diff --git a/lib/client.js b/lib/client.js
index ebc9a6afc11..50d5ca34ae3 100644
--- a/lib/client.js
+++ b/lib/client.js
@@ -1687,6 +1687,7 @@ function writeH2 (client, session, request) {
     // we are already connected, streams are pending, first request
     // will create a new stream. We trigger a request to create the stream and wait until
     // `ready` event is triggered
+    // We disabled endStream to allow the user to write to the stream
     stream = session.request(headers, { endStream: false, signal })
 
     if (stream.id && !stream.pending) {
@@ -1761,17 +1762,21 @@ function writeH2 (client, session, request) {
 
   session.ref()
 
+  const shouldEndStream = method === 'GET' || method === 'HEAD'
   if (expectContinue) {
     headers[HTTP2_HEADER_EXPECT] = '100-continue'
     /**
      * @type {import('node:http2').ClientHttp2Stream}
      */
-    stream = session.request(headers, { endStream: false, signal })
+    stream = session.request(headers, { endStream: shouldEndStream, signal })
 
     stream.once('continue', writeBodyH2)
   } else {
     /** @type {import('node:http2').ClientHttp2Stream} */
-    stream = session.request(headers, { endStream: false, signal })
+    stream = session.request(headers, {
+      endStream: shouldEndStream,
+      signal
+    })
     writeBodyH2()
   }
 
diff --git a/lib/core/request.js b/lib/core/request.js
index 3ddc7fdbe32..e3b0c7b9dbf 100644
--- a/lib/core/request.js
+++ b/lib/core/request.js
@@ -320,11 +320,13 @@ class Request {
 
   static [kHTTP2CopyHeaders] (raw) {
     const rawHeaders = raw.split('\r\n')
-
     const headers = {}
+
     for (const header of rawHeaders) {
       const [key, value] = header.split(': ')
 
+      if (value == null || value.length === 0) continue
+
       if (headers[key]) headers[key] += `,${value}`
       else headers[key] = value
     }