diff --git a/include/proto/proto_http.h b/include/proto/proto_http.h
index 5ee2e2f..6c81766 100644
--- a/include/proto/proto_http.h
+++ b/include/proto/proto_http.h
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 int http_remove_header2(struct http_msg *msg, struct hdr_idx *idx, struct hdr_ctx *ctx);
 int http_header_add_tail2(struct http_msg *msg, struct hdr_idx *hdr_idx, const char *text, int len);
 int http_replace_req_line(int action, const char *replace, int len, struct proxy *px, struct stream *s);
-void http_set_status(unsigned int status, struct stream *s);
+void http_set_status(unsigned int status, const char *reason, struct stream *s);
 int http_transform_header_str(struct stream* s, struct http_msg *msg, const char* name,
                               unsigned int name_len, const char *str, struct my_regex *re,
                               int action);
diff --git a/include/types/action.h b/include/types/action.h
index 5a70db0..1c17154 100644
--- a/include/types/action.h
+++ b/include/types/action.h
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@
 		} cap;
 		struct {
 			unsigned int code;     /* HTTP status code */
+			const char *reason;    /* HTTP status reason */
 		} status;
 		struct {
 			struct sample_expr *expr;
diff --git a/include/types/applet.h b/include/types/applet.h
index 759b905..642c793 100644
--- a/include/types/applet.h
+++ b/include/types/applet.h
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
 			int left_bytes;         /* The max amount of bytes that we can read. */
 			int flags;
 			int status;
+			const char *reason;
 			struct task *task;
 		} hlua_apphttp;                 /* used by the Lua HTTP services */
 		struct {