diff --git a/tests/FILEFORMAT.md b/tests/FILEFORMAT.md
index 8143967db3..be111678e2 100644
--- a/tests/FILEFORMAT.md
+++ b/tests/FILEFORMAT.md
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ changing protocol data such as port numbers or user-agent strings.
 One perl op per line that operates on the protocol dump. This is pretty
 advanced. Example: `s/^EPRT .*/EPRT stripped/`.
 
-### `<protocol [nonewline="yes"] crlf="yes">`
+### `<protocol [nonewline="yes"][crlf="yes"]>`
 
 the protocol dump curl should transmit, if `nonewline` is set, we will cut off
 the trailing newline of this given data before comparing with the one actually
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ comparisons are made.
 `crlf=yes` forces the newlines to become CRLF even if not written so in the
 test.
 
-### `<proxy [nonewline="yes"]>`
+### `<proxy [nonewline="yes"][crlf="yes"]>`
 
 The protocol dump curl should transmit to an HTTP proxy (when the http-proxy
 server is used), if `nonewline` is set, we will cut off the trailing newline
diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index 274911f471..33caf7c5cd 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -4750,6 +4750,11 @@ sub singletest {
             }
         }
 
+        if($hash{'crlf'} ||
+           ($has_hyper && ($keywords{"HTTP"} || $keywords{"HTTPS"}))) {
+            map subNewlines(0, \$_), @protstrip;
+        }
+
         $res = compare($testnum, $testname, "proxy", \@out, \@protstrip);
         if($res) {
             return $errorreturncode;