diff --git a/lib/harbor/request.rb b/lib/harbor/request.rb
index 98d802f..0faae1a 100644
--- a/lib/harbor/request.rb
+++ b/lib/harbor/request.rb
@@ -137,7 +137,9 @@ def path
     def accept
       @accept ||= begin
         entries = @env['HTTP_ACCEPT'].to_s.split(',')
-        entries.map { |e| accept_entry(e) }.sort_by { |e| e[1][0] }.map(&:first)
+        entries.map! { |e| accept_entry(e) }
+        entries.sort_by! { |e| [e.last, entries.index(e)] }
+        entries.map(&:first)
       end
     end
 
diff --git a/test/request_test.rb b/test/request_test.rb
index 636a292..a29afbb 100644
--- a/test/request_test.rb
+++ b/test/request_test.rb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def test_params_fetch
 
   def test_extracts_accept_types_preserving_quality_order
     request = get("/", { 'HTTP_ACCEPT' => 'text/plain; q=0.5, text/html, text/x-dvi; q=0.8, text/x-c, */*; q=0.1' })
-    expected_accept = ['text/x-c', 'text/html', 'text/x-dvi', 'text/plain', '*/*']
+    expected_accept = ['text/html', 'text/x-c', 'text/x-dvi', 'text/plain', '*/*']
     assert_equal expected_accept, request.accept
   end