diff --git a/bin/tests/system/statschannel/clean.sh b/bin/tests/system/statschannel/clean.sh
index 03cb1bb87d..09218d5b5b 100644
--- a/bin/tests/system/statschannel/clean.sh
+++ b/bin/tests/system/statschannel/clean.sh
@@ -29,3 +29,4 @@ rm -f xml.*stats json.*stats
 rm -f zones zones.out.* zones.json.* zones.xml.* zones.expect.*
 rm -rf ./__pycache__
 rm -f nc.out*
+rm -f send.in* send.out*
diff --git a/bin/tests/system/statschannel/send64k.pl b/bin/tests/system/statschannel/send64k.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b382dd59da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/tests/system/statschannel/send64k.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+#
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, you can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+#
+# See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional
+# information regarding copyright ownership.
+
+#
+# Send a file to a given address and port using TCP.  Used for
+# configuring the test server in ans.pl.
+#
+
+use IO::File;
+use IO::Socket;
+
+@ARGV == 2 or die "usage: send.pl host port\n";
+
+my $host = shift @ARGV;
+my $port = shift @ARGV;
+
+my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $host, PeerPort => $port,
+				 Proto => "tcp",) or die "$!";
+#send the file
+while ($n = read(STDIN, $buf, 64000)) {
+	$sock->syswrite($buf, $n);
+}
+
+#get the response with with a 15 second timeout
+my $rin;
+my $rout;
+my $n;
+do {
+        $rin = '';
+        vec($rin, fileno($sock), 1) = 1;
+	$n = select($rout = $rin, undef, undef, 15);
+	$n = $sock->sysread($buf, 64000) if ($n > 0);
+	print STDOUT $buf if ($n > 0);
+} while ($n > 0);
+
+$sock->close;
diff --git a/bin/tests/system/statschannel/tests.sh b/bin/tests/system/statschannel/tests.sh
index ce145b7c3e..2ce484b5db 100644
--- a/bin/tests/system/statschannel/tests.sh
+++ b/bin/tests/system/statschannel/tests.sh
@@ -395,5 +395,32 @@ else
     echo_i "skipping test as nc not found"
 fi
 
+echo_i "Check HTTP/1.1 pipelined with truncated stream ($n)"
+ret=0
+i=0
+# build input stream.
+cp /dev/null send.in$n
+while test $i -lt 500
+do
+cat >> send.in$n << EOF
+GET /xml/v3/status HTTP/1.1
+Host: 10.53.0.3
+
+EOF
+i=$((i+1))
+done
+
+# send the requests then wait for named to close the socket.
+time1=$($PERL -e 'print time(), "\n";')
+${PERL} send64k.pl 10.53.0.3 ${EXTRAPORT1} < send.in$n  > send.out$n
+time2=$($PERL -e 'print time(), "\n";')
+test $((time2 - time1)) -lt 5 || ret=1
+# we expect 91 of the 500 requests to be processed.
+lines=$(grep "^HTTP/1.1" send.out$n | wc -l)
+test $lines = 91 || ret=1
+if [ $ret != 0 ]; then echo_i "failed"; fi
+status=`expr $status + $ret`
+n=`expr $n + 1`
+
 echo_i "exit status: $status"
 [ $status -eq 0 ] || exit 1
diff --git a/lib/isc/httpd.c b/lib/isc/httpd.c
index 0787da8c18..1d79668b91 100644
--- a/lib/isc/httpd.c
+++ b/lib/isc/httpd.c
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ struct isc_httpd {
 	uint32_t recvlen;	    /*%< length recv'd */
 	uint32_t consume;	    /*%< length of last command */
 	char *headers;		    /*%< set in process_request() */
+	bool truncated;
 	method_t method;
 	char *url;
 	char *querystring;
@@ -398,17 +399,25 @@ process_request(isc_httpd_t *httpd, isc_region_t *region, size_t *buflen) {
 	size_t limit = sizeof(httpd->recvbuf) - httpd->recvlen - 1;
 	size_t len = region->length;
 	int delim;
+	bool truncated = false;
 
 	if (len > limit) {
 		len = limit;
+		truncated = true;
 	}
 
 	if (len > 0U) {
+		if (httpd->truncated) {
+			return (ISC_R_NOSPACE);
+		}
 		memmove(httpd->recvbuf + httpd->recvlen, region->base, len);
 		httpd->recvlen += len;
 		httpd->recvbuf[httpd->recvlen] = 0;
 		isc_region_consume(region, len);
 	}
+	if (truncated) {
+		httpd->truncated = true;
+	}
 	httpd->headers = NULL;
 	*buflen = httpd->recvlen;
 
@@ -422,7 +431,8 @@ process_request(isc_httpd_t *httpd, isc_region_t *region, size_t *buflen) {
 		s = strstr(httpd->recvbuf, "\n\n");
 		delim = 1;
 		if (s == NULL) {
-			return (ISC_R_NOTFOUND);
+			return (httpd->truncated ? ISC_R_NOSPACE
+						 : ISC_R_NOTFOUND);
 		}
 		httpd->consume = s + 2 - httpd->recvbuf;
 	} else {
@@ -609,6 +619,7 @@ httpd_reset(void *arg) {
 	httpd->recvbuf[0] = 0;
 	httpd->recvlen = 0;
 	httpd->consume = 0;
+	httpd->truncated = false;
 	httpd->headers = NULL;
 	httpd->method = METHOD_UNKNOWN;
 	httpd->url = NULL;
@@ -1174,7 +1185,7 @@ httpd_senddone(isc_nmhandle_t *handle, isc_result_t result, void *arg) {
 		 */
 		isc_nmhandle_attach(handle, &httpd->readhandle);
 		httpd_request(handle, ISC_R_SUCCESS, NULL, httpd->mgr);
-	} else {
+	} else if (!httpd->truncated) {
 		isc_nm_resumeread(handle);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/util/copyrights b/util/copyrights
index ede8082947..36a154d760 100644
--- a/util/copyrights
+++ b/util/copyrights
@@ -765,6 +765,7 @@
 ./bin/tests/system/statschannel/helper.py	PYTHON	2020,2021
 ./bin/tests/system/statschannel/mem-xml.pl	PERL	2017,2018,2019,2020,2021
 ./bin/tests/system/statschannel/ns2/sign.sh	SH	2019,2020,2021
+./bin/tests/system/statschannel/send64k.pl	PERL	2021
 ./bin/tests/system/statschannel/server-json.pl	PERL	2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021
 ./bin/tests/system/statschannel/server-xml.pl	PERL	2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021
 ./bin/tests/system/statschannel/setup.sh	SH	2018,2019,2020,2021