diff --git a/cmd/http/listener.go b/cmd/http/listener.go
index 75df1c551..82ad97c6b 100644
--- a/cmd/http/listener.go
+++ b/cmd/http/listener.go
@@ -94,8 +94,11 @@ func getResourceHost(bufConn *BufConn, maxHeaderBytes, methodLen int) (resource
 				continue
 			}
 
-			if strings.HasPrefix(token, "Host: ") {
-				host = strings.TrimPrefix(strings.TrimSuffix(token, "\r"), "Host: ")
+			// HTTP headers are case insensitive, so we should simply convert
+			// each tokens to their lower case form to match 'host' header.
+			token = strings.ToLower(token)
+			if strings.HasPrefix(token, "host: ") {
+				host = strings.TrimPrefix(strings.TrimSuffix(token, "\r"), "host: ")
 				return resource, host, nil
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/cmd/http/listener_test.go b/cmd/http/listener_test.go
index 42d47d350..d9ded6dbf 100644
--- a/cmd/http/listener_test.go
+++ b/cmd/http/listener_test.go
@@ -425,9 +425,11 @@ func TestHTTPListenerAccept(t *testing.T) {
 	}{
 		{[]string{"localhost:0"}, nil, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: example.org\r\n\r\n", "200 OK\r\n", "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n"},
 		{[]string{nonLoopBackIP + ":0"}, nil, "POST / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: example.org\r\n\r\n", "200 OK\r\n", "POST / HTTP/1.0\r\n"},
+		{[]string{nonLoopBackIP + ":0"}, nil, "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\r\nhost: example.org\r\n\r\n", "200 OK\r\n", "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\r\n"},
 		{[]string{"127.0.0.1:0", nonLoopBackIP + ":0"}, nil, "CONNECT \r\nHost: www.example.org\r\n\r\n", "200 OK\r\n", "CONNECT \r\n"},
 		{[]string{"localhost:0"}, tlsConfig, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: example.org\r\n\r\n", "200 OK\r\n", "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n"},
 		{[]string{nonLoopBackIP + ":0"}, tlsConfig, "POST / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: example.org\r\n\r\n", "200 OK\r\n", "POST / HTTP/1.0\r\n"},
+		{[]string{nonLoopBackIP + ":0"}, tlsConfig, "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\r\nhost: example.org\r\n\r\n", "200 OK\r\n", "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\r\n"},
 		{[]string{"127.0.0.1:0", nonLoopBackIP + ":0"}, tlsConfig, "CONNECT \r\nHost: www.example.org\r\n\r\n", "200 OK\r\n", "CONNECT \r\n"},
 	}