diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d8a77294..840ce810 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.586) eoan; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Robert C Jennings ]
+  * magic-proxy: Send headers on error (LP: #1829944)
+
+ -- Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 23 May 2019 12:33:21 +1200
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.585) eoan; urgency=medium
 
   [ Robert C Jennings ]
diff --git a/magic-proxy b/magic-proxy
index 50481e28..e2d0c28d 100755
--- a/magic-proxy
+++ b/magic-proxy
@@ -843,6 +843,7 @@ class ProxyingHTTPRequestHandler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
         """Return an HTTP error status and a message in the response body."""
         self.send_response(status)
         self.send_header("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=utf-8")
+        self.end_headers()
         self.wfile.write(message.encode("utf-8"))