diff --git a/lib/dynbuf.h b/lib/dynbuf.h
index c80239e29..ecc995755 100644
--- a/lib/dynbuf.h
+++ b/lib/dynbuf.h
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ size_t Curl_dyn_len(const struct dynbuf *s);
 #define DYN_HAXPROXY        2048
 #define DYN_HTTP_REQUEST    (128*1024)
 #define DYN_H2_HEADERS      (128*1024)
-#define DYN_H2_TRAILER      4096
+#define DYN_H2_TRAILERS     (128*1024)
 #define DYN_APRINTF         8000000
 #define DYN_RTSP_REQ_HEADER (64*1024)
 #define DYN_TRAILERS        (64*1024)
 #define DYN_PROXY_CONNECT_HEADERS 16384
 #define DYN_QLOG_NAME       1024
-#define DYN_H1_TRAILER      DYN_H2_TRAILER
+#define DYN_H1_TRAILER      4096
 #endif
diff --git a/lib/http.h b/lib/http.h
index 641bc0b93..9ea3eb283 100644
--- a/lib/http.h
+++ b/lib/http.h
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ struct HTTP {
   struct dynbuf header_recvbuf;
   size_t nread_header_recvbuf; /* number of bytes in header_recvbuf fed into
                                   upper layer */
+  struct dynbuf trailer_recvbuf;
   int status_code; /* HTTP status code */
   const uint8_t *pausedata; /* pointer to data received in on_data_chunk */
   size_t pauselen; /* the number of bytes left in data */
diff --git a/lib/http2.c b/lib/http2.c
index e4fa9b0b3..d316da8b6 100644
--- a/lib/http2.c
+++ b/lib/http2.c
@@ -1015,18 +1015,11 @@ static int on_header(nghttp2_session *session, const nghttp2_frame *frame,
 
   if(stream->bodystarted) {
     /* This is a trailer */
-    struct dynbuf trail;
     H2BUGF(infof(data_s, "h2 trailer: %.*s: %.*s\n", namelen, name, valuelen,
                  value));
-    Curl_dyn_init(&trail, DYN_H2_TRAILER);
-    result = Curl_dyn_addf(&trail,
+    result = Curl_dyn_addf(&stream->trailer_recvbuf,
                            "%.*s: %.*s\r\n", namelen, name,
                            valuelen, value);
-    if(!result)
-      result = Curl_client_write(conn, CLIENTWRITE_HEADER,
-                                 Curl_dyn_ptr(&trail),
-                                 Curl_dyn_len(&trail));
-    Curl_dyn_free(&trail);
     if(result)
       return NGHTTP2_ERR_CALLBACK_FAILURE;
 
@@ -1174,6 +1167,7 @@ void Curl_http2_done(struct Curl_easy *data, bool premature)
   /* there might be allocated resources done before this got the 'h2' pointer
      setup */
   Curl_dyn_free(&http->header_recvbuf);
+  Curl_dyn_free(&http->trailer_recvbuf);
   if(http->push_headers) {
     /* if they weren't used and then freed before */
     for(; http->push_headers_used > 0; --http->push_headers_used) {
@@ -1487,6 +1481,31 @@ static ssize_t http2_handle_stream_close(struct connectdata *conn,
     return -1;
   }
 
+  if(Curl_dyn_len(&stream->trailer_recvbuf)) {
+    char *trailp = Curl_dyn_ptr(&stream->trailer_recvbuf);
+    char *lf;
+
+    do {
+      size_t len = 0;
+      CURLcode result;
+      /* each trailer line ends with a newline */
+      lf = strchr(trailp, '\n');
+      if(!lf)
+        break;
+      len = lf + 1 - trailp;
+
+      if(data->set.verbose)
+        Curl_debug(data, CURLINFO_HEADER_IN, trailp, len);
+      /* pass the trailers one by one to the callback */
+      result = Curl_client_write(conn, CLIENTWRITE_HEADER, trailp, len);
+      if(result) {
+        *err = result;
+        return -1;
+      }
+      trailp = ++lf;
+    } while(lf);
+  }
+
   stream->close_handled = TRUE;
 
   H2BUGF(infof(data, "http2_recv returns 0, http2_handle_stream_close\n"));
@@ -2171,6 +2190,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_http2_setup(struct connectdata *conn)
   stream->stream_id = -1;
 
   Curl_dyn_init(&stream->header_recvbuf, DYN_H2_HEADERS);
+  Curl_dyn_init(&stream->trailer_recvbuf, DYN_H2_TRAILERS);
 
   if((conn->handler == &Curl_handler_http2_ssl) ||
      (conn->handler == &Curl_handler_http2))