* ignore leading empty lines in HTTP requests (RFC2616)
diff --git a/haproxy.c b/haproxy.c
index df6f5d6..817cb0d 100644
--- a/haproxy.c
+++ b/haproxy.c
@@ -3311,6 +3311,32 @@
if (ptr == req->h) { /* empty line, end of headers */
int line, len;
+
+ /*
+ * first, let's check that it's not a leading empty line, in
+ * which case we'll ignore and remove it (according to RFC2616).
+ */
+ if (req->h == req->data) {
+ /* to get a complete header line, we need the ending \r\n, \n\r, \r or \n too */
+ if (ptr > req->r - 2) {
+ /* this is a partial header, let's wait for more to come */
+ req->lr = ptr;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /* now we know that *ptr is either \r or \n,
+ * and that there are at least 1 char after it.
+ */
+ if ((ptr[0] == ptr[1]) || (ptr[1] != '\r' && ptr[1] != '\n'))
+ req->lr = ptr + 1; /* \r\r, \n\n, \r[^\n], \n[^\r] */
+ else
+ req->lr = ptr + 2; /* \r\n or \n\r */
+ /* ignore empty leading lines */
+ buffer_replace2(req, req->h, req->lr, NULL, 0);
+ req->h = req->lr;
+ continue;
+ }
+
/* we can only get here after an end of headers */
/* we'll have something else to do here : add new headers ... */