diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt
index 99972f747..de3da7a2b 100644
--- a/doc/configuration.txt
+++ b/doc/configuration.txt
@@ -8366,14 +8366,8 @@ http-send-name-header [<header>]
   very late in the connection setup, it may have unexpected effects on already
   modified headers. For example using it with transport-level header such as
   connection, content-length, transfer-encoding and so on will likely result in
-  invalid requests being sent to the server. Additionally it has been reported
-  that this directive is currently being used as a way to overwrite the Host
-  header field in outgoing requests; while this trick has been known to work
-  as a side effect of the feature for some time, it is not officially supported
-  and might possibly not work anymore in a future version depending on the
-  technical difficulties this feature induces. A long-term solution instead
-  consists in fixing the application which required this trick so that it binds
-  to the correct host name.
+  invalid requests being sent to the server. This is why following header names
+  are forbidden: host, content-length, transfer-encoding and connection.
 
   See also : "server"
 
diff --git a/src/cfgparse-listen.c b/src/cfgparse-listen.c
index 07bb05012..b0d24be3a 100644
--- a/src/cfgparse-listen.c
+++ b/src/cfgparse-listen.c
@@ -1476,6 +1476,15 @@ int cfg_parse_listen(const char *file, int linenum, char **args, int kwm)
 			err_code |= ERR_ALERT | ERR_FATAL;
 			goto out;
 		}
+		if (strcasecmp(args[1], "host") == 0 ||
+		    strcasecmp(args[1], "content-length") == 0 ||
+		    strcasecmp(args[1], "transfer-encoding") == 0 ||
+		    strcasecmp(args[1], "connection") == 0) {
+			ha_alert("parsing [%s:%d] : '%s' cannot be used as header name for '%s' directive.\n",
+				 file, linenum, args[1], args[0]);
+			err_code |= ERR_ALERT | ERR_FATAL;
+			goto out;
+		}
 
 		/* set the desired header name, in lower case */
 		istfree(&curproxy->server_id_hdr_name);