diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index aa880bb1c5..bc7eea2184 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 Changes with Apache 2.0b1
 
+  *) Stop checking to see if this is a pipelined request if we know
+     for a fact that it isn't.  Basically, if r->connection->keepalive == 0.
+     This keeps us from making an extra read call when serving a 1.0
+     request.  [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
+
   *) Fix the handling of variable expansion look-ahead in mod_rewrite,
      i.e. syntax like %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}, and also fix the parsing of
      more complicated nested RewriteMap lookups. PR#7087 [Tony Finch]
diff --git a/modules/http/http_request.c b/modules/http/http_request.c
index 25980de8c3..528e608086 100644
--- a/modules/http/http_request.c
+++ b/modules/http/http_request.c
@@ -1357,7 +1357,8 @@ static void process_request_internal(request_rec *r)
 static void check_pipeline_flush(request_rec *r)
 {
     apr_bucket_brigade *bb = apr_brigade_create(r->pool);
-    if (ap_get_brigade(r->input_filters, bb, AP_MODE_PEEK) != APR_SUCCESS) {
+    if (!r->connection->keepalive || 
+        ap_get_brigade(r->input_filters, bb, AP_MODE_PEEK) != APR_SUCCESS) {
         apr_bucket *e = apr_bucket_create_flush();
 
         /* We just send directly to the connection based filters, because at