diff --git a/include/types/proto_http.h b/include/types/proto_http.h
index 5df00bd..2c8b876 100644
--- a/include/types/proto_http.h
+++ b/include/types/proto_http.h
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@
 struct http_msg {
 	unsigned int msg_state;                /* where we are in the current message parsing */
 	unsigned int flags;                    /* flags describing the message (HTTP version, ...) */
+	struct buffer *buf;                    /* pointer to the buffer which holds the message */
 	unsigned int next;                     /* pointer to next byte to parse, relative to buf->p */
 	unsigned int sov;                      /* current header: start of value */
 	unsigned int eoh;                      /* End Of Headers, relative to buffer */