diff --git a/core/buffer.c b/core/buffer.c
index 4a629be0..22cf7c61 100644
--- a/core/buffer.c
+++ b/core/buffer.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ int uwsgi_buffer_append(struct uwsgi_buffer *ub, char *buf, size_t len) {
 			uwsgi_error("realloc()");
 			return -1;
 		}
+		ub->buf = new_buf;
 	}
 
 	memcpy(ub->buf + ub->pos, buf, len);
diff --git a/welcome.py b/welcome.py
index 79e675d7..37681868 100644
--- a/welcome.py
+++ b/welcome.py
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Workers and applications<br/>
 
     """ % (uwsgi.version, uwsgi.hostname, env.get('REMOTE_USER','None'), workers)
 
-    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html'), ('Content-Length', str(len(output)) )])
+    start_response('200 %s' % ('x' * 10000), [('Content-Type', 'text/html'), ('Content-Length', str(len(output)) )])
 
     #return bytes(output.encode('latin1'))
     return output