diff --git a/http_parser.c b/http_parser.c
index 5576911..9088af7 100644
--- a/http_parser.c
+++ b/http_parser.c
@@ -930,8 +930,10 @@ size_t parse (http_parser *parser, const char *data, size_t len, int start_state
         }
 
         if (ch == LF) {
-          // XXX recover from this? nginx does.
-          goto error;
+          /* they might be just sending \n instead of \r\n so this would be
+           * the second \n to denote the end of headers*/
+          state = s_headers_almost_done;
+          goto headers_almost_done;
         }
 
         c = LOWER(ch);
@@ -1137,8 +1139,7 @@ size_t parse (http_parser *parser, const char *data, size_t len, int start_state
 
           if (ch == LF) {
             CALLBACK(header_value);
-            state = s_header_field_start;
-            break;
+            goto header_almost_done;
           }
           break;
         }
@@ -1205,6 +1206,7 @@ size_t parse (http_parser *parser, const char *data, size_t len, int start_state
       }
 
       case s_header_almost_done:
+      header_almost_done:
       {
         STRICT_CHECK(ch != LF);
 
@@ -1227,6 +1229,7 @@ size_t parse (http_parser *parser, const char *data, size_t len, int start_state
       }
 
       case s_headers_almost_done:
+      headers_almost_done:
       {
         STRICT_CHECK(ch != LF);
 
diff --git a/test.c b/test.c
index 6fdc372..5f4c418 100644
--- a/test.c
+++ b/test.c
@@ -579,6 +579,27 @@ const struct message responses[] =
 
   }
 
+#define NO_CARRIAGE_RET 5
+, {.name="no carriage ret"
+  ,.type= RESPONSE
+  ,.raw= "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n"
+         "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n"
+         "Connection: close\n"
+         "\n"
+         "these headers are from http://news.ycombinator.com/"
+  ,.should_keep_alive= FALSE
+  ,.message_complete_on_eof= TRUE
+  ,.http_major= 1
+  ,.http_minor= 1
+  ,.status_code= 200
+  ,.num_headers= 2
+  ,.headers=
+    { {"Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8" }
+    , {"Connection", "close" }
+    }
+  ,.body= "these headers are from http://news.ycombinator.com/"
+  }
+
 , {.name= NULL } /* sentinel */
 };