diff --git a/frontend/src/routes/api/[...path]/+server.ts b/frontend/src/routes/api/[...path]/+server.ts
index 887ef530..fa08d455 100644
--- a/frontend/src/routes/api/[...path]/+server.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/routes/api/[...path]/+server.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ const HOP_BY_HOP_HEADERS = new Set([
 	'proxy-authenticate',
 	'proxy-authorization',
 	'te',
-	'trailer'
+	'trailer',
+	'proxy-connection'
 ]);
 
 async function proxy(event: Parameters<RequestHandler>[0]): Promise<Response> {
diff --git a/frontend/src/routes/api/[...path]/proxy.spec.ts b/frontend/src/routes/api/[...path]/proxy.spec.ts
index 745134a2..2831794c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/routes/api/[...path]/proxy.spec.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/routes/api/[...path]/proxy.spec.ts
@@ -167,6 +167,23 @@ describe('catch-all API proxy — forwarding', () => {
 		expect(response.headers.get('Content-Disposition')).toBe('attachment; filename="document.pdf"');
 	});
 
+	it('does not forward proxy-connection hop-by-hop header', async () => {
+		const mockFetch = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(
+			new Response('data', {
+				status: 200,
+				headers: {
+					'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+					'Proxy-Connection': 'keep-alive'
+				}
+			})
+		);
+		const event = makeEvent('documents', 'GET', mockFetch);
+
+		const response = await GET(event as never);
+
+		expect(response.headers.get('Proxy-Connection')).toBeNull();
+	});
+
 	it('does not forward hop-by-hop headers like transfer-encoding', async () => {
 		const mockFetch = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(
 			new Response('data', {