diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 68e0f867..42ce3e40 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-11-02  Giuseppe Scrivano  <gscrivan@redhat.com>
+
+	* http.c (gethttp): Increase max header value length to 512.
+
 2013-01-30  Pavel Mateja  <pavel@netsafe.cz> (tiny change)
 
 	* http.c (gethttp): Specify "Host" for CONNECT method.
diff --git a/src/http.c b/src/http.c
index 8917fa55..754b7eca 100644
--- a/src/http.c
+++ b/src/http.c
@@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ gethttp (struct url *u, struct http_stat *hs, int *dt, struct url *proxy,
 
   char *head;
   struct response *resp;
-  char hdrval[256];
+  char hdrval[512];
   char *message;
 
   /* Declare WARC variables. */