diff --git a/weed/server/volume_server_handlers_read.go b/weed/server/volume_server_handlers_read.go
index 7b365b28b6..1a5bd4839f 100644
--- a/weed/server/volume_server_handlers_read.go
+++ b/weed/server/volume_server_handlers_read.go
@@ -115,7 +115,23 @@ func (vs *VolumeServer) proxyReqToTargetServer(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Re
 			InternalError(w, r, nil)
 			return
 		}
+		// hop-by-hop headers describe this hop, not the replica's; Connection
+		// also nominates per-request fields to drop (RFC 9110 7.6.1)
+		hopByHop := map[string]bool{
+			"Connection": true, "Keep-Alive": true, "Te": true, "Trailer": true,
+			"Upgrade": true, "Host": true, "Content-Length": true, "Transfer-Encoding": true,
+		}
+		for _, v := range r.Header.Values("Connection") {
+			for _, token := range strings.Split(v, ",") {
+				if name := http.CanonicalHeaderKey(strings.TrimSpace(token)); name != "" {
+					hopByHop[name] = true
+				}
+			}
+		}
 		for k, vv := range r.Header {
+			if hopByHop[http.CanonicalHeaderKey(k)] {
+				continue
+			}
 			for _, v := range vv {
 				request.Header.Add(k, v)
 			}
diff --git a/weed/server/volume_server_handlers_read_test.go b/weed/server/volume_server_handlers_read_test.go
index 943d3652f2..f4a1774124 100644
--- a/weed/server/volume_server_handlers_read_test.go
+++ b/weed/server/volume_server_handlers_read_test.go
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ func TestProxyReqToTargetServerPreservesMethodAndResponse(t *testing.T) {
 		rangeHeader  string
 		ifNoneMatch  string
 		ifModifiedAt string
+		header       http.Header
 	}
 	observed := make(chan observedRequest, 2)
 	peer := newProxyTestHTTPServer(t, http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
@@ -196,6 +197,7 @@ func TestProxyReqToTargetServerPreservesMethodAndResponse(t *testing.T) {
 			rangeHeader:  r.Header.Get("Range"),
 			ifNoneMatch:  r.Header.Get("If-None-Match"),
 			ifModifiedAt: r.Header.Get("If-Modified-Since"),
+			header:       r.Header.Clone(),
 		}
 		w.Header().Set("ETag", `"peer-etag"`)
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Range", "bytes 0-3/10")
@@ -213,6 +215,11 @@ func TestProxyReqToTargetServerPreservesMethodAndResponse(t *testing.T) {
 			r.Header.Set("Range", "bytes=0-3")
 			r.Header.Set("If-None-Match", `"client-etag"`)
 			r.Header.Set("If-Modified-Since", "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT")
+			r.Header.Set("Connection", "keep-alive, X-Hop-Marker")
+			r.Header.Set("Keep-Alive", "timeout=5")
+			r.Header.Set("Upgrade", "h2c")
+			r.Header.Set("Te", "trailers")
+			r.Header.Set("X-Hop-Marker", "private")
 			w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 			vs.proxyReqToTargetServer(w, r)
 
@@ -228,6 +235,11 @@ func TestProxyReqToTargetServerPreservesMethodAndResponse(t *testing.T) {
 			if got.rangeHeader != "bytes=0-3" || got.ifNoneMatch != `"client-etag"` || got.ifModifiedAt != "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT" {
 				t.Errorf("peer received conditional/range headers %+v", got)
 			}
+			for _, dropped := range []string{"Connection", "Keep-Alive", "Upgrade", "Te", "X-Hop-Marker"} {
+				if got.header.Get(dropped) != "" {
+					t.Errorf("hop-by-hop header %s reached the replica: %v", dropped, got.header)
+				}
+			}
 			if w.Code != http.StatusPartialContent {
 				t.Errorf("status %d, want %d", w.Code, http.StatusPartialContent)
 			}