diff --git a/src/proto_http.c b/src/proto_http.c
index 4b4d2be9d..7f5df4c9a 100644
--- a/src/proto_http.c
+++ b/src/proto_http.c
@@ -3047,8 +3047,7 @@ int http_wait_for_request(struct stream *s, struct channel *req, int an_bit)
 	use_close_only = 0;
 	ctx.idx = 0;
 	/* set TE_CHNK and XFER_LEN only if "chunked" is seen last */
-	while ((msg->flags & HTTP_MSGF_VER_11) &&
-	       http_find_header2("Transfer-Encoding", 17, req->buf->p, &txn->hdr_idx, &ctx)) {
+	while (http_find_header2("Transfer-Encoding", 17, req->buf->p, &txn->hdr_idx, &ctx)) {
 		if (ctx.vlen == 7 && strncasecmp(ctx.line + ctx.val, "chunked", 7) == 0)
 			msg->flags |= (HTTP_MSGF_TE_CHNK | HTTP_MSGF_XFER_LEN);
 		else if (msg->flags & HTTP_MSGF_TE_CHNK) {
@@ -6229,8 +6228,7 @@ int http_wait_for_response(struct stream *s, struct channel *rep, int an_bit)
 
 	use_close_only = 0;
 	ctx.idx = 0;
-	while ((msg->flags & HTTP_MSGF_VER_11) &&
-	       http_find_header2("Transfer-Encoding", 17, rep->buf->p, &txn->hdr_idx, &ctx)) {
+	while (http_find_header2("Transfer-Encoding", 17, rep->buf->p, &txn->hdr_idx, &ctx)) {
 		if (ctx.vlen == 7 && strncasecmp(ctx.line + ctx.val, "chunked", 7) == 0)
 			msg->flags |= (HTTP_MSGF_TE_CHNK | HTTP_MSGF_XFER_LEN);
 		else if (msg->flags & HTTP_MSGF_TE_CHNK) {