diff --git a/plugins/check_http.c b/plugins/check_http.c
index 1288c415..718c8ee7 100644
--- a/plugins/check_http.c
+++ b/plugins/check_http.c
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ check_http (void)
 
   regmatch_t chre_pmatch[1]; // We actually do not care about this, since we only want to know IF it was found
 
-  if (regexec(&chunked_header_regex, header, 1, chre_pmatch, 0) == 0) {
+  if (!no_body && regexec(&chunked_header_regex, header, 1, chre_pmatch, 0) == 0) {
     if (verbose) {
       printf("Found chunked content\n");
     }