diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 5520201..3a9ed9c 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 VDR Plugin 'streamdev' Revision History
 ---------------------------------------
 
+- ignore trailing blank lines in HTTP requests
 - fixed parsing Min/MaxPriority from config (thanks to Joachim König-Baltes)
 - updated Finnish translation (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg)
 - added Min/MaxPriority parameters. Can be used to keep client VDR from
diff --git a/server/connectionHTTP.c b/server/connectionHTTP.c
index 3b41bf2..fc10bfc 100644
--- a/server/connectionHTTP.c
+++ b/server/connectionHTTP.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- *  $Id: connectionHTTP.c,v 1.15 2009/01/16 11:35:44 schmirl Exp $
+ *  $Id: connectionHTTP.c,v 1.16 2009/02/13 07:02:19 schmirl Exp $
  */
 
 #include <ctype.h>
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ bool cConnectionHTTP::Command(char *Cmd)
 		Dprintf("header\n");
 		return true;
 	default:
+		// skip additional blank lines
+		if (*Cmd == '\0')
+			return true;
 		break;
 	}
 	return false; // ??? shouldn't happen