diff --git a/connection/connection.go b/connection/connection.go
index d1b1081e..07348e70 100644
--- a/connection/connection.go
+++ b/connection/connection.go
@@ -53,10 +53,13 @@ type ConnectedFuse interface {
 	IsConnected() bool
 }
 
+func IsServerSentEvent(headers http.Header) bool {
+	if contentType := headers.Get("content-type"); contentType != "" {
+		return strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToLower(contentType), "text/event-stream")
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 func uint8ToString(input uint8) string {
 	return strconv.FormatUint(uint64(input), 10)
 }
-
-func isServerSentEvent(headers http.Header) bool {
-	return strings.ToLower(headers.Get("content-type")) == "text/event-stream"
-}
diff --git a/connection/connection_test.go b/connection/connection_test.go
index f15dacfb..07ea8a30 100644
--- a/connection/connection_test.go
+++ b/connection/connection_test.go
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
+	"testing"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/cmd/cloudflared/ui"
 	"github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/logger"
 	"github.com/gobwas/ws/wsutil"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -111,3 +113,40 @@ func (mcf mockConnectedFuse) Connected() {}
 func (mcf mockConnectedFuse) IsConnected() bool {
 	return true
 }
+
+func TestIsEventStream(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		headers       http.Header
+		isEventStream bool
+	}{
+		{
+			headers:       newHeader("Content-Type", "text/event-stream"),
+			isEventStream: true,
+		},
+		{
+			headers:       newHeader("content-type", "text/event-stream"),
+			isEventStream: true,
+		},
+		{
+			headers:       newHeader("Content-Type", "text/event-stream; charset=utf-8"),
+			isEventStream: true,
+		},
+		{
+			headers:       newHeader("Content-Type", "application/json"),
+			isEventStream: false,
+		},
+		{
+			headers:       http.Header{},
+			isEventStream: false,
+		},
+	}
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		assert.Equal(t, test.isEventStream, IsServerSentEvent(test.headers))
+	}
+}
+
+func newHeader(key, value string) http.Header {
+	header := http.Header{}
+	header.Add(key, value)
+	return header
+}
diff --git a/connection/http2.go b/connection/http2.go
index a2f00e2c..f148c91b 100644
--- a/connection/http2.go
+++ b/connection/http2.go
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ func (rp *http2RespWriter) WriteRespHeaders(resp *http.Response) error {
 		status = http.StatusOK
 	}
 	rp.w.WriteHeader(status)
-	if isServerSentEvent(resp.Header) {
+	if IsServerSentEvent(resp.Header) {
 		rp.shouldFlush = true
 	}
 	if rp.shouldFlush {
diff --git a/hello/hello.go b/hello/hello.go
index fcb41821..8ccdcd22 100644
--- a/hello/hello.go
+++ b/hello/hello.go
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ func websocketHandler(logger logger.Service, upgrader websocket.Upgrader) http.H
 
 func sseHandler(logger logger.Service) http.HandlerFunc {
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/event-stream")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/event-stream; charset=utf-8")
 		flusher, ok := w.(http.Flusher)
 		if !ok {
 			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusInternalServerError)
diff --git a/origin/proxy.go b/origin/proxy.go
index ddefdbf4..f3b34982 100644
--- a/origin/proxy.go
+++ b/origin/proxy.go
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ func (c *client) proxyHTTP(w connection.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, rule
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "Error writing response header")
 	}
-	if isEventStream(resp) {
+	if connection.IsServerSentEvent(resp.Header) {
 		c.logger.Debug("Detected Server-Side Events from Origin")
 		c.writeEventStream(w, resp.Body)
 	} else {
@@ -222,14 +222,3 @@ func findCfRayHeader(req *http.Request) string {
 func isLBProbeRequest(req *http.Request) bool {
 	return strings.HasPrefix(req.UserAgent(), lbProbeUserAgentPrefix)
 }
-
-func uint8ToString(input uint8) string {
-	return strconv.FormatUint(uint64(input), 10)
-}
-
-func isEventStream(response *http.Response) bool {
-	if response.Header.Get("content-type") == "text/event-stream" {
-		return true
-	}
-	return false
-}