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The proxy only accepted explicit clients, which announce their destination with a CONNECT request. A client whose connection is redirected at the kernel level speaks TLS immediately instead, so http.Server tries to parse a TLS record as an HTTP request line and drops the connection. Demultiplex on the first byte of an accepted connection. A TLS handshake record (0x16) cannot begin an HTTP method, so it separates the two cleanly. Redirected connections have their destination recovered from the ClientHello SNI and are served by synthesising the CONNECT the client never sent, which keeps the MITM decision, cert generation and interceptor chain on the existing code path. Redirected connections deliberately bypass http.Server. It issues a background read while a handler runs, which consumes the first byte of the replayed ClientHello and corrupts the handshake. The CONNECT response is also suppressed, since a client mid handshake expects a ServerHello and would read those bytes as a malformed TLS record. Off by default. Enabled with `pmg proxy start --transparent` or proxy.server.transparent, and only useful alongside a redirect mechanism such as an eBPF connect rewrite.