diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.3
index be96d7d88..7776b921a 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 .\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 .\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, 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
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_HEADEROPT, long bitmask);
 Pass a long that is a bitmask of options of how to deal with headers. The two
 mutually exclusive options are:
 
-\fBCURLHEADER_UNIFIED\fP - keep working as before. This means
-\fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP headers will be used in requests both to servers
-and proxies. With this option enabled, \fICURLOPT_PROXYHEADER(3)\fP will not
-have any effect.
+\fBCURLHEADER_UNIFIED\fP - the headers specified in
+\fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP will be used in requests both to servers and
+proxies. With this option enabled, \fICURLOPT_PROXYHEADER(3)\fP will not have
+any effect.
 
 \fBCURLHEADER_SEPARATE\fP - makes \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP headers only get
 sent to a server and not to a proxy. Proxy headers must be set with
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ headers. When doing CONNECT, libcurl will send \fICURLOPT_PROXYHEADER(3)\fP
 headers only to the proxy and then \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP headers only to
 the server.
 .SH DEFAULT
-CURLHEADER_UNIFIED
+CURLHEADER_SEPARATE (changed in 7.42.1, ased CURLHEADER_UNIFIED before then)
 .SH PROTOCOLS
 HTTP
 .SH EXAMPLE
diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index dfd2ff4c5..717ee93fc 100644
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_init_userdefined(struct UserDefined *set)
   set->ssl_enable_alpn = TRUE;
 
   set->expect_100_timeout = 1000L; /* Wait for a second by default. */
+  set->sep_headers = TRUE; /* separated header lists by default */
   return result;
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/data/test1527 b/tests/data/test1527
index ee4887ac5..e8d52794b 100644
--- a/tests/data/test1527
+++ b/tests/data/test1527
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ http-proxy
 lib1527
 </tool>
  <name>
-Check same headers are generated without CURLOPT_PROXYHEADER
+Check same headers are generated with CURLOPT_HEADEROPT == CURLHEADER_UNIFIED
  </name>
  <command>
  http://the.old.moo.1527:%HTTPPORT/1527 %HOSTIP:%PROXYPORT
diff --git a/tests/data/test287 b/tests/data/test287
index ec4dfeb05..6772e220f 100644
--- a/tests/data/test287
+++ b/tests/data/test287
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ http
 HTTP proxy CONNECT with custom User-Agent header
  </name>
  <command>
-http://test.remote.example.com.287:%HTTPPORT/path/287 -H "User-Agent: looser/2007" --proxy http://%HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT --proxytunnel
+http://test.remote.example.com.287:%HTTPPORT/path/287 -H "User-Agent: looser/2015" --proxy http://%HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT --proxytunnel --proxy-header "User-Agent: looser/2007"
 </command>
 </client>
 
diff --git a/tests/libtest/lib1527.c b/tests/libtest/lib1527.c
index 280c947e3..1122d8ec0 100644
--- a/tests/libtest/lib1527.c
+++ b/tests/libtest/lib1527.c
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ int test(char *URL)
   test_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, read_callback);
   test_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1L);
   test_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, strlen(data));
+  test_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADEROPT, CURLHEADER_UNIFIED);
 
   res = curl_easy_perform(curl);