diff --git a/autorouter.go b/autorouter.go
index f6ebb53..f3e3d15 100644
--- a/autorouter.go
+++ b/autorouter.go
@@ -9,8 +9,24 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/agentuity/go-common/slice"
 )
 
+var skipHeaders = []string{"Content-Encoding", "Content-Length"}
+
+func copyResponseHeaders(w http.ResponseWriter, headers http.Header) {
+	header := w.Header()
+
+	for k, v := range headers {
+		if !slice.Contains(skipHeaders, k, slice.WithCaseInsensitive()) {
+			for _, val := range v {
+				header.Add(k, val)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 type AutoRouter struct {
 	registry            Registry
 	detector            ProviderDetector
@@ -303,6 +319,9 @@ func (a *AutoRouter) ForwardStreaming(ctx context.Context, req *http.Request, w
 		upstreamReq.Header[k] = v
 	}
 
+	// FOR SSE, turn off compression explicitly
+	upstreamReq.Header["Accept-Encoding"] = []string{"identity"}
+
 	if err := provider.RequestEnricher().Enrich(upstreamReq, meta, body); err != nil {
 		return ResponseMetadata{}, err
 	}
@@ -340,11 +359,7 @@ func (a *AutoRouter) ForwardStreaming(ctx context.Context, req *http.Request, w
 		w.Header().Set("Trailer", "X-Gateway-Cost,X-Gateway-Prompt-Tokens,X-Gateway-Completion-Tokens")
 	}
 
-	for k, v := range upstreamResp.Header {
-		if k != "Content-Length" {
-			w.Header()[k] = v
-		}
-	}
+	copyResponseHeaders(w, upstreamResp.Header)
 
 	w.WriteHeader(upstreamResp.StatusCode)
 
@@ -469,9 +484,7 @@ func (a *AutoRouter) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 
-	for k, v := range resp.Header {
-		w.Header()[k] = v
-	}
+	copyResponseHeaders(w, resp.Header)
 
 	if billing, ok := meta.Custom["billing_result"].(BillingResult); ok {
 		w.Header().Set("X-Gateway-Cost", fmt.Sprintf("%.6f", billing.TotalCost))
diff --git a/autorouter_test.go b/autorouter_test.go
index 5af8a68..5ba7b4e 100644
--- a/autorouter_test.go
+++ b/autorouter_test.go
@@ -822,3 +822,76 @@ func TestAutoRouter_ResponsesAPIStreamingNoStreamOptions(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	})
 }
+
+func TestAutoRouter_copyResponseHeaders(t *testing.T) {
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	copyResponseHeaders(w, http.Header{})
+	var sw strings.Builder
+	w.Header().Write(&sw)
+	if sw.Len() != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("headers should have been empty but was: %s", sw.String())
+	}
+	sw.Reset()
+	w = httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+	copyResponseHeaders(w, http.Header{"A": []string{"B"}})
+	w.Header().Write(&sw)
+	if sw.Len() == 0 {
+		t.Error("headers should have content but was empty")
+	}
+	val := strings.TrimSpace(sw.String())
+	if val != "A: B" {
+		t.Errorf("headers should have A: B but was %s", val)
+	}
+	sw.Reset()
+	w = httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+	copyResponseHeaders(w, http.Header{"A": []string{"B"}, "Content-Encoding": []string{"gzip"}})
+	w.Header().Write(&sw)
+	if sw.Len() == 0 {
+		t.Error("headers should have content but was empty")
+	}
+	val = strings.TrimSpace(sw.String())
+	if val != "A: B" {
+		t.Errorf("headers should have A: B but was %s", val)
+	}
+	sw.Reset()
+	w = httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+	copyResponseHeaders(w, http.Header{"A": []string{"B"}, "content-encoding": []string{"gzip"}})
+	w.Header().Write(&sw)
+	if sw.Len() == 0 {
+		t.Error("headers should have content but was empty")
+	}
+	val = strings.TrimSpace(sw.String())
+	if val != "A: B" {
+		t.Errorf("headers should have A: B but was %s", val)
+	}
+	sw.Reset()
+	w = httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+	copyResponseHeaders(w, http.Header{"A": []string{"B"}, "Content-Length": []string{"1"}})
+	w.Header().Write(&sw)
+	if sw.Len() == 0 {
+		t.Error("headers should have content but was empty")
+	}
+	val = strings.TrimSpace(sw.String())
+	if val != "A: B" {
+		t.Errorf("headers should have A: B but was %s", val)
+	}
+	sw.Reset()
+	w = httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+	copyResponseHeaders(w, http.Header{"A": []string{"B"}, "content-length": []string{"1"}})
+	w.Header().Write(&sw)
+	if sw.Len() == 0 {
+		t.Error("headers should have content but was empty")
+	}
+	val = strings.TrimSpace(sw.String())
+	if val != "A: B" {
+		t.Errorf("headers should have A: B but was %s", val)
+	}
+	sw.Reset()
+	w = httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index f867248..03fdb9b 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ module github.com/agentuity/llmproxy
 go 1.26.2
 
 require (
+	github.com/agentuity/go-common v1.0.231
 	github.com/minio/simdjson-go v0.4.5
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.43.0
 )
@@ -12,5 +13,5 @@ require (
 	github.com/klauspost/compress v1.15.15 // indirect
 	github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2 v2.2.3 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.43.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220704084225-05e143d24a9e // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.42.0 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 6d4b853..d25c52f 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+github.com/agentuity/go-common v1.0.231 h1:t5CzJuA+yKv6U9lVSvxmiZoNM60ZeBo8U/Vf8P4ce4E=
+github.com/agentuity/go-common v1.0.231/go.mod h1:/QxgG4qKu9Rik0084BargZ8wG13/3kdWYI+jIRJYUwI=
 github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.3.0 h1:UL815xU9SqsFlibzuggzjXhog7bL6oX9BbNZnL2UFvs=
 github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.3.0/go.mod h1:VGX0DQ3Q6kWi7AoAeZDth3/j3BFtOZR5XLFGgcrjCOs=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 h1:vj9j/u1bqnvCEfJOwUhtlOARqs3+rkHYY13jYWTU97c=
@@ -18,7 +20,8 @@ go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.43.0 h1:mYIM03dnh5zfN7HautFE4ieIig9amkNANT+xcVxAj9I=
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.43.0/go.mod h1:JuG+u74mvjvcm8vj8pI5XiHy1zDeoCS2LB1spIq7Ay0=
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.43.0 h1:BkNrHpup+4k4w+ZZ86CZoHHEkohws8AY+WTX09nk+3A=
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.43.0/go.mod h1:/QJhyVBUUswCphDVxq+8mld+AvhXZLhe+8WVFxiFff0=
-golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220704084225-05e143d24a9e h1:CsOuNlbOuf0mzxJIefr6Q4uAUetRUwZE4qt7VfzP+xo=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220704084225-05e143d24a9e/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.42.0 h1:omrd2nAlyT5ESRdCLYdm3+fMfNFE/+Rf4bDIQImRJeo=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.42.0/go.mod h1:4GL1E5IUh+htKOUEOaiffhrAeqysfVGipDYzABqnCmw=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 h1:fxVm/GzAzEWqLHuvctI91KS9hhNmmWOoWu0XTYJS7CA=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
diff --git a/providers/anthropic/parser.go b/providers/anthropic/parser.go
index 843bc4a..621b88c 100644
--- a/providers/anthropic/parser.go
+++ b/providers/anthropic/parser.go
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ func (p *Parser) Parse(body io.ReadCloser) (llmproxy.BodyMetadata, []byte, error
 		Model:     req.Model,
 		Messages:  make([]llmproxy.Message, len(req.Messages)),
 		MaxTokens: req.MaxTokens,
+		Stream:    req.Stream,
 		Custom:    make(map[string]any),
 	}
 
@@ -87,6 +88,7 @@ type Request struct {
 	Model     string                 `json:"model"`
 	Messages  []Message              `json:"messages"`
 	MaxTokens int                    `json:"max_tokens,omitempty"`
+	Stream    bool                   `json:"stream,omitempty"`
 	System    Content                `json:"system,omitempty"`
 	Custom    map[string]interface{} `json:"-"`
 }
diff --git a/providers/anthropic/parser_test.go b/providers/anthropic/parser_test.go
index 943a1bf..15a409a 100644
--- a/providers/anthropic/parser_test.go
+++ b/providers/anthropic/parser_test.go
@@ -45,6 +45,19 @@ func TestParser(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	})
 
+	t.Run("parses stream flag", func(t *testing.T) {
+		body := `{"model":"claude-3-opus-20240229","max_tokens":1024,"stream":true,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}]}`
+		parser := &Parser{}
+
+		meta, _, err := parser.Parse(io.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader([]byte(body))))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+		}
+		if !meta.Stream {
+			t.Error("expected stream flag to be true")
+		}
+	})
+
 	t.Run("parses request with system prompt array", func(t *testing.T) {
 		body := `{"model":"anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6","max_tokens":1024,"system":[{"type":"text","text":"You are helpful."}],"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}]}`
 		parser := &Parser{}