diff --git a/v2/cmd/integration-test/http.go b/v2/cmd/integration-test/http.go
index 0fdf9f566..6f2b6e1fc 100644
--- a/v2/cmd/integration-test/http.go
+++ b/v2/cmd/integration-test/http.go
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ func (h *httpRawUnsafeRequest) Execute(filePath string) error {
 
 	ts := testutils.NewTCPServer(nil, defaultStaticPort, func(conn net.Conn) {
 		defer conn.Close()
-		_, _ = conn.Write([]byte("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nConnection: close\r\nContent-Length: 36\r\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n\r\nThis is test raw-unsafe-matcher test"))
+		_, _ = conn.Write([]byte("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: 36\r\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n\r\nThis is test raw-unsafe-matcher test"))
 	})
 	defer ts.Close()
 
diff --git a/v2/pkg/protocols/http/http.go b/v2/pkg/protocols/http/http.go
index 83ed88ec7..8484a0b33 100644
--- a/v2/pkg/protocols/http/http.go
+++ b/v2/pkg/protocols/http/http.go
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ func (request *Request) Compile(options *protocols.ExecuterOptions) error {
 		NoTimeout:       false,
 		FollowRedirects: request.Redirects,
 		CookieReuse:     request.CookieReuse,
+		Connection:      &httpclientpool.ConnectionConfiguration{},
 	}
 	// If we have request level timeout, ignore http client timeouts
 	for _, req := range request.Raw {
@@ -248,7 +249,7 @@ func (request *Request) Compile(options *protocols.ExecuterOptions) error {
 
 	// if the headers contain "Connection" we need to disable the automatic keep alive of the standard library
 	if _, hasConnectionHeader := request.Headers["Connection"]; hasConnectionHeader {
-		connectionConfiguration.Connection = &httpclientpool.ConnectionConfiguration{DisableKeepAlive: false}
+		connectionConfiguration.Connection.DisableKeepAlive = true
 	}
 
 	client, err := httpclientpool.Get(options.Options, connectionConfiguration)