diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 48bb761f7..77fd48cff 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+Sat Feb 23 14:47:12 CET 2019
+	Actually disable 100 CONTINUE. -CG
+
 Sun Aug 19 15:15:48 CEST 2018
 	Increase various limits and rework transaction scopes to
 	improve scalability. -CG
diff --git a/src/lib/exchange_api_curl_defaults.c b/src/lib/exchange_api_curl_defaults.c
index 1a25e564e..3ac1dfdbe 100644
--- a/src/lib/exchange_api_curl_defaults.c
+++ b/src/lib/exchange_api_curl_defaults.c
@@ -55,26 +55,5 @@ TEL_curl_easy_get (const char *url)
                                    CURLOPT_TCP_FASTOPEN,
                                    1L));
 #endif
-  {
-    /* Unfortunately libcurl needs chunk to be alive until after
-    curl_easy_perform.  To avoid manual cleanup, we keep
-    one static list here.  */
-    static struct curl_slist *chunk = NULL;
-    if (NULL == chunk)
-    {
-      /* With POST requests, we do not want to wait for the
-      "100 Continue" response, as our request bodies are usually
-      small and directy sending them saves us a round trip.
-
-      Clearing the expect header like this disables libcurl's
-      default processing of the header.
-
-      Disabling this header is safe for other HTTP methods, thus
-      we don't distinguish further before setting it.  */
-      chunk = curl_slist_append (chunk, "Expect:");
-    }
-    GNUNET_assert (CURLE_OK == curl_easy_setopt (eh, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, chunk));
-  }
-
   return eh;
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/exchange_api_handle.c b/src/lib/exchange_api_handle.c
index 158afd56f..986bcc4c1 100644
--- a/src/lib/exchange_api_handle.c
+++ b/src/lib/exchange_api_handle.c
@@ -1740,7 +1740,10 @@ TALER_EXCHANGE_connect
 
   TALER_LOG_DEBUG ("Connecting to the exchange (%s)\n",
                    url);
-
+  /* Disable 100 continue processing */
+  GNUNET_break (GNUNET_OK ==
+		GNUNET_CURL_append_header (ctx,
+					   "Expect:"));
   exchange = GNUNET_new (struct TALER_EXCHANGE_Handle);
   exchange->ctx = ctx;
   exchange->url = GNUNET_strdup (url);