this.include = parseRx(include);
     this.exclude = parseRx(exclude);
 
@@ -250,7 +253,8 @@ export class ScopedSeed {
       urlParsed.hash = "";
     }
 
-    url = urlParsed.href;
+    // Normalize URL with sorted query parameters for consistent matching
+    url = normalizeUrlLib(urlParsed.href, normalizeUrlOpts);
 
     if (url === this.url) {
       return { url, isOOS: false };
diff --git a/src/util/state.ts b/src/util/state.ts
index ab9810eae..b8bd38ba7 100644
--- a/src/util/state.ts
+++ b/src/util/state.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import {
 import { ScopedSeed } from "./seeds.js";
 import { Frame } from "puppeteer-core";
 import { interpolateFilename, UploadResult } from "./storage.js";
-import normalizeUrl, { Options as NormamlizeUrlOptions } from "normalize-url";
+import normalizeUrl from "normalize-url";
+import { normalizeUrlOpts } from "./normalizeurlopts.js";
 
 // ============================================================================
 export enum LoadState {
@@ -29,20 +30,6 @@ export enum QueueState {
   DUPE_URL = 2,
 }
 
-// ============================================================================
-const normalizeUrlOpts: NormamlizeUrlOptions = {
-  defaultProtocol: "https",
-  stripAuthentication: false,
-  stripTextFragment: false,
-  stripWWW: false,
-  stripHash: false,
-  removeTrailingSlash: false,
-  removeSingleSlash: false,
-  removeExplicitPort: false,
-  sortQueryParameters: true,
-  removePath: false,
-};
-
 // ============================================================================
 // treat 0 or 206 as 200 for purposes of dedup
 function normalizeDedupStatus(status: number): number {
diff --git a/tests/recorder.test.js b/tests/recorder.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..083c97747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/recorder.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import util from "util";
+import { exec as execCallback } from "child_process";
+
+const exec = util.promisify(execCallback);
+
+test("ensure URLs with array-valued headers succeed without multiValueHeader errors", async () => {
+  // Facebook and other sites return array-valued headers that aren't in the
+  // multiValueHeader allowed list (set-cookie, warc-concurrent-to, warc-protocol)
+  // This test verifies that such headers are properly joined with ", " instead of
+  // throwing "not a valid multi value header" error
+  let passed = true;
+  let output = "";
+  try {
+    const result = await exec(
+      "docker run -v $PWD/test-crawls:/crawls webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler crawl --url https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0BqNZHQaQfqTAKzVaaeeYNuyPXFJhkPmzwWT7mZPZJLFnHNEvsdbnLJRPkHJDMcqFl&id=100082135548177 --scopeType page --limit 1 --collection multivalueheadertest",
+    );
+    output = result.stdout + result.stderr;
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.log(error);
+    output = error.stdout + error.stderr;
+    passed = false;
+  }
+
+  // Should not contain the multiValueHeader error
+  expect(output).not.toContain("not a valid multi value header");
+
+  // Should successfully crawl at least one page
+  expect(output).toMatch(/crawled:\s+1/);
+
+  expect(passed).toBe(true);
+});
diff --git a/tests/scopes.test.js b/tests/scopes.test.js
index 84824f0fb..2e3af1b0a 100644
--- a/tests/scopes.test.js
+++ b/tests/scopes.test.js
@@ -326,3 +326,35 @@ seeds:
   expect(seeds[8].exclude).toEqual([/false/]);
   expect(seeds[9].exclude).toEqual([/true/]);
 });
+
+test("scopeType page should match URLs with reordered query parameters", async () => {
+  const seeds = await getSeeds(`
+seeds:
+  - url: https://example.com/page?foo=bar&baz=qux
+    scopeType: page
+`);
+
+  expect(seeds.length).toEqual(1);
+  expect(seeds[0].scopeType).toEqual("page");
+  expect(seeds[0].include).toEqual([]);
+  expect(seeds[0].maxDepth).toEqual(0);
+  expect(seeds[0].maxExtraHops).toEqual(0);
+
+  // Test with the same URL (should match)
+  const result1 = seeds[0].isIncluded(
+    "https://example.com/page?foo=bar&baz=qux",
+    0,
+    0
+  );
+  expect(result1).not.toBe(false);
+  expect(result1.isOOS).toBe(false);
+
+  // Test with reordered query parameters (should still match)
+  const result2 = seeds[0].isIncluded(
+    "https://example.com/page?baz=qux&foo=bar",
+    0,
+    0
+  );
+  expect(result2).not.toBe(false);
+  expect(result2.isOOS).toBe(false);
+});