diff --git a/lib/faye/eventsource.js b/lib/faye/eventsource.js
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/lib/faye/eventsource.js
+++ b/lib/faye/eventsource.js
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ var EventSource = function(request, response, options) {
   var handshake = 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n' +
                   'Content-Type: text/event-stream\r\n' +
                   'Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store\r\n' +
+                  'Connection: close\r\n' +
                   '\r\n\r\n' +
                   'retry: ' + Math.floor(this._retry * 1000) + '\r\n\r\n';
Use Connection:close on EventSource connections.