diff --git a/src/proto/h1/role.rs b/src/proto/h1/role.rs
index fce1df78af..f32b8770a5 100644
--- a/src/proto/h1/role.rs
+++ b/src/proto/h1/role.rs
@@ -1349,7 +1349,8 @@ impl Client {
         };
 
         // HTTP/1.0 doesn't know about chunked
-        let can_chunked = head.version == Version::HTTP_11;
+        // HTTP/2 requests are serialized as HTTP/1.1.
+        let can_chunked = matches!(head.version, Version::HTTP_11 | Version::HTTP_2);
         let headers = &mut head.headers;
 
         // If the user already set specific headers, we should respect them, regardless
diff --git a/tests/client.rs b/tests/client.rs
index 4cb6615657..6e174c4d18 100644
--- a/tests/client.rs
+++ b/tests/client.rs
@@ -1992,6 +1992,50 @@ mod conn {
         rt.block_on(future::join(res, rx).map(|r| r.0)).unwrap();
     }
 
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn http1_conn_coerces_http2_streaming_request() {
+        tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), async {
+            let (client_io, server_io) = tokio::io::duplex(1024);
+            let svc = hyper::service::service_fn(|req: Request<hyper::body::Incoming>| async {
+                assert_eq!(req.method(), Method::POST);
+                assert_eq!(req.version(), hyper::Version::HTTP_11);
+                let chunked = req.headers().get("transfer-encoding").cloned();
+                let body = concat(req).await?;
+                assert_eq!(body, "hello world");
+                assert_eq!(chunked.as_ref().unwrap(), "chunked");
+                Ok::<_, hyper::Error>(Response::new(Full::new(body)))
+            });
+            let server = tokio::spawn(
+                hyper::server::conn::http1::Builder::new()
+                    .serve_connection(TokioIo::new(server_io), svc),
+            );
+
+            let (mut client, connection) = conn::http1::handshake(TokioIo::new(client_io))
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+            let connection = tokio::spawn(connection);
+            let body = StreamBody::new(futures_util::stream::iter([
+                Ok::<_, std::convert::Infallible>(Frame::data(Bytes::from_static(b"hello"))),
+                Ok(Frame::data(Bytes::from_static(b" world"))),
+            ]));
+            assert_eq!(body.size_hint().exact(), None);
+            let req = Request::post("/a")
+                .version(hyper::Version::HTTP_2)
+                .body(body)
+                .unwrap();
+
+            let response = client.send_request(req).await.unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(response.status(), StatusCode::OK);
+            assert_eq!(concat(response).await.unwrap(), "hello world");
+
+            drop(client);
+            connection.await.unwrap().unwrap();
+            server.await.unwrap().unwrap();
+        })
+        .await
+        .expect("coerced request body should reach the server");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn pipeline() {
         let (server, addr) = setup_std_test_server();