diff --git a/lib/http.c b/lib/http.c
index f4a1faac3..e7f6872d5 100644
--- a/lib/http.c
+++ b/lib/http.c
@@ -172,27 +172,6 @@ CURLcode Curl_http_setup_conn(struct connectdata *conn)
   return CURLE_OK;
 }
 
-/*
- * checkheaders() checks the linked list of custom HTTP headers for a
- * particular header (prefix).
- *
- * Returns a pointer to the first matching header or NULL if none matched.
- */
-char *Curl_checkheaders(const struct connectdata *conn,
-                        const char *thisheader)
-{
-  struct curl_slist *head;
-  size_t thislen = strlen(thisheader);
-  struct Curl_easy *data = conn->data;
-
-  for(head = data->set.headers;head; head=head->next) {
-    if(strncasecompare(head->data, thisheader, thislen))
-      return head->data;
-  }
-
-  return NULL;
-}
-
 /*
  * checkProxyHeaders() checks the linked list of custom proxy headers
  * if proxy headers are not available, then it will lookup into http header
diff --git a/lib/http.h b/lib/http.h
index 3e446813f..d2781bc0f 100644
--- a/lib/http.h
+++ b/lib/http.h
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ bool Curl_compareheader(const char *headerline,  /* line to check */
                         const char *header,   /* header keyword _with_ colon */
                         const char *content); /* content string to find */
 
-char *Curl_checkheaders(const struct connectdata *conn,
-                        const char *thisheader);
 char *Curl_copy_header_value(const char *header);
 
 char *Curl_checkProxyheaders(const struct connectdata *conn,
diff --git a/lib/mime.c b/lib/mime.c
index 514f6b2ae..74b653649 100644
--- a/lib/mime.c
+++ b/lib/mime.c
@@ -1820,7 +1820,7 @@ CURLcode curl_mime_headers(curl_mimepart *part,
 void Curl_mime_initpart(curl_mimepart *part, struct Curl_easy *easy)
 {
   (void) part;
-  (void) data;
+  (void) easy;
 }
 
 void Curl_mime_cleanpart(curl_mimepart *part)
diff --git a/lib/transfer.c b/lib/transfer.c
index 24a21aa46..b36de2803 100644
--- a/lib/transfer.c
+++ b/lib/transfer.c
@@ -74,12 +74,37 @@
 #include "non-ascii.h"
 #include "http2.h"
 #include "mime.h"
+#include "strcase.h"
 
 /* The last 3 #include files should be in this order */
 #include "curl_printf.h"
 #include "curl_memory.h"
 #include "memdebug.h"
 
+#if !defined(CURL_DISABLE_HTTP) || !defined(CURL_DISABLE_SMTP) || \
+    !defined(CURL_DISABLE_IMAP)
+/*
+ * checkheaders() checks the linked list of custom headers for a
+ * particular header (prefix).
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the first matching header or NULL if none matched.
+ */
+char *Curl_checkheaders(const struct connectdata *conn,
+                        const char *thisheader)
+{
+  struct curl_slist *head;
+  size_t thislen = strlen(thisheader);
+  struct Curl_easy *data = conn->data;
+
+  for(head = data->set.headers;head; head=head->next) {
+    if(strncasecompare(head->data, thisheader, thislen))
+      return head->data;
+  }
+
+  return NULL;
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * This function will call the read callback to fill our buffer with data
  * to upload.
diff --git a/lib/transfer.h b/lib/transfer.h
index 518967260..72526a834 100644
--- a/lib/transfer.h
+++ b/lib/transfer.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
  *
  ***************************************************************************/
 
+char *Curl_checkheaders(const struct connectdata *conn,
+                        const char *thisheader);
+
 void Curl_init_CONNECT(struct Curl_easy *data);
 
 CURLcode Curl_pretransfer(struct Curl_easy *data);